Hi all! We’ll update everyone with dressage updates from Fair Hill and Team Challenge!!!! Check back for updates from all the three day riders at the three different three days this weekend!!
(And to tide you over, here’s a pic of WS Emily holding our advanced horse Widespread Panic before the jog at Fair Hill.)
Just a quick note for all the Team CEO-ers…. Tomorrow begins our busiest week of autumn! Stay tuned for updates as Megan, Emily, Marybeth, Grasshopper, and Nemo head to the Fair Hill CCI in MD…. While Ali, Alex, Nikki, Oliver, Jeri, Elijah, Chelsea, and Basil stay in Lexington to run the Midsouth Team Challenge Three Day at the Training Three Day and CCI* levels. It’s going to be a CRAZY week!!!!!!
Those of us going to Fair Hill leave 2am on Monday morning…. How fun is that???? We finished up the packing today, and went out to the horsepark to volunteer for the HT…. We spent the entire afternoon setting up the dressage arenas…. I’m now way more comfortable with spiders than ever before!! We loved helping and hope everyone who rides in those arenas has a fabulous ride! (And maybe, just maybe, one of them will notice how dang straight those arena walls are! 
(Photo is of WS Molly carrying dressage arena pieces at the Kentucky Horse Park.)
I’ll keep updating from Fair Hill and our journeys… You guys be sure to keep updating me on the big gang at Team Challenge!! I’ll be thinking of you every day.
Good luck and have fun!! –Megan
Congrats to all those Team CEO riders for their great day at the Three Day Farm Jumper Show today! The courses were very challenging (skinnies, rolltops, bounces, corners, chevrons, liverpools, and some very crazy lines) and were great fun for all. The competition was really impressive, with quite a few pros there and some very nice horses!
More info in the morning…. The horses won so many ribbons we had to write them all down……. Time to go to sleep! I’m exhausted!
Hannah and Spud represented Team CEO Eventing brilliantly, riding in the Georgetown Parade of the Horse. They were chosen to represent the Clydesdale breed. Hannah is just 12 years old and Spud has been superbly trained by her dad, Mike. They were terrific! Photos coming soon!
What a great weekend at Jumpstart HT! The weekend dawned cold and rainy, with an amazing amount of rain pouring down on the Kentucky Horse Park’s already saturated grounds. We are so lucky to have such amazing turf in this area, and that’s a big reason why I chose to buy our farm just 2 miles from KHP…. At any other venue, I’m sure I would have found myself—a majorly overprotective footing wimp—withdrawing all of our horses before XC, just to play it safe. But the XC footing held up much better than expected… It was wet, indeed, but then again so were the riders!! I was so proud of everyone this weekend…. Competing at KHP is always a VERY competitive venture, with very good horses and riders in divisions that are chocked full. I was so proud of the very good results our riders achieved this weekend.
And on a special note, I’d like to add that between 9 horses and riders this weekend, we only had ONE RAIL. Rails were falling everywhere, especially in the T and P, and yet 9 of our riders only had a combined total of one rail in show jumping… CONGRATULATIONS!!
Zephyr and Holly: Running in the Sr Novice Rider division, Holly had a much improved dressage test with some really inspiring moments! Holly and Emily were riding simultaneously in two different rings doing the novice test–they were movement by movement in stride, like a divided pas de deux! Lol. They easily galloped around the XC course double clean, making light work of the course. While Zephyr was a little fresh in the colder temps this weekend, it was so exciting to see him be so brave and honest on XC…. Speaking worlds to what Holly has been working so hard to achieve! They had just one rail in SJ. Holly rode so well all weekend, and they finished in the ribbons in 9th place in her division of Novice this weekend.
Trooper and Kim: In the Training Rider division, this terrific pair ran their second training level event. They had such an improved dressage test—check out the photo! They looked terrific and are really on the edge of a major dressage breakthrough. Kim had her typically textbook show jumping round, and pulled off one of very few double clean SJ in Training. Trooper jumped so well—I don’t think he touched a single rail! They had a terrific XC round, jumping everything right out of stride and looking gorgeous! The course was very wet in places and the ground jury did an outstanding job of removing fences that were unsafe to jump, including one log that was pretty much swallowed by floodwater! Kim and Trooper did a terrific job around the whole course. Just one peek at the troublesome teepee trakehner (which eliminated many riders this weekend) in an otherwise faultless, gorgeous round. Congrats!
Vaughn and Hannah: Hannah has come so very far in the last year…. She has evolved from a little kid on a pony into such a beautiful, talented rider!! I am so proud of her. She and Vaughn had such a very, very good cross country round. They had a beautiful rythym and all of the fences came beautifully out of stride. Their tempo was terrific, and even without a watch (I don’t want a 12yo kid thinking about a watch on XC), she knew her gallop well enough to come in under time, without any speed faults or time faults. Their round was beautiful! Hannah returned Sunday to perform equally well in showjumping, with a lovely, rhythmical round to jump double clean in show jumping. They finished 5th in Beg Novice JR, Division 2, finishing on their dressage score!
Taz and Emily: Emily borrowed our 4yo TB gelding Sur Les Tas this weekend for her Novice level entry, and had about three days to learn to ride a brand new horse! Emily is a young rider and one of our working students. She was accidently placed in Open Novice against all the pros! Still, in the POURING rain, in an arena that was 4” under water, on a borrowed horse and with an error in dressage, they still managed a gorgeous, steady, accurate test. They scored a 38 (with an error), placing them in a tie for 6th after dressage against the pros!!! Their XC round was the things dreams are made of…. So smooth and steady and easy, they looked like they had been competing together for ten years and looked like novice veterans. A nice rider on the way back from XC even complimented the pair on their rounds, saying how good Taz was and how easy they made everything look. They jumped double clean on XC! On Sunday, they came into show jumping for only their second time jumping showjumps together. Taz is a quiet, easy going fellow, and I reminded Emily to go forward…. Forward she did go! J They had a lovely, forward round. Taz is really careful, so he didn’t touch a single pole, including the pink triple bar for the final fence. They jumped double clean in show jumping, finishing on a dressage score of 38, finishing in a tie for 4th! They were unfortunately a few seconds faster than the other rider, so they finished a fantastic 5th place in a big division of great professionals at Novice!!
Alex and Ali: Alex and Ali had a terrific weekend… They ‘ve worked hard on their dressage, and have proved all fall that they are doing well after being consistently at the top of the dressage leaderboard! They were riding in the professional division of Training this weekend, so some VERY tough competition and some VERY good horses and riders. They scored a 34 in dressage with a great test!! I really enjoyed having the opportunity to work with Ali last week on Alex’s show jumping, and her hard work paid off with a double clean show jumping round! (An elusive accomplishment in the training divisions this weekend!). Even in the mud, they managed a lovely, even-paced cross country round, well ridden and smooth. They earned a double clean XC score. Ali finished on her dressage score of 34!!! They finished a terrific 4th place! This weekend, they also qualified to compete at the 2010 USEA Area 8 Training Level Championships!
Gretchen and Jubilee: Gretchen was competing this weekend in the Beg Novice Jr Division. Hannah and Gretchen, 12yo and 13yo respectively, are absolutely adoreable together and are the best of friends. It was so fun for them to ride together all weekend!! Gretchen and jubilee jumped really well all weekend, with a double clean on XC and double clean in show jumping! I was so excited for her that she finished on her dressage score in 2nd place in her division!! (And with that placement she qualifies for the 2010 Area 8 Beg Novice Championships! And puts her half way to qualified for the AEC’s in 2010!)
Nikki and Oliver: Nikki has had a BREAKTHROUGH month with her challenging but talented horse Oliver. They scored a 35 in dressage with a really good test, and have become very consistent in scoring well in that phase. They show jumped really well in the Training, scoring another double clean round…. I know I sound redundant here, but really , there were MANY rails at this level and very few double cleans—our girls just snatched up more than their fair share of them! The biggest accomplishment, though, was that this terrific pair jumped double clean around the XC, not only jumping clean but also easily coming within the time despite the wet footing. Nikki finished a terrific 2nd place this weekend!!! (I believe she finished second only to the pair who just won the AEC’s at this level!) With their terrific finish, they qualify for so much—-qualifying for a Training Three Day, qualifying for the Area championships at Training next year, and already qualifying for the AEC’s a year from now!!!!
Demi and Blake: Blake completed the Summer Working Student program in 2009, and will always be a part of our Team CEO Family!!! We loved cheering Blake on all weekend, and she had a terrific dressage with a 33.5 for 2nd place. This warmblood mare has been a challenging but worthwhile addition to Blake’s life, and Blake has had to work very hard to get the best out of the mare. On cross country, Blake rode very, very well, to earn a double clean cross country round, moving her into the lead in her Beg Novice JR division! She rode the pants off of her horse on Sunday, winning her division by 3 points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (That earns them a half-qualification for the AEC’s next year, as well as the area champs next year!)
Nightfall and Megan: This weekend was a bit of a fairytale moment for Nightfall. Nightfall, our 5yo Trakehner/TB stallion, is our very first homebred, out of my Young Rider’s horse and by Windfall, the four star eventing stallion. Ryan and I were competing in the Area 8 Beginner Novice Championships! Ryan was so good all weekend… In dressage, in the pouring rain, he simply could not have been better!! Dressage whips aren’t allowed in championship divisions, which is really fun when you’re riding a stallion in a big group of horses at the horse park!! Thank goodness nightfall is super easy and well behaved. He was so steady and easy and through and submissive in dressage. Riding Ryan in slop is like riding a cougar in the best footing possible. He is so sure footed, and so naturally balanced. I was so happy with his test… I didn’t look at the score and didn’t want to know, as all that matters was that he was as good as he could possibly be at such a young age. Cross country was terrific… The footing was pretty wet, yet he didn’t slip a time. He galloped really well and found all the jumps to be simple. He was a little playful a couple of times…. We were galloping past the prelim fences, and on multiple occurances his highness was convinced that was our jump! Pulling him off of them was quite a chore, and he was very disappointed in my selection of smaller fences… Boring! Ryan was so interested in going down to the Prelim fences… I think it’s definitely time to move up! He finished double clean on the XC. The show posted the order of go for show jumping for the Championships…. I casually looked for my name, and noticed I was last to go… Then I saw the small note at the bottom that said, “Reverse order of placing.” Yikes! No pressure—that meant that Ryan was in the lead, and I knew that I’d have to jump double clean the next day… Something to stew on all night. I usually handle my nerves pretty easily, but Sunday morning, with just one horse to ride, I was pretty nervous. The championship division was a very good one, and the pressure was on. I had already done all the walks with my students, but I decided to rewalk the SJ course by myself, as I was pretty nervous. I had just won the Prelim Championships the week before with Grasshopper…. Surely there was no chance I could pull that off two weekends in a row!! I was walking the sj course when a little hand grabbed mine…. One of my young students, Hannah, had come running into the ring to walk with me. She said, “I know what place you’re in and I’m not telling you!” I responded, “I accidently found out, too, and I’m a little nervous!” Hannah is so sweet and was so touching… She said, “Don’t be nervous! I’m going to walk this course with you and coach you through it!” And sure enough, my 12 year old kid walked my course with me, giving me adoreable instructions. It was so touching. I went into the ring later, having to wait till about 2 o’clock in the afternoon to show jump. Right before I went in the ring, a loose horse went galloping past me (on my stallion)…. Thank goodness he’s well behaved!!! Aaack! He went in the ring and was good… He has recently decided he’s VERY bored with Beg Novice fences, and he’ll move up and do much more in the spring…. So he was a little cocky in show jumping. I knew the time had been kind of difficult to make, so I galloped between fences, then set him up to each jump, trying to make sure I came in under time and clean. He is a brilliant jumper and very careful at 3’6”, but he’s bored with 2’7” and wants to do so much more… I’m just trying not to do too much with such a young horse, but it’s SOOO tempting! He was great and didn’t touch a single fence! With tears in my eyes (and my dad’s), our little homebred boy won the 2009 USEA Area 8 Championships at Beginner Novice!!!!!!!!!!!!! He led start to finish, winning the dressage and finishing on his dressage score to win the entire outing. It was so touching…. HOW EXCITING!!!!
I’m so blessed…. This was the first time I’d ever entered the championships, and I had one entry at Prelim (last weekend) and one entry at Beg Novice (this weekend). And both of the boys WON the championships!!! Both are boys I’ve had from the very beginning, and I feel so blessed to have them. What a special ending to their season to win such a big outing!!!!!!! I’m so excited for them!!!!!!!!!!!
Flying Cross HT had a really impressive turnout this year, with incredibly nice horses and riders and most of the top riders and trainers in area 8 attending. In addition, they were home to the re-running of the Area 8 Training and Prelim Championships. With the divisions chocked full of top quality horses and the courses all maxed and challenging, it was set to be an interesting weekend!
We took 5 horses with us this weekend. Chelsea and Basil ran in the Open Preliminary. They had a good dressage test for 42.0, and a nice show jumping round. Sunday for XC dawned wet, cold, and pouring rain. Even in the rain, they had one of the fastest times of the day with 15 time, and clean jumping. They were terrific in the wet and cold, jumping easily around the course, making light work of everything…. Bounce, log drops, bounce bank, irish bank, sunken road, coffin, corner, water, you name it…. They had it all! Chelsea and Basil finished 5th in a big, tough open division!!! They also picked up their final qualifier for their first CCI* with this terrific outing!!! Congrats!!!!
Nikki and Oliver ran in the Training. Nikki had a gorgeous dressage test for a 30-something (I’m sorry—memory is a little fuzzy! ) . She was very bold in the show jumping, and that translated well to the cross country. Around a very challenging course that was causing dozens of penalties, they jumped clean with just a few time penalties. They pick up a qualifier for a training three day! They placed 8th in their division!
Boscoe was amazing this weekend in the Novice Horse. I’ve never seen a more impressive Novice division….. So many professionals, so many very fancy warmbloods. Warmup looked like a mini rolex event. So fancy! I took Boscoe to have fun, and didn’t worry too much that I was sitting on a little paint while others were sitting on big warmbloods. Boscoe put in a really, really lovely dressage test!!! He scored 35.3, beating many of the warmbloods…. He was so steady and so good! Even better, the porta potty man mistakenly decided to pump the porta potty that was adjacent to the ring DURING my test!!! Imagine that you’re going down the centerline and someone starts a sump pump next to the ring!!! Thank goodness that Boscoe is fearless! He was so good. Then in show jumping, he was so careful and brilliant… I don’t think he touched a fence! He jumped double clean. Then on XC, in the afternoon as the third to last horse of the day, the ground was pretty torn up. But he couldn’t care less… Boscoe was a MACHINE!! He was so brilliant…. I kept trying to help him, and he kept saying, “Oh, I’m fine—I’ve got it!” He didn’t look at a single jump….. Sunken road, coffin, trakener, jump into water, soooooo many banks, mound, nothing! He packed me around, easily scoring a double clean. Finishing on his dressage score of 35.3, he finished in 3rd place!!!!
Nemo was terrific this weekend in the Open Preliminary Division…. He was AMAZING in the dressage. In a division filled with upper level riders (many of those were Advanced riders), he easily WON the dressage…. By SEVEN points!!!!! Second place after dressage was a very respectable 33. Nemo scored a 26!!! He continued to be brilliant in show jumping, where he jumped double clean without touching a single fence. He was so amazing on XC….. It was pouring rain and I was so cold and wet…. I didn’t take him incredibly fast, but rather took very good lines and rode smoothly without any wrestling. I’m so proud of him that he’s in a snaffle on XC! He galloped around easily and came across the finish line 20 seconds under optimum, easily winning the division. Tears came to my eyes–I was so happy! Except there was a discrepancy about the finish line….. And when later I crossed the finish line for the second time, my time was then a minute over optimum. ERGH! Nemo should have easily won his division, and would have won by ten points. What a terrific horse!! His dressage score was so good that, even with a minute of time penalties for the finish line issue, he still finished in 2nd place. It was a really frustrating moment for me, but eventing is very humbling…. I know that my horse was amazing all weekend, and that I’m so proud of him. He couldn’t have been better!!! I’m so sad to have let him down, but he doesn’t know that he didn’t win…. He was amazing, and I was so proud of him. I was so happy that Nemo was so good in all three phases… What a special boy!
Hopper was competing in the Preliminary Championships. The championships were originally scheduled for Hunters Run HT, where Hopper was amazing and lay in 2nd place when they had to cancel the event due to weather. This weekend, he drew the ride #1, and had to be the first horse of the day… Always a hard spot to come from in the dressage. The last two days, he’s been better than ever, and I was SO happy to show him off!! He was so good in warmup, and they sent me over to the ring at 7:30am. I get to the ring and, oops—not ready, so they send me back! I went back to warmup, got sent back to the ring, got sent back to warmup, you get the idea. Wild! By the time I got to do the test, unfortunately, my steady dependable dressage partner was tense and frustrated, and he scored a 36 to lay in an uncharacteristic place for him in 5th place. I was very happy with him in Show Jumping. The course was difficult and unorthodox, and I loved the creativity in the course, including two fences surrounding a bank complex. The triple was a right slanting rail to a left slanting rail to a swedish oxer…. So interesting!! He was very, very good around the course. I picked too much to one fence, and we had just one rail down. It was the only fence he touched. He went into XC in 5th place. I didn’t worry about being competitive, but just wanted to give him a good run around the very championships caliber course. So we set out, in the pouring rain, and I went slower than usually but he allowed me to ride really smoothly. We were really in sync, and I felt like he was amazing at every single fence. He was so good everywhere!!!! He easily loped around inside the time, making light work of the course. Later, it turns out, we find out that this was very much a championship caliber course, and the XC was very influential. When I went back to look at the results later, it turns out that Hopper was the only horse all day, in all divisions of Prelim, to make the time on XC and go double clear! There were lots of stops, and every other horse at the event in Prelim had time. So Hopper finished what he started at Hunters Run, and he WON!!!!!!! Congratulations to Hopper on becoming the 2009 Area 8 Preliminary Level Champion!!! Congrats Hopper!!
What a day!!!! 1st Hopper, 2nd Nemo, 3rd Boscoe, 5th Basil, 8th Oliver. And without the little finish line issue, Nemo and Hopper would have won both divisions of Prelim. I was so proud of the horses and riders today!! Congrats to all!!!! And thanks to Molly, Howard, and Quin for all the great work behind the scenes!
RESULTS!!!
Team CEO presented two horses this year to the ISR/Oldenburg North America inspection held in Kentucky this year. We were so impressed by the outstanding quality of youngsters we saw there. I took all of the working students with me for the day—not that I thought we needed five people to handle these two horses, but rather I thought it would be a really good learning 
experience for the Working Students. We were proud to present two horses…. Sprite, our 15 year old thoroughbred broodmare, a sister to our Never Stop Dreaming. NSD competed successfully at the advanced level with Megan before being exported to Belgium after being purchased by the Belgian Olympic Team. She is truly an exceptional broodmare and one we searched for many years to find. While she is in her teen years and has a big belly from many years of carrying foals, she is a truly quality broodmare with especially nice hip, terrific bone retiring sound after many races, absolutely amazing feet, and from a sire who is known for producing upper level jumpers. We were very happy that she easily passed her approval, entering into the Main Mare Book for the Oldenburg NA!!!!! Congrats to Sprite!!
We also presented Femme Fatale, our first foal out of Sprite. Her sire is a terrific imported dressage horse name Fabuleaux, owned by Dr. Barbara Schmidt and Bridlewood Farm. They have been so amazing to help see us through this process, and I can certainly say that Dr. Schmidt is one of the BEST stallion owners to deal with!!! They have taught me so much about the breeding and warmblood registration process. Thank you!! We are really proud of this filly, who we affectionately call Fizz. (Her mom’s name is Sprite–get it?) She is a beautiful type and very athletic, but also possesses an outstanding brain. Many of the foals today ended up kicking their handlers at some point today…. Fizz was the epitome of good manners, and was really terrific all day. (Even when Chelsea and I were braiding them at 5am!!) She scored a terrific 7.8 at her inspection, and was registered and branded as a full Oldenburg, as her mom was also approved today.
My favorite moment today…. As with all in hand classes, you walk a small triangle then trot a large one. They made up the triangle with white jump poles…. UH OH! Fizz LOVES to gallop around our arena, jumping the dressage railing… It’s her favorite game. (NO, we didn’t teach her that!) So when she saw the white poles everywhere, she offered to forego the trotting portion of the in-hand presentation in leiu of a jumping demonstration! She galloped around the triangle, not worried at all about her mom, busily bouncing the poles in and out of the triangle and alternating them with flying changes each direction. She was SO proud to demonstrate her jump skills—surely the inspectors would be impressed! (We just won’t tell her that there isn’t a score at the inspection for free-jumping suckling foals…. Go figure!) She was having SO much fun.
Congrats to our wonderful ladies, and thanks so much for all of the ws help today!
I’m so looking forward to a busy and exciting weekend at Kentucky Classique! As always, please let me know via email or in person if you’d like coaching at the event. Here are the times for the coursewalks….
Thursday August 27
6:00 Coursewalk at Kentucky Classique HT for Training
6:45 Coursewalk at Kentucky Classique HT for Novice
7:30 Coursewalk at Kentucky Classique HT for Prelim
Friday August 28
6:30 Coursewalk at Kentucky Classique HT for Beg Novice
What a week! The girls and I traveled to Richland, MI, for seven days to compete in the Richland Park CIC** and HT. Cold weather and rain were the themes for the week, but overall it was a great week!
Nemo was competing in the CIC** this weekend. He was one of the first horses to go in dressage on Thursday, and performed a steady, solid test for a 60.0 (FEI scoring). I was happy with his relaxation and focus, but a bit dissappointed in the lack of wow in the test—we can do better! It was a solid test, a good 15 points below qualifying, which is always encouraging. On cross country, I was thrilled with him! I am very proud to be able to take one of the strongest mouthed horses of my career and now back him off to a plain loose ring snaffle now that he is listening, and it was such a joy…. He galloped around cross country on a soft rein, and I didn’t have to take a single pulley rein. We were very much working together, and on the same page the entire round. He is a little behind Hopper on fitness, so the plan was just to canter him around for a good positive round. He galloped well, though not at top speed as planned, but he was so good and listening so well that we didn’t waste an instant arguing… And he came home with one of the fastest rounds of the day with only 3.2 time penalties in the two star! He was so good everywhere…. What a blast! Even better, the vets in the D-box told me that his breathing and heartrate showed the best recovery and fitness all day!! In show jumping, he was a really good boy, but I was unusually nervous… He jumped well for just one rail, finishing in 10th place in the CIC**.
Hopper was also in the CIC**. He is usually so quiet and dependable in the dressage, but he was unusually tense here, and I had to ride him quietly for a 62.0. He completely redeemed himself on XC. I knew he was fit, confident, and ready to go, and the footing was conducive to good galloping. The plan was to go for a clean round, and see what I could do beyond that. WOW is Hopper amazing!! We started out of the box on a mission, and I let Hopper really gallop… That horse is FAST!! We were galloping so fast between fences 3 and 4… Holy cow! He jumped so well though… He was foot perfect at the big water, and didn’t bat an eye anwhere. He was still full of running all the way around, so I let him continue at the speed he was comfortable with. Two fences from home, I checked my watch and we had 45 seconds to get to the finish…Wow this horse can gallop! He finished ten seconds under optimum time, one of the fastest rounds of the day and one of only a very few horses to make the time. At the finish, he was still full of running and not tired! He came into the box with an outstanding temp, and was almost immediately released back to the barns…. He cooled out so well. What a big step for my little boy to make time in the two star!!!! Hopper was full of energy on Sunday morning, and I had to quickly change from Nemo to Hopper to ride two horses in the two star… There were only 20 horses left, and two of them were mine. Hopper jumped really well around the difficult track, with one cheap rail at fence 3 in shallow cups. I made a mistake at the final fence and had a rail there, but other than that single fence he was amazing everywhere and I was very happy with how careful he has become. He finished 11th in a big division of olympians… I was so proud!!
Maddy and Bernie had a great dressage test in their fourth Prelim at Richland. They ran around the XC with just a single stop around the big, tough prelim course. Unfortunately an old sole bruise came back to haunt him this weekend, but this terrific pair will be back better than ever soon enough… They have had such a tremendously impressive season, I doubt they’ll let a little bruise dampen their spirits!!!
Chelsea and Basil ran their fourth Prelim at Richland Park…. And boy did that Prelim look like an intermediate!! They had a good dressage test, but all of the scores in their division were very, very high, so that was dissappointing. (The same judge that I made that remark about at Pine Top this spring.) The XC was very tough, with a skinny ditch and wall, a log into water–bank out–log drop back in, sunken road, corner, keyhole, you name it. Basil was amazing, and evenwithout starting her watch Chelsea managed to bring him in double clean on the XC, being one of only 3 riders to make the time!! (Although my favorite moment on course was when this fabulously talented horse jumped so big at the keyhole that he touched his EARS on the roof of the brush!!!! Now THAT is scope!!!) They were terrific in SJ, with just one rail around a course where many riders had 3-5 rails. They moved up to finish in 6th place in the prelim against some of the country’s top young riders!!!
The boys are now qualified for the fall three days three times over, so I’m so very happy with them! Thanks to Howard, Chelsea, Emily, and Maddy for their great help this weekend!
| CIC Two Star | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rider | Horse | Dress Score |
Dress Place |
XC Jump |
XC Time |
To Date Score |
To Date Place |
Stad Jump |
Stad Time |
Final Score |
Final Place |
| Tamra Smith | Bubbles at Brickey | 47.60 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 47.60 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 47.60 | 1 |
| Leslie Law | Hugo Fast | 42.90 | 1 | 0.00 | 6.80 | 49.70 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 49.70 | 2 |
| Lillian Heard | Share Option | 52.80 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 52.80 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 52.80 | 3 |
| Jennie Brannigan | Cambalda | 48.90 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 48.90 | 2 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 52.90 | 4 |
| Phillip Dutton | Wild Tiger | 54.30 | 6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 54.30 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 54.30 | 5 |
| Lindsay Pearce | Tangle Top | 56.40 | 7-T | 0.00 | 2.80 | 59.20 | 6-T | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.20 | 6 |
| Leslie Law | Java | 61.30 | 16-T | 0.00 | 0.00 | 61.30 | 8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 61.30 | 7 |
| Bruce Davidson Sr | Petite Flower | 62.30 | 19-T | 0.00 | 0.00 | 62.30 | 9-T | 0.00 | 0.00 | 62.30 | 8 |
| Phillip Dutton | Che Italica | 59.20 | 12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.20 | 6-T | 4.00 | 0.00 | 63.20 | 9 |
| Megan Lanzarone | Widespread Panic | 60.00 | 14 | 0.00 | 3.20 | 63.20 | 12 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 67.20 | 10 |
| Megan Lanzarone | The Grasshopper | 62.30 | 19-T | 0.00 | 0.00 | 62.30 | 9-T | 8.00 | 0.00 | 70.30 | 11 |
| Kim Severson | Wiley Post | 56.40 | 7-T | 0.00 | 6.40 | 62.80 | 11 | 12.00 | 0.00 | 74.80 | 12 |
| C.C. Castillo | Star Act | 56.90 | 9-T | 0.00 | 10.80 | 67.70 | 13 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 75.70 | 13 |
| Melissa Miller | Detail Specialist | 68.00 | 26 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 74.00 | 16 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 78.00 | 14 |
| Eric Dierks | Text | 63.90 | 23 | 0.00 | 7.20 | 71.10 | 15 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 79.10 | 15 |
| Phillip Dutton | For The Top | 57.90 | 11 | 20.00 | 7.60 | 85.50 | 17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 85.50 | 16 |
| Kendal Lehari | Daily Edition | 62.10 | 18 | 0.00 | 8.40 | 70.50 | 14 | 16.00 | 0.00 | 86.50 | 17 |
| Carrie Mulks | Casino Royale II | 67.80 | 25 | 20.00 | 7.20 | 95.00 | 20 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 103.00 | 18 |
| Scott Kuhlman | Gallipoli II | 56.90 | 9-T | 20.00 | 9.60 | 86.50 | 18 | 20.00 | 0.00 | 106.50 | 19 |
| Jennifer Simmons | J.B.’s Star | 59.70 | 13 | 20.00 | 28.40 | 108.10 | 21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 108.10 | 20 |
| Sara Dierks | Manolo Blahnik | 65.20 | 24 | 40.00 | 26.80 | 132.00 | 22 | 999.00 | E | E | E |
| Christa Gandolfo | Governaire | 62.80 | 21-T | 0.00 | 28.00 | 90.80 | 19 | 999.00 | E | E | E |
| Siobhain O’Connor | Mizar | 52.50 | 4 | 60.00 | E | E | E | 0.00 | E | E | E |
| Weslee Wroe | Oliver | 61.30 | 16-T | 60.00 | R | R | R | 0.00 | R | R | R |
| Christa Gandolfo | Shahaadi | E | E | 0.00 | E | E | E | 0.00 | E | E | E |
| Robin Walker | Ringwood Mircrest | 62.80 | 21-T | 0.00 | RF | RF | RF | 0.00 | RF | RF | RF |
| Frankie Simpson | Watson’s Shelbreen | 61.00 | 15 | 0.00 | RF | RF | RF | 0.00 | RF | RF | RF |
Welcome to the new working students! Molly hails from Columbia, South Carolina, and brings her gray TB Grady with her. Marybeth is from California, with her thoroughbred mare Otter. Emily is from Idaho with her wb gelding Dobbin. We are so excited to have all three joining us! Be sure to say hi!
