Opposite page: Astro NSF, the Five-Year-Old West Coast champion, jumping during the competition. Photo by Tass Jones Left: Astro in warm up for the YEH championship. Photo by Christie Kelly Below: Fleeceworks Cinco, the Four-Year-Old West Coast champion. Photo by Frankie Thieriot
About the Program The YEH series gives owners and breeders the opportunity to showcase the potential of their four- and five-year- old horses and encourages breeders to produce top level event horses for the future. The classes focus on education and preparation of the event horse in a correct and progressive manner, with judging based on the horse’s potential rather than just on their performance. Youngsters are asked to complete three sections: Conformation and Type; Dressage; and the Jumping Test/ Gallop/General Impression. The idea of the Young Event Horse Series is to select the
young horse that possesses the talent and mind set of a four-star horse, and who with proper training will excel in the upper levels of eventing competition. While identifying future champions is the ultimate goal, it is also hoped that quality young horses that will excel at the lower levels of the sport will be showcased.
X Doug Payne has extensive competition experience
through the Advanced level of eventing, as well as in Grand Prix show jumping and Intermediare level dressage. Horses have long played a part of Doug’s family: his sister Holly is also an upper-level eventer and his mother, Marilyn Payne, is a USEF “S” dressage judge and FEI Eventing judge who was integral in getting the Young Event Horse program off the ground. Kristin Burger, who is also a rider and hails from Haymarket, VA, bought Royal Tribute as a weanling as a companion to a horse that she bred, but Tribute turned out to be the nicer horse of the two. “He came from Susan Durney in Little Rock, Arkansas, who only had a couple of mares and wanted to produce nice athletes for amateurs,” says Kristin. “Tribute sounded like he fit the bill for me so I bought him sight unseen from a video and had him shipped to me. He was only 14.2 and he was supposed to top out at 16.1!” The now 17.2 hand gelding is by Royal Prince out of
Firstar, who’s by First Class (by Furioso) “He has interesting dressage and jumping bloodlines,” says Kristin. “Royal Prince’s temperament is amazing and he got that too. Doug calls him ‘The Prodigy’—our ring is sort of in the middle of the paddock and he’s always been an observer, watching everything going on.” Royal Tribute showed promise from an early age. As a
three-year-old Doug took him in an in-hand class as part of the Future Event Horse series and he was grand champion. After Doug started him under saddle Kristin gave him some time off to grow up, and then Doug put him back in work in November of 2010 when they joined in a 50/50 ownership agreement. They started
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