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“EVERYONE IN THE BARN has a favorite Sympa story,” owner Tara Bostwick says. “She has a fan club like a rock star!” Winner of multiple Grand Prixs, Sympa has a drive to
succeed unlike anything her owner or rider/trainer Daniel Geitner has seen before. Even after a potentially career-ending bacterial infection in
one hind leg that sidelined the big mare for months, Sympa took matters in her own hooves to speed up her return to the show
trainer and rider Daniel Geitner rode the big bay mare he knew he’d found ‘Te One.” “Even now, every time I try a new horse I’m thinking, how
does he measure up to Sympa,” Daniel says. “She’s a once-in-a- lifetime horse!”
More Like It – A Family Tradition
FOLLOWING IN THE FAMILY TRADITION, this talented Zweibrücker stallion by More Tan Luck triumphed in the West Coast International Jumper Futurity. More Like It earned best scope and technique, best type and movement, and reserve most consistent and rideable for owner/breeder Tish Quirk of Carlsbad, California, and rider Emily Esau Williams. Tish Quirk says from the minute he was born More Like
It has been a kind and gentle horse. “He loves to play with his pasture toys and gallops around the pasture with a rubber ball which he throws in the air and eventually tosses out of
By Ann Daum Kustar
Sympa and Daniel Geitner. Photo by Flashpoint Photography
ring. Cathy Geitner tells the story of Sympa being led out of her stall one day just as the van pulled up to the barn ready to be packed for a show. Sympa took one look at ‘her’ van, broke away from her handler, launched herself up the ramp and backed herself into her usual stall, driver’s side, facing backwards, ready to hit the road. Sympa’s comeback was sweet indeed when she won the 2011
Gulf Coast Classic Grand Prix in February of 2011. Tis quirky RPSI-branded Grand Prix jumper mare was
born on the South Dakota prairie, bred by Ann Daum-Kustar of Solomon Farm. From her first weeks, she proved to be a real character, willing to go over, under or through any obstacle in her path. “Sympa was inspected at our very first RPSI inspection,”
Ann recalls. “She held everyone’s attention with her big movement and independence. And like all of the Summit Peak foals, just keeping her in the arena or pasture was a challenge! She was the high-scoring filly of the day with a movement score of 9.0, and overall 8.2… she’s sure lived up to those scores now!” Purchased as a dressage prospect by an amateur rider based
in Vermont, Sympa soon proved to be more a jumper than a dressage horse. Te first time Aiken, South Carolina based
Leonberg and Mikala Gundersen photo with title by Susan J. Stickle More Like It and Emily Esau Williams. Photo by Maria Morgan/Captured Moment
the pasture,” Tish says. “We keep an assortment of toys in his pasture and enjoy the ‘Easter Egg Hunt’ each afternoon as we gather his toys and return them to his pasture to be ready for the next day’s play time.” “He has grown into an exceptional athlete with a great
temperament and spectacular beauty, and his stride and his jump are huge,” Quirk says. “He has certainly earned a place in the breeding program. He will focus on his competition career in the immediate future and let his sire, More Tan Luck, take care of the breeding requests for now. His bloodlines, family history, athletic ability, exceptional good looks and wonderful temperament should make him a very popular sire.”
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