In 2016 inter-
En Vogue competing at Galway Downs Inter- national in April 2016 with owner Ruth Bley.
national eventing news, Elite U.S. Hanoverian stal- lion Pik L sired a top eventing horse competing at FEI levels in Europe. (Pik L himself was an extremely successful sport horse, competing in the Pan Ameri-
can games in dressage and winning USDF Intermediate I Horse of the Year.) Pennsylvania 28, a daughter of Anne Sparks/ Horses Unlimited’s Pik L, had a stellar year. Olympian Andreas Ostholt, a German rider with many young eventing horses, in- stead chose to compete on the 16-year-old bay Hanoverian mare at some of Europe’s top events. Pennsylvania 28 did not let him down. In April 2016, 55 horses arrived in Münster, Germany to compete in the CIC2* competition there. Pennsylvania 28 scored 48.3% in dressage and was clear on both the cross coun- try course and in stadium jumping. She finished in third place overall, finishing ahead of legend- ary rider Ingrid Klimke. Two weeks
Pennsylvania 28 (by Pik L) is competing very successfully at the 3* level with Germany’s An- dreas Ostholt.
later, at the CIC3* in Wiesbaden, Ostholt and Pennsylvania 28 again placed third. In June, the pair continued to show their grit and determina-
tion, placing fourth of 45 horses at the CIC3* in Luhmühlen. Tey finished the year in style, traveling to Milan, Italy for the CICO3*–NC-Vairano, where they won the event. Hats off to Andreas Olsholt for riding this daughter of a U.S.-based Ha- noverian stallion to international success in eventing.
Success in the Hunter Arena At hunter shows across the U.S., smiling riders leave the ring
on their Hanoverian horses with tri-colored championship honors year after year. Top Hanoverian hunters include Jennifer Alfano’s Jersey Boy, a National Show Hunter Hall of Fame horse. Jersey Boy was 2012 USEF National Horse of the Year and 2012 United USEF High Performance Horse of the Year.
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Described as the “quintessential derby horse,” Jersey Boy is the highest grossing horse for lifetime earnings, with an astound- ing $196,640 earned in 2012 alone. Jersey Boy has also won the George H. Morris Perpetual Trophy for three consecutive years. World Championship Hunter Rider program officials se-
lected the Hanoverian gelding, Mindful, as 2014 Hunter of the Year. Chronicle of the Horse also named Mindful their 2014 Hunter of the Year. Another top American-bred hunter is the Hanoverian
stallion, Fielding (Fred Astair–Lesley/ Lessing) owned and shown by Lindsay Mutchler. Bred by Kate Palmquist of Au- tumn Hill Farm in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia and purchased by Mutchler in 2010, Fielding captured the 2016 AHS Amateur- Owner Hunter Cham- pionship (rider 18 to 35 years, 3'6" division) for the fifth year in a row. During 2016, the pair won the Amateur- Owner Hunter Cham- pionship (rider 18-35 years, 3’6”) at the Win- ter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach, Florida. Tey also won the Grand Amateur-Owner Championship at the 2016 Blue Rock Classic show and the Amateur-Owner 3’6” Hunter Cham- pionships at both Blue Rock Classic and the St. Christopher’s Horse Show in Pennsylvania. Rideability is a hallmark of Hanoverian horses, so they are
popular mounts for both adult amateurs and junior riders. Two talented sisters, Jordan and Hanna Toering of Waterford, Vir- ginia, are proving this point. Serving as great ambassadors for the Hanoverian breed, their success on Hanoverian hunters and jumpers bred, raised and trained at their family’s Bent Hickory Farm in Hedgeland, Virginia, is remarkable. Teir parents, Rick and Jayne Toering, have been staunch supporters of AHS and Hanoverian horses for years. Tey all work together as a team to produce top hunters and jumpers and their hard work is pay- ing off! Fourteen-year-old Jordan Toering rides Premonition
BHF (Pablo–SPS Galaxis/Ganymed), an 11-year-old chestnut Hanoverian. In 2016, Premonition and Jordan competed in the 3'6" Large Junior Hunters, 15 and Under division. Te pair was champion or reserve at many shows, including Circuit Cham- pion in the Junior Hunters at HITS in Culpeper, Virginia. Te year’s highlight was their success at the Duke benefit, Jump for the Children, where Premonition was named Grand Champion
Lindsay Mutchler’s Fielding is the 2016 AHS Amateur-Owner Hunter Champion- ship (rider 18 to 35 years, 3'6" division) for the fifth year in a row.
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