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Student News
Awesome Job by the MME Team at the Combined Test
Erica, Nikole, Kristin, and Sydney all had a great day at the combined test schooling show recently. We came home with blues, reds, yellows--lots of ribbons!!
Student Success at Majestic Farms
Miranda and Nikole had a great day at Majestic Farm's dressage schooling show!! And we're so excited that Miranda came home with two beautiful red ribbons and great scores!
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News and Events
Poplar Place Results
The last weekend in March the boys and I headed back down to Georgia for Poplar Place's spring trial. The weather was quite rainy: Friday's dressage was soggy and got postponed mid-way thru the day for a couple of hours. Saturday ended up getting completely cancelled for the day. So on Sunday, Poplar management ran both jumping phases for all levels (BN-A,* and **)!! They did a great job of getting all those horses thru, even tho it was a long day. Finn had a very educational run: he's not a fan of deep, wet footing, but he gave it his all with just one run-out at a corner. I was very happy with him and he learned a lot. Deke had a great run in OI and finished in 3rd place after a double clear SJ round and clear jumping on XC. We elected to go a bit slow on XC because of the wet footing, but he handled everything very well and I'm very happy with him. And ol' Scotch got to go: I haven't run him in a couple of years and he's just done one BN and one N with students since he and I quit competing together. He had a blast running Training--it was like he'd never left! He came home with a nice purple ribbon after finishing on his dressage score.
Finn Has a Successful Rocking Horse Spring
Finn was super in his second run at Preliminary--finishing in first place at Spring Rocking Horse just before we headed back home! His first blue ribbon; and he won his first saddle pad!!
Deacon Makes the Move to Intermediate
While in Ocala, Deacon moved up to Intermediate. He had great runs both times--finishing in first place in his first I run!
Year
End Awards
Deacon and Melissa have a great 2008, finishing the year on a high note. Deacon wins the USEA's 2008 Preliminary Horse of the Year Award and Melissa wins the Young Adult Preliminary Rider award. 2008 was a super year for Deacon, he finished up the competition year by winning the CCI* Long Format at Hagyard Midsouth, winning beautiful wool coolers for the USEF CCI* Champion, CCI* Young Rider Champion, and CCI* J/YR Team Champion with teammates Kyle Smith, Alison Wilaby, and Helen Morris.
Fiona:
Our Newest "Team" Member
Meet Fiona, our little Parson Russell Terrier, a birthday gift for Melissa last fall. She's quite the active barn dog, then comes home and crashes for the rest of the day!! She's a very cute member of the team!