Black & white tobiano Georgian Grande mare
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Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Subject: Emailing:
danceadream caa
At the
CAA Danceadream had to drive a marathon vehicle because the
phaeton was in the showcase !
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Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Subject: Limelight, Danceadream, and Bud
Dear Robin, Fredericka, and Bob,
We are finally finished with a few very
busy weeks of carriage activity ! Two weeks ago we went to
the Classic in the Pines in Pinehurst, NC for their pleasure
show and your children did really well ! Danceadream and
Limelight both got blues in the novice division which let
them compete in a final class with the pony winners for the
championship. A friend of mine with a welsh pony won the
championship and Danceadream got reserve...I was so proud of
her ! It is very hard when you have horses in the same ring
with ponies when they ask for a strong trot. You feel like
if you open it up, you'll run over some of the little guys,
but it inspires the ponies to show all they've got ! Pat and
Limelight then went into open classes all day and they got a
large number of red ribbons and the judge commented on how
she improved all day long ! On the cross country drive,
where you go through scary things and obstacles, Danceadream
was 2nd and Limelight 3rd ! Woweeeee !!!!!! On Sunday, there
is a marathon drive through the quaint town of Pinehurst and
we both rode with Limelight. It is really neat because they
announce you as you go through the town square and tell
about your turnout and horse !! It was a really fun weekend
!
This week we got back from five days at
Morvin Park in Leesburg,VA for the Carriage Association of
America meeting. We took the phaeton that has been restored
for Danceadream and put it in the carriage showcase where it
was judged for the restoration work. It received a silver
certificate, like Pat's did last year. Whoopee. It was a
pile of sticks when we got in at an auction in PA, and it
has been under construction since last October ! It is
really pretty and big enough for all the large gals ! Pat
took Bud and competed in the Traditional Day of Drivng and
won for single horse ! He and Bud had the fastest cones
course of the day !!! Pat was very happy!!!!! On the last
day, I was finally able to hook Danceadream up to her new
carriage ! As soon as she was hooked, it rained cats and
dogs, and we made a quick loop around the square and got
completely drenched and had to go in because of lightning
!!!!! My gorgeous new carriage was soaked but should be fine
! Danceadream and Bud were both very good for the entire
trip !!!!!! We finally got home Sunday night, exhausted !!!!
I will send some pictures of both events but will probably
have to send them one at a time because of pokey dial-up !
Hope all is swell with you !
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Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009
Danceadream won 2
blues at a dressage show last weekend,!!!!!
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Sent:
Monday, April 13, 2009
Subject: Danceadream at camp
Dear Fredericka, Robin, and Bob,
Sorry that I had to send all the pics of Danceadream
singly, but with my pokey dial-up, it is faster ! For a week we
were in Aiken, SC attending an Adult Driving Camp with champion
driver Muffy Seaton ! It was a ball !!!!! She gave us daily
lessons in driven dressage, cones, and big solid obstacles
!!!!!!! We got to drive minis, drive great sand roads and
trails, learn from a Russian trick trainer, eat at all kinds of
strange places, go to a chicken auction, and compete in a Horse
Driving Trial ! The HDT had a dressage test with world champion
Suzy Stafford as judge, a cones course, and a cross country
drive with solid obstacles. I had NO idea what to expect through
those solid obstacles and after walking the course the day
before, I thought that I'd be lucky to get through them at a
walk....yikes ! You had to go through gates A,B, and C at each
of the three little complexes. Muffy assured my that we would
fit, but I wasn't so sure ! When the time came, Muffy rode as
navigator and coach and timer, and ole Danceadream just sailed
through ! She didn't bat an eye at anything and had no time or
course penalties on the 3.4 K ride !!!!!! It was so exciting
!!!!!!She acted like she loved it !!!!!!! It was the culmination
of a wonderful week !!!!!! Big Danceadream was a very good girl
!!!!!! Hope this finds you all well and kicking !!!!!!
Yours, Gail
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Sent: Sunday, March 15,
2009
Danceadream led
in points for our East Coast Horses Circuit even though
she missed one of the shows because I was at my mom's for her
surgery ! Danceadream was the champion high point horse in the
driving division and Limelight was reserve !
I'm getting excited
about taking Danceadream to a week long adult driving camp in
Aiken, SC that Muffy Seaton does ! Danceadream should really
stand out....
Take care and give my
best to Robin and Bob ! Love, Gail
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Sent: Thursday,
December 11, 2008
Hi
Fredericka ! Sending two more pics of Danceadream...you can see she
is black in these ! She is doing well in dressage, too. She won her
Training 1 and 2 classes this weekend and won a 2nd place ribbon in
Sport Horse Versatility. The SHV classes compete through weird
obstacles...they are being added to dressage shows around here !
Say hi
to all, Gail
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Black and white tobiano mare
(The color distorted due to the
lighting in the arena) |
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008
Hi Fredericka, Danceadream is the High Point
Driving horse on the East Coast Horses Circuit this year, like Polka
was last year !She was the high pointer even though we missed the
first show due to my mom's surgery!!!!! How's that for her first
year driving ? She is just the sweetest girl ! The other three girls
are all living up to what Nightmusic started !!!!! It has been so
much fun !
Gail
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