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The European Championships!
Grandioso and Jose Daniel Martin Dockx are there to represent Spain. For news and updates, see the Hampton Green Forum group on Facebook.
Important June Dates:
June 14-16 Dressage at Waterloo June 21-22 Emerging Dressage Athlete Clinic (EDAP) June 23 Lendon Youth Dressage Festival Midwest June 26-30 Dressage at CHIO Aachen Check our Facebook Group (Hampton Green Forum) for updates on these shows and our riders.
Miscellaneous.....
The last few weeks have been a blur. Now that Courtney has made distinct steps toward consciousness and is in the early stages of response and communication, we have been overwhelmed with relief! All other "news items" just don't have the same importance... but here are some miscellaneous little bits of information that may or may not constitute real "news": Congratulations to Chelsea Reed on her first Dressage test on Lentisco, and for winning the First Level, test 4, with over 65%. We are so thankful to learn that ANCCE official Manolo Gonzalez is recovering well from his scooter accident in Sevilla. Congratulations to Lily Zilo on the arrival of her new PRE from Spain! We have learned that David and Ulla Sonshein will be taking Iliado home to Ontario in about two weeks, where he'll be boarded at Belinda Trussell's barn. Congratulations to Maureen and Cludies Sharp on their recent purchase of Graciosa and Menina, two fabulous fillies from sires Idilio and Grandioso. They are starting their new breeding business with the best of HGF bloodlines. For those of you on Facebook, we've started a new HGF Group called Hampton Green Forum, a place for conversations, photos, videos and more. Check it out. Former YR star, Krystalann Shingler looked super on Camaron at the Challenge of the Americas. Krystalann, who has been competing her Small Tour horse Tividor in the CDIs since last year, rode Camaron on the Canadian Team for the Challenge. This is Camaron's 2nd Challenge, and he looked like an old pro out there, along with Dr. Kohl and Jazmin who dazzled in the Ice Dancing with Horses performance. It looks like last month's Wellington visit by David De Wispelaere and Patrick Roggenbau is resulting in a Michigan clinic in July--hosted by Sheila Murdoch at Jubilee Farm, and including a dinner and party at HGF. Stay tuned for more details.... We've been in touch with Ana Gilmour down in Texas and she sounds extremely busy and happy. She has more than enough work with the large group of lovely young horses and also riding horses owned by USPRE Board Member Marianne Lattimore, who we hear is building the most incredible covered arena in all of Texas! Be sure to keep checking the USPRE website (www.usprea.com) for news about the upcoming summer events--revisions in your area and USPRE High Point and Breed Awards at shows across the country. We are especially pleased with the planning and organization of Erin Lohec and Betsy Ketcham as they've put together a terrific series of High Point Challenges at Dressage and breed shows in both Southern and Northern California. We extend our thanks again to all of you who have written Courtney and have sent their love and support. The outpouring has overwhelmed her family and friends, and they have recorded every letter into a notebook, which we now know she will read some day! For those of you who would like to send her a note, you may do so at comebackcourt@gmail.com.
Courtney Dye Visits HGF and Grandioso
We were thrilled to have a visit from Courtney and her husband Jason last weekend at the Michigan farm. Courtney had spent the morning with the US Team as they made final preparations for WEG, and then flew into Grand Rapids on Friday evening. She had not been to the farm for a year, and more importantly she had not seen Grandioso since her riding accident in March. Her visit was intended to be low-key and more of a show-and-tell than a formal clinic, but Courtney asked for the microphone during the first ride of one of our young horses and began to teach just as she has done so many times before at HGF. Maria Lithander rode four horses for her on Saturday, and three rides on Sunday. Additionally we worked several of the colts and fillies whose progress Courtney has followed since they were weanlings. Courtney's first priority was to see Grandioso and his work with Maria, who has been keeping him tuned since the horse came back to us from Courtney's barn in mid-March. She coached Maria through all of the Grand Prix work, and she was very happy to see that the horse had not lost anything in the time she has been off of him, and that he was relaxed and happy in all his work under the interim rider. Grandioso also appeared extremely pleased to see Courtney again--in a stallion kind of way--and we had to make sure that he didn't knock her off her feet with affection!Courtney has informed us of her plans to go to Wellington this winter, to assist Jen Marchand with the training of all of the horses in Courtney's program and also with the hopes of starting to ride again at some point over the winter. She also will be overseeing the training of Grandioso until the point that she can take the reins again herself. But her main occupation will remain her road to recovery, and she is fortunate to have Jason to keep her on-track and focused with all the distraction of her enthusiasm for getting back around the horses!On another note, it's WEG week and we are there! If you are unable to attend, find the Hampton Green Forum on Facebook and follow along with us as we post our experiences and impressions. And as much as we love and support our US Team, we are also fans of the wonderful Spanish horses who are coming--Fuego, Norte and Gnidium--and we'll be watching them and wishing them all good luck in the games!