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Yelena (Eena) Petushokova (1940-2007) Member of the USSR dressage team. Won many team and individual medals at the Olympic games and in 1970 won the World Championship at Aachen - riding 'Pepel'. ABOUT 'PEPEL' “The name Pepel is one of few to glorify the Soviet Union in the international arena, having achieved the highest steps of the pedestal. Foreign journalists reported with admiration about him, praising the stallion’s natural charm and intelligence. “He never lost concentration... he passed from one movement to another without the slightest hesitation - so smoothly and easily and his paces were so natural that it seemed he had never been worked with. The control was completely imperceptible” - the Belgian magazine, Bulletin Officiel de la , wrote: “Since the times of General Wattel on Rampart and Colonel Lesege on Ten I had not seen the art of training executed with such precision“, a correspondent of French magazine “L'eperon“ wrote with similar enthusiasm “The Russian combination Pe
