Sierra De Lune SE (Clair de Lune SE x Liostro), wasn’t started until late because Rose tried to breed her, so she was allowed to compete in the 5-year-old YEH Finals in 2016. She moved up to prelim in 2017 and in 2018 she’ll be on track to do a one-star. Taryn obtained a third young horse from Rose, the mare
Milagro SE (Clair de Lune SE x Alme). Initially Rose sent the mare to a show jumper for training in January 2017, but Taryn says the mare looked more like an event horse. So they switched Milagro to her new discipline last April with Taryn. “She did one Beginner Novice, a couple of Novices and
then I took her to the finals,” Taryn says. “I didn’t know what would happen because the finals are prelim height, but she was really good. My plan with her is to take it slow. She’s the type that if you push her too fast she’s going to get worried and scared, so I want to get her really solid at Training level before she moves up. I also want to do some jumper shows to get her really confident over 3’6” jumps.”
2017 YEH Championships At the Young Event Horse Championship at the Fair Hill Inter- national Three-Day Event in October 2017, Taryn rode to two top ten placings: Mi Campeon finished sixth and Milagro finished eighth out of 35 entries at the YEH 5-Year-Old Cham- pionships and were rated the number one and number two North American bred five-year-olds for 2017. “The YEH show last year at Fair Hill was really fun. I was a
little depressed after dressage: it was cold and miserable and windy and I was disappointed with their performances, but it’s such a big atmosphere for them. When they’re babies you go to a lot of smaller shows and then you show up at Fair Hill with the flags and tents and everything and they’re a bit elec- trified. The jumping was better this year—I think in the years before it was almost too easy and the horses could show themselves off a bit better this year,” she says. Of Mi Campeon Taryn says, “He’s only 16.1 but has a huge
personality and presence. I was just drawn to him from the beginning. He loves to jump— all the Clair de Lune babies love to jump. But [at the start] he was the least careful jumper I’ve ever ridden!” “Originally he was good
on the flat and cross coun- try, but in the show jump- ing he just didn’t do well; he was sixth after dressage but finished about fifteenth in the Four-Year-Old Finals in 2016,” she continues. “Last winter he had some time off and he was a complete orangutan after that—I couldn’t do anything with him. But Justin worked with him and after that I could
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get on him bareback, which was super helpful. He’s still spooky, but now he’s the most careful show jumper I have— it was funny how he changed. He’s going to be a big-time horse for sure.” Taryn says she is planning to do some prelim horse trials
with Mi Campeon SE this year and then compete him in a one-star. She will also do some young jumper classes for 6-year-olds with him. “With Campeon I wanted to show him off a bit—I’d
watched a few people go [at the YEH] and the ones who kind of attacked everything were scoring better. I tried to jump everything from a gallop and the horses were both really straightforward and honest. Until the last five or ten horses he was ranked second all day, which was pretty exciting. The mare isn’t as experienced but she’s great cross-country and I hit the first jump right on stride, and the stars kind of aligned and she was fabulous as well. Two weeks before the YEH Championships, I took them to a jumper show and did the 3’6” jumpers. I think that really helped them both,” she continues. Rose traveled to
Maryland to watch Taryn compete her horses at the YEH finals and says she had a lot of fun. “The Holekamps offer a scholarship for North American-bred horses to go to Le Lion d’Angers in France; if a European-bred horse wins they get half the amount. Everyone wants a North Ameri- can-bred horse to win so they can get the
Milagro SE and Taryn weren’t far behind Campeon, and the pair came in eighth at the FEH champi- onship, making her the second highest scoring North American-bred.
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