Daisy Fenwick, continued...
lington and leased horses to do the lows and highs and now train with Miranda Scott who is great and understands my time constraints.
Q. Has riding at WIHS been a goal of yours? A. Well, I’ve always been dying to show at WIHS! And I don’t really always have the time to show enough to qualify so I go to the re- gional show just hoping I might actually win and get to show at Washington, too. It hasn’t happened yet but I keep trying!
Q. What horse did you ride at the WIHS Re- gional show? A. B’Wareofthedark is my mom’s foxhunter. He is a really nice off -the-track T oroughbred that we brought along ourselves. He’s nice for a foxhunter but doesn’t have that fancy hunter movement. It didn’t go as well as I’d hoped and in our fi rst course we were eliminated about halfway around and then I couldn’t get him over the fi rst fence in our second course!
Q. Why do you think you were selected as the Laura Pickett award winner? A. I think I stood out because I didn’t get up- set when my horse stopped. Plus I do my own work. We don’t have a team of grooms or any- thing like that.
Q. Will you be doing more jumpers this year? A. T e jumper shows don’t always fi t into our schedule so I will probably do more racing in- stead.
Junior Thoroughbred Makeover Trainer Retired Racehorse Project
Q. How did you select a horse for the T or-
oughbred Makeover and National Symposium? A. At fi rst I was going to take Decoy Daddy, who Cyril trained. T at would have been super cool since he was nominated for an Eclipse Award and has won so much. We had him and another possible Makeover horse out together and Decoy got hurt just two months before the Makeover. I thought I wouldn’t be able to go at all but then Joe Davies said he had a horse he wanted to sell that I could try. T at was Peace Party.
Q. Tell us about Peace Party. A. He’s really big and really slow. I didn’t get to ride him a lot before we left for Kentucky and that worried me a little but he was so great when we got there. Re- ally well behaved and I was super happy with him. Because we didn’t have a lot of time to get him ready,
Kentucky
ended up being his fi rst show ever! I had entered Decoy in the 3’ jumpers class and the foxhunter class so that is what Peace Party went in. Erica Gardner helped me a lot getting him ready and was able to come with us, thank goodness! She helped me school him right up to the day we left. It was a true team eff ort!
Q, How did the Makeover go? A. I was a little worried about the 3’ fences but he is so big that 3’ ended up being a good choice for him. For the fi eld hunters, he hacked beau-
tifully. In the mock hunt he reared a little at the start but was good. T e fences were smaller, too. In the individual part, he didn’t want to go through the water, even though he did it great in the group. T at knocked us down a bit.
Q. What was it like being a junior trainer at the competition? A. It was kind of intimidating to be a junior in the show jumping ring and there were very few junior foxhunting trainers. T ere was a lot of pressure overall but it really didn’t matter what your age was. Some- times juniors beat the pros and other times the amateurs won. It really was an even playing fi eld, which was cool.
Q. Would you do the Makeover again? A. Yep! We are already planning on going and my brother Tommy might take a horse, too. We
have two
Daisy and Peace Party at the RRP Thor- oughbred Makeover in Kentucky
horses right now who are eligible. We proba- bly will do the jumpers and foxhunters again.
Daisy and Peace Party ended up ranked 32nd out of 61 entries in show jumping and 14th out of 26 entries in the fi eld hunters. She was the fi fth high- est placed junior trainer in show jumping and sec- ond highest junior trainer in fi eld hunters.
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