Saturday at Marsh Creek!

Well first of all, it was so fun to see all of our college girls home on break over Thanksgiving! We can't wait to see more of you over the Christmas break!

We had a great time at Marsh Creek this past Saturday. Although it was cold, all the horses behaved wonderfully and each group stayed out for about 2 hours!

The first group consisted of Meredith Holl on Ben, Emily Borowiec on Tucker, Krissy Guthrie on Rosie, Caitlin Hunter on Andy, Cassandra Otis on Emma, and Kristin on Harvey! We were out for two hours, horses were perfect, and we had a blast!

Second group was Gabby Bendall on Early, Marybeth Fennelly on Bella, Shelby Wambold on Comanche, Kelly McEvoy on Doug, and Denise on George! They went down at the end and let the horses splash around in the water. So fun! Check out our pictures from the day!

We will see everyone on Friday at Denise's house for the Banbury Cross Christmas party! Yay!

CCHSA Medal Finals

The CCHSA Medal Finals were held at Wyndsor Farm yesterday. Our day started with Geneva and Doug getting ribbons in the novice equitation division. Then Shelby and Tommy and Sarah and Comanche all performed beautifully in the 14-17 equitation division. Next we had Krissy riding Smitty and Erin on Mojito in the adult eq. division. Both had so much fun and got good ribbons, Erin coming away with Reserve Champion for the division. Krissy and Smitty had an interesting course, adding an obstacle! Krissy was hoping for bonus points but the judge thought otherwise! ha ha!

Then after much waiting, it was time for the Adult Medal Finals. Both Erin and Krissy (pictured above) rode spectaculary over a tricky course with lots of options for striding. Krissy's score held her in the placings for a pretty light blue ribbon. After the second round, and a nail biting placing from last to first was announced, Erin ended up with the second place in the finals! Of course, the girls were #1 and #2 according to us!

Congratulations everyone who participated in the Medal Finals. Congrats to Susie Wetherill for another great horse show! It was another fun show with our wonderful students. Krissy gets the good sportsmanship award for the day!

Updates

Hi Friends! This is just a general update on what we've been up to the last two weekends. The first weekend in November we had a fantastic show at Wyndsor Farm.
Our competitors included Cindy and Jammer, Marybeth and Ben, Barbara and Harvey, Erin and Mojito, Susan Weaver and Bud (showing for the first time together in 8 years!), and Gabby with both Piper and Early. Smitty and Dede even came to play and behaved beautifully! We had a surprise visit from Shelby who was home for the weekend too!
Denise took a crew out to the pace event in Elverson on Sunday and everyone had fun!
This past weekend Denise took the Bendall crew to the horse show at Vince Dugan's in Unionville. Barbara and Harvey and Gabby and Piper cleaned up at the horse show and then they high-tailed it over to the pace event in Unionville for the afternoon! Carter rode Bella, Gabby took Early, and Denise rode Ben and just made it in time to go out. This was Carter's first time out and she loved it! Nina and Don on George and Tucker went out from Radnor on a different pace event. Wow, busy weekend. Way to take advantage of the beautiful weather!
This week Kristin is vacationing in the Caymen Islands! We wish her a very fun time in the sun! Hopefully we'll have some sun this week!
We look forward to seeing everyone at the CCHSA Medal Finals on Sunday at Wyndsor Farm!

Krissy Guthrie at Lynchburg College

Krissy, pictured with friend Haley Bagwell, is a sophomore on the equestrian team at Lynchburg College.
Here's an update from her:
Lynchburg's team has just finished its fall semester season and leads our region by about 19 points. In the first show I placed 4th in the intermediate fences and 5th in the novice flat. It was kind of a rough start but I came back at our second show winning my intermediate fences class and placing 2nd in my novice flat. Winning the intermediate flat allowed me to point out and go onto regionals in the spring. Our team finished reserve team for the day. At our third show I placed 4th in the open fences and won the novice flat and our team finished first.
Along with the school riding I have been riding a horse, Diplomat, at some of the local shows and doing very well in the Adults!! I also ride two horses, Ben and Chester, for a family at the barn when they can't make it out! I have been really busy riding along with school work but am having a great time!!

Today at Marsh Creek

Today we took two groups over to Marsh Creek to go trail riding. Denise, Karen Holl, Lee Peterson, Dick Weber, and Dan Doyle made up the first group. The second group to go out was Kristin, Barbara Bendall, Shiree Radie, Kathy Diciurcio, and Gabby Bendall. All but Kristin are pictured above in the second picture. The first picture is Gabby and Early looking out over Marsh Creek. Gorgeous! Everyone had such a great time, horses and riders alike! Thank you for making today such a fun day out on the trail. Let's do it again soon!

Weekend in Review

The Brass Ring Horse Show was HUGE on Saturday! Lots of people in every division from 8 am to after 8 pm! Congrats to Cindy and Jammer on a successful 1st hunter horse show! Marybeth and Ben took home a well earned Reserve Champion ribbon plus at least one blue! And Erin Skog and Mojito took home everything but the tack box offered for the Hunter Championship! They were Reserve Champion in the Adults, won the Medal, Champion in the Adult Eq. and placed 3rd in the Hunter Championship after 2 rounds.


On Sunday a group went to a paper chase at Marsh Creek and had a blast! Bella has become the pace event/paper chase queen! The Pickering Hunt Pace Event is this Sunday November 7th out of Great Marsh Farm in Elverson. We will have a crew going out for that one too along with a tailgate party afterwards! Come join in the festivities!


Also, this weekend are two shows on Saturday. The cchsa one at Wyndsor Farm and the rated one at Our Farm. Good luck to everyone! We look forward to another great fall weekend!

Molly Clark and Kit at Bucknell

Kit and I are halfway through fall semester of junior year at Bucknell. I am increasingly grateful each year that I am lucky enough to have Kit here at college with me. She is such a huge part of my schedule but more importantly a huge part of my life. We have been with each other for 7 1/2 years now and I know I would be lost without her.
It has been an invaluable experience learning and growing up with her and that has continued throughout our experiences here at Bucknell. But other than the learning experience it has been, she has saved my sanity on more than one occasion. Being able to escape from campus and school work and go spend time at the barn with her is the most amazing thing. I think I am so lucky to have riding as my escape.
I am doing a different, pilot program this semester called Bucknell on the Susquehanna. It is a domestic study abroad program in which we study the entire Susquehanna Valley and Watershed. So I live on campus but am technically abroad. I am an Environmental Science major and this program involves a lot of hands on field work as well as an in depth independent research project. It has been awesome however it is slightly more "stressful' as we are away all day some days and we have had a few overnight trips. I still do my best to be around for Kit, and we are certainly doing fine, it is just tough to keep it all balanced along with other commitments I have here on campus. But if I keep it in perspective it is just another way we are growing and handling new challenges and we will come out of it stronger.
Kit has made some friends here, including one ridiculously fat pony named Tasty Cakes, but I'm pretty sure she will always miss Magic. I hope everyone is doing well!

- Molly