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"She is such a cool mare who is so sweet and just goes in and does her job," said Schulz, who hails from Sebastopol, Cal., where she has a career training and rehabilitating dogs, and endures a seven-hour commute each way just to have a chance to ride Delia. "I half-lease her from her owner, and I actually only get to ride her about one week out of the month because I live here in Northern California, but she's stabled in the southern part of the state. So it's a very special horse that allows me to hop on and do this.
"This is our first Championship Show together, and of course it can be intimidating to go in there with this type of competition, but I think the most important thing is to focus on your own ride and keep doing the best that you can personally," Schulz continued. "Her changes are just wonderful - every time we go in there it's like she says 'I've got this,' and that's always a great boost of confidence."
Off to a promising start, Schulz have now earned an invitation to the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, and will continue to compete across both the USDF and CDS divisions at the Prix St. Georges and Intermediaire I level this weekend. "I was really curious to see how we'd stack up here, and we'll see how the rest of the weekend goes but the Finals are definitely something we'll be thinking about now," Schulz explained. "I'd love to make it to Kentucky. Who wouldn't want to go, right?"
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