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Olympic hopeful Kristin Bachman considers her life with horses a series of lessons. And at age 36, the lifelong horse professional finds herself still learning.
The Lovettsville-based rider was placed on the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s “winter training list,” a group of riders selected to ride with Olympic coach Capt. Mark Phillips in preparation for the summer games in China. Training sessions are held in Aiken, S.C., a sandy, temperate horse-friendly town on the Georgia border with weekly competitions and a deep pool of training talent.
Bachman recalled one her hardest lessons, one she learned from a mistake at her first Rolex CCI**** (international level) event in 2006. Midway through cross-country was a tightly set, turning combination of two 4foot high, 4-foot wide, 4-foot deep logs, called “skinnies” by riders steering into their narrow face. Mid-combo, Bachman briefly lost her focus (“When I walked the course, there weren’t 100,000 spectators there! I literally couldn’t ‘find’ my focal point,” she explained.) Her approach to the “B” jump was off
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