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Horses, Horses, Horses

2024-10-10T21:31:40-04:00October 1, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|, |

Nancy Smith and Hudson (Photo: PhelpsPhotos.com) After Focus, there was the talented but testy Debonair (KWPN Dutch Warmblood by Wagenaar). “Debonair was one of my most joyous experiences because he was such a challenge,” recalls Nancy. “If you could convince him to let you into his world , [...]

Young Horse Classes At Dressage at Devon Start Mounted Competion

2024-10-10T21:29:03-04:00September 25, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Despite threatening skies, spectators and competitors alike welcomed the opening of the performance division on day three of the 34th Annual Dressage at Devon. As a bridge between the Breed Show, with its focus on producing a dressage horse, and the Performance Show, which consists almost entirely of international level [...]

DressageDaily On the Scene – Dressage at Devon 2008

2024-10-10T21:29:19-04:00September 17, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|, |

Diane Creech Takes Grand Prix Special Win at Dressage at Devon - By Lynndee Kemmet for DressageDaily.com Devon, Penn. – Canadian Diane Creech riding Wiona took the win in the Grand Prix Special on the final day of competition at Dressage at Devon.  She took the win in the soggy [...]

2008 Markel/USEF National Young Horse Championships at the Kentucky Horse Park

2024-10-10T21:29:44-04:00September 8, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

DressageDaily and PhelpsPhotos On the Scene 2008 Markel/USEF National Young Horse Championships at the Kentucky Horse Park Presented by Collecting Gaits Farm Tentative Schedule Thursday, September 11th: 2:00pm: Four-Year-Old Jog 2:30pm: Five-Year-Old Jog 3:00pm: Six-Year-Old Jog 3:30pm: Developing Horse Jog Friday, September 12th: Four-Year-Old Warm-Up Class (optional) 8:00am – noon         [...]

Young Riders Give Their Impressions on Dressage Training with Cesar Parra

2024-10-10T21:24:45-04:00July 29, 2008|Looking Back, News|

There are riding instructors and then there are teachers. Ask Cesar Parra's young riders and they'll tell you that Parra isn't just their riding instructor. He's their teacher – a teacher of riding, horsemanship, business and life. "A lot of trainers take in their students and give them riding lessons. [...]

Hampton Green Farm’s PRE Stallion Grandioso Travels – Accompanies the Dressage Olympic Team to Aachen, Germany

2024-10-10T21:25:16-04:00July 26, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

The final component in a new era at Hampton Green is Courtney King-Dye’s role in campaigning Grandioso, HGF’s 9-year-old stallion preparing for the Grand Prix. During her month in Southern California in preparation for the Selection Trials, King-Dye worked Grandioso with Klaus Balkenhol and Steffen Peters. At that time, the [...]

Little Bit Farm’s Stallion Rashka Undefeated in 2008 Offered For Sale

2024-10-10T21:25:12-04:00July 10, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

Rashka, the 16.3+ hh ISR/Oldenburg stallion standing stud in Illinois at Little Bit Farm is on a roll! He has won every one of the 26 classes he has entered in 2008! At the May Dressage at Lamplight, Sorensen June I and June II, and Silverwood Dressage July shows, he [...]

Young Horses Cabana Boy and Ronatella S Shine But Fall Short of Qualifying for Verden at CDI-W Raleigh/Capital Dressage Classic in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Division

2024-10-10T21:23:09-04:00June 3, 2008|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

In young horse competition at the CDI-W Raleigh/Capital Dressage Classic Cabana Boy dominated the Six-Year-Old division and Ronatella S dominated the Five-Year-Old division. On Sunday's final day of young horse competition, Chris Hickey and Cabana Boy scored an 82 percent and Joe Sandven and the Hanoverian Ronatella S scored an [...]

Dressage Comes in All Sizes at the 2008 Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Eastern Selection Trials

2024-10-10T21:22:21-04:00May 30, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

Teresa Butta, a prominent Maryland rider and trainer, will be traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina, this week for the 2008 Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Eastern Selection Trials.  Teresa will be competing on two horses that will more than likely be the smallest and largest horses at the trials---a 14.3 pony [...]

Youngsters Shine in Markel/USEF Young Horse Competition on Final Day of Cornerstone Event Management’s Festival of the Horse CDI***

2024-10-10T21:20:38-04:00April 1, 2008|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

Burbank, California – Much of the final day of competition at the Cornerstone Event Management's Festival of the Horse CDI*** was devoted to the Markel/USEF young horse competition with qualifying classes being held for four-, five- and six-year-old horses. The top four-year-old horse was Zalona DG. The top five-year-old was [...]

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