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Successful weekend at Aspen Farm Horse Trials

9/15/2016

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Aspen Farm Horse Trials was a total success for the small team of Z Eventing riders participating.  Sara Sellmer, with head groom TJ Drake, and apprentice coach Madeleine Scott made the drive to Yelm, Washington to compete on 4 horses.

Sara and TF Kreisel (Brad) entered into the “Adequan USEA Advanced Level Gold Cup”.  Sara also rode Triple Sec in the “Tin Men Supply Area VII Open Preliminary Championship” and Midnight Tango II in Open Preliminary.  Madeleine was riding Eleanor Go Brightly in her debut at the Training Level.

All four partnerships had successful events!  Triple Sec was foot perfect in her jumping phases and ended up in 9th place.  Midnight Tango II ran his first Prelim event and was a total star in all phases - finishing in 5th place after a double clear cross country round. This was Eleanor Go Brightly first Training event – with Madeleine in the saddle, they improved their standings with each passing phase and the pair looked polished and are a very promising partnership.

The highlight was Brad’s great event and 2nd place finish.  They started off on the right foot - tying for 2nd place with a 30.7 in dressage (even after Brad did some extra flying changes that weren't required).  But people really started to notice when they came galloping in over the cross country finish line 20 seconds to spare and lots of horse left. They were the fastest time over the course – “Brad was fantastic. He was hunting all the jumps. I knew by fence 3 he was on, and then I just enjoyed it and let him do his thing. He got a bit long to the water, but he is so quick and honest it worked out.”  They finished in 2nd place overall by .3 points!    ‎

Lots of press coverage was a bonus, people were watching:
http://www.useventing.com/news/mary-burke-secures-lead-adequan-usea-gold-cup-advanced-aspen-farms
http://useventing.com/news/burke-secures-repeat-adequan-usea-gold-cup-advanced-win-aspen-farms

Of course – it only ran so smoothly for everyone because of TJ's amazing work!
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