Sarah Boston: 2010 Equiery Perpetual Hunter Award Winner
Amy agreed, stating, “Winning this award validates Sarah’s hard work all year. She was so proud of Charlie and loved going to the fair- grounds [for T e Equiery’s showcase of Mary- land champions] to show everyone how special he is.” Sharon added, “It has been a wonderful rec- ognition of a very strong season for her. It puts the icing on the cake as it were. She worked very hard and was lucky to have a wonderful pair of mounts and fabulous training.” As parents, Sharon and Wally have also learned some lessons along the way. “Watch out if your child is asked to train! Be ready to go along for the ride,” Sharon laughed. “Seriously, however, it is so important to have a trainer that you trust,” she added. Even sister Grace has learned some life lessons as well. “T is year we rode together in the children’s classes for a short time and it was hard when I was happy about being
champion and she was sad, or she was happy about being champion and I was sad,” she ex- plained. And although these sisters are both competitive in their own ways, Grace said, “I am very proud of her for winning this award. She worked really hard.”
The Road Ahead
For the 2011 season, the Boston sisters have switched things up a bit in terms of their pony
mounts for shows. Now riding four times a week and showing almost ev- ery other weekend, they are both on the long road towards great things. Sarah is currently
showing Blackberry and Lands End Wye Me in the small pony hunters. Amy describes Blackber- ry as being a very similar ride to Charlie, making the transition fairly easy for Sarah.
“I am very
lucky to have a pony like her and I am hoping for a successful year,” Sarah said. Sarah and Blackberry will be compet- ing at Devon this summer and she is also hop- ing to qualify for WIHS again. Grace is now
One of Sarah’s new mounts for the 2011 sea- son is Blackberry
riding Charlie, as well as Sham’s Loganberry, who she competed in 2010. “I am lucky to have two ter- rifi c ponies! Lo-
gan can always leave for the long ones and Charlie can re- ally jump up from the bottom. T ey are both so much fun to ride,” Grace said. Grace is hop- ing to keep the Equiery trophy in the Boston family for one more year and has set her sights on being the 2011 winner! Beyond the hunter ring, Sarah
Sarah and Cherry On Top after winning the Penn State Classic.
has grand prix dreams. “When I get older I want to ride a horse in the junior hunters but I also want to do the grand prix one day,” she said adding, “my favorite thing to do is jump.” And jump she has. In just three short years, Sarah has jumped from leadline classes to the top of the children’s hunter world. And in the case of this award, she has jumped to the top of the Maryland hunter world
as well, beating out many competitive juniors and adults for T e Equiery’s Perpetual Hunter Award.
No one knows for
certain what the future holds for Sarah Bos- ton. Maybe we’ll see her each year at WIHS, climbing the stepladder from one level of hunt- ers to the next, eventu- ally crossing over into the jumpers and making her way from the top of the hunter world to the top of the grand prix jumper world as well.
McDonogh barn kids hanging out after a show: Allyson Henry, Mar- tha Peterson, Madeleine Peterson, Ellis Addleman, Sarah Boston and Grace Boston
Go to the Archives on
equiery.com to read about last
year’s Equiery Hunter Award winner.
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