48/ SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER 2021 THE RIDER
Santiago Lambre Wins It All At Caledon Equestrian Park
Rugged Painted Lark Will Say Farewell During Equitana USA
Attendees will have the final chance for meeting, greeting and photographing this equine hero!
By: Press Release Lynn Palm and her
American Paint Horse, Rugged Painted Lark, will say farewell during their clinics and evening show, EQUUS Evolution, at Equi- tana USA from October 1st to 3rd, 2021. It will be a final farewell for a leg- endary equine friend. Rugged Painted Lark
for Santiago Lambre (BRA) to win on Friday after he swept both FEI competi- tions during Major League Show Jumping’s debut at Caledon Equestrian Park. In the feature class, a CSi5* win came in the $75,000 Cabana Coast 1.5om for Lambre and Easy Girl (10yo OS mare by Conthargos x Nintender owned by Mario
Santiago Lambre & Easy Girl. Photo © Mackenzie Clark for MLSJ There was nothing left
Lambre scored victory in the $37,000 Champion Shavings CSI2* Grand Prix Qualifier riding Dingeman
second separated him from runner-up Kristen Van- derveen (USA) and Bull Run’s Risen. Israel’s Daniel Bluman rounded out the podium riding Ladriano Z. Earlier in the day,
Onate). Four hundredths of a
Jumping continues with the $200,000 MLSJ Team Competition on Saturday af- ternoon at 4pm ET at Cale- don Equestrian Park, home of the 2015 Pan American Games in Palgrave, ON.
(13yo KWPN gelding by Nintender x Darnels owned by Aurora Rangel de Alba). Major League Show
is no stranger to the spot- light. Bruce, as he is affec- tionately known, is a 1997 son of the famed American Quarter Horse, Rugged Lark. His stellar lineage coupled with Palm’s careful training has earned Bruce a myriad of accolades. Some of those include entertaining at the 2007 BreyerFest, mul- tiple magazine covers, cof- fee table books, television shows, bridleless perform- ances at prestigious events and most notably, the 2010 World Equestrian Games. “Rugged
Painted Lark, like his famed father
Rugged Lark, has been a champion in the show ring, a performer, an entertainer and outstanding sire,” Palm tells StreamHorseTV in the lead-up to the retirement ceremonies. Lynn Palm weighed in
recently on his achieve- ments. “While being a cover
was also fashioned into a Breyer model, just like
Photo courtesy of
ShopLynnPalm.com
boy, Breyer Horse model and television star, Rugged Painted Lark found time to be an ambassador for Palm Equestrian
demonstrating
Academy, classical
dressage principles and teaching riders to be the rid- ers their horses deserve. He will always be a special horse for so many reasons!” she said. Having followed in his
Podium finishers Santiago Lambre, Kristen Vanderveen & Daniel Bluman. Photo © Mackenzie Clark for MLSJ
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father’s footsteps, Rugged Painted Lark performed at the FEI World Cup in 2017 and now Equitana USA. Rugged Lark performed at each of these prestigious events more than 20 years ago. Rugged Painted Lark
Rugged Lark. Appropriately, his last
appearance will be at the Kentucky Horse Park where he starred as BreyerFest’s Celebration Horse in 2007 and performed at the 2010 WEG Equine Village. So few of the collec-
tor’s edition Breyers remain, so make plans to meet Rugged Painted Lark and Lynn Palm during their clin- ics, take photos and to be one of the lucky ones to ob- tain an autographed limited edition Rugged Painted Lark Breyer.
Photos courtesy of Lynn Palm’s Facebook
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