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This hunter pace was Cachez’ debut at the sport, ridden by Marisa. Stella Goulet and her very successful event horse Giselle, were the escorts and mentors. After a bit of nerves at the start, once going the pair was fantastic, picking up a 2nd out of 26 teams! Congratulations to all. Yay Cachez!

Fall is definitely hunter pace time! And a 1st place went to our own trio at this outing – Eleni Econopouly rode her horse May, Giulia Cohen rode Schoolmaster Simply Simon, and Marisa Melby, a Trainer/Instructor at Cricket Hill, rode Schoolmaster Quincy. A great time was had by all!

Our 2009 Horsemanship Camp was all about our riders progressing through the GoldStar modules.  It was a lot of learning, and also a lot of fun!  Congratulations to Alexandra, Anna, Claire, and Sophia for successfully completing GoldStar I and II!

 

Also congratulations to Tess for completing her GoldStar II and GoldStar III modules!

And finally, a big congratulations to Allegra, Martha, and Meg on completing their GoldStar III modules!

The girls were all excellent and worked well with each other to accomplish each of their goals. Overall, we would say camp this year was a success! Click for more on our GoldStar program.

Although the trees were still leafing out, the grass was green and it was shirt-sleeve weather!  12 enthusiastic jumpers vied in “Take Your Own Line”. Amazingly, Giulia on 14.2 Simon tied Lise on 17.0 Ali! The bonnets were very inventive this year, and the egg races brought on the usual cheering section. Three GoldStar certificates were awarded for work over the winter: Caitlin- GS III, Giulia and Tasha- GS IV. For the first time, we offered a Parent/Child obstacle relay race and had three heats:

Caitlin & father Tom, Allegra & mom Bridget, Tess & mom Anne (shown here), Stuart & daughter Dani (pictured with Anne), Stuart with other daughter Paige, Alexandra & dad Nick. Tess and Anne just beat out Allegra & Bridget for the blue! Dressage was popular, too, and Palmer had the chance to show her new talented Hanoverian mare, Wizzi, for the first time. Sofia received the Horsemanship Award; even with a broken arm, she was busy all day, managing the ribbon desk and cheering everyone on, shown below awarding her twin sister Alexandra, her own blue ribbon. 

Congratulations to Caitlin on achieving GoldStar III, and to Ruby who just completed GoldStar I! Both are members of Saddle Club, where they can work on their GoldStar program every week. Now, it’s on to the next module – have fun! Click for more on our GoldStar program.

Congratulations to both Giulia and Tasha who completed all the requirements for GoldStar IV ! These are the first two students to have passed this Dressage module. In addition to the first four GoldStar modules, Giulia and Tasha also completed ShootingStar I, the first of two modules for Jumping, during Horsemanship Camp last summer. Keep up the good work!