Grooming ‘a labour of love’ for French veteran
FEI Best Groom Award 2011 winner Alice Gaillard believes in that place are many grooms who deserve to endure nominated for their operate behind the scenes.
She says they should conduct maintain the gamble to relish what she remembers as “a dream experience” at the FEI Awards ceremony, which volition this twelvemonth accept house inwards Istanbul, Turkey
The 76-year-old has groomed at the French Equestrian Federation-accredited oculus L’Etrier de Bourgogne inwards Dijon for 5 decades, an action that, for many years, she juggled amongst her labor equally a mechanic at a mustard factory.
Her reputed gift amongst horses led her to operate for eventing passenger Marie-Christine Duroy at the Olympic Games inwards 1988, 1992 in addition to 1996, also equally for Jean Teulère at the FEI World Equestrian Games inwards 2002.
“I didn’t know that people could win awards for doing what they love,” said Gaillard, who was incredulous when she was informed she had won.
“Owners in addition to riders should demo they realise that their grooms willingly brand sacrifices out of their honey for horses in addition to nominate them for the FEI Best Groom Award.”
Gaillard stlll grooms nearly every 24-hour interval in addition to is the final somebody to larn out the equestrian oculus inwards Dijon. “I never desire to become domicile until I’ve gone circular the stables a final fourth dimension to brand certain all the horses are well,” she said. “I merely wouldn’t experience correct if I didn’t produce that in addition to I know in that place are a lot of immature grooms who experience the same.”
Gaillard, who said that assisting veterinarians was the purpose of her operate she enjoyed the most, has seen weather condition for grooms amend considerably over the years.
“Riders conduct maintain a lot to a greater extent than honor for their grooms straightaway in addition to await afterwards their well-being,” she said. “When they conduct maintain practiced grooms, they desire to buy the farm along them.”
The dedicated horse-carer said she oft talks to immature grooms virtually winning her laurels in addition to tells them she hopes they volition ane 24-hour interval conduct maintain the gamble to experience the same pleasure.
“You can’t imagine how much it meant to me, at my age, to move to Rio de Janeiro for the laurels in addition to endure pampered,”she said. “Everyone was real form to me – it was a wonderful experience.”
Nominations for the 5 categories of the FEI Awards tin endure made at: www.feiawards.org.
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