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Sky and Sea International 2023

Horse’s name: LNS Kamelot Queen
Rider’s name: Jim Weigel
Stable: La Nautika Stables
Country: representing spain
Class: The Bermuda Triangle - 3 Day Eventing
Extras: Hate is in the air || Dressage Bloopers ||
1. Alike
2. Anothe r one bites the dust
3. Megaptera
His class started early, earlier than he would've liked. It rained earlier and the arena was soft, with a few puddles around the place. Nothing bad, he could see as he walked around the jumps trying to better asses the aproach to each and everyone of them. Still, his mind wandered around, restless and sleepless as he was, lately. He noticed the mist still hasn't lift, and as much as he could hear engines and the movement of the yatchs throught the water, because of the constant, white cloud that covered it all he couldn't see them.

And if that hasn't feel as a constant hor him, lately.
As the time was coming closer to him to ride Kamelot, he looked around once more, trying to memorize the round and every wise desition he took about the jumps at all.
Much as he tried to focus, it seemed like the weather at the moment was in sinc with his mood this morning; despite it all, after a quiet round without any poles down, the mist seemed to lift, slowly. Maybe it his mood would do the same as the event continued. Hopefully.

This is something I finished the morning before I learned about Fanfi's passing and Quenual dissapearence. That day was almost a week ago, already. Since then, my mare was also found dead.

I cannot begin to explain to you how I feel- but to be honest, and I don't expect all of you to read this. I am writing it because I have the dire need to let everyone know how great Quenu really was;

There's so many unintentional similarities between Kamelot and Quenu. Personalities traits that were written way before I even met Quenual, 11 years ago. The biggest exception to the trait is the big, floppy ears. Those were put into it because how much in love I fell with those real, big floppy ears.

There's so much of Quenual in Kamelot, and I didn't even realize until I was not able to see the mare on the pandemic. I missed her terribly and that made Kam my favourite, besides being Jim's horse and those two being some of the oldest of my characters. I didn't speak about her that much as I did once about Katar or Suprema, because of the lasting feeling of their losses. I opened a bit about her when I was buying her... But there was always a bit of Quenual in Kamelot, even if most of you didn't know about it.

I miss her so much, already.
For the longest time I would constantly hear that she was a wreck, nervous, useless, difficult to deal with... That I should ask for another horse to ride, because I "wouldn't go anywhere with her" competition wise. I didn't care. Yes, some of the hardest accidents I had was with her. I cried so much over her back, but she also made me confront my fears and my nerves, because I couldn't allow myself to be that nervous when the mare herself was just as nervous and needed to trust my judgement. Once you learned to know her and gain her trust, she was just something else. Kind, loyal, goofy and so, so needy of love. Didn't like new people. Didn't like whips, you had to be careful with spurs, If you put a bit she didn't like for sure you'll end on the ground. We had almost 4 years together before the pandemic arrived and the place closed for good. In those years I had people tell me "how great of a partnership you two have!" and close mouths as we even got to the podium once. And yet, my nerves would come into the way. I thought I was not deserving of her greatness. I learned throught those two years of not seeing her and working other horses how much she actually teached me and how much I was able to guide horses on what was asked and desired of them. There's so much to still learn, tho.

Along these years we had together, this mare developed a way to show her love to me, which was placing her head over mine. There's so many instances she did this, and I absolutely loved when she did it, and when she continued to do so from the first day she arrived to the new place.

Yeah. I have no spirit whatsoever for many things right now as I'm still processing everything that happened. But if Kamelot is able to give me, for at least a second, a feeling of being closer to Quenual as she has done throught the whole pandemic... Be sure you will continue to see art regarding this mare.
Thank you, and sorry for bombarding you so much about her.
I just can't believe anything about what happened.

No refs used for real, only looking SJ footage on youtube to have an idea of the angle and muscles of the horse+movement.

Description

Sky and Sea International 2023

Horse’s name: LNS Kamelot Queen
Rider’s name: Jim Weigel
Stable: La Nautika Stables
Country: representing spain
Class: The Bermuda Triangle - 3 Day Eventing
Extras: Hate is in the air || Dressage Bloopers ||
1. Alike
2. Anothe r one bites the dust
3. Megaptera
His class started early, earlier than he would've liked. It rained earlier and the arena was soft, with a few puddles around the place. Nothing bad, he could see as he walked around the jumps trying to better asses the aproach to each and everyone of them. Still, his mind wandered around, restless and sleepless as he was, lately. He noticed the mist still hasn't lift, and as much as he could hear engines and the movement of the yatchs throught the water, because of the constant, white cloud that covered it all he couldn't see them.

And if that hasn't feel as a constant hor him, lately.
As the time was coming closer to him to ride Kamelot, he looked around once more, trying to memorize the round and every wise desition he took about the jumps at all.
Much as he tried to focus, it seemed like the weather at the moment was in sinc with his mood this morning; despite it all, after a quiet round without any poles down, the mist seemed to lift, slowly. Maybe it his mood would do the same as the event continued. Hopefully.

This is something I finished the morning before I learned about Fanfi's passing and Quenual dissapearence. That day was almost a week ago, already. Since then, my mare was also found dead.

I cannot begin to explain to you how I feel- but to be honest, and I don't expect all of you to read this. I am writing it because I have the dire need to let everyone know how great Quenu really was;

There's so many unintentional similarities between Kamelot and Quenu. Personalities traits that were written way before I even met Quenual, 11 years ago. The biggest exception to the trait is the big, floppy ears. Those were put into it because how much in love I fell with those real, big floppy ears.

There's so much of Quenual in Kamelot, and I didn't even realize until I was not able to see the mare on the pandemic. I missed her terribly and that made Kam my favourite, besides being Jim's horse and those two being some of the oldest of my characters. I didn't speak about her that much as I did once about Katar or Suprema, because of the lasting feeling of their losses. I opened a bit about her when I was buying her... But there was always a bit of Quenual in Kamelot, even if most of you didn't know about it.

I miss her so much, already.
For the longest time I would constantly hear that she was a wreck, nervous, useless, difficult to deal with... That I should ask for another horse to ride, because I "wouldn't go anywhere with her" competition wise. I didn't care. Yes, some of the hardest accidents I had was with her. I cried so much over her back, but she also made me confront my fears and my nerves, because I couldn't allow myself to be that nervous when the mare herself was just as nervous and needed to trust my judgement. Once you learned to know her and gain her trust, she was just something else. Kind, loyal, goofy and so, so needy of love. Didn't like new people. Didn't like whips, you had to be careful with spurs, If you put a bit she didn't like for sure you'll end on the ground. We had almost 4 years together before the pandemic arrived and the place closed for good. In those years I had people tell me "how great of a partnership you two have!" and close mouths as we even got to the podium once. And yet, my nerves would come into the way. I thought I was not deserving of her greatness. I learned throught those two years of not seeing her and working other horses how much she actually teached me and how much I was able to guide horses on what was asked and desired of them. There's so much to still learn, tho.

Along these years we had together, this mare developed a way to show her love to me, which was placing her head over mine. There's so many instances she did this, and I absolutely loved when she did it, and when she continued to do so from the first day she arrived to the new place.

Yeah. I have no spirit whatsoever for many things right now as I'm still processing everything that happened. But if Kamelot is able to give me, for at least a second, a feeling of being closer to Quenual as she has done throught the whole pandemic... Be sure you will continue to see art regarding this mare.
Thank you, and sorry for bombarding you so much about her.
I just can't believe anything about what happened.

No refs used for real, only looking SJ footage on youtube to have an idea of the angle and muscles of the horse+movement.