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**PLEASE NOTE** WEF currently has one Working Student position for Spring 07 and is interviewing for Summer/Fall 07. Email Natalie to apply! For more information, see our Working Student page. Check out the 2006 WEF video! 11/23/06 The following weekend was Waredaca HT on Oct 28-29. This event also ran a training level 3 day which both Melissa and I were helping with. We taught people how to prepare their horses for jog up and then I also walked the SJ course with a group of riders. This is a great learning experience for all the riders and it is a program I am happy to help out with. WEF was represented by Dawn and Hidden Victory at the 3 day and they had a great go to finish 9th. The 3 day had 70 entries so this was an excellent turnout! Saturday was to be the novice and intermediate day but heavy rains and winds cancelled the event so Manhattan, Shine, Fancy, Tiger, and Shakedown all got the day off. On Sunday I also rode Tilly to 8th place in the regular training level division. She would have won, but I had a couple time penalties opting to trot in a few places that were really mucky from the rain! Had I known I was winning, I would have went faster! Kerri and Juliet were 3rd in the JYOP with another perfect round! This pair is totally ready to move up next year! November 5th was the Waredaca Starter HT and once again WEF took many horses and we did great! Lauren and TJ were 5th in the TH, Mara and Rose were 5th in the TR, Robyn and Raven were 6th in the TR, Kelsey and Lucia were 3rd in BNH, Amanda and Sully were 5th in BNH, Sierra and Starr were 4th in ER, and Dustin and Robbie won the ER! This was Mara and Robyn's first time at the training level and was also Sully's first event ever! Congrats to all! Nov 11-12 was Rubicon HT. Saturday was the N/P day. I had great go's with Fancy and Shine both! I was very pleased with them! It was a great way to end the season. Unfortunately once again the rains came down on Sunday and the T/BN was cancelled! We have a lot of free xc schooling this year to use up from cancelled events!! November 19th was Full Moon Farm and the last event of the season. WEF took a lot of horses and once again everyone did great! Sierra and Starr won the BBN, Mac and Cowboy were 4th in the BBN, Kirsten and Luna were 6th in the ER, Kelsey and Lucia were 2nd in the BNH, Jessie and Xtra were 2nd in the NR, Amanda and Sully were 4th in the BNH, and Dustin and Robbie were 3rd in the BBN. This was their first time at a new level for Dustin and Robbie! This was also Cowboy's first event ever! Lori and Major also went in the ER and were having a great go except slipped around a turn on the way to the last XC fence. Now that show season is over - I
am looking forward to my winter vacation! We go to Costa Rica
Dec 1-10 and I can't wait! During that time, please call the
barn with any questions at 410-552-5022. Any emails will be
answered upon my return! Hope everyone has a great holiday! 10/13/06
The following weekend was Seneca Valley HT. I was out of town that weekend but WEF was well represented! Shelly Millet and Piano Man were 4th in the BNR, Rebecca Sherrer and Tarquin were 6th in the BNH, Lara Miller and Foxy Cleopatra were 8th in the NR, Kerri Long and Juliet were 5th in the JYOP, Amy Knapp was 7th and 8th in the ON with Felix and Tasmin Tiger, and Lauren Hamilton and Tejuana had a great go around the OT. Just goes to show that team WEF does great even if I am not there!!! Next up was Fair Hill on September 17th. Rebecca and Tarquin were 3rd in the BN here, Jessie Poole and Piano Man were 6th in the NR, Mac Campbell and Mycroft were 3rd in the ON, Mara Seitel-Mellencamp and Rose were 9th in the NR, Amy Knapp and Lucia were 6th in the BN, Kurstin Zabicki and Lunar Eclipse were 9th in the EL, Dustin Dolaff and Robbie were 2nd in the EL, and Lesley Long and Anarra were 4th in the BBN. Another great weekend for team WEF!
Then we all went to Marlborough HT on September 23rd. I took Shine, Shakedown, and Tilly. Tilly was 4th in the OT and my other two had good go's in the Novice. Dawn Houck had a great go in the OT with Hidden Victory, and Kelsey and Maddie had a good last run around the OP in prep for her CCI* at Morven. Sept 30-Oct 1 was Middleburg HT. Kerri and Juliet were 2nd in the JYOP proving they are ready for OI soon! Kerri also had a great go with her young horse, Sparky, in the Novice. Amy had great go's with Tiger and Felix as well. This past weekend was the Morven CCI* and Kelsey completed with her horse (well almost pony really!) Maddie is a 14.3h Arab/Welsh/Morgan mix. WEF is very proud of them! We also said goodbye to Anarra as she was recently sold to an eventer in New Mexico and also said goodbye to Amy. Amy has moved on to being a manager at her own barn and all of WEF wishes her good luck!
We are "off " from competing the next couple weekend but still plenty busy around the farm keeping the competition horses going as well as starting some new 2 and 3 year olds. We still have Waredaca, Waredaca starter, Rubicon, and Full Moon starter to go too-so check back to see how it all goes! Other exciting news - WEF is about
to have a brand new barn built! It will be quite the showplace
and we can not wait!! 8/22/06
This weekend is an "off" weekend for the whole barn (except Amy who is taking her A rating for Pony Club - all of WEF wishes her the best of luck!!) and I am taking a trip to upstate NY for some fun before a busy September event month arrives! Next month we have Loudoun HT, Seneca HT, FHI HT, Marlborough HT, Plantation HT, and Middleburg HT! Busy month ahead!! Check back to see how it all goes! 8/8/06 Sarah took Matchbox and was 1st in the novice and had a blast! This was great considering we never even got the chance for her to ever xc school him before competing him! Jessie and Piano Man were 7th in the novice also. Micheal moved Bourbon Street up to BN and finished 10th with a great go xc! In the elementary, we Had Dustin and Robbie, Kirtsen and Luna, and Lori and Smooch. Everyone competing well and had a lot of fun!
7/27/06 7/10/06 Other WEF students did well too - Kerri and Sparky were 5th in the Novice, Amy and Felix were 7th in the Novice at their debut at this level, Robyn and Raven were 3rd in BN, Rebecca and Tarquin were 3rd in BN, Shelly and Xtra were 7th in BN, Lori and Major were 4th in EL, Michael and Bourbon were 1st in BBN, and Chrissy and Gryffin got around the BBN for their first outing ever! We are proud of everyone!!!
This weekend I am taking "off", but several WEF students are checking out the new Maryland Horse Trials - check back to see how things go!! 7/02/06 Many WEF students also had great rounds! Lauren and Tejuana were 4th in TH in their Training level debut. Jen and Miette had a fall when the bank down surprised her horse and resulted in a stop, but both quickly got back together to finish the course in fine form! Amy and Honor made an excellent debut at the Training level (this awesome horse is for sale! check him out quick before the price goes up!) finishing just outside of the ribbons in 9th and scoring a 36 in dressage! Amy also rode WEF' Lucia around BN in fine form and was 2nd in the BNH on her own Scottish Rose in her eventing debut. Both of these horses are for sale as well - check them out!
Jessie Poole won BNR with her and Shelly Millet's Piano Man! This is the first time Jessie has competed in over a year! Kirsten Zabicki, Rebecca Redman, and Dustin Dolaff all did fine jobs riding around the Elementary courses with Luna, Major, and Robbie. Kerri Long had a great go in the Novice with her own, Mr. Sparky, as well. Today Rebecca Sherrer is representing WEF at Surefire HT while the rest of us take a break and have a more relaxing day! We were at the barn at 3:30 a.m. to bathe horses and get ready to leave by 5 a.m. Saturday (of course, 2 are grey so no preparing the day before!) Big thanks to Shelly, Lara, Laura, Lori, and Barb (Amy's mom) for helping to groom! Also - big thanks To Shelly's boyfriend Jeffro for putting the wonderful new awning on the trailer that we enjoyed so much Saturday! We parked the 4 horse and 6 horse to have room in between to set out the awning and the shade was very enjoyable! It will get much use!!
More exciting news! This past week we had an ICP testing here at the farm. The ICP is the Instructors Certification Program that is sponsored by the United States Eventing Association. I had taken my level 2 (certified thru teaching Prelim level and CCI*) a couple years ago. Liz, Amy, and Lesley took the level 1 workshop here last summer. With this testing, I last minute decided to test and fill an opening we had. I tested for level 3 and passed!! I am now certified to teach thru the Intermediate and CCI** level - which only around 12 people in the USA are certified to do! Liz took and passed her level 1 training certification pending the rest of the paperwork. This is a big accomplishment for us both! Big thanks to all WEF riders and other outside riders that helped this testing go on. Lesley and Amy are planning to take their Level 1 testings in the fall. Next week we go to Fair Hill for a starter up there. Should be a lot of fun! Check back to see how it goes! 6/19/06 While we were any, several WEF students and horses went to the local Waredaca HT and did great! Amy rode Mara's horse, Knight's Ebony Rose, in the Training and had a great go. Amy also rode her own, Felix the Cat, in the BN to finish in 2nd place as well as placing 6th with a WEF sale horse, Honor, in the Novice. Her student Emily was 4th in the BN with Liz' horse Blue Yonder. Mac was 6th in the Novice with another of Liz' horses, Mycroft. Dawn rode Victory in the YEH 5 year old class to 8th place and had a good go in the Novice. Lauren was 3rd with Tejuana in the 5 year old YEH class and 4th in the Novice as well. Our wonderful groom, Shelly, finished 8th in the BN with Piano Man, who she co-owns with Jessie Poole. Kelsey was 4th with Maddie in the JYOP. Also - a former WEF horse, Art Scene (aka Jasper) was 6th in the Novice with his new owner, Piper Shephard, and Aurora and Megan Hansen had a great go around the Prelim!
The following weekend we took a big group to Rubicon. This is such a lovely event with nice, big galloping courses! Liz and Manhattan were 4th in the OP! Kerri and Juliet had a great go as well to finish just outside of the ribbons. This is an exceptional horse being offered for sale, if anyone is looking!! Laura was 6th in the Training with Sassy JR - a great prep to move up the following weekend to Prelim! In the Novice, I rode both Shine and Tilly - who preformed well over a challenging course! We also had Lauren and Tejuana finishing 3rd, Jen and Meitte having a good go, Kerri and Sparky having a good go, Dawn and Victory with a good run, and Amy and Honor finishing 7th. Honor will move up to training the next time out. Another great horse for sale!! In the BN, I rode Shakedown and Tiger. Tiger was 5th with a great go! Shakedown figured it out and is one to watch for the future! Amy rode her horse, Felix, around the BN in fine form and will be moving him up to Novice next time out. Rebecca was 3rd in BN with her Airborne Assault and rode her new horse, Draft Dodger, around the BN in fine form. Other former WEF horses did well too - Kerry Blackmer and Encore in the Training, Sharon White and Pancho's Pisteralo in the Prelim, Phinnian's Edge and Christine Douglas in the Novice, and True Blue Donderoo and Paula Siegel in the Novice.
This past weekend we braved the heat and went to Seneca Valley HT. I rode 4 horses saturday. Big Thanks to Shelly, Lara, and Lori for grooming! Tilly was 6th and Shine was 8th in the Novice. Shakedown was excellent to score a 31 in dressage with Tiger scoring a 33 in BN. Both also had great, clean xc goes! Tiger ended up 5th and Shakedown had a couple rails to drop out of the ribbons - but I was so proud of him as he really "got it" this time out! He knows his job and is so much fun!!
Liz had a great clear go around cross country with Manhattan in the Prelim, an unfortunate rail knocked them out of the ribbons. Kerri and Juliet finished 8th in a very competitive OP division (no JYOP here!) with double clear jumping rounds! Kelsey and Maddie had a great go with 1 railin show jumping, which dropped them out of the ribbons. Laura and JR had a great move up to Prelim with a good dressage test, a great show jump round, and a 90% excellent cross country course. An unfortunate stumble on landing from the corner toppled Laura off, but she got back on and finished in fine form!
All in all - a busy few weeks but great results! This next weekend we are "off" while preparing for the ICP testing here June 27-29th. Then we are back at it again with lots of horses moving up at Waredaca HT July 1. 5/28/06
Today we took 19 horses to Full Moon Farm starter horse trial. I rode Shakedown Street in his first BN event - he was green, but still performed well, scoring a 34 in dressage! This is one to watch for the future for sure! Tiger and I continued his successful eventing career with a 2nd place in the BNH also scoring a 34 in dressage. I also rode Rebecca Sherrer's horse Tarquin and was 1st in the BBNH with a 31.5! Assistant trainer Amy and Felix won their BNH with a 32. Kerri rode Sparky to 2nd and Rebecca's horse Airborne to 3rd in the ON. Mara and Rose were 2nd in the ON, Jen and Meitte were 3rd in the ON, and Catie and Sea Pirate were 8th in the ON. Melissa rode Lucy around the BBNH as well and had a great go! We didn't see were she placed as we were anxious to get out of there after a long, hot day!
Mac and Mycroft (a WEF horse he is half-leasing from Liz) were 1st in their first event together in NR. Emily and Yonder (another WEF horse that was once Liz's Prelim eventer) were 2nd in the BNR. Liz rode Minet's horse Tigger in his first BN event - like Shakedown, he was a bit green, but shows lots of promise for the future! Michael and Bourbon Street were 2nd in the EL - quite a feat as this horse was deemed not even pasture sound a year ago! Its great to see this talented horse back out doing what he loves! He was a horse I rode thru Prelim level and then Rebecca bought him and had a lot of success thru training level before a pasture injury interrupted his career. Michael and Rebecca have brought him back slowly and he is doing things the vets never thought he would do! Sierra and Starr had a great dressage test to score a 32.5 only to have the horse come up lame in xc warmup - hopefully just a bruise! This same issue prevented both Lara with Foxy and Lori with Chance from being able to compete this weekend!
We also had some other young riders in the EL. Kirsten and Luna had a great event despite some looks at the water jump! Ashley and Major as well as Dustin and Robbie made their eventing debuts and had a lot of fun out there! All in all - a successful weekend! I leave Tuesday to help out my friends Jane Sleeper and Melissa Hunsberger at the Jersey Fresh CCI*** next week - this should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to it! If anyone needs anything during that time - call my cell at 410-615-3673 or the barn at 410-552-5022. I will be back late Sunday June 4th and then get ready for Rubicon, Seneca, and the ICP testing we are holding here at the farm! 5/08/06
Saturday started at 3 a.m. for us as I had 4 Novice horses, Liz had Manhattan in the Prelim, Kerri had Juliet in the Prelim and Sparky in the Novice, Amy K. had Honor in the Novice, Catie had Pirate in the Novice, Amy M. had Puck in the Novice, Rebecca had Aire in the Novice, and Kelsey had Maddie in the Prelim. All of my horses performed very well. I rode Shine, Tilly, Quin, and Victory in a challenging novice course and ended up finishing 2nd with Quin, out of a large group of Novice horses, with a score of 32. Quin and I also won the MCTA trophy for the lowest score MCTA member at Novice level - quite an honor! Quin is now being offered for sale - check her out if you are interested in a solid Novice horse with a lot of potential!
The working students also did quite well to finish 8th for Catie and Pirate, 7th for Amy and Honor, and 3rd for Amy and Puck. Big thanks to Shelly for grooming for all these horses with help from Lesley, Lori, and Lauren! We could not have kept this crazy schedule going without a lot of help! The Prelim horses only did dressage and sj on Saturday so we were back early sun for xc and also for the Training level horses. Luckily on Sunday, we got to sleep in till 4:30 a.m.! Manhattan performed well over this challenging course as did Maddie and Juliet. Kelsey and Maddie were 6th in JYOP and Kerri and Juliet were 8th in JYOP. Laura Borger and Sassy JR had a great go around the training level, only to skip a fence xc! Oh well - better luck next time! Congrats to all!
We also saw this weekend a bunch of former WEF horses out running around and doing well - almost all were in the ribbons! Congrats to Sharon White and Pancho's Pisteralo in the OP, Kerry Blackmer and Encore in the OT, Rachel Snyder and Eric's Charmer in the OT, and Robyn Sizemore and Killians Red in the OT. Also congrats to Cassidy Tonner and Forte (another former horse as well as a student!) on moving up to Prelim at Difficult Run HT and placing in the ribbons there! I was so busy preparing for MCTA that I never got the chance to do a write up for Loudoun HT from the weekend before. This was also a great event and everyone did well. I rode student Katy Gates talented horse, Gizmo, around the Training for a clear sj and xc round to finish 10th. I had only ridden him twice, so did not have his buttons all sorted out on the flat - but still, he was excellent and a lot of fun to ride! Thanks for the ride Katy - I will do it anytime! Liz and Manhattan made their spring debut at Prelim and got the ball rolling for a good spring season. Amy took Rose to her first outing at Training level and was 6th! This mare was excellent and has a bright future ahead! Kerri rode Juliet for her first outing of the year at Training and finished 8th - they were just getting one run in before moving back up to Prelim next time out at MCTA. Again - a good weekend!
We are taking the weekend "off" from eventing next weekend, but Amy and I are driving back to Illinois to pick up four 2 year olds and 3 yearlings from my friend Virginia's house. These are homebreds of her stallion and some will be for sale. Virginia has produced such nice horses like High-Tech, Ready to Rock, Lt. Benz, and Hot Chilly Tilly - so I am very excited to get these horses and start working with them! We also have the new arrival from Canada of some draft/tb cross fillies that Liz bought. Anyone interested in a youngster should contact WEF as we have some nice ones!! Also - I might unexpectantly have a summer working student opening as well as one for fall. Contact me for more info about our program, or see our working student page for more information! Here are some photos from Loudoun Horse Trials which was held last weekend. Report to follow soon!
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