2009 was an amazing year with many year end champions and lots of improvement. 2010 has started off well too. We have had Champions or Reserve Champions at all of the following shows:
-Spring Starter- Boring, OR- March 2010
-Spring National Jumpers- Monroe, WA- April 2010
-PNW Hunter/Jumper Show- Monroe, WA- May 2010
-Early Summer Classic- Wilsonville, OR- June 2010
-Country Classic- Wilsonville, OR- July 2010
We are currently in the middle of the Washington Emerald Classic at Donida Farm….our home base. I will be back at the end of the week with a complete listing of the results and hope to continue updating as the show season continues.
Good Luck EVF!
Morgan took a small group of hunters up to the April Monroe show. Everyone rode very well and came back with nice ribbons:
- Uptown Girl continued her education in the Baby Green Hunters with Morgan and put together some consistent trips. Grace Watkins took over the reins for the Short Stirrup Hunters and came home with some great experience and a 3rd place finish, out of a large group in the under saddle class.
- Amazing Grace and Morgan Arndt moved into the Children’s Hunter Pony division and showed they were very ready for the move. They came home with lots of top placings.
- One Up rose to the occasion for his first time in the big indoor arena at Monroe. With Morgan riding, he placed very well in Pre Green Division. Lori Heist took over the reins for the Pre-Adult Division never finishing less than 3rd place!
Morgan and I were so lucky to have Chaps as our first “child”. Morgan found him just days before I joined him at Rancho Corazon in New Mexico. He was this darling little puppy that loved to steal my chair at breakfast time. He learned about horse show rings in Texas, when he was chased out of the pony hunter ring after sneaking away from us for a restroom break. He was our loyal companion and dear friend. He accepted all of our life changes from moving from New Mexico to Austin, Texas and finally ending up here in Washington. He learned to love Lizzie the Jack Russell as a true friend and when we brought Vivienne home, he became her constant guardian. We truly were blessed to have him in our lives for 11 wonderful years. We will forever remember him as the Pebble Beach High Jump Champion, he also came home with the most obedient blue ribbon as well. Rest in Peace Chappy Dog. We will always love you.
Morgan, Tia, Vivienne & Lizzie
We started our year off in Salem, OR. We enjoy this show since the management is the best and the arenas are great for not only the experienced horse/rider teams but great for the greenies to get started.
- Morgan rode Lori Heist’s new hunter One Up in the Pre Green Hunters. Owen settled in fabulously and earned great prizes in the Large Working Hunters & Pre Greens.
- Grace Watkins hunter Uptown Girl started her year off wonderfully in the Baby Green Hunters with Morgan. Grace then took over the reins in the Short Stirrup Hunter Horse, where they worked on forming a great partnership and even brought home a blue in the under saddle.
- Morgan Arndt started the year off with her new pony Amazing Grace in the Children’s Hunter Pony. They put together some awesome trips and showed us what a great partnership these two are going to be.
- Anne Ryan joined us with her cool mare Cafe Ole. They had some quick and clean trips and ended up Champion in the 1.0m Jumpers.
- Tia Carr rode her new mare Valentina in the 1.0m Low Adults and the 1.10m High Adults. Val learned all about horse show life and ended up Reserve Champion in the 1.10m High Adults.
- Michelle Hunt brought her fancy young hunter stallion Coastal Symphony to hang out and get ready to start in the Baby Green Hunters at the next show.
January & February 2009 were filled with schooling shows. New partnerships getting to know each other and established teams moving up a division:
The new partnerships that we are excited to watch this coming show season:
- Amazing Grace & Morgan Arndt- Children’s Hunter Pony & Equitation
- Starbuck & Olivia Madewell- Children’s Hunter Pony & Equitation
- One Up & Lori Heist- Pre-Adult Hunters, AA Hunters & Equitation
- Wavelength & Molly Brebner- High Children’s Jumpers & Modified Jr/Am Jumpers
- Uptown Girl & Grace Watkins- Short Stirrup Hunters & Equitation
- Coastal Symphony (owned by Michelle Hunt) & Morgan Carr- Baby Green Hunters
- Samson & Sara Davis- Hunters & Equitation
- Samson & Franny Watkins- Hunters & Equitation
- Valentina & Tia Carr- High Adult Jumpers & Modified Jr/Am Jumpers
Returning teams,who we look forward to watching their continued success in 2009:
- Oliver & Christine Rothenberg- Pre-Adult Hunters, AA Hunters & Equitation
- Jiminy Cricket & Rachel Rothenberg- Short Stirrup Ponies & Equitation
- Clononeen Misneach & Shannon Johnson- Level 1 Jumpers
- Versache (owned by Laurie McLaughlin) & Morgan Carr- Level 4,5 & 6 Jumpers
- Deuce Coupe & Brenda Biggerstaff- AO Jumpers
- Showgirl & Morgan/Tia Carr- Level 2,3 Jumpers & Low Adult Jumpers
- Abigail & Jon Bishay- Jumpers
- Seal Cove (owned by Lynda Case) & Morgan Carr- Hunters
The banquet was held at the Westin in Bellevue, WA. We had a lovely time celebrating with the members of Team EVF who could join us and collecting ribbons for excellent riding done in 2008! Below are the 2008 award winners~
- National-Baby Green Hunters- 5th Place: Seal Cove owned by Lynda Case, ridden by Morgan Carr
- National- Short Stirrup Hunter- Pony- 5th Place: Jiminy Cricket owned & ridden by Rachel Rothenberg
- National- Pre-Adult Hunter- 6th Place: Oliver owned & ridden by Christine Rothenberg
- National- Pre-Adult Equitation- 3rd Place: Christine Rothenberg
- National- Level 3 Jumpers- 4th Place: Versache owned by Laurie McLaughlin & ridden by Morgan Carr
- National- Level 5 Jumpers- 4th Place: Deuce Coupe owned by Brenda Biggerstaff & ridden by Brenda Biggerstaff and Morgan Carr
- National- Level 6 Jumpers- 5th Place: Deuce Coupe owned by Brenda Biggerstaff & ridden by Brenda Biggerstaff and Morgan Carr
- National- Amateur Owner Jumpers- 3rd Place: Deuce Coupe owned & ridden by Brenda Biggerstaff
- National- Children’s Jumper Low Level 2: Wavelength owned by Carol Singh & ridden by Molly Brebner
Congratulations to all!
Despite the freezing weather, we loaded up a few jumpers and headed down to Jumper Nite in Olympia, WA.
- Molly Brebner and Carol Singh’s Wavelength started off the season with a win in the Novice Jumper speed class. The pair then continued to solidify their partnership in the 3′6″ Children’s/Adult Jumpers and the 3′9″ Open Jumpers.
- Shannon Johnson and Clononeen Misneach were awesome in the Pony Jumpers and came away with a 6th. Shannon gave the ride over to Molly for the Young Jumpers, where Molly put in a lovely clean round.
- Tia Carr and Valentina started the season off with a win in the Young Jumpers and Val continued to gain experience with a great round in the 3′3″ Jumpers.
- Brenda Biggerstaff was able to sneak away from college to ride her wonderful gelding Deuce Coupe in the 3′9′ and 4′ Jumpers, she was 2nd in both classes with two very impressive rounds.
In early December, One Horse Productions LLC and Encanto Valley Farm brought Rob Gage to Donida Farm for a three day hunter/jumper clinic. We had groups from 2′6″ & under to 4′ & above. Rob set very technical exercises and courses that we all learned from. Everyone had a great time and we are looking forward to having him back to clinic in 2009.
So, it is no secret that there is a long rivalry between the EVF hunter/jumpers and the Gwen Blake dressage group when it comes to Halloween games. The most popular is normally the Pumpkin jump which normally results in a few dressage horses deciding that a small, round, orange item is the most frightening thing they have ever come across in their lives! This year both teams did very well and no one fell off :-) Morgan ended up winning it on Brenda Biggerstaff’s Deuce Coupe.
For the past couple of years we have included the Toilet Paper High Jump as one of our games. For some reason, this flimsy piece of TP causes the most laid back equine to jump out of their skin. In 2008, we saw all the previous records fall. Morgan and Cooper (Deuce Coupe) won this one as well…..clearing 5′! Molly and Tilly (Wavelength) came in a very close second, attempting the height but having 4 faults.
This was definitely a party for the record books. See below for some fun pictures.
