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Davis Trailer Sales ............ 4

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DR Chambers .................... 4

EA Fence ........................... 9

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Paul Congelosi Trailers ... 12

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The Equine Hobbyist ........ 9

Thorobred Feed Sales .... 10

Trailer King ........................ 2

Yered Trailers .................... 9 In This Issue:News ................................................................................ 2About the Cover ............................................................ 3The Importance of Correct Farriery During the Intense Show Season ............................. 3Notes from Julie: A Horse’s Sense of Fairness ....................................... 6Palm Partnership Training: Improving the Walk ..................................................... 8Calendar of Events ....................................................... 8Equine Business Directory ......................................... 9

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James R. Wolf Appointed USET Foundation Deputy Executive Director

Gladstone, N.J. – The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation is pleased to announce that James (Jim) R. Wolf has been named deputy executive director. Wolf has been involved in equestri-an sport governance and marketing for over 20 years. Most recently he served as the president of Wolf Sports Group, LLC (WSG), a sports/entertainment agency specializing in sponsorship, business development and event management. WSG has provided consulting services to the United States Equestrian Federa-tion (USEF), International Equestrian Group, Equestrian Sport Productions, the Tryon International Equestrian Cen-ter, Jet Set Sports, Solera Capital, the National Steeple Chase Association, the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. WSG has worked with over 40 corporate sponsors including Rolex, Land Rover, BMW, JetBlue, Coca-Cola, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, JW Marriott, Luitpold Pharmaceuticals/Adequan, Hearst Communications Inc. and a host of equestrian specific companies. WSG was involved in the creation and organi-zation of the Rolex Central Park Horse Show, the Land Rover Wellington Event-ing Showcase and assisted in the suc-cessful bid for the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon. Prior to that, Wolf held the position of executive director of sport programs for USEF having served in the role from 2004-2013. Wolf also served as the U.S. chef d’mission at five Olympic Games, five World Championships and four Pan American Games. He was responsible for all high performance and national programs related to the eight interna-tional high performance disciplines. Wolf was also responsible for sponsor-ship sales and activation, development and administration of the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing and coordinated the production and ad sales for the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, among oth-ers. Prior to this, Wolf held the positions of assistant executive director/director

of games preparation and athlete pro-grams and director of eventing activities with USEF. “We are very excited to have a per-son of Jim’s caliber joining the USET Foundation as deputy executive direc-tor,” said Bonnie B. Jenkins, USET Foun-dation executive director. “His expertise and depth of knowledge of high perfor-mance equestrian sport, his broad range of relationships throughout the country and among the equestrian disciplines, as well as his experience in event man-agement, will directly impact our fund-raising efforts and help the Foundation continue to grow and expand through-out the country. Jim’s professional ex-perience combined with his love of our United States Equestrian Teams makes him the ideal person to fill this new posi-tion. I could not be happier to welcome Jim to the team.” Wolf’s philanthropic interests in-clude the El Buen Samaritano Hospital in La Romana, Dominican Republic, where he and his wife Molly organize an annual medical mission that provides services to Haitian workers. Addition-ally, he serves as a member of the board of directors for Brooke USA, an animal welfare charity. Wolf, his wife Dr. Molly Bliss (for-mer U.S. eventing team member) and daughter Josselyn live in Lebanon, New Jersey. The USET Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the competi-tion, training, coaching, travel and edu-cational needs of America’s elite and developing international and high per-formance horses and athletes in partner-ship with US Equestrian. For more information on the USET Foundation, visit www.uset.org.

2017 Horse Industry Directory Now Available Washington, DC – The American Horse Council’s (AHC) 2017 Horse In-dustry Directory is available for pur-chase. NEW for 2017, the Directory can be purchased in two formats—tradi-tional print (subject to availability) and a digital, interactive flipbook. The AHC’s Horse Industry Direc-tory has thousands of equine listings and resources that will help any user find important information relating to the horse industry including breed reg-istries; racing, rodeo, show, sport, and trails organizations; equine health and welfare organizations; interstate health requirements; statistical information on the horse industry; and an index of all the listings and telephone numbers are provided for easy access. The Directory reaches over 2,000 equine individual and member organizations, and horse enthu-siasts across the country. “This is an incredibly useful re-source for any person who is associated with the horse industry. No other pub-lication provides the depth of national horse industry resources found in the Horse Industry Directory,” said Ashley Furst, AHC’s Director of Communica-tions. (continued on page 4)

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Wellington, FL - Palm Beach Equine Clinic (PBEC) of Wellington, FL, proudly offers advanced services to referring veterinarians and clients in equine podiatry with the expertise of Dr. Stephen O’Grady. As the show

season continues on, some horses may be experiencing foot soreness or new lameness that could be related to their farriery. The importance of good qual-ity hoof care in the competition horse can’t be denied. The equine hoof is unique, as it is comprised of a group

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ness. There are three very important aspects of farriery science that the farrier will use to keep your horse sound, which are trimming the foot in conjunction with the size and placement of the horseshoe. Typically, a farriery session will begin with an evaluation of the conformation of each hoof from the front, side, and behind to ob-serve the height of the

heels. Next, the farrier should observe the horse in motion to see whether the horse’s foot lands heel first, flat or toe first. All this information is consid-ered and evaluated before the farrier begins shoeing. Regarding the trim, many farriers no longer use the term ‘balance the

foot’ - which has no meaning - and have begun to use guidelines or land-marks when approaching the trim. The guidelines used are trimming to achieve a straight hoof-pastern axis, using the widest part of the foot which correlates to the center of rota-tion, and trimming the palmar foot (heels) to the base of the frog or to the same plane as the frog (Figure 2, 3). A closer look at these three guide-lines, which are all interrelated, will help to show their importance. If the dorsal (front) surface of the pastern and the dorsal surface of the hoof are parallel or form a straight line, then the bones of the digit (P1, P2, P3) are in a straight line, and the force from the weight of the horse will go through the middle of the joint. Furthermore, and equally important, if the hoof-pastern axis is straight, the weight will be distributed evenly on the bottom of the foot. The second guideline is the cen-ter of rotation (COR), and as the COR is located a few millimeters behind the widest part of each foot, it allows the farrier to apply appropriate bio-

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The Importance of Correct Farriery During the Intense Show SeasonExplained by Dr. Stephen O’Grady

Figure 1. Illustration shows the biological structures of the hoof and the biomechanical focus (circle).

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Lake Placid Horse Shows Welcome Great American Insurance Group as Sponsor of the $100,000 I Love New York Grand Prix Lake Placid, NY – Great American Insurance Group (GAIG) has joined the 2017 Lake Placid Horse Shows as the

proud sponsor of the $100,000 I Love New York Grand Prix. Now known as the $100,000 Great American Insurance Group Grand Prix, the thrilling top-level competition will be held on Saturday, July 8 and will feature some of show jumping’s biggest names. “We are delighted to welcome Great American Insurance Group as sponsor of our I Love New York Grand Prix,” said Richard M. Feldman, Chairman of the Lake Placid Horse Show Association. “Great American is the insurance com-pany of choice for countless horse own-ers and we are delighted to have such a respected company join our horse show family.” The Lake Placid Horse Shows, Pre-sented by Sea Shore Stables, LLC and Sponsored by Bainbridge Farm, host two weeks of world-class competition for all levels, ranging from young children on ponies to grand prix competitors and Olympic medalists. Each show is USEF ‘AA’ rated for hunters and 6* rated for Jumpers and offers more than 100 classes of competition. The action is non-stop, with many of the nation’s top horses and

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Local Horse Trainer Selected for Extreme Mustang Makeover Colleen Brennan of Holtsville, New York has been selected to compete in the Extreme Mustang Makeover held June 15-17, at the Eastern States Exposition in W. Springfield, MA. Trainers will have approximately 100 days to gentle a randomly assigned wild horse they will pick up in March and compete for an estimated purse of $25,000 in prize money as well as a custom-made Gist belt buckle. Colleen Brennan, 42, is a full time Veterinary Technician and trains hors-es in her spare time. She uses natural horsemanship training methods and has trained her own horses for compe-titions such as barrel racing, pole bend-ing, western pleasure. trail and reining classes, as well as worked with problem horses. The purpose of the competition is to showcase the beauty, versatility and trainability of these rugged horses that roam freely on public lands throughout the West, where they are protected by the Bureu of Land Management under fed-eral law. The BLM periodically removes excess animals from the range to ensure herd health and protect rangeland re-sources. Thousands of the removed ani-mals are then made available each year to the public for adoption. Over 7,000 Mustangs have been adopted through Mustang Heritage Foundation events and programs since 2007. The mustangs competing in the Extreme Mustang Makeover challenge are mares, and the horses, which were virtually untouched prior to the March pick-up, will compete in W. Springfield in June. The trainers and mustangs will compete in a series of classes that will showcase there new skills. The horses will compete in a series of handling and

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By Julie Goodnight “Does my horse have a sense of fairness?” Recently, one of my Interac-tive Academy members asked me this question—a question that no one has ever asked me during my forty years of teaching people to ride horses. I’ve been working with this rider for a while now. She’s working through my 12-month curriculum with her horse to help im-prove her own horsemanship, as well as advance her horse’s training. Those endeavors involve improving your own leadership skills. Considering her lead-

ership skills led to the question. So, does a horse have a sense of fairness? Your horse’s point of view, on any given subject may be (and probably is) quite different than your own. What your horse views as unfair treatment may surprise you. But fairness does not exist in a vacuum—it is always relative to other factors. We get caught up in our own, singular point of view, and fail to consider all the factors. What seems per-fectly reasonable to us, may be viewed as grossly unfair as another. Leadership is not just about your ac-

tions or intentions; it is also about your honesty, integrity and fairness—includ-ing admitting your own mistakes and taking responsibility yourself if your followers fall short of your expectations. Authority is not the same as leader-ship—just because you have authority over others does not mean that they have a desire to follow you or accept you as their leader. Horses most certainly have a sense of fairness, just as they are good judges of leadership and trustworthiness. Be-cause they are herd animals, they are

mindful of leadership, hierarchy, rules, and ramifications of behavior. They are instinctively drawn to strong leadership, with a compelling desire to be accepted in a herd and a profound fear of banish-ment from the herd. Horses thrive when leadership, rules and structure exist and they flail in the absence of it. That’s not to say a horse never does anything wrong or that he would think any discipline was bad. He knows when he is breaking a rule or pushing a bound-ary and he usually responds well to fair punishment. But when rules are unclear or inconsistently enforced, when you say one thing but then do another, when you inadvertently punish even though no punishment was intended, or when the punishment does not fit the crime, a horse will feel that they are being treated unfairly, and his trust in you diminishes.How would you know if you horse feels like you are treating him unfairly? This is what varies greatly with horses—given his natural temperament, he may react strongly or not at all to any perceived injustice. Reactions from the horse may range from a slight tensing and lifting of the head, to shaking the head, refus-als, running through the bridle, crow-hopping, bucking, or shutting down (be-coming nonresponsive). Of course, there could be many causes for these type of reactions in a horse, but whenever a horse is frustrated, it’s always important to consider your own actions, and how they may be viewed by the horse. After all, none of us is a perfect leader for our horses. Here are some common scenarios where I see people treating their horses in ways the horse may consider unfair…

Unfair treatment #1 Ask him to do something then pun-ish him for doing it: An easy way to test your horse’s sense of fairness is to cue him to canter, then hit him in the mouth with the bit when he does. How he re-acts to that will tell you how tolerant he is. This happens far more often than you think, in all levels of riders. Sometimes it’s related to lack of skill; other times it is reactionary—a rider fearful of the can-ter often snatches the horse up as soon as they respond to the cue. From the horse’s point of view, you asked him to do something then you punished him for doing it. Responses from this kind of conflicting signal can range from a small shake of the head, to crow-hopping, to a refusal to canter for you anymore, to flat-out bucking. But usually it is the horse that is blamed; not fair, nor is it honest, from your horse’s point of view.

Unfair treatment #2 Asking for one more time: Let’s say you’ve been working on something very challenging for your horse—like jumping gymnastics. Maybe you start with just a few rails up in the line of jump-very-stride obstacles and gradu-ally you add more until it is a very chal-lenging and strenuous exercise. After some stops and starts and failed at-tempts, your horse finally goes through

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the full gymnastic correctly. You are thrilled! So what’s the first thing you say? “Let’s do that one more time.” You know what happens next. He’s already given you his best and that wasn’t good enough; now he’s tired and emotion-ally spent and you ask for more. Things fall apart and what should have been a great training session turns into a sal-vage effort. Fairness would dictate that you recognized your horse’s best effort and let him rest on that, rather than feed your own greed.

Unfair treatment #3 Setting the horse up for failure: This is the actually the real, unedited sce-nario that stimulated the whole discus-sion on fairness between my Interactive member and myself. “The last time we went to the arena, there were about 15 of us in there at once – usually, I have the place to myself, or maybe one other rid-er. This was a big test I thought – think-ing about how anxious he was on the first day of the clinic [she’s referring to a clinic she took with me, 6-8 months ago, when he had come uncorked]. He did great! He stayed focused and listening to me. The only negative was when we were done, I loaded him up – no prob-lem. So I decided to practice unloading and loading since we were a little tired and away from home. He decided no. A nearby rider gave me some help. This made me think about fairness. Was it unfair to finish and then ask for more?” Yes, it was unfair. Clearly the horse had given of himself, worked very hard and done the right thing. He had every reason to believe he was done and would receive the kindness of comfort from his leader that he had a right to expect after a job well-done. Instead, he was set up to fail; he was set up to rebel. After all, he had already loaded once without re-sistance. Was that not what you wanted? Authority should not be exploited. My father often said, “A well-trained horse that trusts you, will jump over a cliff if you ask. But that might be the last time he trusts you and it might be the last time you get to ask.” Does an impatient horse need to learn more patience? Yes. Should we expect perfect patience of him in every situation or at the same level we do an-other more patient or more experienced horse? No. Should we make him jump through hoops when he is most anxious or most aggravated, just for the sake of seeing him jump through the hoops? No. Should we ALWAYS set him up for suc-cess? YES! A good training exercise sets the horse up for the greatest chance of success, not throwing challenges at him one after the other with the intent of making him fail. A good leader does not expect his followers to do things beyond their ca-pabilities. Yes, you want to push your followers to be the best they can be, but you cannot make them be something they are not or live up to an unattainable expectation. Everyone wants the feeling of a job well done. If we think our horse may not be capable of giving us what we want in that moment, it’s best not to ask. Do something else instead. Come back later and address it when the chances of success are greater or when you have re-moved other obstacles. While your expectations should be high, you are not trying to find your horse at fault and it is not about you, but

more about what your horse is capable of giving. It’s about asking him to try and then recognizing his try, even when it is not perfect. Every horse is different and what may seem like an awesome re-sponse from one horse may be nothing for another horse. It’s good to have high expectations; just remember that expectations lead to disappointment, so make sure your ex-pectations are realistic and attainable. Your horse will rise to your level of ex-pectation, be it high or low. Have high expectations, and recognize your horse’s efforts honestly and fairly. Join the academy and get my one-on-one feedback as you work with your horse: HorseTrainingHelp.com Have a good ride, Julie Goodnight Trainer and Clinician Photo by Heidi Melocco, Whole-Picture.com

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Improving the Walk It probably comes as no surprise that a good walk is important in a trail horse. However, a horse with a com-fortable, ground-covering walk is one that will be appreciated by real work-ing cowboys, dressage riders, endur-ance and competitive trail riders, as well as weekend trail riders. That is because the walk is one of the hardest gaits to improve in a horse, and yet it is the gait most commonly used by most riders outside of speed events. Although it is difficult to improve the quality of a horse’s walk, there are some exercises you can practice to teach your horse to walk at a com-fortable, controlled speed in a straight line. When your horse is in a controlled walk, it is much easier for him to stay balanced when he is going up and down hills. If a horse is balanced and moving in a straight line, he can bet-ter transfer his weight to his hind end when going downhill as well as negoti-ate rough terrain much more easily. Practice the following exercise in your regular tack in an enclosed area at first before you take it out on the trail. Make sure you are sitting balanced in

the center of your horse’s back and that your cues are clear so that your horse understands them.

The Basic Walk Many riders create problems un-intentionally when they either kick or grip the horse’s side to get him to walk forward, but these two actions actu-ally make the horse resist. Try pound-ing your ribs with your fist to get an idea of what your horse feels if you do this. Remember that a horse is sensi-tive enough to feel a fly land on his skin so he does not need much of a leg aid when you ask him to move forward. Use your calves, and not your heels, in as light a touch as necessary to ask your horse to walk forward. If your horse does not step forward im-mediately into a walk, slide your calves slightly backward and ask again. If that doesn’t work, use a “clucking” sound with your leg aid or touch his side with your crop or the end of our reins just behind your leg or on his rump to give him even more encouragement to move away from the touch. As your horse walks, practice stay-ing balanced and let your hips move

back and forth naturally as they follow his motion at the walk. This will syn-chronize you with the horse, and both you and he will be more comfortable. It also will encourage him to relax his back and use his hind legs more. You keep the horse moving straight and maintaining speed by using light sup-port with your legs and reins. You can tell if your horse is com-fortable and relaxed in the walk if his ears are forward and he is moving along without resistance. If your horse is relaxed, clearly understands what you are asking of him, and trusts you, then he will be easier to work with and enjoy the ride too. If you are unbal-anced or heavy-handed, however, your horse will be frustrated and anxious for the ride to be over with and may chal-lenge you in some way. There is less momentum at the walk to help your horse stay straight. If he is having trouble staying straight at the walk, practice transitions between the walk and the trot. Walk straight and at a steady pace—without slowing

or speeding up. Next, practice varying your speed at the walk. After practicing walking in a straight line, walk in circles at a steady pace. Remember, that when you circle your horse, he should have a slight bend or curve to his body and not have just his head turned to the inside. Always be aware of your position in the saddle. Your spine should be cen-tered over your horse and an observer should be able to draw a straight line from your ear to your shoulder to the middle of your hip, to the back of your heel, and down to the ground. Your eyes should always be looking ahead to where you want to go and not down at your horse. Remember, if you have trouble con-trolling your horse’s speed at any gait, bring him into a turn because bending will automatically slow him down. At a walk, initiate the turn by using an upward motion with your outside rein only. This will shorten the horse’s stride at the walk. Think of your outside rein as your “brake.”

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JuneJune 4 • Open Schooling Show. Northamptom Cty. 4-H Center, Nazareth, PA, 9 a.m. Janice Martin

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The Importance of Correct Farriery... - con’t from page 3mechanics to each foot. The foot is trimmed in approximate proportions

on either side of the widest part of the foot, which provides biomechanical ef-ficiency. Lastly, one should trim the palmar section of the foot to the base of the frog or trim such that the heels of the hoof capsule and the frog are on the same plane. Adherence to this guideline keeps the soft tissue structures (frog, digital cushion, ungula cartilages) with-in the hoof capsule, which are necessary to absorb concussion and dissipate the energy of impact. We must remember that heels do not grow tall, they grow forward. If we allow the heels to migrate forward, the soft tissue structures will be forced backward out of the hoof capsule. Fur-thermore, as the heels migrate forward, the weight is placed on the bone and lamellae, thus bypassing the soft tis-

sue structures of the foot. Allowing the heels to migrate forward also decreases the ground surface of the foot. An ex-ample of this guideline is shown in

Figures 4A & 4B, where the palmar foot was trimmed appropriately and a size larger shoe was applied to properly distribute the weight. These three guidelines can be applied to any foot and they serve as a basis for maintain-ing a healthy foot and a basic start-ing point for ap-plying farriery to

a horse with poor foot conformation or one with a distorted hoof capsule. Fig-ures 5A & 5B will illustrate a hoof where

all three of these guidelines have been applied. Many horses are given a rest from competition, which includes their feet, following a heavy competition load such as Welling-ton’s Winter Eques-trian Festival. Many horses arrive with very reasonable foot conformation, but upon arrival the farriery can change and many horses are shod with vari-ous specialty shoes, wedges, pads, pour-ins, etc. as a means of protection, and perhaps, to enhance their performance. As the season progresses and the workload increases, the sole thickness starts to decrease and the feet become

softer from multi-ple baths; now the farriery that was applied for protec-tion may be caus-ing pressure on the thinner, softer structures of the foot, thus becom-ing somewhat det-rimental. Further-more, the horses continue to be trimmed and shod on a monthly basis and the change in the integrity of the hoof structures

without investigating can cause horses to be over-trimmed. Additionally, as the season starts into March, the structures

of the foot deteriorate further as a result of the workload, and many horses be-come foot sore. At this point, the farrier options are limited because they may have been used at the beginning of the season. Luckily, Palm Beach Equine Clinic offers a farriery consultation service to both veterinarians and farriers. This unique service provides a second opin-ion or ‘another set of eyes’ to both pro-fessions when treating difficult farriery cases for ideas on other options to help these foot sore horses. Palm Beach Equine Clinic provides experience, knowledge, availability, and the very best care for its clients. To find out more, please visit www.equine-clinic.com or call 561-793-1599. “Like” Palm Beach Equine Clinic on Face-book to follow along on what happens in Wellington and more, and get news from their Twitter!

Figure 2 (left). Dotted line shows the bony alignment of the digit. Grey line shows the straight hoof-pastern axis. Figure 3 (right). Black line is the widest part of the foot and the dotted line shows the heels trimmed to the base of the frog.

Figure 4A (left). Foot where heels have migrated forward and circle show the soft tissue structures displaced out of the hoof capsule and thickened. Figure 4B (right). Show the same foot after the heels have been trimmed and a larger shoe has been applied.

Figure 5A (left). Foot shows the 3 guidelines applied to the foot. Note the proportions on either side of the widest part (black line) of the foot. Figure 5B (right). Shows the length of the shoe and the wide expanse of the shoe creating a platform under the foot.

News - con’t from page 4conditioning, a patternclass and com-bined trail class. The top-10 competitors will then compete in the freestyle finals. Tickets and event information about the Extreme Mustang Makeover are avail-able at http://extrememustangmake-over.com/events/massachusetts/. Mustangs competing in the Extreme Mustang Makeover will be available for adoption through an adoption auction on June 17. Adpotion fees will be set by competitive bid. To qualify to adopt, in-dividuals must be at least 18 with no re-cord of animal abuse. In addition adopt-ers must have suitable facilities and can adopt no more than four animals. Adop-tion applications will be approved on site by the BLM during the event. The Extreme Mustang Makeover are made possible through a partnership with the BLM and generosity of spon-sors Western Horseman, Ram Rodeo, Vetericyn, Martin Saddlery and Classic Equine, Resistol, and RIDE TV.

About the Mustang Heritage Foundation The Mustang Heritage Foundation

is a 501 (c)(3) public, charitable, nonproft organization dedicated to facilitaing suc-cessful adoptions for America’s excess mustangs and burros. Extreme Mustang Makeovers are designed to showcase the recognized value of mustangs through national training competition. The Mus-tang heritage Foundation is celebrated its 10th Anniverary of the Ectreme Mustang Makeover in 2016. Train, adopt or attend to show your support for the American Mustang. For more information, visit http://www.mustangheritagefounda-tion.org.

Final Jack Frost Jubilee Horse Show in Series to be Held March 12th! The final show of the 2016-2017 Jack Frost Jubilee Winter Fun Show Series will be held at Crescendo Training Cen-tre, LLC in Ephrata, PA on March 12th, 2017. The series has been extremely well

attended this series, with hav-ing had to run some Dressage on Saturday nights to get all the rides in! The show offers many dif-ferent disciplines including: Dressage and Western Dres-sage, Showmanship, Western Horsemanship and Pleasure, Hunter Over Fences, Eng-lish Equitation and Pleasure, Ranch Horse Pleasure, Games and Gymkhana. Our Sponsors that make this series possible are: Gold Sponsor; The Barnes and Beck Financial Consulting Group of Wells Fargo Advi-sors, Silver Sponsors: Eph-rata Agway and Tamara Ho-gan Attorney at Law, Bronze Sponsor: PA Morgan Horse Club. Other advertisers and sponsors include Hess Mills, Chesapeake Enterprises and Long’s Chiropractic. The series includes one show per month, November through March. Katie

Weagley was the judge for the January show and featured 55 Dressage rides, 67 Hunter Over Fences trips, 57 Gymkhana entries with 37 riders on 34 horses. Feb-ruary’s show was judged on Feb 12th by Darcy Miller of Cochranville, PA with Alexis Liskey of Newmanstown, PA judging the hunters. February featured 63 dressage rides, 80 Hunter Over Fenc-es trips and 40 Gymkhana goes with 44 riders on 50 horses. March’s show will be held on the 12th and is to be adjudi-cated by Alexis Liskey. Winners at the shows will earn points towards the fabulous Series-end awards to be awarded at the final show of the series on March 12, 2017. Series end awards will be awarded at the March show to those winners who are present. Anyone earning an award that is not at the March show will not receive their award. Instead, the award will be given to the next highest point winner who is present. These fabulous awards will be awarded to third place in each di-vision. Sarah Duclos Dressage is spon-soring special awards for the high score average winners in the Dressage and Western Dressage Divisions. High Point Standings for Jack Frost Jubilee Open Show Series as of 2/12/17:Leadline: Champion: Emily Robin-son—Napolean Dynamite—18 points, Reserve: Ben Gruber—Royal Chaos--5 points. Dressage: Champion: O’Riley Rock-et—Wendy Bowles of Lewistown, PA--83 points, Reserve: Levi Smartchic+/-

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-Teresa Grogan of Ephrata, PA—81 points, 3rd: EAF Kidmann+/--Brooke Keeney of Airville, PA—80 points. Western: Champion: Levi Smartchic+/--Teresa Grogan of Ephrata, PA--131 points, Reserve: EAF Kidmann+/--Brooke Keeney of Airville, PA—130 points, 3rd: Naaquinos San Peppy--Gin-ny Myers of Enola, PA--48 points. Over Fences: My Quest—Jess Con-fer of Birdsboro, PA--152 points, Reserve: O’Riley Rocket—Wendy Bowles of Lew-istown, PA --119 points, 3rd: Morgann’s Power—Morgan DiaGiosia of Birdsboro, PA with 95 points. English: Champion: O’Riley Rock-et—Wendy Bowles of Lewistown, PA --93 points, Reserve: Crescendos Alle-gro—Kylie Hodge with 67 points, 3rd: Copper Creek—Megan Vance of Sinking Spring, PA--66 points. Walk-trot/jog: Champion: Wild Ros-es— Megan Vance of Sinking Spring, PA --208 points, Reserve: Big Stars Design—Dustin Bowles of Lewistown, PA--195 points, 3rd: Im A Showtime Dude—Val-erie Purretta--91 points Gymkhana: Champion: Rachel Ga-gliardi of Willow Street, PA--Hammer-112 points, Reserve: EAF Kidmann+/--Brooke Keeney of Airville, PA--111 points, 3rd: 3rd: Copper Creek-- Megan Vance of Sinking Spring, PA —80 points. Overall: Champion: EAF Kidmann+/--Brooke Keeney of Airville, PA--337 points, Reserve: O’Riley Rock-et—Wendy Bowles of Lewistown, PA --305 points, 3rd: Copper Creek-- Megan Vance of Sinking Spring, PA —276 points. High Score Average Dressage: Champion: Landsdowne--Rebecca Danko—54.688%, Reserve: O’Riley Rock-et—Wendy Bowles—51.511%, 3rd: Bel

Sole—Josephine Sedgley—44.023%. High Score Average Western Dres-sage: Champion: EAF Kidmann+/--Brooke Keeney of Airville, PA—60.203%, Reserve: Levi Smartchic+/--Teresa Gro-gan of Ephrata, PA—59.607%, 3rd: Visari AF—Kriss Phelps—58.367%. Lowest two scores for the series after entering March’s scores will be dropped to calcu-late the final standings. Classes will be held indoors at 288 S. Fairmount Road, Ephrata, PA 17522. The jumping classes will be help outdoors, weather permitting, and if so, then the games and gymkhana will be held si-multaneously in the indoor to shorten the day for all! For more information on the show or sponsorships, please con-tact Show Manager, Kriss Phelps at 717-475-3047 or email: CrescendoTraining@gmail.com.

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