 DAVIS SANDERS HOMES
HIDDEN VALLEY EQUESTRIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Northern Highway, Wallan
Sat. 25th & Sun. 26th January, 2003
Open Hack - Final Round
Highlights - Page 1 |
| Top
10 through from the Preliminary Round |
| WS
Black Label / Caroline Wagner Poise / Francesca Christie
Finest / M.Christie
Opinion / R.Hunt
Sequel / D.Plumb |
Shirvington
/ S.McGuinessState Occasion / M.Bult
Titanic / R.Barry
Dashing / S.Merry
Sanlirra Ambassador /
S.Penny |
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First
out of the top ten finalists
is Poise - ridden by
Francesca Christie.An attractive chestnut
with plenty of white to set off
his beautiful head.
He became the runner-up. |
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State
Occasion the bit Thoroughbred bay - so nicely presented and well ridden by Megan Bult.
A wrong depart at the canter is costly when working out for Champion from such a
quality group of beautiful horses. |
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| Very
often when hacks go over 16.1 or 2, they lose their quality and refinement. No so,
with Sequel - he is stunning, with perfect conformation and lovely flowing paces.
Sequel, who is known as 'Jet' is prepared and shown by the master of the show
ring - Dale Plumb. |
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| Shelley
McGuiness and Shirvington were a pleasure to watch. 'Bobby' (Shirvington) has such
wonderful expression in his movement and is one of the few who could do very well as a
dressage horse. Shelley did an excellent job and showed her skill as a trainer -
congratulations. |
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| Stephen
Merry on the gorgeous Dashing. This horse was ridden by Michael Christie in the
first round and Michael was also aboard when Dashing was recently the winner of the
newcomers class at VASA. Dashing has the nick name 'Rusty'. His trot work was
hard to fault but the canter was a little unsteady and showing his lack of experience.
As mentioned previously - some horses seemed a little uncomfortable with the hard
going. |
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| Stepping
out in 'fine' style is Finest ridden by Michael Christie. Finest is mostly called
Joey and this black/brown gelding has been very successful in the show ring. |
All
of these photos are available in a large file size
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