Swiss Grand Prix dressage rider Françoise Cantamessa has found a new employer in Ullrich Kasselmann. The 35-year old Cantamessa is since a couple of days a member of the riders' team at Hof Kasselmann in Hagen, Germany
, and will training the horses there. Hof Kasselmann is especially known for being a top class training and sales facility which constitutes an integral part of Performance Sales International (P.S.I.), together with Paul Schockemöhle.
Françoise Cantamessa was twice Swiss junior champion, and become internationally known as the rider of the Hofgut Albfuhren stallions. Cantamessa was entered to compete Trakehner stallion Peron at the 1999 European Dressage Championships, but the stallion died previous to the event. As an employee of Albfuhren, she presented stallions such as Laudatio, Dunhill, and Sir S. In 2000, she competed at the Olympic Games in Sydney, finishing seventh with the Swiss team in the nations' competition. In 2002 she competed Laudatio (by Landadel) at the World Equestrian Games in Spain.
Since 2003, Cantamessa was in search of a new direction in her life after having been released by Albfuhren. Now, she will map out a new course in life in Hagen.
Image copyrighted: Dirk Caremans
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