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August 20,
2008
Whidbey
Island Summer End show.
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Julie and her Malipiero cleaned up at 2nd Level, scoring in the mid-high 60-s and winning a couple of their classes. well done! Congrats.
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Flamenco is such a ladies man and has impeccable taste...
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Laurie & Livi during a relaxed walk around the show grounds.
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too cute for words...
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Livi, Laurie and Peter are contemplating the required movements at 2nd level.
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Our friend and fellow trainer Matt and Deborah's mare Vienna aka Walzerbluete.
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Peter & Eiswein showing a nice uphill canter during their Second Level Test 1.
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Malipiero taking in the sunshine and showing off his gorgeous self to the judges.
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Drambuie during his First Level debut, which resulted in 65% and 5th place.
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Eiswein showing how a proper stretchy circle is done.
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Sandi and her yellow lab Hogie and his beloved chicken.
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Peter & Iggy during their first level performance. They received a dream score of 10 for the 5 second halt from Janet Foy Brown...
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Drambuie and Siggi during their Training Level Test 4 riding for judge Janet Foy Brown, resulting in 66.9% and 3rd place out of 18.
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The girls enjoying the freestyles: Sandi, Laurie, Lynne, Kristin & Siggi.
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This was Vienna's second show - such a good girl.
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August 14,
2008
It's
official, Germany has won the Gold Medal for the Dressage Grand
Prix Team competition. Silver goes to the Netherlands and Bronze
to Denmark. USA placed 4th. Congratulations!
August 12,
2008
The Olympic
Games have started and the 3-Day eventing was the first of three
Olympic equestrian events. Germany won the double Gold
Medal, individual and team. Congrats!!!
August 3,
2008
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saddlepad $50. Longe whip $30. wraps $20. Engagement of Piero provided by Karla PRICELESS :0)
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Emily & Claudius with Karla BEFORE her Lesson.
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Claudius DURING his lesson.
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Emily & Claudius AFTER their lesson :0)
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Molly Martin's Inter I horse, the 8 year old Liberty LHF (For sale)
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Karla with Liberty LHF.
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Karla on board Malipiero.
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Siggi and a baby lion :0)
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Young auditors - precious moment.
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Vienna was the only female contender in the equine division.
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where is my mouse??
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Livi & Laurie showing off their active hindends.
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Professor Livingston following intently the lecture given by Karla to him and his mom.
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Malipiero and fan club.
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Kristin's Iceman with Karla at the Bridle Trails Park arena.
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July 26,
2008
Dressage at
DevonWood. What a show...gorgeous
venue, great weather, stiff competition, nice shopping vendors
and and and...this is definitely a super event and we will be
back for more next year.
The end
result...

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Siggi &
Santero
(for sale)
Santero felt very solid in all his tests, scoring
consistently in the high 60s to mid 70s. Special thanks
to our talented up & coming photographer Kristin :0)
Nice job.
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FEI 5 year
old Test, 2nd place with 68.2% (Friday). Sandra's sandbox buddy
from Germany, Sabine Ense, placed 1st with the same score of
68.2% on her youngster Ardent Pleasure.
First Level
- Test 4, 5th place out of 22 contenders with a score of 68.9% (Friday)
even though the pilot went off course once - winning score was
71.3%
First Level
- Test 4, 2nd place with 66.6% (Saturday) - (winning score was
67.3%)
FEI 5 year
old Test, 1st place with 75% (Sunday), "I" judge Lilo Fore
Sandi & Flamenco
These two
had their First Level debut this weekend and won the High Point
Andalusian Award for the show with their T-4 score of
64.4%. They were awarded a gorgeous plaque by the International
Andalusian Breed Association and showed themselves off during a
victory lap at the High Point award ceremony, turning peoples
heads and putting a smile on their faces...
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
First Level
- Test 1, 5th place with a 56.3% (Friday)
Training
Level - Test 4, 4th place with 64.4% (Friday)
First
Level - Test 1, 55.3% (Saturday) Sandi almost required the
Heimlich maneuver as something got stuck in her throat during
the ride...needless to say her focus was on surviving the test
let alone riding it ;0) but no worries, we were able to fix it
with a sip of water afterwards...
Training
Level - Test 4, 60.4% (Saturday)
First Level
- Test 1, 4th place with a 59% (Sunday) - they were able
to up their percentage by 4 points over the course of the
weekend. 60-s here they come.
Peter & Iggy
We are
super proud of the progress this pair is making at First Level.
The judges absolutely adore Iggy and Peter is doing a great job
showing off his fancy footwork :0). Once we get the canter
work more solid, the scores will go up even more. Way to go.
Keep up the nice work.

First Level
- Test 1, 1st place with 68.7% (Friday)
First Level
- Test 3, 4th place with 64.2% (Friday)
First Level
- Test 1, 4th place with 61.3% (Saturday)
First Level
- Test 3, 2nd place with 63.7% (Saturday)
First Level
- Test 1, 3rd place with 66.3% (Sunday)
Kristin & Iceman
These two
had a solid show after some time off and were obviously enjoying
their time together :0)

Second
Level - Test 4, 4th place with 61.4% (Friday)
Second
Level - Test 4, 5th place with 63.7% (Saturday)
Kristin
decided to scratch her Sunday ride as she wanted to save
Iceman's energy for the upcoming one week boot camp with German
clinician, Karla Spiritus.
Laurie & Livingston
We are
especially happy that Laurie & Livi joined us at the show. They
almost did not because of a last minute stone bruise that
happened during a training session on the day before the show.
Needless to say, we knocked on a lot of wood and treated Livi's
feet with "wonder poultice" and "magic fairy dust" that saved
Iceman in Idaho and voila, Livi was back to soundness Thursday
morning just in time... However, we decided to take it easy with
him and Laurie showed him only once at Second Level - Test 1.
However, she had a blast riding her boy in such an incredible
venue and spending some quality time.
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Laurie making sure that Livi is brushing his teeth
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Second
Level - Test 1, 2nd place with 61.3% (Saturday)
Siggi &
French Kiss
(for sale)
Siggi was
very happy with the performance of this young athlete, who
celebrated his First Level - Test 4 and FEI 5 year old debut at
this show, resulting in solid scores and placing in the top
three of every class he entered.
First Level
- Test 1, 3rd place with 63.3% (Friday)
First Level
- Test 4, 3rd place with 65.5% out of 16 contenders, right
behind Santero, who placed 2nd in that class (the winning score
was 67.3%)
FEI 5 year
old Test, 2nd place with 73.2%, only surpassed by his "barn
brother" Santero, who won the class with 75%.
July 6,
2008
Willy & Jesse
Jesse
showed Pat's 6 year old Oldenburg/Thoroughbred gelding, Willy,
at Intro & Training Level, Test 2 and 4. Willy is known to be a
bit spooky at times but Jesse worked very hard with him for the
past three months and the dedicated work definitely paid off
today.
Willy had
an incredible learning curve & confidence boost during the day.
He started with the Intro A test to get him used to a judges
booth, which he found very scary at first but made up for it
with a solid 2nd half, earning a 55.5%. A couple hours later it
was time to ride the T-2 test, it went already much better and
scored 60.36% and 5th place. During the judges lunch
break, we used the opportunity to school Willy in the
competition arena and get him used to the judges booth with the
scary mock judges Kristin & Siggi. Willy decided it was
not that scary after all and after the lunch break, Jesse &
Willy rode their T-4 test and it went beautifully, earning them
an incredible score of 70.8% and 2nd place!!! We are
especially proud to announce that Willy earned 7+on gaits and
Jesse got a 7 on the rider score. Way to go!!!
Amaroux (The Lucky One) & Siggi
Siggi
showed Sherrie's 6 year old Westfalian gelding Amaroux at First
and Second Level. This was his very first time out in the
show ring. The warm up was First Level - Test 4 and
besides that Amaroux really wanted to jump the cute little white
fencing surrounding the arena, he kept it together for the most
part and scored 68.947% (2nd place) with 8 on gaits & rider. The
next test was Second Level - Test 2. Ami & Siggi implemented the
judges feedback from their first test and were able to up their
score to 69.73%, earning them 1st place.
We could
have not been happier with our two red-heads on their first
outing. Well done!
June 30,
2008
The new boy
in town has arrived. Susan's 7 year old Andalusian gelding,
Hungaro. He arrived in good health Sunday night and seemed
completely unimpressed by the long trip. Susan is super excited,
gave him a bath, new braids and went tack & supply shopping.
Let the journey begin...
Hungaro is
such a cuddle bug and is making new friends (human & equine)
right and left.
June 29,
2008
Last
weekend was the Grand Prix & GP Special and this weekend another
Grand Prix and the GP Freestyle at the Festival of Champions and
the results
are in. The U.S. will be represented in Hong Kong by:
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Steffen Peters (picture left)
on the 10-year Dutch warmblood gelding Ravel (by
Contango x Democraat)
owned by Akiko Yamazaki
Debbie McDonald (picture middle)
on the 17-year old Hanoverian mare Brentina (by Brentano
II x Lungau)
owned by Perry and Peggy Thomas
Courtney King-Dye (picture right)
on the 14-year old Dutch warmblood gelding Harmony's
Mythilus (by Ferro x Purioso)
owned by Harmony Amateur Sport Horses
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You can see in the table below how much each of
the tests counted toward the combined total:

Steffen
Peters & Ravel after very strong performances over the past two
weekends.
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Grand Prix Championships
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Entry #
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Rider
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Grand Prix -
35%
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GP Special -
20%
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Grand Prix -
35%
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GP Freestyle
- 10%
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Combined Total
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533 |
Peters, Steffen |
Ravel |
75.792% |
75.240% |
75.250% |
79.500% |
75.863% |
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McDonald, Debbie |
Brentina |
72.667% |
74.120% |
73.042% |
78.750% |
73.697% |
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King, Courtney |
Harmony's Mythilus |
70.208% |
73.160% |
75.208% |
78.050% |
73.333% |
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King, Courtney |
Idocus |
69.042% |
70.200% |
69.958% |
75.400% |
70.230% |
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Peters, Steffen |
Lombardi 11 |
70.625% |
67.280% |
70.042% |
73.350% |
70.024% |
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Morse, Leslie |
Kingston |
65.458% |
66.920% |
70.333% |
76.400% |
68.551% |
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Blinks, Susan |
Mark |
64.333% |
66.440% |
70.417% |
73.850% |
67.835% |
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Wilcox, Lisa |
Naomi |
63.667% |
65.760% |
68.833% |
67.800% |
66.307% |
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536 |
Williams, George |
Rocher |
66.333% |
65.040% |
65.542% |
69.450% |
66.109% |
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Harrison-Naness, Kristina |
Rociero XV |
64.833% |
66.000% |
65.917% |
67.700% |
65.733% |
and now
after you pretended to be interested in the actual
results...here is the story that you really came for :0)

Eurodressage reports the following:
| Olympic riders
Guenter Seidel and Robert
Dover stripped to
raise money to Help
Send U.S. Dressage Team to
the 2008 Olympics.
The two former Olympians
went bare chest to show off
their Olympic rings tattoos
and raised 80,000$ of a
grand total of 200,000$ with
their Go Go act. The 'A
Salute to Hong Kong'
fundraiser was held Saturday
evening during the final
weekend of the 2008
Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF
Festival of Champions.
"The two riders both have
five Olympic rings tattooed
on their bodies and in an
effort to up the bids for a
portrait session with
photographer Elma Garcia,
"auctioneer" Brian O'Connor
told bidders if they offered
enough cash, Seidel
just might remove his shirt
to show his tattoo,"
photographer Mary
Phelps told
Eurodressage. "Seidel
responded that "no
one over 40 should remove
his shirt in public,"
at which point, fellow
Olympian Robert Dover was
called upon to show his
tattoo causing Jane Clark to
quip, "I'll pay $30,000 to
see this." Dover
responded that he'd take it
off for $50,000 and
that was all it took to set
off a hilarious bidding war.
A compromise was reached
when Garcia offered to do
two portrait sessions and
when two bidders offered
$40,000 a session for a
total of $80,000, Seidel and
Dover disrobed to wild
cheers and a standing
ovation for the two veteran
Olympians who showed good
sportsmanship and a whole
lot more." |
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June 14,
2008
The Benefit
Show at Whidbey Island Equestrian Center - half time results.
Sophie and Siggi got up at 4.30am and went on a 2 hour daytrip
to Coupeville in order to support this weekends show warriors:
Sandi & Menco, Kristin & Iceman and Peter & Eiswein/Iggy.
The
trip was well worth it, as the weather was gorgeous, Team
Cavallis kicked bootie and we saw our friend Laudino, who lives
at Whidbey Equestrian Center since March when his new mom
Lorraine found him with us.
Big
congratulations to Kristin & Sandi, who have qualified their
ponies for the Region 6 USDF and NW Championships for Second and
Training Level respectively. Kristin will now focus on getting
Iceman's feet wet at Third Level and Sandi is going to work on
First Level with Flamenco and maybe qualify her other pony,
Drambuie...

Sandi &
Flamenco won the T-2 class with a 67.8% and placed 3rd with a
solid performance and 66% at T-4. Way to go :0)
Kristin &
Iceman scored 63.8% in their 2-4 class and placed 2nd only to a
drop dead gorgeous black Holsteiner mare (F.D.F Nestle Quick),
that everybody drooled over...
Peter
showed two horses at First Level, his gelding Iggy & his wife's
mare Eiswein. He received two qualifying scores on Iggy at 1-1
and 1-3. He was on track with Eiswein as well, earning 6's
& 7's for the majority of the test, before Eiswein caught sight
of beloved nephew Iggy and her concentration was not the test
any longer but on calling for Iggy instead. Well, tomorrow is
another day.
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