January 23, 2007

2006/2007 Brings A New Facility and a New Baby for Chrissa Hoffmann
By Jeannie Blancq Putney

An Exciting Honor Out of the Blue

The young professional’s growing career has also landed her on a new website called dressagetrainingonline.com She was contacted in November of this year, by owner Reisa Bonetti. The website will contain online streamed videos of FEI dressage riders, trainers and judges in America and Europe. A subscription based website for viewers to learn from training tapes of many top trainers and judges all over the world. Owner and founder, Reisa Bonetti of California flew to Kentucky in November to film Chrissa ride and train.

“I was very honored and a bit shocked to be a part of this selection process, as some of the trainers selected for this site are among the best in the world! I am delighted that Reisa recognized my ability as a rider and trainer and appreciated my dedication to the sport of dressage. She wants to feature not only the best that our sport has to offer, but some young “up and coming” trainers and riders. Reisa respects my ability to train horses from scratch to the FEI levels of dressage, including Grand Prix, and was intrigued by Harry Callahan’s success as a “non-traditional” breed, making his mark in the FEI ring.”

Photo by Shatzberg

As far as competitive riding goes, “I find Chrissa not only interesting and talented but inspirational as she strives to be a part of the top echelon,” says Reisa. “She is completely confident in riding the horse not the breed. There are many dressage enthusiasts out there like Chrissa who may be working with non traditional breeds and also strive to be competitive. They can learn from her; not only from her extremely effective communicative training skills, but from her confidence in what she trains.”