Christine Wolfe was fortunate to have learned from French cavalry officers who had served in the North African non-mechanized cavalry. Her instructors were not world-famous but their riding heritage was solidly grounded by their need to be good horsemen in order to stay alive. She also had instructors who studied at the Ecole Militaire de Paris, an equestrian school created in 1751 by Louis XV. She has been riding for more than fifty years, in France, England, and Mexico as well as the United States. In 1991, she bought Tschuess, an energetic purebred Trakehner broodmare around whom life revol...