Here’s what Ingrid Klimke said about Butts Abraxxas in 2008:
Braxxi and Ingrid working at home, surprise, doing cavaletti work…
“He is really neat, he is now 11 years old, I bought him when he was seven years old to be the one after Sleep Late – Ingrid’s ride at the 2000 Games in Sydney – I decided whenever Sleep Late decides to retire, I want to have another horse coming up, so I don’t fall into a deep hole where I have to lose a few years of championship competition.”
Braxxi and Ingrid competing at Aachen in 2008
A good luck pat from a young Greta before the dressage
Calmly into the dressage arena
Braxxi at Aachen in 2008 – fast and clear across country and heading home through the main arena
Braxxi being a horse at home, every day out in the paddock, like all Ingrid’s horses
Christoph Hess tells us that so many points can be gained by doing simple things very well – halt, rein back…
“But that is the basics I learnt from my father. He always said be very correct in the little things because from there you build up.
So Braxxi is not a spectacular mover, he’s really a Thoroughbred and he is a cross country galloping machine, very clever and quick and he loves to run and jump, but in the dressage, if you look at him, he is quite small.
When I first got him, I thought, he looks like a pony! And the gaits are not really spectacular, but he is such a nice character, he really tries, and his trot improved so much. Whatever you ask him to do, he does with nice presence, really listening and saying, okay, I give my very best. He grew into it, and became so much more mature, but if you’d seen him when he was seven, you’d say, nice but…”
“Look at all the eventers, which Thoroughbred has a wonderful trot? My horse, Braxxi (Butts Abraxxas) is the best example, he can trot like a little pony, but then all of a sudden he opens up and he really knows, ‘ah, I have to lengthen’.”
Going cross country at the Beijing Games in 2008
Braxxi was in the Top Ten at Three-Star and Four-Star level twenty times. Ingrid and Braxxi were Gold Medal Team Members in 2008 and 2012.
London dressage and on the way to team Gold
Past the Greenwich clock in 2012
Through the Water on the London course
Sandra Auffarth, Michael Jung, and Ingrid and Braxxi – Gold Medal team in 2012
Ingrid chose not to jump off in the Showjumping against fellow team member, Michael Jung for the individual Gold Medal at the 2012 Games. Braxxi’s dressage score average was 38.2 He retired from competition in 2014 and took up a career as a mount for Ingrid’s daughter Greta, and remained an active member of Ingrid’s team at home.
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