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Registration for the Spring Clinics is now open at horsetrialsbc.com - the Johvale Spring Clinic with coaches Sandra Donnelly, Dana Cook, Leohona Rowland, Maeve Drew, Brandy Saunders, Sara Sellmer and Sarah Bradley is one you don't want miss!  It is on April 21-24 and there is also a Young Riders Social & Education Session.

Speaking of Young Riders...  Young Riders is a program for all Horse Trial BC members 21 years of age and under.  Please join this great group for exciting opportunities, support and encouragement! Young Riders initiatives run throughout the year!  It DOES NOT MATTER at which level you compete, you are eligible to be part of the program.  It cost $20 to join the program.  Which is well worth it considering you can apply for a $100 subsidy to attend one of the HTBC Spring Clinics.  Forms for both are at: http://www.horsetrialsbc.com/index.php/young-riders/young-rider-forms

You need to renew your Horse Council of BC membership - everyone riding with Sara or at Copper Hills needs to be a current member.  And while your at it, you might as well renew your Horse Trials BC membership (you can do it in the HCBC renewal steps).

http://www.hcbc.ca/ 

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!

Pre-Entry

• Jennifer Jackson on For Pleasure - 3rd
  

Pre-Training

• Sara Sellmer on Rivendell - 3rd
  
• Sara Sellmer on Freesala - 6th
  

Training

• Mia Poppleton pn Life of Reilly - 6th
  

This past weekend saw Sara and TJ went down to Montana with three horses and no less than four additional Z-eventing team members who made the trip to support, watch and have fun - but not ride.  "The Event" at Rebecca Farms is beautiful, fun masterpiece of an event - every successful trip to Rebecca Farms is a dream come true. 

Sara was riding three horses and finished in the ribbons on all three.  TF Kriesler (Brad) was 2nd after dressage and cross country, he had two rails stadium and finished 7th.  Triple Sec (Rowan) was 12th after dressage, moved up to 7th after a double clear cross country round and finished 4th with another double clear in show jumping and  Midnight Tango II was 8th after dressage and finished 6th after clear rounds cross country and  show jumping.  We are so excited for our future with these amazing horses - there is no shortage of equine talent at Z-Eventing!!

The courses were beautiful, having the team there was great and party was fun! We can't wait for next year.

In the ribbons....

Preliminary
(#1 and #2)
1st Sara Sellmer on Triple Sec (Rowan)
2nd Madeleine Scott on Strella
 
Training
Event #1
1st Sara Sellmer on Midnight Tango II
Event #2
1st Sara Sellmer on Midnight Tango II
4th Harper Click on Rambo
 
Pre-Training
Event #1
2nd Kathleen Weare on Sadenno
6th Mia Poppleton on Life of Reilly
8th Emmy Gehring on Ari Gold
Event #2
1st Kathleen Weare on Sadenno
2nd Sara Seller on Free Sala
4th Kendall Smith on Riddle Me This

Starter
Event #1
1st Grace Cassidy on Geminie Cricket
Event #2
5th Grace Cassidy on Geminie Cricket