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News
Saddlebred Australia Newsletter
Saddlebred Australia is the official publication of the American Saddlebred and Sporthorse Registries of Australasia. Check out their latest newsletter, packed with news, show results, fascinating facts, and much more!!
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NASHS Newsletter
Australia’s National American Saddlebred Horse Society is dedicated to the preservation of the original imported bloodlines and the continuance of Australia’s Saddlebred heritage. Check out the NASHS’s newsletter (below) to see Saddlebreds being used in various disciplines (especially eventing!). For more Australian Saddlebred news (with many great pictures!), go to Bloomsbury Stud’s Blog.
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Virtuoso – UPDATED!
I found Virtuoso on Equine.com in August of 2004. He was only four years old then, broke to be ridden. Today, we are great partners, and he is a favorite horse of both the vet and the farrier.
Virtuoso is a very busy horse as we ride together almost daily. I take dressage lessons, and we often participate in dressage schooling shows within 100 miles of our barn. Virtuoso is a good student, and he always tries very hard to do his best. Sometimes we bring a ribbon home from the show, and sometimes we don’t. But we always have fun and get a lot of compliments; he is a gorgeous horse !
We also do a lot trail riding. We have completed many timed trail rides with the Yadkin Valley Hunt Club in Advance, NC, where we’ve earned blue ribbons. Virtuoso is a great horse with a good brain and a big heart.
He will be my partner for the rest of life – – his or mine 🙂 !
Radka H.
North Carolina
Photos above: Virtuoso and Radka competing at the Yadkin Vally Hunt club. Both photos were taken by Christie Snyder of High Time Photography.
UPDATE Photos below: Virtuoso and Radka at a September 11, 2010, dressage show. They earned 63% on both tests – Training 3 and 4!
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Photos below: In February, 2010, Virtuoso and Radka scored in the low 60’s at Training Tests 1 and 2. By July, they were showing Training Tests 3 and 4, with scores in the low 60’s.
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William Pendleton
We bought “William” at the Saddlebred sale at Tattersalls when he had just turned two years old. My plan initially was to gait him and show him saddle seat, but he was so much happier with a plain snaffle and working in a lower frame that I began preparing him to show hunt seat instead. His four year old year, he earned his first blue ribbon in the second class we entered, and although I find it difficult to set aside time and money to compete these days, we keep in show shape schooling basic dressage. William has excellent breeding and was an embryo transplant foal from a large breeding farm. His half brothers and sisters are winners at the biggest Saddlebred shows in the country, but William Pendleton is happy galloping through the cornfields at our family farm. There aren’t many prettier personal riding horses out there.
Brita B. a.k.a. “SmartAlex”
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Thank you to Brita for this news.
Poizen Premier
Owned and bred by Julie Lynn Andrew of Bryn Dewines Farm, Poizen Premier (known as “BZ” around the barn) is out of Phun in the Sun, and sired by Preferred Poizen. BZ is enjoying his job teaching and instilling confidence to several riders. Lillian, BZ’s caretaker, says about BZ “He takes good care of Alexa and she has even been able to go over some real jumps this summer thanks to his care. She’s gone with me a couple times to the eventing barn to school with their trainer and she’s had her jumping small coops, brush boxes, gates, and walls. The trainer there thinks BZ is fabulous. She says he’s so honest and careful of his rider. The other lady I let ride Beez is a very timid adult rider. She was able to do her first show ever on him. (She’s in the photo with the blue shirt.) Anyone I let on him, loves him.”
Preferred Poizen
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Thank you to Lillian for this news.
Willoughby Wallaby Woo
Willoughby Wallaby Woo, with Hilda Gurney judging, placed third with a score of 70.3% at Dressage at Devon, in 2003. Willoughby is owned by Julie Lynn Andrew of Bryn Dewines Farm, and is shown being ridden by working student Ashley Rafferty.
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Rafferty
Spirit
Spirit, sired by Borealis and out of a National Show Horse mare, turned three years old on April 24, 2010. Amy, Spirit’s owner/rider, tells us “I long lined him as a 2 yo, and in these pics he has only been under saddle 9 times! He is about 16H, super intelligent and constantly needs interaction and mental challenges! He bathes, clips, loads and hauls great, is great for the farrier and vet. He is beautiful mover.”
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Below: Spirit and Amy
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Thank you to Amy for this news.
National Show Horse mare!
Borealis
Borealis (“Bo”) is the notable American Saddlebred stallion who, in 2003, set the record for his breed, in front of Olympian, and Olympic level judge, Hilda Gurney, with a score of 78%.
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To read more about Spirit, please click here.
Forty Something and Harry Callahahn Featured In 25th Edition of The Saddlebred
Chrissa Hoffmann and Forty Something, were invited to participate in a photo shoot, for the 25th edition of The Saddlebred, a book produced and written by Judy Oetinger, of Prospect, KY. Both Saddlebreds, Harry Callahahn and Forty Something, trained and shown by Chrissa are featured. Harry Callahan was trained and shown successfully to Grand Prix and Forty Something now to Prix St Georges! Both Saddlebreds, to date, are the highest scoring saddlebreds competing at the FEI levles of dressage! Photograph taken by Todd Buchanan, a professional equine photographer of MN. Book will be binded and ready for WEG 2010!
Thank you to Chrissa Hoffmann for this news.
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