Equestrian Games with Boyd, “It’s really because of Chris that he got from age five to this and we are very apprecia- tive of it.” About this time, Chris and Tim developed the Holekamp/
Turner Grant, which promotes the breeding of American sport horses by funding a trip for qualified horses to repre- sent the United States at the FEI World Breeding Event- ing Championships for Young Horses at Le Mondial du Lion d’Angers in France. The grant also serves to encour- age breeding in America: recipients of the grant who are North American bred are awarded with the full grant money of $17,500 to travel to Le Lion d’Angers. When the winning recipient is an imported horse, then he/she are still rewarded, but with $8,000. At the end of 2018, Tsetserleg received an award of
$10,000 from the American Trakehner Association for completing the World Equestrian Games.
High Performance Today Chris is certainly no stranger to high performance eventing: she was half-owner of Sinead Halpin’s 2014 World Equestrian Games partner Manoir de Carneville, a Selle Fran- çais gelding, and is a member of the Blackfoot Mystery Syndi- cate, backing Boyd Martin’s off-the-track Thoroughbred part- ner at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. But the 2018 World Equestrian Games was the first time that she was sole owner of a team horse when Boyd represented the U.S. riding Tsetserleg. Unfortunately Team USA didn’t achieve the result they
were hoping for, finishing eighth overall, just outside of quali- fication for the 2020 Olympic Games. (The U.S. now needs to win gold at the Pan Am Games in Peru next summer in order to qualify to compete in Tokyo.) Thomas ran out at a boat
jump in the water complex on cross-country and had a few rails down in show jumping, a disappointing performance when the team was counting on him after a terrific dressage score. But the WEG was only his second time competing at the four-star level; still young and sound, Thomas has a bright future ahead of him. Boyd’s string of high performance horses is highlighted
by several owned by Chris. Her 12-year-old mare On Cue, a British Sport Horse by the Selle Français stallion Cabri D’Elle and out of the Primitive Rising mare On High, won the CCI2* at Jersey Fresh in the spring and finished out the year by winning the USEF CCI2* National Championship at Fair Hill International last October, proving her a rising star. “On Cue is class all the way,” Chris says. “I think she’s
proven herself. I think with the Fair Hill win, she’s on her way up.”
The mare was found in England and originally ridden by Sinead Halpin. Chris originally sent her to Boyd as a sales horse. “He was in Ocala competing at the Jockey Club event, and then took her to Pennsylvania and I got a phone call a couple days later from him saying, ‘Hey, I really like this mare.’ I thought, ‘Shoot…here we go again!’” laughs Chris. “She may be 12 but she has the experience of a nine-year-old. She has a lot of presence and it makes her a great mare.” Another Turner-owned horse making headlines with Boyd is the chestnut mare Kyra, a 2007 Canadian Warmblood by Ulando out of Wellesley who won the CIC3* at Jersey Fresh in June and the CIC2* at the Virginia Horse Trials in early November. “Kyra is the most talented horse I’ve ever owned, and
Boyd can get more out of her than anyone,” says Chris. “She’s lovely and so talented, but it has to be on Kyra’s terms. Kyra is the epitome of winning and fast—at Stable View she had
Left: Boyd Martin on cross-country with Chris’s Trakehner Tsetserleg during the World Equestrian Games. Middle: Boyd riding On Cue in the 2018 Fair Hill International CCI2* where the pair won the championship. Right: Chris and Boyd enjoy their awards at the Ameri- can Trakehner Association annual meeting. The Special Board of Directors award was presented to Tseterleg *Pg*, owned by Chris and bred by Tim Holekamp and ridden by Boyd, for his participation in the World Equestrian Games (WEG).
38 January/February 2019
Anissa Cottongim
Photos left and middle by Amber Heintzberger
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