Congrats Kelsey!

Congratulations to Kelsey, who is the Canadian Pony Club's National Reserve Champion at Starter Level Dressage Check out this e-mail from her mom detailing how she did:

2 horses
2 technical tests
1 mystery test- called while ridden without seeing the test in advance- each rider rode a different test from a different country- Kelseys was from Australia.
Reserve champion for technical tests
Overall reserve champion.

All this and the kids had a VERY limited time to ride their "mystery" mounts the day before the championships, and a very short warm-up time!

I posted this pic especially, because it matches the other 2 chestnut horses with white blazes in my stable. I unfortunately don't know this horses' name.

More Pics from Nationals

I ordered pics from Don Stine who was the official photographer of the Sport Horse Championships. Cool pics eh?

Who Is Who?

Allie and Nova- They are so similar, even the dot on their noses.

Just a cool pic to share with my readers.

Happy Thanksgiving! :) E

Allie is on the right!

Update on Porshah

I just got this exciting e-mail from Dawn in New York about Porsah. This was her first show in with Dawn:

"Po and I did our first show yesterday. She won both of her classes....T-3 and T-4. She got a 68.1% on the T-3 and 57ish (test is in my trunk) for T-4. She was well behaved and just a doll. She is going very well. We are finally beginning to click. Now that I have gotten over babying her...I was always afraid of ruining her! She is the best!"

What a Show!

Mav (Gen Custer) was amazing at Sport Horse Nationals. He took a Top 10 in a deep field of competitors in the Prix St. George. Mav again went Top 10 (4th place) in the Intermediare 1.

Our freestyle was spectacular. Check out this link to find it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YneIb3uiFZ8 The other competitors could not touch the atmosphere that I created from my music, and if it was up to the audience, we would have taken the championship hands down. We went Reserve, non the less. I'm proud of my little guy. He exceeded all I wanted him to do.

It's really a great feeling when even a couple of days after my freestyle, I had people walking up to me saying how great it really was. I did ride my heart out in the ring, really playing with the crowd! Our western theme really did the trick!

Not to be left out was Allie. She went top 10 in Sport Horse Show Hack in a field of 19 horses. She also qualified for the Sport Horse Under Saddle final out of 64 horses, as we made both the semi-final and the final cut. I have not looked at the cards yet to see where we actually placed in the final.