“What I love is his supreme self-motivation. I’ve always had horses a little behind the leg. He’s forward and quick and asks what’s next. And it builds during the ride, rather than fades,” adds Janelle. “He may get frustrated with himself if he can’t understand something, but he doesn’t give up and he stays in the training process. It’s something in him, not trained into him. And we’ve nurtured that spirit.” “Watching him in a clinic recently with Morton Tomsen,
it was exciting to see him progress and see him happy in the harder work. I wanted a horse that is long term and has a happy mind, in addition to being a great performance horse,” she says. Sue cleary recalls when she met Janelle.
“I gave a junior/young rider clinic at Fair- wind Farm in 2008. Her daughter, McK- enna, came to the clinic and essentially they never left. Janelle and Dominus cre- ate a fantastic team.” Janelle envisions a long career with
Dom as she sets her sights on returning with Dom to northern California, where they both grew up.
DELANO: 2006, 16.3 Olivia Owyeung fell in love watching Delano being ridden. When Delano is under saddle, people just can’t resist him. Tey slow down and turn their heads as he carries his rider by. “We are stopped everywhere,” says Karen
Owyeung, Olivia’s mother and Delano’s owner. “Just recently, Olivia was riding him at the barn and the farrier who had shod him
Olivia Owyeung schooling Delano.
a few times ran over to me shouting, ‘Who is that? Who is that?’ When I told him it was Delano, he was shocked and said he didn’t look like that when he was standing in the crossties.” Te Owyeungs, of Sunnyvale, California, met Delano when
Olivia’s Mustang mare and Pony Club steed injured her flexor tendons. Looking at a year of recovery for her mare, Olivia wanted to spend that time taking dressage lessons. Small world: her mother’s father had practiced medicine in Pennsylvania with the father of California dressage judge and instructor Sue Curry Shaffer. In fact, Dr. Curry delivered Karen’s two brothers.
Te last element needed was another
horse. Karen made plans to bring a Tor- oughbred from Florida that her parents, longtime breeders, bred for Olivia to ride. “He didn’t make it on the track. He was very sweet and we thought he might do as a dressage horse while we waited for our mare to heal.” Unfortunately, he had injuries that made collection painful for him. Sue was able to put Olivia, 15, on dif-
ferent horses so she could keep riding. In the meantime, young Delano had gone to a hunter/jumper trainer while he was in an “awkward” growth stage. When he returned, Olivia saw assistant trainer Riana Porter rid- ing him and fell in love with the handsome black horse who some say looks the most of the three brothers like his father. “Olivia rode him and it was a perfect
match from day one. We leased him for a year and just bought him last November.” Last summer, the pair was the Junior High
Quintol Wins Fourth Place in Million-Dollar Grand Prix Charlene Strickland
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he Oldenburg Springpferde Quintol was the fastest of the five horses in the March 15 jump-off in the AIG $1 Million
Grand Prix at the HITS Termal Desert Circuit. Ridden by Edu- ardo Menezes for owner Sarita Hank, the 10-year-old gray zoomed through the jump-off in 38.125 seconds. With one rail down, he placed fourth, taking home $100,000. Quintol is by Quintender (Quinar x Contender), a 2001 bay,
who has sired a number of top jumpers, all 10 years or younger, including Quentin Tarentino, Quilando, Questfinder and Quin- tendro, as well as Quintol. Quintol was bred at the Gestüt Lewitz in Mecklenburg, a 4,000-horse breeding farm set up by Paul Schocke- möhle. His damsire Cento (Capitol I x Caletto II) is a top competi- tor and sire of many jumpers at the 1.60 level, along with approved stallions. He helped win the team gold medal for Germany at the 2000 Olympic Games and also won the World Cup final in 2002. Quintol is a registered Oldenburg Springpferde, which is the jumper division of the Verband (see last year’s Oldenburg section in May/June of Warmbloods Today), and is a great example of the GOV’s unique registry.
42 May/June 2015 SPECIAL Oldenburg SECTION
Charlene Strickland
Courtesy Karen Owyeung
Oldenburg Horse Breeders’ Society
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