 DAVIS SANDERS HOMES
HIDDEN VALLEY EQUESTRIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Northern Highway, Wallan
Sat. 25th & Sun. 26th January, 2003
Open Hack - Preliminary Round
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The hacks at Hidden Valley for the 2003 Championships were
positively awesome. It would be difficult to imagine a better group of quality show
horses - anywhere in the world. While there were no notes to be read out in the
Preliminary Round, the commentary that accompanied the presentation of the final ten
confirmed that we were looking at well performed winners from the top shows in the
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Julie
Gittoes from Holbrook in NSW officiated the judging of the hacks in their Preliminary
round. Julie
looked so elegant and certainly complimented the elegance of the horses in her ring. |
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Caroline
Wagner was the first out from the line up. WS Black Label is just new to the Wagner
stable and Caro has certainly clicked with the handsome black gelding. He was purchased about 4 months ago in
Queensland where he was having great success.
They worked as if they had been
together for years - and it would be dificult to find a better presented, more eyecatching
or better manner horse.
I wondered if the judge ageed with me
or if it was my passion for 4 white sox taking over my judgement! |
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Well
performed Titanic and Robyn Barry were next to go. A striking horse with presence to
burn
he worked nicely for his very experienced rider. |
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Poise and
Francesca Christie worked very well and went through with the top 10. |
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Michael
Christie riding Stephen Merry's lovely brown Thoroughbred gelding Dashing.
This horse has been
very successful and has worked well on all of the occasions that I have seen him.
He recently won the
New Season Hack at VASA - so setting the scene for a very successful career in the show
ring. |
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Megan Bult
on her lovey horse State Occasion. I loved Megan's choice of jacket colour - I
thought that it was different and complemented her attractive bay gelding nicely. State Occasion is a striking big horse and he
put in a foot perfect performance. |
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of these photos are available in a large file size
contact Berni on cyberhorse@ozemail.com.au
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