Kanon De Labarde, who loved a global showjumping occupation ahead of turning his hooves to dressage, has been put down in retirement elderly 25.
The Concorde son used to be produced and competed via showjumper Robert Bevis. The pair jumped effectively at the continent, and their greatest victory at house used to be completing 2d within the senior Foxhunter ultimate at Horse of the Yr Display in 2005.
In 2008 Maria Naynuk purchased “Kenny” as schoolmaster for her daughter Cecilia, and the pair competed as much as 1.30m degree. Kenny had some lameness problems, and when he used to be rehabbed and got here again sound, it used to be made up our minds to retire him from showjumping elderly 13.
Maria later took over the journey on Kenny and in 2014 the pair made their British Dressage debut at basic degree. Over the following 3 years they competed as much as medium ahead of Kenny used to be retired from festival elderly 19.
Maria instructed H&H Kenny used to be nicknamed “Los angeles Los angeles Kenny” owing to his large personality.
“He used to be an awesome horse,” she stated. “What he did in his lifestyles used to be improbable. He used to be completely gorgeous to have a look at, his eyes appeared like melted chocolate.”
Maria stated Kenny discovered his stride in dressage after first of all proving to be relatively sharp.
“I believed along with his festival enjoy in showjumping he can be beautiful bombproof, however at our first check he used to be so spooky!” she stated.
“He used to be excellent on the actions, and knew flying adjustments rather well however he didn’t get to turn them as he used to be retired ahead of we were given the danger to do complex medium. The article he had the largest fear about used to be counter canter as a result of he needed to be on the proper leg always.”
Kenny has loved six years of retirement spending time grooming along with his pony pals, Trudy and Will. He used to be put down final month owing to expanding soundness problems.
“He leaves a large void that may by no means be crammed,” stated Maria. “We had at all times was hoping he can be with us a little longer. He used to be very particular.”
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