STEVE GUERDAT is reluctant to reveal too much, but the excitement in his eyes as he talks about the nine-year-old mare Dynamix De Belheme betrays his coy exterior.
“I don't like to say it, but I think she's the best horse I've ever had,” he reveals tentatively.
Coming from one of the world's greatest riders, who has won the Olympic crown, a hat-trick of World Cups and countless grands prix and championship medals on a starstudded assortment of horses such as Nino Des Buissonnets, Jalisca Solier and Albführen's Bianca, those words are not uttered lightly.
But there has been no better advert for this stunning French-bred mare's elite credentials than her eye-catching performances in recent five-star Nations Cups and grands prix.
Steve found Dynamix, who is by the relatively unknown stallion Snaike De Blondel out of a Cornet Obolensky mare, as a five-yearold and brought her out himself at six.
“She has so much quality that I never