The Swedish dressage rider Bertil Sandström(1887-1964) became second at the Grand Prix Dressage at the Xth Olmpic Games in Los Angeles in 1932, but he was put back on the tenth place. The reason for this was, because the judges thought he heard him making a ”clicking” sound” during the piaffe and passage. Captain Sandstöm filed a protest and gave as a reason of that ’clicking sound’ the judges did hear, ”My saddle is making is making a ’clicking” noice, not me” . But the judges had theire comments ready, because their had to be made a big statement. This text was in the diary of Mrs. Klinckowström after she finished her ’tour de Europe’on the back of her Swedish Warmblood horse ’Castor. In 1929 the European Equesrian Soceity of ridingclubs had been created in Budapest. Mrs. Linde Klinckowström was there also prestent as a quest of her Hungarian relative the Count Géza von Andrassy( IOC member for the equestrian sport) :and the ”Hungarian Club of long distance riders”, under the presidency of Stephan Horthy, the brother of the regent of Hungary. Fröken Linde married in 1932 the handsome Swedish Captain Hans von Rosen, who was a well-known Olympic rider and they were very happy togtether. Mrs. Linde lived at the castle Lindö and had just returned back from her honeymoon. Before her fist child was born she moved very much around in the Swedish equestrian cicles. During a meeting at a lunch in Stockholm she dicused with her friend Ebba Bonde, the divorced wife of the FEI dressage judge and equerry of the Swedish Crown Carl Gustaf Bonde, about the technical matters and the ’adventures ” of the Swedish team. And of course the judge verdict over Captain Bertl Sandström, a members of the very succesfull Swedish team. It was the first time that the sponsors and crowd from Hollywood and the international equestrian world gathered at Los Angeles could see a ridden piaffe and passage by military horses. The winner became the French dressage rider Captain Lesage. The representatives of the FEI and the dressage committe in 1932 had to make clear that those excersices were NOT a circus act, but the results of endless gymnastic excerisis of the horses and their able riders. Countess Ebba Bonde had met the diplomate and humanist Roual Wallenberg also in Los Angeles at the Xth Olympic Games. This Swedish student made a trip through the USA and had a nice party at those Olimpic Games with many of his family members for his 20th birthday. Countess Ebba Bonde was the chef d’equipe of the gold Swedish Penthalon team at those Olympic Games and she was the sister of the friendly countess Gertrud Arco auf Valley born Wallenberg. Her sister lived in Sankt Martin/Austria and hosted Major Alois Podhasjky and the Lipizzan stallions from the SRS in Vienna in March and May 1945. (Picture, Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum : Bertil Sandström on the horses’ Sabel’ in the Piaffe)
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:34:14 +0000
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