Week 5 - HITS Ocala 2012

• Natalie and Peron: 2nd THIS Natl children's medal. Reserve champion in intermediate eq.
• Natalie and Lagonda: 6th children's hunter classic.
• Chrissa and Romeo: first horse show ever and a blue ribbon in the PostTime Children's hunter under saddle!
• Maddie and Walter moved up to the children's hunter and had some great rounds together. 3rd place under saddle.
• Gabrielle and I've Been Spotted returned to the jumper ring for the first time since Sept and both had a blast in the modified children's division.
• Dory had a super sweet show on Million Dollar Baby with a 2nd, 3rd and 3rd in the Adult Mod Hunter, and  6th in the Bit O Straw Classic.
• Mattie's first show on Learning to Fly. Showing in the modified children's hunter earned 2nd place over fences. Moved up to the novice children's equitation and took 1st, 4th, and 6th over fences (GSF colors)
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Week 1 - HITS Ocala 2012

The pictures only begin to express it - GSF girls had a great first circuit week in Ocala! Maddie and Walter cleaned up in over three days, including Champion Mod. Child Hunter and 2nd in the Bit O Straw Hunter Classic. Natalie showed Peron in equitation, earning 8th place in the THIS nat'l child. medal, champion int. eq, and res champ mod. eq. She and Lagonda finished 2nd in the Children's Hunter Classic, after Lagonda showed brilliantly in the High Pre-green hunter, including a first place ribbon in steep competition. Further, Cam premiered on her new mount, Million Dollar Baby, and had top scores in the 11& under equitation (2nd, 3rd, 3rd, and 5th), as well as ribbons in the 2'6" HITS hunter, including a 3rd place in the M&S class! Way to go Cam! Looking forward to seeing you back next week!

Photos by Sully Shave.

News!!

Other exciting news! Nicole is returning to Gem Stone! She is moving back from Germany and will be in OH with her mare in quarantine for a couple weeks. Then she will be back with us! Woo hoo!!

Gem Stone Farm South - Ocala

Last week the horses arrived well on Monday. On Tuesday, Max and Aladdin went to the Sanctuary for swimming and Koda did his aqua tread. The other horses spent some time lunging in the pessoa in the field. Wednesday was a rain day. Thursday I flatted everyone and got them used to being outside again. They were happy and pretty fresh! Payton got some good jump schools in over the weekend. Koda and Al are working on their conditioning on the slopes and in the field over the weekend. All the horses are loving all the turn out time. They are actually hanging out at the fence staring at me right now wanting to come in. Silly horses. It's beautiful out! 

This Tuesday Payton, Max and Prince went over to the show. They showed on Wed and Thursday. It's been a long time for all of us since we have been in the show ring. They were all very good and settled in nicely. Koda, Al and Max had Tuesday at the Sanctuary again for their water conditioning. It was really hot until last night. We had some rain and today is 70 and breezy. Koda came over to the show on Thursday. I flatted him in the grand prix ring. He thought that was really cool. Prince and Payton have  a few well deserved days off over this weekend. They are tired from the showing and the heat and all the preparatory training last weekend. Al and Koda had a nice work in the field today and worked on poles and caveletti. Same plan for the rest of the weekend.

Lagonda and Walter had a great premier in Ocala during pre-circuit, earning ribbons in the pre-green hunter and green working hunter, respectively. Peron was happy to return to the show grounds and showed a bit in both the hunter and jumper rings impressively.

Back to the show on Tuesday. Looking forward to Collin, Tyson and Leo's arrival on Wednesday and the Shaves and Robbins on Thursday!!

Congrats to Chrissa!

Congratulations to Chrissa Alghini on her lease of Romeo. Thank you to Renee Cipriano and Catherine Merrill.