She has been out of the ring for four years but has not left her beloved sport, not by far. Au contraire, Sweden’s Louise Nathhorst is fully occupied with bringing new talent to dressage.
“I chose to quit competing in 2009,” explains the 1998 World Cup winner. “After Isidor, my team horse for the Europeans that year, had a serious injury, I didn’t have another horse. It just came naturally to stop competing, it was not exactly planned but as it played out, it worked really well.”
Time out of the ring could be spent accompanying Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven more frequently. As her trainer, Louise said she had been doing double duty while competing herself. “It felt very refreshing to be able to put in 200 per cent into my role as trainer.”