Top Class at Devon Breed Show
by Beth Collier T e Dressage at Devon Breed Show (Sep- tember 27-28), held in Devon, Pennsylvania, is considered one of the most complete breed shows in America with nearly every possible sporthorse breed show class off ered. T is year’s judges were Ludwig Christmann of Germany and U.S.
judges
Jeanne McDonald, William Solyn- tijes and Kristi Wysocki.
Both large and small breeders compete on equal footing in the show ring and this year Mo Swanson of Rolling Stone Farm (Pennsylva- nia) claimed the top honors when EM Rheporter (Royal Prince x EM Whispre), a six-year-old Hanoverian mare, earned the Grand Champion title. EM Rheporter also won the Mare Championship and the Mature Horse Championship. Her handler Quinnten Alston won the Best Han- dler award.
owned by Hilltop Farm in Colora, had a ma- jor championship sweep in his early showing career, earning the overall Foal Champion title and the USDF/GAIG Foal Championship. He scored 78.80% to win the Colts of 2011 Class. In that same class, Wendy Costello of Kent Island Sporthorses showed her colt Royal Rousseau KIS to place fourth. In the Suit- able to Be- come a Dres- sage Horse Four-Year-Old class,
Becky Cha Ching HTF - Overall Foal Champion
McCollum of Conowingo earned second place aboard Ribery 20. Ma- rie Emrey of
It seemed this year that the big championship titles would stay in Pennsylvania as Iron Spring Farm’s Rabiola (Metall x Fabiola) earned the Reserve Champion title. T is fabulous Dutch mare has won numerous breed show champi- onship titles over the years and was last year’s Grand Champion. Maryland breeders did win their fair share of top honors at Devon this year as well. On Tuesday, two fi llies bred by Kent Island
Sporthorses, Rosalie KIS and Balenciaga KIS, and owned by Canadian Deborah Dalseg placed in the top 10 in the Yearling Fillies class. In that same class, Potomac’s T ora Pollack earned ninth with her fi lly Beallspring Raquel. Mary McKenna’s (Silver Spring) Flavius MF placed sixth in the Yearling Colts and Geld- ings class. Also on Tuesday, Beaucoup D’Amis (Bu- gatti Hilltop x Carousel), owned by Trish DeRosa of Frederick, placed sev- enth in the Fillies of 2011 Class, quite an accom- plishment for the start of a show career. She placed fi fth in the USDF/ GAIG Foal Champion- ship. T e fi lly also placed third in T ursday’s IBC ISR-Oldenburg Two and Under class.
Cha Ching HTF (Contucci x Contesse),
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North East placed ninth with LJS Meringue. Ribery 20 also earned a 74.1% to place third in the USEF Materiale Four- and Five-Year-Old Stallions and Geldings class on Wednesday. Hilltop Farm’s Ripley HTF placed fourth in that same class on Wednesday. On the sec- ond day of the breed show, Hilltop Farm’s Balissa HTF (Bugatti Hill- top x Contesse) placed tenth in the Four-Year- Old and Older Maiden and Yeld Mares class. T e mare also placed third in the USEF Materiale Four- and Five-Year-Old Mares class on Wednesday and then on T ursday, Christo- pher Hickey rode the mare to place second in the USEF Young Horse Test for Four-Year- Olds. On Friday, she placed fi fth in the Young Horse class.
Janet Geyer’s (Cel- Felix - Materiale Champion
ebration Farm, Union Bridge) Copasetic LJS placed ninth in the Four- Year-Old and Older Broodmares class. Co- pasetic LJS also earned seventh place in the USDF/Great American Insurance Group Mare Championship class. On T ursday, David Linn showed Copasetic LJS to seventh place in the IBC Hanoverian
Age T ree and Over class. Don Hill (Don Gregory x Hella), bred by Hilltop Farm and owned by Virginia Leary, won the Stallion Four Years and Older Class and earned the Stallion Championship title as well as the Mature Horse Championship. T e stallion is on Hilltop Farm’s 2012 “guest stal- lion” list. Ursula Ferrier of Denton showed her own
Innverness to sixth place in the Four-Year- Old and Older Stallions class. Innverness also earned a fi fth place in the Four-Year-Old and Older Stallions Under Saddle class. Hilltop Farm guest stallion De Feiner Star
(De Laurentis x Feiner Dance), owned by Gregory Strait and Melinda Brown, won both the Four Years and Older Stallions Un- der Saddle (ridden by Christopher Schruefer) and Materiale Four- and Five-Year-Old Colts and Geldings Class. De Feiner Star won the Materiale Reserve Champion title. In the per- formance show, he placed fourth in the USEF Young Horse Test for Five-Year-Olds. Biscaya (Johnson x St. Pr. St. Audrey), a fi ve-
year-old German Oldenburg Verband (GOV) mare owned by Nancy Holowesko of Crosia- dore Farm in Trappe, placed second in the USEF Materiale Four- and Five- Year-Old Mares Class. On T ursday, Ulla Parker rode the mare to third in the FEI Young Horse Test For Five-Year- Olds. Felix (Sir Sinclair
Don Hill - Overall Stallion Champion
x Fran), a four-year- old Oldenburg geld-
ing owned by Marie Le Menestral and ridden by Hilltop Farm’s Michael Bragdell, won the Materiale Championship after placing second in the Materiale Four- and Five-Year-Old Stal- lions and Geldings Class. T ursday was the day for the more breed-
specifi c classes with Michael Bragdell show- ing many of the top fi nishers in-hand or under saddle. Topping the IBC Hanoverian Age Two and Under class was Radiance COF. Winning the IBC Warmblood Horse of Trakehner Ori- gin class was Akinori. Dior CCF won the IBC ISR-Oldenburg Two and Under class. Rosalie KIS scored a 77.1% to win the IBC Oldenburg GOV class. Although West Virginian L. Hunter Wilson
won the IBC Cleveland Bay class with Dutch Timber, Mt. Airy’s Alexa Henry and Forest Fancy Girl earned third. For complete results: www.DressageatDevon.
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