Breed All About It! Maryland Breeding News
World Champion Pinto T e 46th Annual Pinto World Championship Horse Show took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 11-23, featuring exhibitors from 46 states and three countries. Representing Maryland and riding to top honors was Jennie Lipphard of Millersville. She and Brooke Dixon rode the double registered APHA and ApHA horse CDF New York NY,
lie Brown.
aka Char- Lip-
phard rode Char- lie Brown in the Amateur divisions while Dixon rode him in the Open divisions. With Lipphard,
Charlie Brown was the Reserve World Cham- pion in the Senior Amateur English Pleasure divi- sion. T e pair also placed third in the Senior Amateur Hunter Under Saddle class. Dixon earned the Reserve World Championship in the Open English Pleasure division as well as a fourth place in the Open Hunter Under Saddle class.
Googoo Gaagaa Sets Another World Record
T e Standardbred colt Googoo Gaagaa,
owned, bred and trained by Richard Hans of Westminster, set another world record this past June at Pocono Downs. T e colt won the re- cord-setting mile in 1:51.3, nearly a full second better than the track and world records for his age group. T is new re- cord beats his own world record that was set back in August of 2011 at Ocean Downs. Googoo Gaagaa was awarded a Maryland Horse In- dustry Board Touch of Class award in March of this year.
Young Event Horses Set for Champs
Trainer Marty Dixon, assistant Katelynn LeB- lanc, trainer/rider Brooke Dixon, owner/rider Jeannie Lipphard aboard CDF New York NY at the 2012 Pinto World Championship Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
T e purpose of the U.S.
Eventing Association’s Young Event Horse pro- gram is to promote and showcase top breeding in eventing prospects.
YEH shows are held all over the country with year-end championships held in California for the West Coast horses and during the Fair Hill International Festival in the Country in Elk-
On June 28-July 1, the Maryland Pony of the Americas Club hosted its annual Black-Eyed Susan Series at the Heavenly Waters Equestrian Center in Bel Air. Competi- tors from all over Maryland as well as other states (includ- ing as far away at Tennessee), showcased their POAs in halter and under saddle classes. T e top 10 series winners at the end of the weekend are as follows and are pictured right: Ben Poczobut, Elizabeth Poczobut, Shelby Bunce, Justin Reinecke, Hailey Reed, Sarah Lechner, Wade Snyder (not pictured), Todd Gill (also pictured below right), Garrett Reinecke and Hunter McClung. Todd was also the Hi-Point 8 & Under Perfor- mance, Reserve Hi-Point 8 & Under Equitation and Reserve Hi-Point 8 & Under Games rider. T e series Hi-Point Stallion was the two-year-old Clayhill
Showdown So n n y , owned by MDPOAC secr etar y Lisa K. Vaught and pictur ed with handler Jeri Hale.
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ton for the East Coast horses.
At
the halfway point of the season, here are a few Mary- land-owned horses who are doing well and earning top honors. Patrick
MARYLAND PONY OF THE AMERICAS CLUB BLACK-EYED SUSAN SERIES
F l y n n’s (Potomac) horse Dr. Drumiller has already earned two qualifying scores in the Four- Year-Old divisions. Ridden by Flynn’s son Matt Flynn, (a Seneca Pony Club graduate now based in New Jersey), Dr. Drumiller start- ed out the season on February 8 by winning the YEH competition at Longwood Farm in Ocala, Florida. T e Irish Sport Horse gelding by Lord Z scored an 83.45; he is out of Cabaca, the same dam as 2009 East Coast YEH Champion Five-Year-Old Breakthrough. “I’m really excited about this horse. We got him as a two-year-old because he’s the half brother to Breakthrough,” Matt said, adding that Dr. Drumiller earned a per- fect score of 10 out of 10 in the jumping phase at Longwood. In the YEH shows, the highest score (out of 100) is the win- ner. On April 1, the gelding impressed judges again, winning at T e Ark in Monroe, North Carolina with a score of 79.91. At both competitions, these scores were at least three points higher than the second place horse. More recently, Matt competed the horse at the Seneca Valley Pony Club Spring Horse Trials, placing third on a dressage score of 26.1. At the Waredaca Horse Trials YEH competition on June 2, Jennifer Eisen- brandt (Towson) rode her own Uncle Sam to place fourth in the Four-Year-Old division. Bred by Olney Farm in Joppa, the Trakehner/Westphalian gelding is by Sonset’s Seiger out of Aerial II. He scored a 76.77 at Waredaca, earning one qualify- ing score for the East Coast YEH Cham- pionships. Outside of the YEH program, continued...
Patrick Flynn’s Dr. Drumiller, pictured here in Florida with Matt Flynn, is already quali- fi ed for the 2012 Young Event Horse East Coast Champion- ships, set for October at Fair Hill International.
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