On A Roll Into Autumn! August e-Newsletter
We’ve got show results, we’ve got clinics, and we’ve got new faces around the farm in our August e-newsletter. Click here to read, and sign up to receive it directly in your inbox!
Hot (And Quiet) Horse Summer
Our last show was the middle of July, and our next show is at the end of August with not a whole lot in between except some clinics and normal lessons. We’ve had heat indexes above 90 (and more than a few above 100!) for weeks on end, and if ever there was a time to give our horses a wee break before the end of season ramps up, it’s now.
Elvis was the victim of my own attempts to help him. In consultation with my wonderfully experienced sports medicine veterinary practice, even though Elvis was 100% sound and working like a rockstar in May, we decided to experiment with an aluminum hind shoe to help give him some support as he worked at a high level. We made the change right before his second qualifying show for the USEF Developing Prix St. Georges Championships, and he hated the change, and we had a very mediocre score. We all decided to change him back to the boring ol’ steel shoe he’d been in when he was next due to be shod, which was, of course, the week of his third and final qualifying show. Of course, 1,200 pounds of warmblood horse felt like the steel shoe was just SO HEAVY that he couldn’t pick up his own hind legs, and we got an even more mediocre score, and we found ourselves in 19th place in the rankings, and the top 15 in the country go. So that was the ball game.
Read the rest at The Chronicle of the Horse!
Ride Times for Michael Poulin Clinic
Below are times for our clinic this weekend with Michael Poulin. Sign up to audit at EventClinics.com!
SATURDAY
8:00 Jess Idol & Finley Nord, 9 yr Danish Gelding by Furst Rosseau, PSG & Piaffe
8:45 Lauren Sprieser & Guernsey Elvis, 8 yr KWPN Gelding by Querly Elvis, PSG
9:30 Jess Idol & Fantom, 9 yr Lusitano Gelding by Xa, Third Level
10:15 Nancy Sulek & Range Rover LGF, 12 yr Oldenburg Gelding by Ruffian, PSG
11:00 Lauren Sprieser & Ellington, 5 yr Westfalen Gelding by Everdale, First Level
11:45 Liza Broadbent & Victorious, 17 yr KWPN Gelding by Patijn, Grand Prix
12:30 Lunch
1:00 Rhonda Van Lowe & Escritor HGF, 6 yr PRE Gelding by Cuartero IV, Training Level
1:45 Barbara Burk & De L’Amour, 13 yr Oldenburg Mare by Diamonit, First Level
2:30 Danielle Steiner & D’Artagnan, 10 yr Hanoverian Gelding by Don Principe, 3rd Level,
and Jess Idol & Danke Schoen, 5 yr Oldenburg Gelding by Dream Along, First Level
3:15 Abe Pugh & Elfenperfekt, 13 yr Trakehner Stallion by Peron, Grand Prix
4:00 Jean Loonam & Red Hot Chili Pepper, 12 yr Hanoverian Gelding, Fourth Level
SUNDAY
7:30 Jean Loonam & Red Hot Chili Pepper, 12 yr Hanoverian Gelding, Fourth Level
8:15 Abe Pugh & Elfenperfekt, 13 yr Trakehner Stallion by Peron, Grand Prix
9 Jess Idol & Fantom, 9 yr Lusitano Gelding by Xa, Third Level
9:45 Lauren Fisher & Helio HI, 7 yr Lusitano Gelding by Dom HI, Fourth Level
10:30 Jess Idol & Sullivan, 7 yr Oldenburg Gelding by Surprice, Second Level
11:15 Lauren Sprieser & Ellington, 5 yr Westfalen Gelding by Everdale, First Level
12 Lunch
12:30 Liza Broadbent & Victorious, 17 yr KWPN Gelding by Patijn, Grand Prix
1:15 Lauren Sprieser & Guernsey Elvis, 8 yr KWPN Gelding by Querly Elvis, PSG
2:00 Emily Burke & Amadeus, 15 yr Swedish Gelding by Amiral, First Level,
and Anna Dykstra & Escritor HGF, 6 yr PRE Gelding by Cuartero IV, Second Level
2:45 Barbara Burk & De L’Amour, 12 yr Oldenburg Mare by Diamonit, First Level