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Presenting HGF's 2014 "TEAM 70"
The following riders and HGF-bred horses have achieved over 70% at their various levels in rated Dressage competitions in 2013. We congratulate our Team 70 for their accomplishments and look forward to their successes in 2014! Daniel Martin Dockx and Vaquero HGF--FEI 6 Year Old Test Nicholas Fyffe and Fiero HGF--FEI 5 Year Old Test Christina Arrington and Decente HGF--USDF First Level Annie Morris and Icaro HGF--USDF Second Level Alexandra Meghi and Iliado HGF--Canada First Level Rachel Chowanec and Idolo Americano--USDF Third Level Andrea Landis and Brioso HGF--USDF 4 Year Old Test Maria Lithander and Cocota HGF--Training Level
Where Are They Now: Icaro HGF and Annie Morris
Annie Morris is a young professional from Connecticut. In 2010, Annie was chosen by the Dressage Foundation from the country's top Young Riders to be one of the Olympic Dream Program participants and travel to Germany to meet and observe top international trainers in our sport. "Annie has been riding since she was six, and focusing on Dressage almost immediately. She grew up in Arizona, working with many different types of horses including her own Arabian gelding that she got at age four and trained herself through Grand Prix. She has competed through Prix St. George and has received her silver medal. She also is a certified USDF Instructor through 4th level. Annie has been training with Lendon Gray for the last three and a half years, arriving in New York as a working student but now as an assistant trainer and the barn manager of HW Dressage (formerly Gleneden Dressage). She’s ridden in clinics with several amazing teachers including Lilo Fore, Debbie McDonald and Conrad Schumacher and plans to become an international quality trainer."(http://www.dressagefoundation.org/Olympic_Dream_2010.htm ) In 2009, Annie became the owner of Icaro HGF, at that time a newly started three year old gelding son of Idilio out of Candela. Like his sire, Icaro is tall and impressive, with expansive gaits and a good mind for the work. Annie has this to say about their progress: "Icaro is doing very well. He loves living here in CT, he lives outside in a huge lush pasture. I have been riding him with Beth Baumert and Lendon frequently and he is really growing up and finding his balance better and better. I am enjoying him andtogether we are learning a lot. This yearI am hoping to bring him to someclinics and attend some shows just to get him out of the barn and see what somejudges or other prefessionals think of him. In any caseI really adore him and am looking forward to a great summer with him!" Icaro is Annie's first PRE and we are excited to see where they will go together.
Cloverlea Dressage LLC in Columbia, Connecticut is starting to look very Spanish!
Cloverlea Dressage LLC in Columbia, Connecticut is starting to look very Spanish! Cloverlea owner Beth Baumert's first significant interaction with the PRE Horse was in the form of Embrujado XI, who came from Hampton Green Farm and is currently owned by Lendon Gray and ridden by Rachel Chowanec. Rachel and Embrujado XI joined Cloverlea Dressage in 2009 and brought the PRE spirit with them! He has a beautiful mind and a fabulous body. The greatest challenge is that he give only 100 percent so that he retains his fabulous rhythm and swing. He is always so eager to give more! What a wonderful problem! There is nothing he can not do well! Annie Morris, assistant trainer at Cloverlea Farm, also has a wonderful 5-year-old PRE gelding, Icaro from Hampton Green Farm. As Icaro gets stronger, he is showing us glimpses of greatness, which is very exciting. And three's a charm. Also from Hampton Green Farm, Beth is the proud owner of a 4-year-old mare, Descarada (aka Dixie). She has a wonderful disposition and three beautiful gaits that she is developing through happy work in the fields and over poles. Rachel is Dixie's primary rider, and Annie rides her too. Dixie has a bright future ahead in dressage. Beth and her husband Alan have owned Cloverlea Dressage for 38 years. They have two sons who live in New York City and Silver Spring, MD. Their daughter Jennifer Baumert operates Cloverlea Dressage LLC in North Carolina and Loxahatchee, Florida. Beth's primary interest has always been education. She is a USDF Certified Instructor through Fourth Level and a USDF judges program “L” graduate with distinction. For many years, she produced videos of the Aachen Dressage Show and other instructional videos so American dressage riders could aspire to the European standard. Beth served as the technical editor for Dressage Today magazine for more than sixteen years. In that capacity, she was in constant contact with the best dressage riders in the world as they told her their viewpoints on technical aspects of the sport. Beth is on the Board of Directors of The Dressage Foundation (TDF) and has administered the TDF Young Rider Olympic Dream Program since 2000.
HGF at Dressage at Devon
We are quite happy to be back from our week in Devon. Ana and Will put four 3 year old colts on the truck early Monday morning and made the 15 hour drive to the historic showgrounds. In tow were Icono and Genio, Martin Schaudt's two colts who are leaving HGF for the first and last time. Following the show, they were picked up by a van for Dutta Corp and taken to Rigby Farms for quarantine prior to travel to Martin's farm outside of Stuttgardt, Germany. Also leaving the farm for the last time was Icaro--on his way to Glenedon, Lendon Gray's farm, and to his new owner Annie Morris, one of Lendon's students and riders. The fourth colt, Decoroso, was the only horse to return back to Michigan following the show. Its hard to say good-bye to these young horses that we have lived with and into whom we have put so much in their early years, but not so hard when we know they are going to riders such as these and their wonderful new homes.The Breed Show at Devon was very competitive. Firstly, Devon is best categorized as a warmblood breed show, and those horses that vary from the conformational type and movement norms of warmbloods often suffer in scores. Secondly, the nation's top young warmblood stock is always there in every class to represent the leading sport horse breeding farms of the US. And thirdly, the majority of the farms represented are from the North East region and many are able to bring their horses in and take them home daily.We ended showing on the day following the horses' long and grueling ride, and our young horses did their best in spite of their exhaustion. We finished up placing in the large 3 Year Old Colts and Geldings class--a Fifth Place for Decoroso and a Sixth for Icono. Later in the evening, following a 2 hour delay, poor Decy decided we'd asked enough of him and refused to trot in the Eastern Region GAIG Championship, but we weren't in the least disappointed. We were happy to again bring home ribbons from Devon--we were the only non-warmbloods in the class and we represented the PRE breed with dignity!On Thursday, we were happy to compete in the inaugural USPRE Breed Class. Although there were only three of us in the class, we made a new friend--Susan Holtz and her lovely Brujo--and we garnered quite a bit of attention with our horses' extravagant movement. Icono took first place, with Genio and Brujo following close behind. We hope to continue to promote this class at Devon, for no other reason than that the PRE Horse must be represented among the Sport Horse breeds. Many other handsome breeds were represented in their respective classes, however the PRE horse is the only non-warmblood breed that has represented its country on an international dressage team and the only breed to bring home Olympic Dressage Team Silver. We will continue to encourage the riders and breeders of PREs to participate in this prestigious show.Our thanks again to expert handler Tom Reed, who ran quietly and showed the horses brilliantly without yelling, chasers or mayhem. Also, we were happy to have the assistance of summer intern Brianna Lemson-Ibarra, who filled in everywhere we needed her.And now our thoughts turn to warmer climes . . . Photo Credits: Hoof Prints