Championship CH-J*. Remi proved the perfect mount for her. In the CH-J*, the seventeen-year-old managed to finish on her dressage score, a 38.3, which was the only score below 40 in the competition, and earned the individual gold while contributing to the team gold for her USEA Area II team. “Basically Remington has a wonderful character,” says
Boyd. “As far as four-star horses go, he’s laid back and relaxed. His career started as a dressage horse and then he fox hunted before he took up eventing, so he’s a jack-of-all-trades.” “Not all four-star horses would make great young rider
horses, though,” he cautions. “There are a lot of four-star horses that are borderline lunatics and wouldn’t be suitable for a young rider, but Remi is a trier and he still had plenty left in the tank when we decided to retire him from the top levels. I actually think he could’ve gone on a couple more years as a four-star horse, but we didn’t want to run him into the ground—it’s not good for a horse to run him until he can’t pass the trot-up at a big event. It was a good decision by the Juvo- nens to call it a day while he was still on top, and the wonderful thing is they were never tempted to sell him. They saw more value in helping their granddaughter learn the ropes of eventing than in financial gain from selling him.” Molly Kinnamon coaches Camilla,
horse and learn how to deal with him at a competition. You can’t just buy an expensive horse and not work at it. In event- ing, dressage, hunters and jumpers people tend to think you can buy an expensive horse and go out on the weekends and win, but it takes determination and training and all that. Camilla has a good horse, but she still has to fight for it.” Boyd, who was competing on the gold medal winning
and Boyd often sees them at events and keeps up to date with their partnership. “I think Camilla’s got the hang of him very well and he’s performing as well as ever,” he says. “Remington probably knows more about eventing than Camilla does, so if she makes a small misjudgment or mistake you’d like to think Remi has enough mileage to add a stride or take off a bit long—that’s the awesome part of having an experienced horse.” “Saying that, watching Camilla ride now, she’s pretty spot on and it looks as if they’ve been together for years instead of just one year,” he continues. “She’s a smart rider and gives Remi a smart ride. Remi’s not quite as easy to ride as every- one would think; you can’t just be a passenger. You have to get him through and engaged to get a good score in dres- sage, be accurate on show jumping, and there are a few cross-country fences where you have to give him a really positive ride. Even though I’m sure there was a lot of mutter- ing at the Young Rider champs in Kentucky that ‘of course this girl will win on a four-star horse,’ I’ll be the first to tell every- one, to get a performance like that takes a lot of preparation and real riding. I’d know about that more than anyone. You definitely can’t sit there and be a muppet and expect him to do the job for you!” Boyd speaks from experience. In the beginning of his
career with Remington he struggled to understand how to ride the horse in the show jumping, and they often had numerous rails down in those days. “It’s not as easy as you might think,” he reiterates. “You still have to learn to ride the
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“While a horse may have won Olympic medals, put someone else on his back and he could be a holy terror.”
U.S. team at the Pan American Games in Toronto the week- end Camilla competed at the NAJYRC, adds, “I’m very impressed with the way Camilla handled her win. I was following closely on the internet from the Pan Am Games and she was very humble and thankful and gave praise to her horse. I thought she came across very well as to how lucky she is to have the horse. It’s easy to come across as the cham- pion of the world after you’ve stood on the podium with a shiny gold medal, and she did a nice job of handling all that.” “It was the greatest thing in the world
to see Camilla take Remington to Young Riders,” Densey Juvonen says. “He’s such a trooper and loves what he does, and they bonded incredibly and that was great fun to see. Camilla never really micromanaged him as a rider; if he wanted to go, she just went with it and trusted him.” She added that, from an owner’s standpoint, “Getting to go to Europe several times because of the horse, and then watching Camilla win gold, was just wonderful.” Camilla is now at boarding school at the Pomfret School in Connecticut, and
at this point, she’s handing Remi’s reins over to another local rider. Veterinarian and photographer Steve Berkowitz, who is an eventing enthusiast, is finally going to have the oppor- tunity to give the sport a try. “Remington is the horse that is teaching Area II to event!” Densey exclaims.
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by Will Coleman and represented the U.S. at the London Olympics in 2012. Unfortunately Twizzel was withdrawn from NAJYRC on Sunday, when he had a swollen eye and a minor scratch on his pastern and a heel grab after cross- country. Morgan’s teammates pulled together to win, and he quickly recovered from the mishap, sound again on Monday morning. The 19-year-old Westphalian gelding (by Argentinus) is
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a sensitive horse, and Morgan has learned to adapt to him in and out of the saddle. She jokes, “We call him the German Princess, he’s so sensitive!” Her family purchased Twizzel in 2014 after Will had
decided to retire the gelding from international competition but had not yet decided what to do with him. Twizzel still had
organ Booth, 18, was also a member of the Area II team at the 2015 NAJYRC. She too was riding a prior four-star horse, Twizzel, who was formerly ridden
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