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Claire Glover and Welt Lady

Clair Glover’s lovely American bred Welt Lady and her new rider Eleni Econopouly were silver medalists at the Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championship.

Welt Lady has only been ridden for a month and a half by her new rider, but Eleni’s quiet position coupled with Welt Lady’s big movement enabled them to score well ~ 82%, just two points behind the winner, Marlena Kurz and Ode.

Fie Andersen and Rocazino, Hamilton, MA

Our stallion Rocazino did very well at Centerline Events at HITS in New York. He won the East Coast Rider’s Cup Training Level Open Division. He also got the High Score for the AWR with 77.6%!

Jean Thornton, Equivale Farm, DeLeon Springs, FL

Some happy competition news about our stallion Blue Eyed Dream and some of our other AWR horses!

AWR stallion Blue Eyed Dream and Charity L. Messer competed in the Canterbury May Days Qualifier recognized dressage show and scored a 71% on their 3rd level freestyle for 2nd place and then competed in 4th level test 1 (the first time ever at 4th level!) and scored a 66.571% for 1st place! In the freestyle they received 7s for their extended trot/canter, walk, half-pass and flying change work and an 8 for music! In 4th-1 they again received 7s for their extended trot and half-passes, they recieved a 8 for Harmony between horse and rider, and scored their first ever 9 in a test for their “very collected canter” work!

Jean Thornton and Charity L. Messer from Equivale Farm recently took 6 of Equivale’s horses to the Rocking Horse Schooling show in April 2011. Buttercup (by Blue Eyed Dream) competed for the first time with Charity at 2nd level scoring 66% 2nd place, Somyre Reign (by Blue Eyed Dream) with Jean scored 70% 1st place Training, Barbados (by Blue Eyed Dream) scored 65% 2nd place at Training, Montego (by Morgengold II) for the first time with Jean at 1st level 66% 1st place, Benji (by Blue Eyed Dream) at only 4 years old came along for his first test ever, with Charity aboard and had a great day, and Blue Eyed Dream competed in his 3rd level freestyle with Charity for a 1st place 75%! We were so proud to have our AWR stallion there and his AWR offspring to represent our breeding program and the AWR.

In April of 2011 Jean Thornton and Charity L. Messer of Equivale Farm attended the Central Florida Dressage Association awards banquet and several awards were brought home! Jean and Barbados received 2010 Training Level Open Champion, Charity and Buttercup received 2010 First Level Open Champion with a 65.21% and Charity and Blue Eyed Dream received 2010 USEF Freestyle Champion with a 74.38%! We had a lovely dinner with all our CFD friends and are looking forward to next year!

Buttercup (Blue Eyed Dream x Wrummy)
ridden by Charity L. Messer

Montego
Montego (Morgengold II x Wrummy)
ridden by Jean Thornton

Grace Holt and Five Oaks Socrates

Grace Holt’s mother, Robin, describes NASPR pony Five Oaks Socrates as “kind, safe, handsome, and flashy,” proof once again that good things often come in small packages. Grace is 4th in the USDF Preliminary Standings for Junior/Young Rider – Training Level.

“In their very first recognized show, this spring in San Antonio Grace and Socs qualified for Championships in Training 3, Pony class. At their second show, put on by the Houston Dressage Society, they received scores in the mid to upper 60s each day and took home two blue and two red ribbons. At the latest show, Dallas Dressage Club Spring Shows I and II, Grace and Socs were Champion and Reserve Champion at training level. Grace says Socrates has taught her so much and that she feels like they are just getting better and better together.”

From Penny Rose, Toronto, Canada

Congratulations to Juliet Hubbard, Wellington, Florida on her purchase of 6 yr. old AWR Rio’s Romulus, upcoming jumper star. 4 yr. old AWR Rio’s Randolf has been sold to Randy Roy & Hunters Glen in King, Ontario for a career in the hunter ring. He qualified for both “Cup” classes at the 2010 Royal Winter Fair, placing 8th in the Lieutenant Governors Cup (under saddle) class (photo below). 3 yr. old AWR Fleur de Rio made her show debut in 2010, placing Reserve Champion Sr. Filly at the CSHA Breeders Championships (photo below). Last but certainly not least AWR Gwenos Welsh Rose was CSHA 2010 Champion Progeny of Dam. Thanks to Angela Morton, trainer and handler, and Ryan Roy, rider.

Rio’s Randolf

Fleur De Rio

From the California Dressage Society Central Office

NASPR-approved stallion Majestic Dakota (owned by Kathy Jefferson of Lower Lake, CA) has earned enough scores in his sporthorse classes to receive a CDS year end plaque.

From Jennifer Guidry

To keep you updated, Mercedes (offspring of Makuba) qualified for the American Eventing Championships at Beginner Novice this year, which was held in Georgia. She and her rider, Ashley Guidry, competed against 65 other Junior riders and placed 1st.

From Alison Plumbtree, Sharon, Ontario, Canada

I just wanted to send in some pictures of USA Railside Roger That! (owned by Darlene Morton) for the Warmblood News.

USA Railside Roger That!

Roger was very well behaved at a Welsh Pony and Sport Pony show held on June 26th and 27th at the Royal Riding Academy in Newmarket. He won all of his driving classes, won the North American Sport Pony Dressage Suitability Under Saddle class, won his 3 and over gelding class and was overall Reserve Champion! We have qualified for the Royal Winter Fair in November and can’t wait to represent such a great registry that will let adults ride and show off their amazing ponies!

We took Roger to his first across borders show in July to Michigan to compete in the Metamora Pleasure driving show. Roger is a 4 year old Section C cob and he was only broke to drive in April. Though he is very quiet I wasn’t too sure how he would act at such a large and busy show. I have only driven a handful of times myself, so I entered us in the Novice driver division. The first day was a fun day as it didn’t count towards overall division points. It was a combined dressage test followed directly by a course of 20 cones. I was very happy with our dressage test (we even had a 9 for our back up!), being my first and his first driven dressage test ever. I knocked down 3 balls (all my fault of course!) and we were 6th overall out of 12 horses and ponies. The next day we had our Reinsmanship class where I received a 3rd place. I then had a Ladies to Drive class which 8 horses and ponies entered. We were 3rd and I was very proud of Roger as he took everything in stride! I had a cones class right after a ring class and we were the fastest and we went clean so we won our class! Later that evening I had a Cross Country Pace class and we came in 2nd. The last day I had our Turnout class which we won. We then had another cones class which we on yet again! The last class of the day was our Working class. Roger was very tired after his busy last two days, not to mention the 100F weather! We came 3rd in the working class and we were overall Novice Driver Champion! Needless to say I was very proud of Roger for his first really big show!

From Alison Plumbtree and Ray Morton of Sharon, Ontario, Canada

This past August we competed at the Iron Horse CDE in Illinois with our pair of prelim ponies Morton’s Royal Douton and Morton’s Bentley. Ray had a nice dressage test and was in third place out of six pair of ponies. Ray was fast on marathon day and had the fastest time in 4 out of the 5 obstacles and won the marathon which put him up to 2nd place only 2 points behind 1st place. When warming up for his cones class we heard a terrible clunking sound. They were just about to call us into the ring and we broke our back spring! I took the reins and Ray checked out the damage and decided that it wasn’t as bad as we first thought. He grabbed our handy electrical tape that we always keep in the back of the carriage and taped up the spring. Ray put in a double clear round in cones (only a few were able to do this) with a broken carriage! The pair that was in first knocked a few balls down and had time faults. Ray won his class by over 20 points!

Mortons Royal Doulton and Mortons Bentley

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