크리스탈 크루치
Crystal Kroetch on Lymrix
2nd Pan Ams Trial, 2011, I1FS
70.292%
크리스탈 크루치의 아버지는 유명한 커팅호스 트레이너 죠지 옥스토비였으며
캐나다 앨버타에서 쿼터호스를 내고 훈련을 시켰다는데
말 위에서 팔짱을 낀 상태로 자유자재로 말을 운동시켰다고 한다.
2011년 팬어메리칸게임스에서 실버 팀메달을 받은 팀멤버였으며
마장마술을 하고 가르치며 말을 그랑프리 마장마술을 하는 단계까지 가르치고 훈련한단다.
2011
Won team Silver Medal at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico - Finished 7th overall
CDI 3* Palm Beach Dressage Derby, FL Intermediare 1 Freestyle Champion
-Lymrix's first national Grand Prix shows -Qualified for 2011 Canadian Pan American Games trials - long listed
*Qualified for the 2011 Canadian Pan American Games team
Crystal Kroetch knew at the age of 6 that she wanted to dedicate her life to horses. Her father, George Oxtoby, was a top cutting horse trainer and raised Quarter Horses in central Alberta. Crystal did several years of 4-H, competing on several different horses throughout her school years. After completing her grade 12, she was still convinced that horses were meant to be her life. She worked at the family training stable/farm for several years helping her father train and compete hundreds of horses. She worked with many different breeds, quarter horses, appaloosa's, arabians, thoroughbreds and sport horses and competed in many events including english and western pleasure, halter, trail, horsemanship, showmanship, reining, cutting, cattle penning, as well as jumping. In 1982 Crystal’s sister, Pat Oxtoby, who had been married and living in Denmark for 9 years moved home to stay and introduced Crystal to dressage. Crystal was instantly inthralled with the beauty, discipline, and training of dressage. She had finally found her true passion and it became the guiding force in her life. Over the years she has trained and competed several horses through the levels of dressage all the way to the highest Olympic level of Grand Prix. She has thousands of wins and hundreds of championships to her name. If asked what she enjoys most about dressage she will reply “the elegance, improved balance and agility it brings to the horse, as well as the long journey of training that takes place on a daily basis”. She has been married to Danny Kroetch since 1990 and has two sons, Cory and Denim. They live at their home Carousel stables in Calgary which is one of the top dressage training facilities in Canada. They also own and operate DK Saddlery which is a business that was started by her husband out of his passion to help the horse become pain free from badly designed and fitted saddles. Crystal is also a NCCP Level III dressage coach and has been since 2004. This certification program is very in-depth and there are only a few in Canada that have achieved this level. Crystal still believes that it is important to keep improving and learning. She has been working with Ger Geertsen since 1988 and with the Canadian junior young rider coach of the FYRST program, Albrecht Heidemann of Germany for the past 9 years. She also spent the last 5 winter seasons in Florida working with Robert Dover, Marcus Gribbe, Juan Matute, and Albrecht Heidemann.