December 2010 News
Happy Holidays!
2010 has been a fun and successful year for Lightacres. Our riders and horses have done well from Calgary to San Diego!
Celebrating our USEF Horse of the Year winners! THAT MEANS THE WHOLE COUNTRY !!!
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Joelle Hylton and Whoonu? National Hunter Seat English Pleasure Champions |
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Ragtime Cowboy – owner Twinkle Gorman
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Rendezvous - owner Sue Lightner
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Both Ragtime Cowboy and Rendezvous were handled by Sue Lightner, who was the leading handler at the Sallie B Wheeler West Coast Championship. |
| Ashley Norris and her three equines had a fine year. Ashley finished the year Reserve Champion Jr. Jumper both in NorCal and PCHA Region 2 with Pia'sadorable. Ashley qualified for the NorCal Spruce Meadows Jumper teams with two horses; Pia in both the 1.20 and the 1.30 meters and Life of Riley in the 1.10's. Ashley and Riley won the 1.10 Grand Prix and qualified for the final four individual Championship. Riley is currently in foal to Liocalyon, due at the end of April! |  |
Emma Townsend's Poirot learned about Hunter Breeding classes this year and was named the Zone 10 Reserve Champion 2 year old. Our nice group of young horses traveled to Del Mar in August to compete in both the Sallie B. Wheeler National Hunter Breeding Championships and the International Hunter Futurity. The Sallie B. Wheeler Championship & Reserve Championship were only the beginning of the accolades our young horses received. |
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Raggedy Music (Celia) was the three year old performance Champion, ridden by John French. |
| Ragtime Cowboy (Benson) was the three year old Reserve Champion ridden by Diane Yeager. |  |
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Glenn Fiddich (Gavin) was the third place three year old and Ragnificent (Banner) was fourth !! Both were ridden by John French. |
OUR THREE YEAR OLDS RULED! Glenn Morangie (Ellie) also made the trip for the 2 year old undersaddle – but got stage fright and forgot she had a right lead! |
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| Lori brought home a new horse that she purchased from Ali Nilforushan at Del Mar. "Sparky" created quite a stir when everyone believed Lori was returning with a real horse and lots of laughs when he arrived! |  |
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The Halloween show put on by Peggy Fackrell was loads of fun. We tried our best to win the award for the best decorated tackroom again – but BOO – we didn't ! Look how beautiful! |
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| We had a great time and many of our little riders were stars. | |
| Joelle Hylton and Whoonu? were Champions in the English Pleasure | |
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Flor de Maria Rizo and Karma were Reserve Champion Short Stirrup |
Grace Mathias and King Arthur were Champions in the Walk Trot 8 & under Grace and Arthur are the 2010 SAHJA year end Gold Champions in the eight & under. |
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Addison Mathias in her first Lead Line |
| Bailey Campbell & Whitzabouter try their first rated show and are winners in the Novice Equitation! |  |
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Te'a Cormier & Whitzabouter won the Walk Trot Obstacle class. |
| Pendleton ridden and owned by Katie LeDoux was Champion Handy Hunter and Regalo ridden by Marisa Metzger as Reserve Champion Handy Hunter. |  |
We had a Happy Halloween. |
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Along with horse highlights this year, Sue & lori took the trip of a lifetime to Kenya, Africa. It was magnificent – especially the part where the humans stayed inside a compound or a jeep and the animals roamed wild! |
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Brandon Root celebrated his 30th birthday on November 23rd! Friends from far and near came to celebrate. |
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As always our equine events wrap up with a trip to the George Morris clinic hosted by Patty Ball. Hunterville is beautiful, with great jumps, good footing and a giant ring, so it’s always a treat to be there. Marisa rode Pia and learned a great deal. It was amazing to watch George at 72 years, climb on and demonstrate all the options in a series of bending lines! GOOD WISHES FOR 2011
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