Winner’s Circle
Ashlee Bond & Cadett 7
Ashlee Bond Leads the Way to Vegas
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shlee Bond is living the pressure is on in the jump-off, the has become my mentor and I want
charmed life as few have afterburners kick in, he swishes his to say a special thank you to him!"
ever been able to do. Riding tail, opens up the stride and races "She has arrived," says Richard
a new horse, and it being the around the course at lightning Spooner. "I am so proud of Ashlee,
only one she is riding at this level, speed, usually never touching all I can say is she has arrived
getting one shot at the blue in each a jump. He is happiest zipping
class, she is the only rider ever to around a tight corner and firing
win four Grand Prix on the same off the ground as a jump comes
horse in the circuit, two of them into view.
being World Cup qualifiers. Add to "Man I love this horse," says
that the fact that she only rode one Ashlee. "It's not every day you are
horse, Cadett 7, in each of them. fortunate enough to get a horse
One shot and she won four!! that lets you really ride it and make
Cadett 7 is a 12 year old gelding strategic plans for the course and
imported by Ilan Ferder in the the jump-off. He just allows me to
fall of 2007. A tall, chestnut, make decisions and I never have to
thoroughbred looking warmblood, worry about what he will do. He
he can jump the moon from any does just what I ask and that brings
place presented to him, and he a lot of confidence with it."
does it like child's play. When the "I was so frustrated last year
that I was at the end of my
rope. Nothing was working
with Chivas Z, nothing at all. I
started working with Richard
Spooner and he has helped
me a lot. A LOT! He got
me to thinking, using more
leg than hand and staying
forward. Those changes took
me to the next level with all
my horses. I get to walk the
courses with him and he
makes it so easy to understand
the choices and options.
He helps set the plan and is
specific about not falling into
the course designers traps. He
Left: Ashlee and Cadett 7.
Right (Top to Bottom):
Ashlee nuzzles with a
friend; Ashlee at the beach.
Opposite Page (Top
to Bottom): Ashlee and
Cadett 7; Left to right:
Katherine Bardis, Ashlee
and Richard Spooner.
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