Chesapeake Sport Horse Blog

Thank God my horse loves the indoor at Williamston!! Good to know!

2009 NCDCTA Harvest Moon Dressage Show     NCDCTA Harvest Moon Dressage Announces RESULTS ARE POSTED!   Thank you all for coming to the show!   Full Results – please click HERE.   You will find the complete show results at the above link – including the 2009 NCDCTA Dressage Championships, the Pro-Am Team Challenge and Show High Scores.    A slideshow from the show can be found at www.ncdcta.org – click on the Harvest Moon Graphic in the rotating series for the slideshow! THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS!   WNC Photo – NCDCTA Championship Sponsor  Far Out Graphics – Packet Sponsor Martin County Travel & Tourism – Packet Sponsor Dover Saddlery – High Scores Sponsor Sidelines Magazine – Prize Sponsor NCDCTA – NCDCTA Pro-Am Team Challenge Sponsor Chesapeake Sport Horses – Breakfast in the Barns Sponsor Basingstoke Web Designs – Hospitality Sponsor Pizza Hut – 252 792-1036 – Hospitality Sponsor Deadwood Restaurant – Volunteer/Worker Sponsor Mama’s Pizza – 252 792-7055 – Volunteer/Worker Sponsor SilverLeaf Farm – Best Turned-Out Rider Award Sponsor Wits End Tack – Dressage Seat Equitation Sponsor Karen Brame – Red Letter Farm – Training Level Sponsor Sporting Services – First Level Sponsor Encore Sport Horse – Second Level Sponsor McDevitt-Sotheby’s Internatonal Realty – Third Level Sponsor Sandhills Dressage – Andrea Ruting – Prix St. Georges Level Sponsor    THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL STAFF & OFFICIALS! A Dressage Show’s staff will make or break the show – I am very pleased to say that the 2009 NCDCTA Harvest Moon Dressage Show had the BEST staff and officals of any show, anywhere!   THANK YOU TO NCDCTA! NCDCTA’s support makes this show possible. Jennifer Mitchell, Sue Smithson, Suzanne Mullin, Diane LeFrevre, Dave Stuckey are among the standouts in this fine organization.   2010!   The 2010 NCDCTA Harvest Moon Dressage Show will host the Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 1 Dressage Championships   on November 11 – 14, 2010 at the Senator Bob Martin Agricultural Center in Williamston, NC.   Plan on joining us!   Featuring: the McDevitt-Sotheby’s Welcome Stakes with $4500 in Prize Money AND the $1000 Hat Trick Bonus

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Presqu’ile Lass was a black bay, 15.3hh TB mare. She raced early in her career, then retired to being a broodmare, foaling and raising – Go With The Flow, Girlie, and Genuine among others. Presqu’ile was retired from breeding and foaling for the past decade and appeared to be aging well, and enjoying her life of liesure with her best friend, Wonder, a 38 year old palomino Welsh/Tb cross. She was adopted “Ma” to many of my mares over the years, and “girlfriend” to a few geldings who fancied her as well.

She was tough, she had attitude and class, a floaty mover in the field, admittedly, I never tried to ride her. She got loose on a few people over the years, and pranced around as if she were doing a victory lap. She was a GREAT mother to her babies, and a truly loyal, never nasty friend to her field-mates.

She will be missed. She died of unknown etiology.

I came across this article by Desmond Tutu, and thought I would share it. It’s about global warming and what we can do about it.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/10/column-unity-doomed-apartheid-next-up-climate-change-.html

Inspiring and timely quotes from Dan Millman’s latest newsletter:

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening
than when they are convinced beyond doubt
that they are right.
Sir Laurens van der Post

The trouble with this world is that
the ignorant are certain,
and the intelligent are full of doubt.
George Bernard Shaw

We are scheduled to host a Ryan Wood Clinic here the first weekend of December!! I have really enjoyed working with Ryan over the past several weeks, and look forward to watching him teach a jumping and dressage clinic here. Ryan has already been chosen to ride on the Australian Eventing Team’s A Squad at The World Games in Lexington, KY in June 2010.  He is young but super-talented. He has an easygoing temperament, and the horses seem to love him. This clinic will be appropriate for all levels of riders, you can do dressage and jumping both, or do either-or. To register, please call me (410) 819-8944 or Scott Chipps @ (410) 745-8404.