Grace Boston: 2011 Equiery Perpetual Hunter Award Winner
that he can still jump from the deep [distances] when needed,” she said.
Amy said her
favorite memory from 2011 was watching Grace ride Logan at the Keswick Horse Show.
“T ey
were just on it… like they were reading each other’s minds. I remember after their last fence a trainer from an- other barn yelled out, ‘you get it, girl!’” Grace also said Keswick was her favorite show of 2011, but for other reasons. “Sarah and I were the only ones who went from our barn. We showed, then relaxed, and then showed again. We got to see the Grand Prix, too,” she explained. Although watching the big Grand Prix jumper classes was ex- citing, Grace stated that she sees herself staying in the hunters and not crossing over to the jumpers. “I want to get a junior hunter one day and qualify for the really big na- tional shows,” she said. “Grace can accomplish
whatever goal she sets for herself. If she wants to do it, it’s going to be done, and done well,” Amy said. In 2011, Grace also got
Grace and Logan accepting the Equery award from publisher Crystal Kimball; pictured with Amy and Streett Moore of the McDonogh School.
the ride on Hillcrest Treasure Chest, the pony that Sarah won the 2010 Equiery award with. Her year-end points on the two ponies were very close with Logan earning the award in the end. “Charley taught me how to do fl ying changes,” Grace said of Hillcrest Treasure Chest.
In addition to win- ning the Equiery award,
Grace also
earned several year- end championship or reserve championship honors. With Lo- gan, she was MHSA
Reserve Champion Small/Medium Children’s Pony Hunter and MHSA Maryland Resident Small/Medium Children’s Pony Hunter Champion as well as earning seven champion tricolors and six reserve champion tricolors. Aboard Charley, Grace was MHSA Cham- pion Small/Medium Children’s Pony Hunter, MHSA Reserve Cham- pion Maryland Resident Small/Medium Chil- dren’s Pony Hunter, and earned 10 champion rib- bons and three reserve champion ribbons. “Grace has a lot of
Grace is the goalie for her outdoor and indoor fi eld hockey team.
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builds with her ponies. She makes them fam- ily members. She loves them unconditionally,” Amy concluded.
The Road Ahead
Grace also won several champion- ship awards aboard Hillcrest Trea- sure Chest in 2011.
T e 2012 season is well underway for Grace and her sis- ter. And this year, Grace is showing two ponies owned by the Boston Family, LLC: Just My Luck (Vegas) and Carlotta (L ottie). “Vegas has a really big stride. Lottie has a huge stride and does act like a mare a lot,” Grace said of her new ponies.
She
is showing both in the Regular Medium Pony division. She and Vegas have already qualifi ed for Pony
Finals with a win at a Swan Lake A Show. T ey also won the Handy at the Barracks and Prince Georges. And now Grace is working on getting Carlotta qualifi ed too. “I’m hoping to make it to indoors and Washington [International Horse Show] with both,” she added. And with the support of her family and train-
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