August 20, 2008

Whidbey Island Summer End show.

Julie and her Malipiero cleaned up at 2nd Level, scoring in the mid-high 60-s and winning a couple of their classes. well done! Congrats.	Flamenco is such a ladies man and has impeccable taste...	Laurie & Livi during a relaxed walk around the show grounds.	too cute for words...	Livi, Laurie and Peter are contemplating the required movements at 2nd level.
Our friend and fellow trainer Matt and Deborah's mare Vienna aka Walzerbluete.	Peter & Eiswein showing a nice uphill canter during their Second Level Test 1.	Malipiero taking in the sunshine and showing off his gorgeous self to the judges.	Drambuie during his First Level debut, which resulted in 65% and 5th place.	Eiswein showing how a proper stretchy circle is done.
Sandi and her yellow lab Hogie and his beloved chicken.	Peter & Iggy during their first level performance. They received a dream score of 10 for the 5 second halt from Janet Foy Brown...	Drambuie and Siggi during their Training Level Test 4 riding for judge Janet Foy Brown, resulting in 66.9% and 3rd place out of 18.	The girls enjoying the freestyles: Sandi, Laurie, Lynne, Kristin & Siggi.	This was Vienna's second show - such a good girl.

August 3, 2008

saddlepad $50. Longe whip $30. wraps $20. Engagement of Piero provided by Karla PRICELESS :0)	Emily & Claudius with Karla BEFORE her Lesson.	Claudius DURING his lesson.	Emily & Claudius AFTER their lesson :0)	Molly Martin's Inter I horse, the 8 year old Liberty LHF (For sale)
Karla with Liberty LHF.	Karla on board Malipiero.	Siggi and a baby lion :0)	Young auditors - precious moment.	Vienna was the only female contender in the equine division.
where is my mouse??	Livi & Laurie showing off their active hindends.	Professor Livingston following intently the lecture given by Karla to him and his mom.	Malipiero and fan club.	Kristin's Iceman with Karla at the Bridle Trails Park arena.

July 26, 2008

Dressage at DevonWood. What a show...gorgeous venue, great weather, stiff competition, nice shopping vendors and and and...this is definitely a super event and we will be back for more next year.

The end result...

Siggi & Santero (for sale) Santero felt very solid in all his tests, scoring consistently in the high 60s to mid 70s. Special thanks to our talented up & coming photographer Kristin :0) Nice job.

FEI 5 year old Test, 2nd place with 68.2% (Friday). Sandra's sandbox buddy from Germany, Sabine Ense, placed 1st with the same score of 68.2% on her youngster Ardent Pleasure.

First Level - Test 4, 5th place out of 22 contenders with a score of 68.9% (Friday) even though the pilot went off course once - winning score was 71.3%

First Level - Test 4, 2nd place with 66.6% (Saturday) - (winning score was 67.3%)

FEI 5 year old Test, 1st place with 75% (Sunday), "I" judge Lilo Fore

Sandi & Flamenco

These two had their First Level debut this weekend and won the High Point Andalusian Award for the show with their T-4  score of 64.4%. They were awarded a gorgeous plaque by the International Andalusian Breed Association and showed themselves off during a victory lap at the High Point award ceremony, turning peoples heads and putting a smile on their faces...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 First Level - Test 1,  5th place with a 56.3% (Friday)

Training Level - Test 4, 4th place with 64.4% (Friday)

 First Level - Test 1,  55.3% (Saturday) Sandi almost required the Heimlich maneuver as something got stuck in her throat during the ride...needless to say her focus was on surviving the test let alone riding it ;0) but no worries, we were able to fix it with a sip of water afterwards...

Training Level - Test 4, 60.4% (Saturday)

First Level - Test 1,  4th place with a 59% (Sunday) - they were able to up their percentage by 4 points over the course of the weekend. 60-s here they come.

Peter & Iggy

We are super proud of the progress this pair is making at First Level. The judges absolutely adore Iggy and Peter is doing a great job showing off his fancy footwork :0).  Once we get the canter work more solid, the scores will go up even more. Way to go.  Keep up the nice work.

First Level - Test 1,  1st place with 68.7% (Friday)

First Level - Test 3, 4th place with 64.2% (Friday)

First Level - Test 1,  4th place with 61.3% (Saturday)

First Level - Test 3, 2nd place with 63.7% (Saturday)

First Level - Test 1,  3rd place with 66.3% (Sunday)

Kristin & Iceman

These two had a solid show after some time off and were obviously enjoying their time together :0)

Second Level - Test 4,  4th place with 61.4% (Friday)

Second Level - Test 4, 5th place with 63.7% (Saturday)

Kristin decided to scratch her Sunday ride as she wanted to save Iceman's energy for the upcoming one week boot camp with German clinician, Karla Spiritus.

Laurie & Livingston

We are especially happy that Laurie & Livi joined us at the show. They almost did not because of a last minute stone bruise that happened during a training session on the day before the show. Needless to say, we knocked on a lot of wood and treated Livi's feet with "wonder poultice" and "magic fairy dust" that saved Iceman in Idaho and voila, Livi was back to soundness Thursday morning just in time... However, we decided to take it easy with him and Laurie showed him only once at Second Level - Test 1.  However, she had a blast riding her boy in such an incredible venue and spending some quality time.

Second Level - Test 1,  2nd place with 61.3% (Saturday)

Siggi & French Kiss (for sale)

Siggi was very happy with the performance of this young athlete, who celebrated his First Level - Test 4 and FEI 5 year old debut at this show, resulting in solid scores and placing in the top three of every class he entered.

First Level - Test 1,  3rd place with 63.3% (Friday)

First Level - Test 4, 3rd place with 65.5% out of 16 contenders, right behind Santero, who placed 2nd in that class (the winning score was 67.3%)

FEI 5 year old Test, 2nd place with 73.2%, only surpassed by his "barn brother" Santero, who won the class with 75%.

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