Maxime Livio – medal-winning rider steps again from competitors

5-star winner Maxime Livio is stepping again from occasion using to concentrate on different tasks in a short lived break from competitors.

The medal-winning French rider, who received Pau in 2016 with Qalao Des Mers and has many high placings at CCI5*, will likely be “hanging up [his] boots” for some time on the finish of the 2024 season in France.

Maxime, 37, shared the information in a video on social media.

He stated he has been speaking concerning the choice together with his shut circle “for a couple of weeks”.

“It’s not retirement, it’s a break,” he stated. “The thought is to take a little bit of distance from the depth of life as a high-level rider and have a while to dedicate myself to many different tasks which are at present taking place on the stables, which we’ll discuss quickly. And to ask myself questions on how I need to proceed, if I even need to proceed.”

He added that he doesn’t have a transparent thought of how lengthy the break will final, however is “very enthusiastic about all of the doorways this may open”, for him personally and the alternatives it’s going to give to the Écurie Livio operation and the riders coaching there “who’ve huge objectives”.

“For me, that is undoubtedly not the top of an period, it’s slightly the beginning of a brand new one. The luxurious of getting time, regaining the liberty of speech and motion that can enable me to maneuver ahead and share numerous ideas I’ve about sport, animal welfare and ecology,” stated Maxime.

Maxime’s most up-to-date high campaigner B Grimm Carouzo Bois Marotin, with whom he completed sixth at Kentucky 2023, is now being ridden by Thailand’s Korntawat (Nat) Samran. Nat is coached by Maxime and has been primarily based at Ecurie Livio since 2013.

Maxime was a part of the bronze medal-winning French aspect on the 2018 World Equestrian Video games with Opium De Verrieres. He has completed within the high 10 at five-star on 11 of his 13 begins on the stage, which embody his Pau victory plus runner-up spots on the French five-star, Kentucky and Luhmühlen.

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