COLUMBIA, MO : After car crash Missouri woman, 82, still a dressage force on Thursday, June 22, 2017

Oliver Broholmgard is a big horse - 17 hands tall - and a muscular one, too.
It makes sense, as he’s spent the better part of the last 16 years doing what his owner, Liz Hotchkiss, 82, wryly refers to as equestrian aerobics, the Missourian (http://bit.ly/2rOU52x ) reported.
Most people know it as the sport of dressage. Together, horse and rider represent decades of experience in an ancient sport.
Dressage translates from the French word for “training,” and it’s Hotchkiss‘ passion. The sport has been the body of her life’s work, and those who know that work best say it’s the soul of her legacy in Columbia.
Continuing to practice dressage as an octogenarian is important to Hotchkiss, too. Late last year, Hotchkiss fell asleep at the wheel on her way home from a friend’s house one evening. Her car veered off Old Plank Road South in Columbia and struck a tree. The impact dislodged her hearing aid, which flew into the backseat. When a passing driver came along and tried to help her out of the car, she found she couldn’t stand.
Hotchkiss had sustained a compression fracture to her lower back. Her recovery included vertebroplasty injections - a procedure that requires acrylic bone cement to be injected into the fractured vertebrae. About 14 weeks later, she was back on the horse.

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After car crash Missouri woman, 82, still a dressage force