Three really nice stallions, interestingly, all chestnuts!! 1 JW That Special Flaire and Ken Swanson (YAY, Tigger!!!! Congrats Kenny and Mrs. Pugh!!) 2 Spiceolife Present Tense and Diane Conrady 3 HVK Brass Ring and Steven DeBolt

Beautiful class of gorgeous stallions and some reeeaaaalllllyyyy large pieces of Swarovski!!! 1 Faragamo and Terri Sturm 2 Tracemark Top Shelf and Shane Darnell 3 Saralin Blues Brother and Linda Hawkins 4 Firecrest E-Ticket and Donna Zimmerman 5 Indian Outlaw and Rebecca Miller 6 BEF Ivan and Jill Smith 7 Equinox Courage Under Fire and Mina Cox

1 CHMH Spice Town Girl and Tony Lee (LOVE LOVE LOVE this mare!!!) 2 Extreme Obssession and Danica Brisco 3 Kingsgrove French Elegance and Michele Kester

Ow. Scott Thacker’s horse wound up on top with Scott on the bottom, but Scott’s okay. He might need a jacuzzi tub and some Ben-Gay, though. Scott, it was good to see your wave as you walked out! 1 CBMF Restless and Teresa Rosa 2 Balenchine and Glenn Bouvier 3 Total Request and Susan Morey

1 Dragonsmeade Carnegiehall and Dan Kelley (UNANIMOUS!!!!!) 2 Sacred Path Indiana Jones and Nancy Hendrick 3 FRF Seattle Reign and Jared Gove 4 CBMF Audacious and Debra Hurst Walters 5 Locutus and Jodie Maunder Headley

17 in the class and nobody threw a shoe!!! Yay!! 1 EV Santa Fe Special and Mallory Stacy 2 HyLee’s Fanflaire and Sara Heidenreich 3 T-Towne Talk About Me and Ashley Wingate 4 Intrepid Rock Festival and Melissa Monty 5 Cobridge El Dorado and Alexandra Spratt 6 Park Place Dominion and Ada Johnson 7 Harlington’s D’artagnon and Aidan Lorenson 8 Hi Bridge Regal Night and Paige Crowley 9 Bold Jangles and Emma Pedersen 10 Cingate Jack Flash and Lauren Osborne

Well, we started with 10 and were rolling along, then we lost a shoe and had one take the gate while the farrier came in. Good times with the junior horses today!! I didn’t need my two diet cokes to stay alert!! AGH! Mannnnn, second time out and we’re still going the first way!!! We need McGyver in here to fix these shoes and harnesses!! DAMN!!! Third timeout….we have another shoe off!!! Wtf, people?!?!! Where’s the shoestring and duct tape???? This is the world’s...

1 Scandia’s Debutante and Hunter Novotny (UNANIMOUS!! Yayyyyyy, Hunter!!! You two were so cute!!) 2 Pacific Rim Take Aim and Donna Zimmerman (also unanimous!! Donna, you’re having a great show!!!) 3 MLF Caliente and Debra Hurst Walters 4 BW Shrek and Betsy Buchanan 5 Springmill Encore and Judith Schweiger 6 Freddy Mercury and Cindy Beckman 7 Ultra’s Special Diva and Annette Smith

1 Indian Creek Bali Ha’I and Mary Carlton (UNANIMOUS!!) 2 MEM Naughty But Nice and Karen Bobbi (also unanimous!!!) 3 Brash & Sassy and Scott Nevers 4 VVM Rock ‘N Roses and Katie Mair 5 Ultra’s Now & Forever and Lindsay Perry 6 Boxford Living Art and Amanda DuPont 7 Susanne Dawson and Belle Bradford 8 JDS Dream Girl and Ariel Bowden 9 Copperleaf Gwendolyn and Caryn Earehart 10 Winterset Deja Vu Again and Jenna Domanico

Lincoln, NE – Olympian Carol Lavell says: “For most riders, financial support becomes the ultimate hurdle.” John Boomer, newly-retired President and CEO of The Dressage Foundation adds: “Fundraising – it’s needed by most equestrians in all disciplines, the techniques are not now being taught, and who better to do it than The Dressage Foundation whose very business is raising money, managing it, and giving it away.” During the past two years, the...