her barn he liked to “buck first and ask questions later.” Geisler, who rides with Kyle Carter, has done most of Munchkin’s training herself and has developed him into a solid partner. Before the NAJYRC they won at Open Intermediate at Dreamcrest in July 2011 and were third at a CCI* in Ocala, FL, in April.
SHOW JUMPING Show jumping ran throughout the week in a Nation’s
Cup format with riders and horses competing in several rounds to compile scores, first for team medals and later
Alyssa Phillips and Sundance Bay, Junior CCI 1* individual gold medalists. Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography
she continued. “I was thinking, ‘Let’s get it done. Maybe it will happen and maybe it won’t.’ We were actually able to make it. When I saw my dressage score and I was in second place, I was crying tears of joy.” Phillips said her veteran partner is “19 going on four”
and loves his 10 pounds of carrots a day and does “aqua- tread” spa sessions. He still occasionally bucks to keep her on her toes. Through her tears at the press conference she praised him, “He’s one of a kind. At 19, you wouldn’t think he’d still be going. He’s done so much for me. He’s so special to me.”
Katherine Dinan and Vancouver, Young Riders’ individual gold medalists. Photo by Shannon Brearton/MacMillan Photography
Sable Giesler and Evil Munchkin, Junior CCI 1* individual silver medalists. Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography
Junior silver medalists Sable Giesler, 17, from
Powassan, Ontario, and her eight-year-old German- bred Holsteiner gelding Evil Munchkin by Clearway were third after dressage and first after a double-clear on cross country, but did not have a rail in hand so when one came down they had to settle for second. Geisler says Evil Munchkin, a.k.a. Rambo, earned his name because he is little and when he first came to
rounds for individual medals. Those that did not make the cut for the individual finals were invited to a final “farewell round.” When the last fence was jumped, the Young Riders’ gold medalists were Zone 2 team members Katherine Dinan, 18, of New York and the 13-year-old New Zealand Thoroughbred-Warmblood cross Vancouver by Voltaire II owned by Grant Road Partners LLC and Elizabeth Wilson. They have been training with McClain Ward for the last year and a half and finished the five rounds with a total of 10.14 faults. “I was a little nervous going into the first round,” said
Dinan after the finals on Sunday. “Coming in on top, there was definitely some pressure. I thought my horse jumped really well today. I had two verticals down in the first round…but he jumped really well in the second round. I was proud that he pulled it together. It was definitely challenging with the five classes. He’s the kind of horse that will do two or three classes at a horse show, so I was expecting him to be a little less alert today, but he was really good. I have one hundred
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