THE HORSE GAZETTE
Bo & Michelle Phillips
calm/high performance gypsy Horses
Bulverde, TX
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• Training • Showing • Instruction
One of the largest Gypsy Horse
Limited space available ...call today!
breeding ranches is A Wizards Spell Ranch in
Burleson, Texas. Owner, Linda Brown, im-
210-332-2743
ported foundation-breeding stock from select
Gypsy breeders in England. The horses from
this ranch were Reserve Grand Champions,
both stallion and mare, at the Fort Worth Stock
Show and many offspring from this breeding
program were proudly in the ribbons at that
prestigious event too. In March the horses
from this ranch were invited to the Houston
Stock Show Agri Summit to perform and
educate their VIP international visitors. This
ranch’s 2009 foal crop produced some of the
finest examples of this breed with nice heads,
great conformation, abundant feather, and
calm temperament.
You are invited to meet Linda Brown
and learn more about this incredible breed at
the NCHA Summer Spectacular at Will Rogers
in Fort Worth from July 13 to August 2. Ranch
visits are welcome by appointment. For more
Accepting new lesson and training clients.
information, visit www.GypsyHorsesInTexas.
com or call 817-297-9292.
Beginner to advanced riders • Training from start to finish
Newly renovated indoor facility
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reiterhof students take honors
Richard and Susan Howard of
www.Reiterhof.us have lots to be proud of; two
of their students John Mason & Kathy Adams were honored with High Point Awards
at the Central Texas Dressage Society April 11th Mini Show at Silver Hill Stables in
Austin. Susan’s Reiterhof Dressage Show will be at Silver Hill Stables this year on May
2nd & 3rd.
Left, John
Mason (Jr/YR High
Point Award with
70.800%) on the
Howard’s very own
bred Antares, a 4yr.
old Dutch Warm-
blood.
Right, Kathy
Adams (Adult Ama-
teur High Point Award
with 71.600%) on
Wynne, a Dutch Warm-
blood found by Susan for
Kathy and bred by Aus-
tinite, Dinah McNutt.
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