CHAMPAGNE (POLONESE – CHARADE)

A sports horse in the show jumping competition, his greatest success was taking second place as a team at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 and 1983th place in the individual competition. in the CSIO Grand Prix in Aachen in XNUMX under the rider Janusz Bobik.
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(…) Champagne was after the injury. He hit hard at the Grand Prix. Hematoma. Treatment. The big CSIO competition in Rotterdam has arrived. World Cup. I didn't really want to go. During the last oxer I felt a tug and jumped off the horse. I said it wasn't the All-Around Riding Horse Competition. The eagle shouted, "You're crazy." One more obstacle and I have to get off my horse? How is it cut off?

The cured champagne, an Olympic silver medalist, was no longer suitable for great sport. Only for juniors. There was a great auction of sports horses in Sopot. Offer for twenty thousand dollars. The champagne was old, well-earned and well-deserved. I jumped for the guests. The competition was in the hall. Grząsko. In my jump I gained one hundred and ninety centimeters. Wiesiek Hartman then started on Harta. Champagne's other leg went out, the one he was putting more weight on. It was not sold to Switzerland. He came back home. He jumped unnecessarily. He walked with foals in Nowielice. He was nineteen. He died at the age of twenty-six. Harmony twenty-four. Once, at Jacek's school, children were poaching on him and he was happy. I rode him when he was in his twenties. I galloped off-road. He remembered his youth. Spain and Champagne laid down and died together. One day. (…)

Author: Janusz Bobik
Source: "Janusz Bobik" (2012) - Witold Duński

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