Bettina Hoy Clinic Schedule for Wed. 2-22-12

Wednesday Bettina Hoy Clinic Schedule:

8:00 Jan
8:45 Jan
9:30 Boyd - Nev
10:15 Boyd - Otis
11:00 Kevin
11:45 Alison

1:30 Boyd - Thomas
2:15 Boyd -Remington
3:00 Sara G
3:45 Erin

Thanks Again Cindy Lawler!

Our friend Cindy Lawler was behind the lens at Paradise this weekend & sent along another magnificent group of photos.  We're so appreciative to Cindy & all of her contributions.  Enjoy the photos!

PHOTO SLIDESHOW!

Paradise Farm Horse Trials

We had another solid weekend of eventing over the last few days at Paradise Farm Winter Horse Trials in Aiken. Several of our young, up-and-coming stars were out competing, as well as a couple of wonderful horses that we have available for sale. The horses did not disappoint, and it was a good outing for all. We enjoyed the company of several owners who came out to cheer us on, and welcomed Abbie Golden, who took a short break from studying at college in Pennsylvania to compete her horse, Spenser, in the Open Preliminary division.

A big congratulations goes to George and Gretchen Wintersteen for their lovely Irish horse, Ballyneety, who won the Open Novice B division! This is the second straight win for this horse following a win at Full Gallop Horse Trials last week. We are excited about the future for this horse after the wonderful beginnings of his American career here in Aiken!

We have a great group of horses for sale, including Freedom's Pride, Bacardi and Ladylovesdiamonds, who all had a successful weekend and look to be strong eventing candidates. Contact Boyd if you are interested in any of these fabulous horses.

Our thoughts are with Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin, who tragically lost their horse, SBF Zamboni aka "Mick", over the weekend. Please know that we are thinking of you during this difficult time.

Results are as follows:

Open Preliminary

Arundel, owned and ridden by Abbie Golden, 12th

Open Training A

New Cadet, owned by Anne Hennessey and ridden by Boyd Martin, 13th

Open Training B

Ricochet EDF, owned by Lisa Samoylenko and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, Withdraw

Open Novice A

Waranga, owned by Amy Lindgren and ridden by Boyd Martin, 5th
Bacardi, owned by Sandy Issler and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, 17th

Open Novice B

Ballyneety, owned by Gretchen and George Wintersteen and ridden by Boyd Martin, 1st
Ladylovesdiamonds, owned by Ann Nawn and ridden by Sara Gumbiner, 7th
SBF Balboa, owned by Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, Withdraw

Open Novice C

Quinn Himself, owned by Bonnie Stedt and ridden by Boyd Martin, 4th
Freedom's Pride, owned by Elizabeth Carey and ridden by Boyd Martin, 10th
SBF Cortez, owned by Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, Withdraw

Open Beginner Novice A

Fergus Himself, owned by Bonnie Stedt and ridden by Sara Gumbiner, 11th

For Sale: Hidden Promise

NAME: Hidden Promise
SEX: Gelding
COLOUR: Brown
HEIGHT: 16.2
DATE OF BIRTH: 2003
COUNTRY OF BIRTH: USA
BREED: Thoroughbred
BREEDER: Nina Fout
PLACE OF BIRTH: Virginia
OWNER: Windurra LLC
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Hidden promise was purchased by Windurra as a project. He shows a lot of quality with three fantastic gaits and is a true gentleman. He is a surprisingly comfortable for a horse with such big movement and he is one of our most low maintenance horses in the barn and at the shows. So far in his dressage career he has competed successfully at third level in Wellington, with plans to move up to fourth level at the end of February. This would be an incredible horse for a young rider, amateur, or professional. He would take an ambitious rider easily up to FEI level, and at the same time he is a great easy going hack horse.

Inquiries, please contact Silva by phone 610 806 2721 or email

Rembrandt is For Sale!

Sadly, our awesome working student, Devon Seery, is going on to pursue her higher education in the fall.  Her wonderful Dutch Warmblood, Rembradt, will remain in competition with Silva until he is sold.   This is a fabulous horse for a competitive AA or Young Rider, so don't miss out!!

NAME: Rembrandt
SEX: Gelding
COLOR: Bay
HEIGHT: 16.1h
DATE OF BIRTH: April 4 2002
COUNTRY OF BIRTH: Denmark
SIRE: Loudini
DAM: Regitze Birk
BREED: Danish WB
BREEDER: Pia Graugaard-Jensen
OWNER: Devon Seery

Rembrandt is large bodied 16.1h, 2002 Registered Danish Warm blood Gelding. Since being imported from Denmark he has made his mark as a dressage horse in the USA with his young rider earning the 2012 BLM First level Championship and GAIG Training level Championship. He is currently being trained and competed by Silva Martin in Aiken SC and FL for the remainder of winter. He is competing at 3rd level and will be moving up to fourth shortly, consistently scoring in the high 60s. This horse is quiet, uncomplicated and packed with personality. He is great for the AA or young Rider and he is always happy to work. This one is too good to pass up!

See his full sales listing here.

Inquiries, please contact Silva by phone 610 806 2721

Aiken Update: Training Sessions, Full Gallop and Pine Top

Simba (in the window) Watches the Team Training Session at Bridle Creek
Photo by Hoof Pix

Eventing definitely started to wind up this past week in Aiken, SC. All week, our farm hosted the USEF training sessions which were taught by Captain Mark Phillips. Mark taught dressage and jumping lessons for four days which saw the highest quality event horses and riders strut their stuff at Ilene Boorman's Bridle Creek Farm. The lessons were watched every day not only by eventing enthusiasts in Aiken, but also by super groom Lindsey Taylor's cat, Simba. He truly enjoyed watching Mark's dressage lessons while perched at his window and agreed a lot with what Mark had to say.

Boyd on Ballyneety at Full Gallop. Denise Lahey photo

On Wednesday Caitlin and I took a group of younger horses out for a run at Full Gallop Horse Trials. Without doubt, the star of the day was George and Gretchen Wintersteen's Ballyneety. Bally was hand picked by George and Gretchen in Ireland last year and he looks very impressive. We all enjoyed his first win on American soil.

Training

• Looks Like Fernhill, owned and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, TE - missed jump
• Ricochet EDF, owned by Lisa Samoylenko and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, 15th

Novice

• SBF Balboa, owned by Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin and ridden by Boyd Martin, 4th
• Bacardi, owned by Sandy Issler and ridden by Caitlin Silliman, 12th
• Waranga, owned by Amy Lindgren and ridden by Boyd Martin, 15th
• Freedom's Pride, owned by Biz Carey and ridden by Boyd Martin, 14th
• SBF Cortez, owned by Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin and ridden by Boyd Martin, 12th
• Ballyneety, owned by George and Gretchen Wintersteen and ridden by Boyd Martin, 1st

Boyd on Cold Harbour at Pine Top
Laurie Cameron photo

The weekend saw us make our first pilgrimage to Georgia. I believe the cross-country courses at Pine Top are some of the best that we see down south. The piece of property that they are laid out on boasts encouraging, open, galloping courses. It was the first event that we took some of our greener, higher level horses to. Dana Diemer's Cold Harbor, started the season in glory dancing around John Williams' track, winning the Open Intermediate. Another new exciting prospect would have to be Katie Walker's Wakefield, who backed up his win at Sporting Days with another win at Novice this weekend. This English gelding oozes with class.

Boyd on Crackerjack at Pine Top
Laurie Cameron photo

The results from Pine Top were:

Open Intermediate

• Cold Harbor, owned by Manny and Dana Diemer, 1st
• Merging, owned by Laurie Cameron, 14th
• Crackerjack, owned by Colin Davidson and Lucy Boynton, 13th

Intermediate Rider

• Emily van Gemeren riding Berkley II, owned by Elenor Smith, 10th
  

Open Preliminary

• Poetic Justice, owned by Gale Thayer, 10th
• Steady Eddie, owned by George and Gretchen Wintersteen, Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin,14th

Training Horse

• Brewster, owned by Katie Walker, 14th

Open Training

• Polaris, owned by Ann Nawn and ridden by Sara Gumbiner, 13th

Open Novice

• Wakefield, owned by Katie Walker, 1st

Emily van Gemeren and Berkley II at Pine Top
Laurie Cameron photo

A special shout out must go to Sara Gumbiner, whom is the only remaining Windurra rider (other than myself) who has not been technically eliminated at an event this year for missing a jump. Keep up the good work Sara!

-Boyd

Aiken Season off to a Good Start

L-R: Lindsey Taylor, Emily van Gemeren, Doug Neilson, and Caitlin Silliman

Our 2012 event season began with a busy day at Full Gallop Farm horse trials with a total of eleven horses competing. The courses were great, with good questions for a first time out, and all the horses ran very well. Some of the upper level horses came out for their first run of the season and all ran nice and slow around the Preliminary. The sales horses all went very well and are a great group of competitors. Poetic Justice, or “Poppy”, had a great go in the Training, placing second with a fast cross-country round, Ricochet {“Chetti”} jumped well in the Novice, and Bacardi won his first ever event! The young horses went well too, and look to be horses for the future. After a great dressage test, I unfortunately cantered right past fence 7 in the show jumping, but I'm happy despite the resulting TE because of how well my horse Berkley was going up until I went off course. Luckily for me, I was allowed to run cross-country anyways and so I had a good, slow round to prepare for my next few events. Both Boyd and Caitlin were happy with their days as well! Lindsey kept everyone very organized back at the trailers and we even had time to sit down every now and then!

Steady Eddie at Full Gallop

Full Gallop Farm Horse Trials

Preliminary

Boyd: Lucy Boynton’s Crackerjack 5th, Laurie Cameron’s Merging 6th

Emily: Berkley TE

Training

Boyd: Gale Thayer’s Poetic Justice 2nd, George and Gretchen Wintersteen and Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin’s Steady Eddie 4th

Caitlin: Looks Like Fernhill 11th

Novice

Boyd: Gretchen and George Wintersteen’s Ballyneety 4th, Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin’s SBF Balboa 9th

Caitlin: Lisa Samoylenko’s Rhicochet EDF 9th

Beginner Novice

Caitlin: Sandy Issler’s Bacardi 1st, Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin’s SBF Cortez 4th

Just three days later, Boyd and Sara took six horses to Sporting Days horse trials. All of these young horses preformed very well for their first time out this year, with top placings among the levels. Sara rode Ann Rawle’s sales horse Ladylovesdiamonds {“Jewels”} in a big division of Beginner Novice and she placed third, beating many good horses and riders.

Sporting Days Farm Horse Trials

Training

Boyd: Katie Walker’s Brewster 2nd, Anne Hennessey’s New Cadet 5th

Sara: Ann Rawle's Polaris 11th

Novice

Boyd: Bonnie Stedt’s Quinn Himself 1st, Katie Walker’s Wakefield 1st

Beginner Novice

Sara: Ann Rawle's Ladylovesdiamonds 3rd

This coming Wednesday Caitlin and Boyd are headed back to Full Gallop, and then this weekend we go to Pine Top- from here on out we are sure to be very busy!

-Emily van Gemeren