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Open Intermediate One-Day division at the Rocking Horse Winter Horse Trial in Florida on January 26. Just the week before, on January 20, Bonaire won the Preliminary/Modified Division at the Ocala Event- ing Derby. Bonaire is by Bliss MF and, like Union City, out of Avalon (A Fine Romance).
THOROUGHBREDS As is so often the case, Maryland-bred Toroughbreds did well at
spring horse trials up and down the East Coast. Senior athlete Galivantor (Itaka x Roman Prospect (Proudest Ro-
man)), a 26-year-old gelding with 20 starts at the track, won the Begin- ner Novice division at Full Gallop Farm Horse Trials in South Carolina on March 10. He was bred by Albert and Dandy Cohen. Eleven-year-old gelding Point Nemo won the Junior Open Prelimi-
nary division at Pine Top Adanced Horse Trial in Georgia on February 25. He is by Songandaprayer out of Wood Not (Krissin Kris) and was bred by Dr. & Mrs. A. Leonard Pineau. Fan favorite Silver Bop, a 12-year-old gelding by Bop out of Silver
Concern (Concern) won the Open Training division at the Full Gallop Farm Mid February Horse Trials in South Carolina on February 21. Two weekends earlier, on February 11, he won the Training/Novice division at the Pine Top Advanced Horse Trials in Georgia. Silver Bop was bred by Susan Wantz of Taneytown. Timothy Keefe bred the eight-year-old gelding Wonderful Courage
(Bourbon Courage x Wonderful Secret (Stevie Wonderboy), who won the Junior Novice Rider division at the Rocking Horse Winter I Horse Trials in South Carolina on January 27. A Maryland-bred Toroughbred also did well in the jumper ring.
Eight-year-old mare Indigo Midnight (Kozub’s Kin x Latifah (Allen’s Prospect)) was Champion Take2 Toroughbred Jumper at the Wel- lington Equestrian Festival in Florida on Jan. 30. Two months later, on March 12, she won the $400 Take2 Toroughbred Jumper (1.0m) II.2.b class, also at Wellington. She was bred by Anna Herold.
WELSH/WELSH MOUNTAIN/WELSH CROSS Quite a number of Maryland’s renowned Welsh Ponies and Welsh Mountain Ponies won in the hunter ring this winter, from Florida to New York State. Prominent Maryland pony breeder John Almond, of Loafers Lodge
Farm in Monkton, fielded four pony hunters this winter. Loafers Lodge Buckaroo (Rosmel’s Dressed in Scarlet x Loafers Lodge Jazzaroo (Fox Cry Whinny the Pooh) was Champion Green Pony Hunter Small/Me- dium at the World Equestrian Center in Ohio on March 12. He was also Champion USHJA Hunter 2’0 at the Venice Equestrian Tour in Florida on January 21. He is an eight-year-old gelding. Seventeen-year-old mare Loafers Lodge Moonshadow (Fox Cry
Whinny the Pooh x Rosmel’s Dream Weaver (Severn Tunder)) (com- peting as In a Dream) was Champion USHJA 2’0 Hunter at HITS Post Time Farm in Florida on January 21. Tirteen-year-old gelding Loafers Lodge Peter (Fox Cry Whinny
the Pooh x Loafers Lodge Penelope (Rollingwoods Pick My Way)) was Champion Small Children’s Pony Hunter at the Wellington Equestrian Festival in Florida on January 23. Loafers Lodge Virtual Party (Zephyrus Breaking Dawn x Loafer’s
Lodge Isis (Jacket’s Man of the Road)) was Champion Pony Hunter Breeding at CJL Farm in New Jersey on February 24 and then again on March 9. He was also Best Young Pony Hunter at CJL Farm on Febru- ary 14 and March 9. Te three-year-old gelding was Best Young Pony Hunter Breeding at Winter Wonderland in Pennsylvania on February 11, February 18, February 19, and March 24. Another prominent Welsh breeder, Nancy Reed from Land’s End farm in Centreville, had three horses on the show circuit this winter. Eight- year-old mare Land’s End Cinnamon (pedigree unknown) was Cham-
pion Children’s Hunter Pony at March Madness II in South Carolina on March 8. She also won the Children’s Hunter Pony Classic at the Cupid Classic Horse Show, also in South Carolina, on February 9. Eight-year-old mare, Land’s End Electra (Land’s End Love Note x
Tird Try (Feel the Power)), was Champion Green Pony at the World Equestrian Center in Ohio on January 31 and again on April 3. Land’s End Piccadilly, a ten-year-old gelding by Cottrell Amadeus
out of Land’s End Chamade (Carolina Red Fox) was Champion USHJA Hunter 2’ at the Winter Spectacular III in Florida on January 27. Six other Maryland breeders had winning Welsh ponies this winter. Hall-of-Fame jumper trainer Kim Stewart’s 17-year-old mare Blue-
stocking (by Blue Genes) won the $1,000 Pony Hunter Classic at the Ocala Championships on March 19, and the $1000 Pony Hunter Classic at the World Equestrian Center in Ohio on January 17. She also won four other championships: • Champion Large Schooling Hunter Pony at the Ocala Championships in Florida on March 19; • Champion Children’s Hunter Pony Large 2’6 at Heritage Acres IV in Pennsylvania on February 25; • Champion Pony Hunter at Swan Lake in Pennsylvania on February 16. • Champion Pony Hunter at the Partridge Run Winter Classic in Penn- sylvania on February 25. On February 20, Lisa Carr’s 15-year-old mare Yardley Fox (competing
as Bragging Rights) won the Marshall & Sterling USEF Pony Medal on the Desert Circuit in California. She is by Blue Fox out of Taylor. Veteran campaigner Highland’s Heaven Sent was Champion Chil-
dren’s Pony Hunter Small/Medium at the Wellington Equestrian Festi- val in Florida on March 5. Tis 22-year-old mare was bred by Jean Marie Gelber of Highland and is by JLA Sir William out of Windair (J Hunt). In January and February, John Lindsley’s A Momentary Spring (com- peting as Ka-Chow) won four Itty Bitty Jumper championships this winter at the Wellington Equestrian Festival. Ka-Chow is a 12-year-old mare by Farnley Tiber out of Winter Wind (Severn West Wind) Alyse Best Muldoon’s 18-year-old gelding Kudos (Land’s End Posei-
don x Secret Attack (Raise a Secret)) was Champion Large Pony Hunter at Old Salem Farm, New York, on March 20. On March 1, he was also Champion Children’s Hunter Pony at Old Salem earlier in the month. At the March 1 show he won the $500 M&S/NAL Children’s Hunter Classic.
Te last of our Welsh pony winners is Dr. Lucy van Voorhees’s 16-year- old gelding Waystead Domingo, competing as News Day, in California. At the Sacramento Spring Classic on March 27, he was Champion Me- dium/Large Pony Hunter and the winner of the Balius Insurance Pony Hunter Classic. On the Desert Circuit in Southern California, he was Champion Children’s Hunter Pony Large on February 13 and again on February 20.
WESTPHALIAN A veteran of the 2021 hunter breeding show circuit, five-year-old
Westphalian stallion Alls Well, started his 2024 season as Champion Low Children’s Hunter at the World Equestrian Center in Ohio on March 20. He was bred by Jamie Denise Sullivan of Queen Anne, and is by Apiro out of Chips of Clay (Red Clay Tributary). Klaus Schengber’s nine-year-old Westphalian gelding Maritime, by
Monte Bellini out of Royal Diamond (Rubinstein), won three champi- onships at the World Equestrian Center in Ohio and one championship here in Maryland. In Ohio, he was Champion WEC Hunter 3’ B on February 14 , and both Champion Children’s Hunter Horse 15-17 and Champion Children’s Hunter Horse 15-17 on February 15. On March 28, he was Champion Children’s Hunter 3’ 15-17 at the W. Gary Baker Spring Classic at McDonogh School in Owings Mills.
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