Eventing’s Future Stars by Katherine O. Rizzo
Maryland Stallions Well Represent- ed at Future Event Horse Champs
T e 2011 IDHNSA/USEA Future Event Horse East Coast Championships were held on September 30 at Morven Park. Susan Gra- ham White, Carter Bass and Phyllis Dawson judged 35 yearlings, two-year-olds and three- year-olds with Maryland-bred youngsters tak- ing home some top honors. Virginian Erin Freedman earned the Overall Grand Championship with her three-year-old gelding Dorian Gray, by the Dutch Warm- blood stallion Sydney. T e gelding also topped the T ree-Year-Old Colts/Geldings class with a score of 77.7%. T e Overall Reserve Championship was won
by Sentimental Baby, a yearling fi lly by High Point Hanover- ians’
stallion
Sinatra Song and owned by Valerie Fox. T e fi lly scored a 74.76 to top the Yearling Fillies class. Sentimental Baby was also named the 2011 Yearling Champion. In that class, Karissa Herself, owned and
and scored a 75.8% to win the Two-year-old Colts/ Geldings class. Rebecca Roach of Moon Rising Farm owns Rifka, who placed second in the T ree-year-old Fillies class with a score of 70.7%. T e fi lly is by Rosenthal, who stands at High Point Ha- noverians. Rosenthal was also the sire of the third place fi nisher, Rural Prin- cess, an Oldenburg owned by Katie Harrell. Hilltop Farm stallion
Event Horse East Coast Champion- ships were held during the Dansko Fair Hill International Festival in the Country (Elk- ton, October 13-14). Although Maryland- bred horses topped the various qualifying shows throughout the year, there was only one Maryland entry at this year’s champi- onships.
Riverman is the sire of Riverman’s New Moon, an Oldenburg fi lly owned by Lauren Seitz who placed third in the Yearling Fillies class. Copperfi eld, by Hill- top Farm stallion Contucci and owned by Wits End Event- ing, placed fi fth in the Two-year-old Colts/ Geldings class. Dodon Farm’s Sa-
Two-Year-Old FEH Champion J. Mackenzie
bred by Magdalene Carolan of Lewistown fi n- ished second with a 74.23%. T e fi lly is by New Blessing Farm’s stallion Legaczy. Legaczy also sired the 2011 Two-year-old Champion J. Mackenzie. T e Belgian Warm- blood is owned by Lauren Oyarzo of Mt. Airy
lute the Truth was represented at the championships by
Marsha Spencer’s Salute the Captain. T e geld- ing placed fourth in the T ree-year-old Colts/ Geldings class.
Damascus Homebred Places at Young Event Horse Champs
For the third year in a row, the USEA Young
Covert Rights and Colleen Rutledge at the YEH Championships
Colleen Rutledge
of Turnabout Farm in Damascus rode her homebred T orough-
bred cross gelding Covert Rights (BFF Incog- nito x Let’s Get it Right) in the Five-Year-Old division. T e pair placed fi fth in the Four-Year- Old division in 2010. T is year, the young horse scored an overall 81.91 to place seventh. “I had some rider mistakes in the dressage phase, riding him a bit longer in his frame than the judges wanted,” commented Colleen. CR, as he is called at home, caught the atten- tion of several upper-level riders who wondered where Colleen got him from. “It made me su- per proud to know that I bred him myself,” she said. Colleen is excited about this youngster’s eventing future, having fi nished the 2011 sea- son with four runs at Preliminary. “I am so thrilled by how he ended the season. He’ll be even better next year!” In the YEH series this year, CR placed second at May 15 Jersey Fresh show with a 74.15. T e pair then tied for fi rst place with an 81.5 at the August 13 Waredaca show.
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