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Dressage
Ireland
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Heike Holstein
Heike Holstein (D.O.B. 10/12/1971)
was born in Dublin but moved to the Sweep Stud in Carbury, County Kildare at the age of two.
Holstein was National Dressage champion of Ireland seven times. She won her first championship at the age of eighteen in 1990 when winning the first
ever Prix St Georges in Ireland on the stallion Bernstein. Her other national titles
were in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 and 1998. She made her Olympic debut at the age of twenty four with the eleven year old Dutch warmblood, Ballaseyr
Devereux, owned jointly by his rider and the Ballaseyr Stables, an Isle of Man
based establishment that took over the sponsorship of Heike in 1994.
In Atlanta she placed twenty sixth and missed out by five marks on qualifying
for the Speciale for the top twenty five scoring 1613 representing 65.24%.
She was a member of the first Irish dressage team to compete at the World
Equestrian Games in Rome in 1998. Riding the nine year old Ballaseyr Legend
she placed 29th in the individual classification. This combination produced
Ireland`s strongest performance at the European dressage championships in
Arnhem in 1999 when finishing twenty fifth in the Grand Prix and twenty first
in the Grand Prix Speciale.
Heike was trained by the late Dr Reiner Klimke for the last Olympics and is currently availing of the services of German trainer Conrad Schumacher.
Her top horse is the ten year old Danish bred Ballaseyr Royale by Picandt out of Matidie. Competing at only her second Grand Prix show with this
horse at the end of last month in Monza, Italy she placed third in the
Intermediare II and sixth in the Grand Prix Kur.
Heike comes from a family closely associated with equestrian sport in Ireland and on the international circuit. Her mother, Mrs Gisela Holstein,
is a list one international dressage judge and was appointed as Dressage Ireland national trainer last year. She has made an enormous contribution
to the development of the sport of dressage in Ireland, both as a judge and a trainer, over the last twenty years.
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Mrs. Gisela
Holstein,
FEI "I" Judge
Dressage Ireland
National Trainer
Mother of Heike & Erik |
Heike`s brother Erik is an international
show jumping rider. He has had a distinguished career and won the British young riders championship at Hickstead in 1992. He returned to the same
venue six years later to win the British Grand Prix at the CSIO show with Ballaseyr Kalosha. He placed 10th individually at the World Equestrian Games
in Rome in 1998.
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Erik Hostein
International Show Jumper |
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