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A regularly issued letter to and about the members of The Dressage Foundation’s Century Club. ISSUE 21 / JANUARY 2017 Century Club Photo by Blue Moon Studios IT’S BEEN A BANNER YEAR-

Team #231, Kathy Pessin and Tango, and Team #232, Yan Ross and Merlin, celebrate their Century Club Rides. ISSUE 21 / JANUARY 2017 THE CENTURY CLUB NEWS

Many thanks to the 2016 2016 – A Banner Year Century Club Sponsors: Gone are the days in which a each work day speaking to new small handful of teams joined members, hearing their stories, the Century Club each year. and having the opportunity to The early teams from the late share those stories with the

1990s and early equestrian world. Alpha Dressage Association 2000s have certainly Is there a better job Arkansas Dressage Society done their part out there? I’d be Cayuga Dressage & CTA to inspire other hard pressed to CDS – Foothills Chapter riders who are now find one! French Creek Equestrian Association GLASS-ED entering their senior We continue Nebraska Dressage Association years. Many of the to be grateful to Oregon Dressage Society 53 new teams in the companies, Southeast Virginia Dressage Association 2016 said that they dressage clubs, and STRIDE put the Century individuals who Utah Dressage Society Club on their “bucket lists” provide financial support for VADA – Northern Virginia Chapter Mary Bolovan long ago and were motivated the Club. Our 2016 sponsors Linda Burton by the previous horse and rider are listed to the right. Their Marilyn Cantey members. generosity has allowed us to Susan Conda Even though we have had continue this amazing program. Barbara Doherty “record years” almost every Thank you all! Judy Finkel Susan Gaebel consecutive year for the Nancy Isaacson past several years, I am still Harriet Kiehl pleasantly surprised and thrilled Jane Nutter at how many Teams join the Jenny Johnson Joy Potthoff Club. I love spending part of Executive Director Katherine Rideout Judy Seeherman Michele Seitzinger Nancy Sobba 2017 TDF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Libby Stokes Anne Sushko Maryal Barnett (MI), Chairman Elaine Taub Michael Poulin (FL), Vice Chairman Meredith Watters Judith Noone (MA), Treasurer Eliza Sydnor Romm (NC), Secretary The Century Club News is published by Beth Baumert (CT), President and CEO THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION, INC. 1314 ‘O’ Street, Suite 305 Barbara Cadwell (FL) Sarah Geikie (CT) Lincoln, NE 68508 Joseph Carr (KY) Lendon Gray (NY) (402) 434-8585 Catherine Chamberlain (CA) Carol Lavell (FL) [email protected] Nicole Del Giorno (VA) Karin Reid Offield (MI) www.dressagefoundation.org Ralph Dreitzler III (WA) John F. Boomer (NE), Emeritus TDF is a non-profit tax-exempt corporation [IRS Code Sec. 501(c)(3)]. All donations are General Jonathan Burton (AZ), Emeritus tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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TEAM #227: Wanda Wiggins and Dusine Team 227 On March 26th, my Denmark. She was way prayer that Dusine and too much horse for me I would “finish well” when we purchased became a reality for us her as a ten-year-old as we rode our Century from Oak Hill Ranch Ride with Northeast in Louisiana, but she Florida Dressage was always a lady and Association. It was an protected me even in her amazing day as Dusine own fears. She became and I entered the ring my beautiful Black to ride with friends Beauty, and we have and family watching. spent the past 19 years Another answered together. During this prayer was that Dusine season, Dusine and I rode Wanda Wiggins: 71 | Dusine: 29 | Combined: 100 would soar on eagles’ in many competitions, wings as we mounted Photo credit: Teri Rehkopf including two Region up to ride this special ride. married my Prince Charming, who 3 Championships. One of our Isaiah 40:31: “They who wait for bought me my horse. It has been a recognized shows was three weeks the Lord shall renew their strength; “happily ever after” story, with our after I began chemotherapy. My they shall mount up with wings like celebration of 50 years of marriage hair had just fallen out and I rode eagles; they shall run and not be in January 2016. I am a three-time with my helmet covering a bald weary; they shall walk and cancer survivor. Twice I had breast head. My Prince Charming and not faint.” cancer, which included surgery, friends were all there supporting As we entered the ring, I felt reconstruction, chemotherapy and encouraging me, as well as like we were floating. Dusine and radiation with five years of making sure my stalls were clean felt 10 years younger, but even chemotherapy drug treatment. The and that we had food during all the better. Truly, it was our best ride third time I encountered cancer was surgeries and treatments. ever! This past year she has had in 2011, when I fought lung cancer. As I completed this memorable many health challenges that My life has been one of miracles ride and made the final turn down could have prevented us from this and blessings. God has always the centerline, I realized we had accomplishment, but on Saturday brought me through with flying done it. We had accomplished she was confident and willing to colors. After the first occurrence, our dream to finish well, and give all she had. She enjoyed my Prince Charming bought my excitement flooded my soul. How her day! first horse and our farm where grateful I am to The Dressage My story begins as a young child we currently reside. Dusine is my Foundation for the opportunity to whose dreams were to become a dream horse, a Danish Warmblood, give my Black Beauty this exciting flight attendant, where I met and imported as a three-year-old from finale that she deserved.

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TEAM #228: Cherie Hibbs and Par Bar Twist Team 228 I believe the first words I ever spoke offered to let me ride Twister, who was were, “I want a pony.” Every birthday now 16 years old. and Christmas to follow, I would I took some lessons on Twister and I look for my pony, but alas, it didn’t liked him so much that I bought him. come until I was 43 and my husband That became the start of a ten year bought me my very own first horse. love affair between us. During that ten We had been living in Baltimore, year period, we continued dressage MD, and then moved to the country lessons in preparation for the most so that I could be near horses. I had important item on my bucket list, the gone to work for a dentist and both Century Ride. Nine months before we of my co-workers were horse owners. met the 100 year requirement, I was in They encouraged me to take riding Cherie Hibbs: 74 | Par Bar Twist: 26 an automobile accident and fractured Combined: 100 lessons at a nearby eventing barn. my foot. After surgery, I started By then, I had found a place to In 1994, my husband was rehabbing myself and reconditioning board a horse and convinced my transferred to Binghamton, NY, and Twister, too. That set us back a little, husband that I was ready to be a then two years later, we transferred but Twister and my coach, Laurie, horse owner. We owned several to Dallas, TX. One day, a dressage along with my best friend, Toni, all got horses and then my friends helped instructor showed up and began together with Twister and I to form me find Cass, an Arabian gelding. I teaching. This was the beginning of a team that successfully finished my needed to find someone to ride the many years of dressage lessons. Dutch Century Ride on March 26th, one day trails with, when I met Kathy Beckley, was an avid learner and even became after my 74th birthday. Twister did the farm manager of an Estate the horse for a young girl who me proud and we scored a 60.988% whose owner loved to fox hunt. I wanted to learn to ride. Soon after, in Intro A at the Fort Worth Dressage helped her exercise the hunters, and her mother asked me to help pick a Club Show. To all of my friends, my after her chores, we would always horse to buy for her. We found a bay coach, my barn manager, and my go for a trail ride. I began looking for Quarter Horse named Par Bar Twist, husband, thank you. I could not have another horse after Cass developed or Twister. done it without you. ringbone. Shortly after, I got a new dressage Update: Sadly I must report that I went to an Appaloosa breeder instructor who asked me to just 10 days after our triumph, my that I knew and found a gelding “upgrade” horses, so I found Joe. love, Twister, passed away after colic named Dutch Chocolate. I tried him One wet day, he became totally out of surgery. It is almost like he used up all on a trail and in a lesson- wow did he control. I tried an emergency dismount that he had to get us to complete our like to jump anything! I bought him, and ended up breaking an orbital number one bucket list item and now and Kathy and I started competing bone and needed to have a titanium he is at rest. On the bright side, my in Pleasure Rides, Competitive Trail plate installed to secure my right eye. husband and I just purchased a Fourth Rides, Hunter Paces and we even did While I was recovering both mentally Level Hanoverian mare, and we are some Fox Hunts. and physically, the young girl’s mother doing very well together.

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TEAM #229: Michael Schultz and Nice Catch Team 229 by Sue Weakley certainly enjoy riding Sammie,” A crowd gathered when he said. “He is the nicest Michael Schultz and his Dutch animal I have ever owned. He’s Warmblood gelding Nice so calm and so patient with Catch, aka Sammie, rode down me. He’s a former Grand Prix the centerline at the White school horse and every day he Fences Equestrian Center teaches me something. He’s just in Loxahatchee, Florida, on perfect.” April 9th. Everyone was there Marcia helped Michael find to watch because the ride the big chestnut horse who was Michael and Sammie’s has helped him experience induction into the Century riding upper level movements Club. like piaffe, passage and tempi Michael began riding at the changes. Ruth travels to age of 40, following in his give Michael and Sammie a belated wife, Lora Schultz’s weekly lesson, and although footsteps, and took to show he laments the fact that what jumping, claiming wins at the they work on in practice isn’t so Winter Equestrian Festival in easy to accomplish in the ring, Florida and in Vermont, Lake she praised his perseverance. Placid and Saratoga horse “Helping Michael achieve his Michael Schultz: 80 | Nice Catch: 21 | Combined: 101 shows. In 2001, he decided Century Club Ride was one of it was time to pack up the Photo credit: Sue Weakley the highlights of my season,” jumping saddle and he turned nervous when I went in there. The Ruth said. “He is such a dedicated to dressage. Under the tutelage of adrenaline kicks in, especially when student; we could all take inspiration his long time trainer, Marcia Kulak, you have a horse you know is not from him!” as well as with help from Jane going to do anything. He’s going to “It’s kept him striving to try and Savoie and Ruth Hogan-Poulsen, listen and try to do everything you ride better every day,” Marcia said of Schultz rides six days a week. It was ask him.” her student. “Dressage is hard. He Marcia’s idea to get Michael ready Michael, an exceptional never gives up. He wants to come for the Century Club ride, as her athlete, divides his time between and he goes to work. Mike had a hip 84-year-old mother, Anne, is also a Wellington eight months of the replacement several years ago and member of the club. year and Brant Lake, NY, and stays it takes courage to step up to the “Oh, I loved the ride,” Michael active with swimming, tennis and plate and continue riding. He means said excitedly after the crowd golf as well as riding. He is equally a lot to me as a person so it’s just applauded his final salute. “I was happy working in the arena as that much more rewarding to me to nervous all day but I wasn’t actually he is hacking out on the trails. “I bring him to this stage.”

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TEAM #230: Joy King and Chocolate Chip Team 230 Laura Joyce King, or Joy, as to move her neck. Joy elected to she came to be called, was avoid surgery and spent months born in 1925 in Miami, FL. A rehabbing. It seemed her riding clarinetist, pianist, musician and days were over, especially since teacher, she graduated from the doctors warned that, without Eastman School of Music in surgery, the slightest wrong move Rochester, NY, with a Bachelor’s could result in paralysis. Quiet in Music Performance. She horses and a supportive family went on to receive her Master’s allowed her return to riding, from the University of Miami. although she was only allowed to She had been a horse lover walk for the first year. Just being since early childhood, but was on the horse was enough to lift only able to begin riding as an her spirits, but she soon wanted Joy King: 90 | Chocolate Chip: 18 | Combined: 108 adult. Her long term friend and to start trotting, and on her teacher, Lisa Williamson, began teaching together. Jim was supportive Century Ride on May 3rd, Joy coaching her through hunt seat of the horses and even learned to and Chip earned a 64% in their classes, and now dressage. ride at the age of 65. He and Joy Introductory Test. Joy is mother to Herman (now went trail riding together and he was Joy is still very active, has a large deceased) and Laura Cohen, DVM, a fixture at the horse shows, walking class of piano and clarinet students, from her first marriage to Sidney around with whatever ribbons she and is a member of the National Music Cohen, MD, who died in 1957. won in his pocket and big grin on his Teachers Association and the American A brief second marriage proved face. College of Musicians. She performs unworkable, but happily produced Joy’s daughter, Laura Cohen, DVM, with the Gainesville Community Band. her second daughter, Philicia, a and her husband, a cellist, live on an Chocolate Chip (AKA Ante Up, photographer who lives in Los adjoining farm to Joy’s. They have registered name, Abstract Forces), Angeles with her husband and a son and four grandchildren, who was foaled in 1998 in California. He two children. claim the ride on Chocolate Chip raced until four and then retired to Joy performed with the Miami when they come to visit. Although pasture with a bowed tendon, where Beach Symphony, the Fort Lauderdale Jim passed away in 2006 at the age he remained for four years until Symphony and was playing with of 90, his children remain close and purchased as part of a herd dispersal Cesare LaMonica’s Symphonic Band enjoy sharing many family activities. sale by Laura’s long time trainers. when she met her third husband, Joy’s Century Ride is even more Laura bought Chip as a jumping Captain James B. King, retired remarkable, as she had a fall at prospect, and when he retired from director of the United States Marine the age of 78 and fractured three the show ring, he took on the role Band, also a clareinetist, and recent vertebrae in her neck. Doctors of Joy’s main ride and babysitter for widower. They married in 1978 and wanted to insert rods down her visiting grandchildren, nieces and spent many years performing and spine, resulting in her not being able nephews- a job he greatly prefers.

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TEAM #231: Kathy Pessin and Tango Team 231 I was always a horse crazy therefore he had been used for little girl and got my first horse some dressage and jumping, but when I was ten. She was named had never been out on a trail. For a Bridget and cost $25. I rode while after I got him I concentrated practically every day, most of the mostly on dressage and did some time bareback, until I graduated showing. Now I do primarily trail from high school. I competed in riding, with some occasional arena a few gymkhanas but had no real work just for fun. I live in Prescott, riding lessons. Then came college, Arizona, and we are blessed with marriage and children, so I did numerous beautiful trails. not ride much during those years. It was fun to be back in a When I was in my 30s, I had dressage arena preparing for my my first jumping and dressage Century Club Ride. Even more fun lessons but my main focus was was practicing a pas de deux with trail riding. Then, when I was my friend, Yan Ross, and his horse, in my 40s, I got a wonderful Merlin, who are also Century Club Thoroughbred Paint mare named members. Neither Tango nor I had Shauna. I had several other horses been in a show ring for about before her, but she was special. twelve years, but on May 8th, the She was 3 years old when I got day of our Century Club Ride, Tango her and we had to put her down rose to the occasion and acted as if Kathy Pessin: 76 | Tango: 24 | Combined: 100 at age 27. It was with Shauna he had been showing every day. that I seriously started taking Photo credit: Blue Moon Studios I have been married to my dressage and jumping lessons. In 1993, when I was 54, I was husband Jim for 55 years. Although I used to tell people that since I thrown from another horse and he doesn’t ride, he has always could only have one horse, I had to broke my neck. I was in a halo for been very supportive of my love have a versatile one. And she did several months but was back riding of horses and riding. We have everything: jumping, cross country, as soon as the doctor said I could. three wonderful adult children and dressage, combined driving and I got Tango when he was 10 years four grandchildren. I am a retired was probably the best trail horse old and I was in my 60s. He is an registered dietitian. I did mostly I will ever have. I competed in my ex-race horse with the impossible hospital work. Now I am active in a first 3-day event with her when I registered name of “Hoot Express.” number of church and community was in my 50s. He was not a successful race horse, programs.

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TEAM #232: Yan Ross and Merlin Team 232 Merlin is registered as “Calico At the age of 9, I lobbied my Siren” and also known as parents to apply to the New York “Enchantment,” due to New Mounted Police to adopt a retiring Mexico being his birth state. police horse named Lester, who However, his barn name has been was 19 at the time. It didn’t take “Merlin” as long as I’ve known Lester long to adjust from busy him. Merlin was born in 1989 city life to living on a farm in rural and registered in the Jockey Club New Jersey. We bonded closely, Thoroughbred registry. He was not and rode on back roads, trails, in a stellar racehorse, winning only parades and shows, and generally one race as a 3-year-old, but he had a model boy and horse came into his own when he moved experience. to the world of 3-day eventing. I rode infrequently in the 70s He was initially trained by Jeffray until near the year 2000, due Ryding at Goose Downs in Santa to spending so much time on Yan Ross: 73 | Merlin: 27 | Combined: 100 Fe, NM, then sold to the Foltz the road in my professional life. family in Arizona when he was 8 I got back into trail riding with years old. Over the next 5 years, Merlin when Randi and I moved he was trained by Alice Sarno and to Arizona. Now, as a self-styled during that period was named “Recovering Attorney,” I trail ride Eventer of the Year. Subsequently, with friends a couple of times a he was owned and competed by week. In addition to saddle time our close friend, Mary McDermott. on the trail, dressage is good I was fortunate to be able to ride training and exercise for both Merlin on non-show weekends, horse and rider, so it’s also a while Mary was busy with family. regular activity. The time came when Mary was Randi and I currently have three ready for a new horse, and I fell horses at home. When I’m not heir to this wonderful equine. Kathy Pessin (231) and Yan Ross doing barn chores or in the saddle, Most of our riding is now out on I write and teach accredited the trail and we’re lucky to be close have an arena at home, so Merlin courses on identity theft risk to wonderful local trails, including also has a chance to keep up his management. in the Granite Mountain Wilderness dressage. Kathy Pessin and I performed a and along the Verde River. My wife, I grew up “back East,” but had pas de deux on May 8th together. Randi Wagner, competes actively occasion to visit family friends on It was as unique as a BI-Centennial in dressage with Mezzo Forte, her a cattle ranch in Texas, where I performance – our combined ages American Hanoverian, and we was bitten hard by the horse bug. are now 200!

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TEAM #233: Hermann Spielkamp and Fire Fighter Team 233 I love horses and have new home. My friend, Chuck always dreamed about Anceny, a third generation riding. Growing up in rancher in the Gallatin Valley Paderborn, Germany, in the of Montana, showed me many late 1940s and early 50s, parts of Yellowstone Park from I watched Germany’s elite the back of a horse. He owned riders and other international Fire Fighter and wanted me to competitors show. I marveled take Fire Fighter for my own, at the skill and talents of but it wasn’t the right time. riders such as Hans Günter When Chuck passed away at Winkler, the Schockemohle the age of 92, his daughter brothers and Dr. Reiner Katie Turley, aware that her Klimke. father wanted me to have the I came to the United States now 18-year-old horse, asked in 1963 and sought riding me to take him. Fire Fighter opportunities wherever I had not been ridden in over could. In 1966, I was hired seven years and was almost on as a cowhand at the unrideable. There were not Spurlock Ranch in Arizona, many options for him, so I located next to the Petrified Hermann Spielkamp: 79 | Fire Fighter: 26 | Combined: 105 took him on as a new project. Forest and the Painted Fire Fighter is hot, full of Desert. I was assigned a but I enjoyed riding classy horses spirit and enthusiasm. He horse named Big Red who taught that I could not afford to own. bucks for the joy of it and loves to me how to chase cattle at high While riding as a guest with run. He does these things, not out speed over rough ground, as well the Arapahoe Hunt, I was given of fear or rebellion, but because he as the finer points of cutting cattle. a beautiful 16.2hh seal-brown just does not like to walk at times. I moved my family to Colorado 4-year-old Thoroughbred/Morgan Deep down, I so enjoy his “joie de in the early 70s and purchased my cross gelding to ride for free in vivre” that I allow Fire Fighter to be first horse, an Appaloosa Quarter exchange for training him for a year. in charge of his pace on trails, and Horse named Hoodini. We explored I purchased Cracker and for the next it is always fast! My dressage test all of the mountain trails around 16 years, he was my trusted mount. on May 14th at the Shiloh Ranch Palmer Lake, Colorado. I soon I had just suffered the loss Dressage Show challenged Fire began exercising Thoroughbred of Cracker when Fire Fighter, a Fighter’s patience and obedience. horses for friends. These horses gorgeous 16.2hh chestnut Missouri Now I am rewarding him with a few were usually green and unfinished, Fox Trotter gelding, was in need of a wild gallops.

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TEAM #234: Egil Hansen and O’Malley Team 234 I was born in the South Funen In 1992, I decided to start riding archipelago in rural Denmark again with English tack. I bought in 1936. Because of the war, a Hanoverian and after a while, I there was no access to petrol or started to compete in the hunter rubber tires, and like all civilians, ring with some success. I later we depended on horses for our bought two more horses and transportation. I remember driving switched to jumpers. In 1995, I a two horse team for many met Claudia Cojocar and with her purposes during my youth. It help, I became very successful in wasn’t until I was 16 in 1952 that the lower jumper circuit. cars became widely available in She then introduced me to a Denmark again. horse named Teddy, who I bought Egil Hansen: 80 | O’Malley: 21 | Combined: 101 When I was 18, I was in 1997. We were excellent selected for national service in the the international level. Our advanced partners and competed all over Danish Army. After basic training, training was extremely demanding, western Canada, even making I was lucky to be assigned to but all six of us managed to pass the several trips to the U.S. In 2009, the Gardehusarregimentet, or Cavalry final selection, which was a record due to some injuries and because Unit, of the Danish Army. Six of us at the time. In the final test, I was I was now in my 70s, I switched to were selected to ride horses within thrilled to score five perfect “10s” dressage. I bought an ex-Grand Prix this elite unit and I was assigned to in the gate. I must give credit to my jumper named O’Malley, who was a young gelding named Jason, who horse, though! He was a standby getting too old to jump, so we began I learned to ride for ceremonies and horse for one of the regimental competing in dressage. in dressage for training purposes. I officers in the 1956 Olympics, and I Later I was coached by Doreen wasn’t fully aware of it at the time, couldn’t have done it without him. Horsey, a senior dressage judge based but our instructor was actually a My experiences in the Army gave me in Calgary. She taught me a great highly accomplished rider who went an excellent foundation for my later deal about dressage, and combined on to compete at the 1956 summer riding. with my past experience, O’Malley Olympics. I was discharged in 1958 and and I have risen up through the We also got to watch such riders decided to see Canada with some of levels. He is now 21 years old, and as Lis Hartel, who won a Silver my friends. We arrived in Manitoba in I’m 80, showing at Fourth Level. We Medal at the 1952 Olympic Games May of 1958. I vividly remember the ride almost every day and compete in in Helsinki. This was despite her first time I rode in a western saddle. It many registered shows. I am honored having contracted polio in 1944, was very unfamiliar and it took a lot to be the third Canadian rider to which paralyzed her below the of getting used to! After I mastered join the Century Club, and I’d like to knees. This was also the first time the western saddle, I began my thank The Dressage Foundation for that women and civilians were own business and named it “Jason providing such an incentive to riders allowed to compete in dressage at Construction” after my Army horse. like myself.

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TEAM #235: Marcetta Darensbourg and Great Scott Team 235 Great Scott was born on Look he likes to do now at age 26, i.e., Sharp Farm in College Station, walk, and also exhibit his legacy. TX, in 1990. He was sired by Not to be forgotten in this Grundstein II and he is out of family affair is Don’s mare Kate, the dam Maui, a Rhinelander/ a Hanoverian mare sired by the Thoroughbred cross that great Werther, and the mother Marcetta and her husband, of Gwenael. Kate and Maui, best Don, purchased when Maui was friends forever and ever, passed four. Maui was undoubtedly on to that grand pasture in the the prettiest mare in Texas for sky just a few years back. many years. Marcetta used the Century Ride Marcetta has actually as her opportunity to express never competed Great Scott, appreciation to all friends and although he was trained with family (mainly Don) who have help from Hans Biss as a nice supported her horse habit for dressage horse. Scott was a decades. More thanks goes stallion until age six, producing to the teachers who sit on her approximately 15 good quality shoulder and offer advice during her training sessions, the scores riding horses. His wonderful Marcetta Darensbourg: 74 | Great Scott: 26 | Combined: 100 personality has made him the of Aggies who have worked love of Marcetta’s life. Back in the Show, the team performed a walk at Look Sharp, especially Jenny day, she competed on Maui and test. After their ride, two of Scott’s Reibenspies. She thanks Donna then on Gregor, her then 17-year- offspring with riders from Look Meyer for encouraging her to get old schoolmaster from Canadian Sharp, Jenny and Colleen, entered off her duff and show off her nice Olympian, Lorraine Stubbs. Gregor the arena for a musical freestyle horses, and do this ride. and Marcetta obtained a USDF presentation. Colleen rode Sir Ian Marcetta is a Professor of Silver Medal. Gregor lasted until Scott, grandson to Scott, and Jenny Chemistry at Texas A&M University. age 34, not quite long enough for a aboard Gwenael, Scott’s daughter, She and Don have bred horses, Century Ride on him. He and Maui and Sir Ian’s mother. Gwenael is hosted dressage clinics, promoted rest in peace on Look Sharp Farm. Marcetta’s current mount. Jenny and dressage and young riders for some Scotty doesn’t do arena work Colleen have been with us at Look 45 years now, the last 35 in College anymore. He will trot and canter a Sharp Farm for years. Our Sunday Station. She is especially proud bit when free or on the trail, but he rides together are typically on the that her Century Ride was with the has sat his hoof down about arena trail or, on rainy days, quadrille- horse that she and Don bred, and work. For the Century Ride on like in the arena. We thought it that her equine support in the ride May 21st at the Topsider Schooling appropriate to show Scotty at what were of his descent.

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TEAM #236: Arlene Meyer and Midtway Team 236 As far as I can During my training, remember, horses have I was committed to always been my passion. the challenge. I read, At 19, I got my first horse, inquired, and practiced, Jigger, and he introduced yet still felt nervous and me to trail riding, which unsure I could complete became my therapy as it the challenge. In the allowed me to connect beginning of May, Lois with nature and inspire let me know about the my artwork. Over a half- Carefree Schooling Show century and five horses taking place on May 21st. later, I still have never tired I had only a few weeks of trail riding, and horses left to do some serious remain my passion. riding. I decided I would When we moved to do it! Arlene Meyer: 75 | Midtway: 26 | Combined: 101 Arizona 18 years ago, On the night of the I brought my horse, Club to me, and I contemplated show, despite wind gusts Patience, and took up trail riding my decision for a while because I of 30 MPH, Midtway and I, nerves in the desert and mountains. get nervous showing. However, I and all, completed Intro Test B Eventually, I moved my horse to decided to take a leap of faith and receiving a score of 65%. After the Lois Whittington’s dressage stables take on Lois’ challenge, but only final salute, we had a bit of a rodeo and continued my trail riding while with her help. because Midtway was spooked, but observing the dressage lessons. I Midtway is a 26-year-old semi- I stayed on. admired the beauty of the horses retired Grand Prix horse who I truly enjoyed this whole and riders working in partnership belongs to Anne Gilmartin. I began experience and am very proud and the discipline necessary for working with him towards the end that I took on and successfully dressage. Since then, I lost Patience of February and had to learn how accomplished this challenge. I can’t and bought another horse, to bridle and saddle him correctly, thank Lois and Midtway enough Diamond, my current trail riding as I had only ridden western. It for their experience and patience. princess. All the while, I continued was kind of like learning to drive Currently I am back to trail riding to observe dressage and built up a a stick shift car after only driving with Diamond in the mountains desire to try and experience a new an automatic! Taking on this over the summer. When I return, kind of connection with a horse challenge fully, I had to purchase I plan to take more dressage that is different from trail riding. the breeches, shirt and gloves, lessons so that maybe I will be This past January when I turned and hang up my jeans and able to compete at the next level 75, Lois mentioned the Century cowboy boots. of dressage.

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TEAM #237: Olwen Busch and Filibuster Team 237 I agreed to join the Century Club two previous amateur owners to please my longtime friend, and had sold him because he was Filibuster’s dressage trainer, Christine “unmanageable” without a trainer Cramer. I figured we should do it standing by. while we are both still sound! I had In 2007, we bought a small grown up riding bareback across horse property a mile from the deserts in Idaho and Arizona, then Dupont State Forest near Brevard, showing American Saddlebreds from NC. Our neighbors folded us into coast to coast and competing in the local horse community and saddle seat Medal classes. Now I love helped Filibuster and me become cross-country riding, international fearless mountain riders. They horse safaris with my husband, and love Filibuster’s athleticism and training sport horses. courage, and wish their endurance Olwen Busch: 82 | Filibuster: 20 | Combined: 102 I have always applied basic saddles were as comfortable as my dressage skills to these other gray Arab/Hackney gelding that was dressage saddle. disciplines, but our Century Ride was for sale. His owner wanted to show In 2010 full knee replacements only the third dressage class of my me a video of his performance classes on both knees prepared me for one life. I knew that nothing in the First before introducing me to him, but more international riding adventure: Level, Test 2 routine could really show I insisted on meeting him in person a stag hunt in 2011 with the off our teamwork as much as some first. One moment with him in the Kermaingant Hunt in Normandy, of the random events (like a swarm stall did it – I bought him. At age France. We rode for 5 ½ hours of ground bees) on the mountain six, he knew nothing but the life of without dismounting – mad high trails in North Carolina. Well, a show horse, kept in a stall except speed trots up and down rocky trails randomness in the shape of a barely when ridden so as to protect his long covered in fall leaves. I took the two- visible shaggy white dog turned our feet shod with weighted shoes. He point most of the ride, aided by my Century Ride from a sedate dressage so craved attention and contact with new bionic knees. routine into a challenging ride. Our another living being. Filibuster has helped me civilize my dressage scores suffered, but the Christine Cramer trained and young Akhal-Teke mare, Gulkana, judge gave me very good scores for showed him in dressage, while I for the past two summers in my seat and aids! worked on making him into an all- North Carolina and will be her trail Filibuster’s and my many shared around sport horse, exploring country companion this summer. I hope to experiences have created an roads and nearby lakes and trails, start showing her myself in dressage. emotional rapport between us. mostly riding him out by himself. After all, if I can survive the Century When I retired from my software The first time we saw a herd of Ride class, maybe I am ready to start development career in 2000, a knee deer bounding across the trail was showing again. One is never too old operation left me on crutches for two a real trauma for him. After owning to have new goals. May the bucket years. In 2002, I heard about a lively him for two years I found out his (list) never run dry!

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TEAM #238: Charles Mess and Olie Team 238 My entry into the equestrian partake together. world started in my late thirties The farm gradually shifted when a quest for 10-15 acres from raising cattle to boarding of land concluded with a 200- horses. Currently, I only acre cattle farm. It was a time have horses on the farm. when I thought I could “do it The boarding operation has all.” Unknowingly, I bought a afforded me the opportunity to new way of life. It did not take meet many wonderful people. long before I purchased my About a year ago, a woman first horse, an aged Tennessee who boards a horse on the Walker. It was a contrast to farm suggest I consider growing up in urban New Jersey becoming a member of the without a thought of owning a Century Club. My horse, Olie, horse! and I easily qualified. For me, In the early days of farm the Century Club Ride was ownership, I could ride my my first dressage competition. horse to my local hospital Olie on the other hand, was when on weekend-call, tie well-trained in dressage by his him to the “No Parking” sign, original owner. then go see the patient in the Olie is a Percheron- emergency room. As I am an Thoroughbred cross, and a orthopedic surgeon, I treated Charles Mess: 77 | Olie: 27 | Combined: 104 magnificent animal. He has many equestrian related injuries a presence among the other through the years. I remain a member of the two local horses in the herd. On multiple In time, my children joined hunts and I am also an out of town occasions in the hunt field, he the Pony Club, and with that member of the Whiskey Road Hunt has anticipated dangers before I came more horses, trucks and in Aiken, SC. realized they existed. He is a joy to trailers. I watched our Pony My immediate family and ride. Clubbers progress from walk-trot grandchildren grew up around The grand day of our test arrived to cantering and jumping. This horses and riding. They have on June 4th at the Schooley Mill motivated me to get lessons and participated in trail riding, fox show. We performed Training Level improve my riding skills. It was chasing, eventing and dressage. I Test 1, and I had a ball. I thank The about this time I was invited to join have also been able to enjoy riding Dressage Foundation for exposing the local hunt, The Goshen Hounds, with them for many hours. Riding is me to a new equestrian discipline. I and later The Potomac Hunt Club. an activity that all generations can intend to continue.

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TEAM #239: Mary Jo Herkenrath and Unique Conversion Team 239 I have always loved to ride when her owner and longtime horses. As a young child, I friend offered Unique to help recall listening to the Kentucky me learn dressage. Unique Derby on the radio with my was retired after years of father, not knowing entirely eventing. She is a beautiful what was happening. I loved Medicine Hat Paint, a marking how exciting it sounded, that is steeped with Native and we listened every American culture. With her year! Listening to the Derby skill, Unique turned out was a big deal for him. As a to be a perfect match and Kentucky native, he trained wonderful teacher. She is horses to pull a buggy, and Mary Jo Herkenrath: 81 | Unique Conversion: 19 | Combined: 100 patient with me while I learn my grandfather built buggies. circles, bending, rhythm and We lived in the city so having get my Master’s Degree. I didn’t have tempo. She also tests me, it a horse of my own was not possible, horses during that time and I missed seems, and helps me to learn things but I convinced my mom to drive me them a lot. correctly. Unique and I have worked to the hunter/jumper stables where I I was in my 60s when I had an very hard and we have become a took lessons starting at age twelve. I opportunity to move back to Florence great team. Because we are both loved riding so much that I promised to a place just down the street from further along in our years, we get myself I would one day have my own where I had lived before. I built a tired, we get sore and I have learned horse. I had a goal that I would finish home and bought myself a Tennessee to honor that in both of us. college and get a job that would Walking horse. I rode in the desert, Riding is great exercise and it keeps allow me to have a horse and a place trailered my horse to my friend’s ranch me doing what I have loved my to keep it. I did just that. to ride, and I loved every bit of it. After whole life. I enjoy being connected After graduating from college, about 10 years, I decided to move to the supportive horse community. I took a job in Florence, AZ, and back to Wenatchee, WA, and retire There is a dressage show here at bought myself a horse. I was put at 74. I joined the local riding club Appleatchee every year, so my in contact with a family of Native at Appleatchee with my Tennessee instructors and friends at the barn Americans who had a very gentle Walker, Vinny. This is where I met a all encouraged me to ride Intro C 2-year-old Mustang for sale. I bought dressage trainer and started taking on June 4th so that I might join the him and got myself a western saddle lessons. My first trainer was a Grand Century Club, and I did it! Riding and rode off into the desert. Prix Gold Medalist who took me on keeps me happy, healthy and ever I later moved back home, married, as a beginning student. I trained with grateful that I can ride every single had children and got some horses. her for two years before training with day at the age of 81. You really are We stayed busy with 4-H showing another local instructor. It is a dream never too old to learn something and trail riding. Years later, at 50, I come true to be learning dressage. new. Doing what I love has kept me decided to go back to school and Unique Conversion came to me young and I plan to ride forever.

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TEAM #240: Sara Magee and Lar Halcon Team 240 I was born and raised in who had been gelded the year Manitowoc, WI. My older sister prior. Hawk was quiet, steady and I were typical horse crazy and personable but had no girls. With the assistance of a dressage training. He didn’t sympathetic mother, we had even have a cue for a canter riding lessons at a stable outside depart and was known to of town, attended a girls camp shake off his bridle on trail rides that offered riding lessons and and return home. Our dressage took every opportunity offered career progressed steadily to spend time on and around starting with Intro classes our horses, always begging for Sara Magee: 75 | Lar Halcon: 26 | Combined: 101 first show season. Hawk proved the chance to have a horse of to be bomb-proof. our own. Miraculously, we were children intervened. It was only after In 2001, we earned the asked to take over the care of a a move to Minnesota and a divorce USDF All-Breed Award sponsored Saddlebred mare whose young that I returned to riding. I began by the International Andalusian and owner had suffered a badly broken lessons at Mississippi View Farm Lusitano Horse Association at First arm and wouldn’t be able to ride nearby. I had been there several Level Adult Amateur Division, Open for the summer. Then that fall, our years and was leasing a Morgan Division, Purebred and Vintage Cup. mother arranged for us to take on gelding when the farm went on the We continued working through the board of two saddle horses market in 1992. The previous owner the levels to Third but the work from a riding stable in Door County arranged for me to take a dressage became too challenging for Hawk. for the winter months. We rented lesson from the soon to be new At age 20, he went into semi- stalls in the barn at the County owner, Kate Phillips. That was my retirement and I bought a younger Fairgrounds for $7.00 a month and introduction to dressage and I was Lusitano gelding for competition. provided all the care for the horses hooked. Not wanting to give up my Hawk’s retirement has him out in ourselves. It was a huge learning horse habit when I retired in 1997, I the pasture playing “uncle” to the curve. asked if I could become the world’s Lipizzan foals. In the spring when the horses had oldest working student. I have It was a wonderful privilege to to be returned, our father reluctantly groomed training horses for Kate take this sweet horse to our Century agreed that we could each have ever since. Ride at the NWDA Cooler by the our own horse. At 15, I became I continued to ride the Morgan Lake Show in Iron River on June the proud owner of a small bay but it became clear that dressage 11th. My sincere thanks to my mare with the inapt name of Raja was not his sport of choice. In the trainer, Kate Phillips, for all the years and joined the group of teenagers fall of 1998, being drawn to the of patience, friendship and great riding through town in parades or Iberian breeds, I started looking for coaching, and to the entire barn exploring the countryside. a new mount. I found Lar Halcon, family at Mississippi View Farm. Then college, marriage and an 8-year-old grey PRE Andalusian You lift up my life.

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TEAM #241: Susan Becker and Geppetto Team 241 I have loved horses all of my to come watch them in her next life. At age ten, I was given my week’s lesson, I agreed. After the first chance to smell, touch and lesson, she handed me Geppetto’s ride a horse at a summer camp reins and invited me to take a trot near San Antonio, TX. At age and canter around the arena. As thirteen, I was able to join a I did so, a most immediate and mounted Girl Scout troop for a overwhelming joy embraced me. short time, which included drill Geppetto is a large, imposing team endeavors plus a ride in Thoroughbred who had evented at San Antonio’s Battle of Flowers Preliminary level and likely higher, Parade, the happiest day of my much more horse with far greater young life. experience than anything I knew Taking lessons whenever about. But I hoped that under possible, I celebrated a 30th his trainer’s care, I might manage to remain on board around the birthday, and could wait no Susan Becker: 71 | Geppetto: 30 | Combined: 101 longer to acquire my first horse, arena. What started as a three and so it all began! With zero and the trust built between us saw us month half-lease turned into an experience, I devoured every horse safely through years of cross-country 11 year partnership with Debi and book in the Golden, CO, library courses and Colorado mountain Geppetto. The three of us continue and begged the librarian to order trails. He brought such passion and to be focused on each other’s welfare more. That first visit to the tack shop happiness, laughter and pride into my and joy, whether trail riding, hand produced a bucket, brush and hoof life. We entered Tetrathalons, which grazing, the occasional lesson, pick, and I thought so naively that I embraced hoping these athletics walking Geppetto in hand through “now I’m set!” Upon entering a would help me ride better. Soon the neighborhood, chatting away, or first local horse trial, the world of horse-less Triathlons, Century bike just grooming and loving up on this eventing opened to me, complete rides, and a marathon followed. most precious horse. with saddles, trailer, trainers, great After ten years of learning and Only recently I learned about the horse friends and trail rides, with the showing, the rest of life intruded Century Club, and Debi has taken ecstasy of horse dreams coming true. and I went on without a horse. Fast my desire to ride Geppetto toward I found my first gifted partner in forward another twenty years to this goal to heart. With her great “Double Scotch,” a liver chestnut 2005 in Golden, CO, when my friend encouragement, we entered to ride with four tall socks and a blaze. Debi Pretz asked me to half-lease her Training Level Test 1 on June 12th Dressage was simply the gate we horse, Geppetto, as she recuperated at the Foothills Chapter Spring into needed to pass through to get to from foot surgery. At the time, I was Summer Show at Table Mountain cross-country, but I soon realized how deep into art studies, creating oil Ranch in Golden, CO. It is doubtful crucial it was as the foundation for portraits of companion animals and Geppetto will ever retire, not as long all riding goals. Dressage principles so declined, but when she urged me as he has his women to look after.

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TEAM #242: Judith Judd and Zordo Team 242 My Century Ride story is work, so we had to eke out about the joy of the journey all the progress we could to accomplish a bucket list in a relatively short time. goal. It’s about horse, rider, Our motto was, “Practice and trainer committing to a doesn’t make perfect, only common goal and working perfect practice makes together through thick and perfect,” so we tried for thin. It’s also about the deep perfection in everything we joy of making progress bit did. Our journey forward by bit. was exhilarating; smoother When I saw a friend do her transitions one day, and Century Ride many years ago, maybe a better trot the I said to myself, “Someday, me next. What I loved most was too.” But things change over building the communication time, and in my case, I broke Judith Judd: 75 | Zordo: 25 | Combined: 100 between Zordo and me, my back when my dressage as well as with my lovely, horse ran away with me, and Photo credit: Kathleen Bryan talented and patient trainer, then I lost him to lameness, I had plan for a summer 2016 Century Heather Sanders. We all came two knee replacements, and I broke Ride, neither Zordo nor I had together within the framework a wrist and an ankle. Nevertheless, been in the show arena for over of dressage (the manifestation of 2016 was the make or break year a decade. We wanted to start our discipline, elegance and perfection). because my horse, Zordo, would be preparation early in the year but When we rode our test on June 25 and my age would make up the in January, Zordo began backing 18th in Fountain Valley, Colorado, balance of the 100 years. off his feed and losing weight. He we were supported by friends and Zordo is a Polish Arabian related had developed a dental condition family who came across the country to a long line of Denver Bronco (EOTRH Syndrome) which required not to see the best in dressage Thunders. The day I retired in a series of surgeries to extract all but to support the dream. Henry 2001, I called Magnus Arabians of his incisors and canine teeth. David Thoreau counseled that and said I wanted to buy a gray Initially it seemed like this might one should “go confidently in the gelding like the king’s horses I had keep us from doing the Century direction of your dreams.” What’s ridden in Saudi Arabia. Zordo is Ride. But we told ourselves, “If important is to go in that direction. that horse; spirited and regal but we have lemons we will make My experience taught me that kind and loving. He is not, however, lemonade,” and the miracle is that sometimes you need to leap before a dressage horse, and thus I have by show time, Zordo had regained you look, and when you plunge in ridden him in dressage shows only his weight and was muscled and fit. and don’t look back, sometimes at the lowest levels. It was almost May before we you have the time of your life. When we plunged into our could start consistent dressage And I certainly did.

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TEAM #243: Julie Lawson and HK Muster Team 243 I grew up on the beach in ten years, I have had many southern California. I have “replacement” parts with both always been a horse lover; of my hips and a disc in my however, horses were not neck; fortunately, none due conducive to beach living. to riding horses. However, it As a teenager, I had to take has not kept me out of the two buses to go to a stable saddle for any longer than to rent a horse! When we necessary. Muster took very moved to Utah, my horse good care of me when I was dreams were fulfilled. My able to ride again. He was as husband bought me a horse quiet as he could possibly be for Christmas that promptly and I always felt safe. I have tossed me five times in the another purebred Arabian, HR period of ten days. That put Electron+ and I have been able my riding on hold for a while. to compete at the Intermediare My four children thought I Level with him. was absolutely nuts. I worked I live in Park City, UT, and full time as a paralegal, yet have my horses at home. I have found time for my passion… trailered to my lessons in Heber horses! City, UT, for 20 years. Come I acquired HK Muster as Julie Lawson: 73 | HK Muster: 28 | Combined: 101 snow or cold, we have been a five-year-old, VERY green on the road. I have been very Arabian stallion. He was full of my Arab. Little did I know how proud to have lovely horses, himself and was quickly gelded. He “addicted” I would become. Muster and I believe they have been good has always been a handful, which started basic training in dressage, ambassadors for the breed. I will has been fun. Arabians have always but collection was not his forte. continue to enjoy the journey and been my breed of choice, as I’m He really preferred trail riding over love my involvement with my not very tall. I was in my 30s before the arena and he has been my special horses. I sat on an English saddle. I then partner for thousands of miles in I was very happy to be able to started lessons, and proceeded to the mountains and valleys of Utah, complete our Century Club Ride show saddle seat for 20 years, as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. At on June 24th at Hilltop Dressage, well as trail ride in the mountains. age 28, he can still be a handful, a USDF, USEF and Utah Dressage When I was approached by a and loves to be out on the trails. Society rated show. Muster and I friend to start dressage, I moaned Dressage is the most challenging rode Intro Level Test A and scored and agreed, as long as I was riding thing I have ever done. In the past a 70%!

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TEAM #244: Esther Siegel and Harmony Team 244 Harmony’s Perspective enjoy the Wizard of Oz quadrille with Esther’s riding students. We I am a 35-year-old Arabian horses like to be together, so gelding who has been living moving with the other three put with Esther at Harmony Gaits in me in touch with my herd instinct. Redwood Valley, California, for But the performance at Rancho 25 years. Murietta was just a little too Before I met Esther, she rode much. There were so many the “trail ride of all trail rides.” people and the music was so loud. This personal quest helped Thank goodness we only did that shape the person she is today. one time! She traveled alone with her dog I bet there are not many for 300 miles in Colorado for Arabians who could put vaulting three weeks, camping in heat on their resume. Who would and snow and having a “great have thought I would trot around life adventure.” She liked it so patiently with a child standing on much she did a similar trip later my back! But it was playing polo with a friend in Arkansas. at her horse camps, where I really Although we never traveled put my foot down. The mallet that far together, I am proud and ball were just too scary for an to say I am fluent in several Arabian like me. languages, Western and English. Esther Siegel: 65 | Harmony : 35 | Combined: 100 We just completed the Century Besides parades, we did a lot of Photo credit: Lana Thompson Club Ride at Highland Springs that dressage stuff; 42 different Equestrian Center in Kelseyville, tests through Second Level. I expectations of how to move or act. California. We scored 64.34% at am quite the forward horse, who The weirdest things though were Training Level Test 1 judged by Anne even to this day can out-walk any those Halloween shows. Being Howard with great fanfare and cake. younger and bigger horse of my in the arena with other dressed I continue to teach the basics of kind. Esther is a psychotherapist up horses would unnerve me. I riding to Esther’s young students, and I assist her doing equine tolerated getups from the Cowardly who also practice the art of braiding assisted psychotherapy, so her Lion to wearing fishnet stockings as on me. I’m just a sucker for their humans can understand themselves a chorus girl. It took Esther hours unending adoration. It’s been a better. I get to be myself during to dress me up and then minutes good life indeed! these sessions without any to strip it off. I have to admit, I did

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TEAM #245: Judith Hybels and Davos Team 245 I started riding at the age of horse from Germany. Davos 12 at Red Raider Camp near moved on to a Maryland farm Cleveland, OH. Four years near Cindy, where two Pony later, I was teaching at the Club girls rode and showed day camp and participating him for two years. In 2011, in local hunter shows with Davos went to the National various camp horses. After Pony Club Championships a hiatus of 11 years for at the Kentucky Horse Park graduate school, two children in Lexington, and I went and my husband’s Air Force to watch. Davos galloped service, we moved to Boston around the jump courses, and I rode school horses at merrily leaving out strides and Dana Hall Riding Center in showing he was still a star at Wellesley, MA. I finally bought the age of 22. my first horse in 1978, a After the two Pony Club 15-year-old Thoroughbred girls moved on, Davos hunter I rode and showed in auditioned for a job as a local competitions. therapy horse at Maryland Judith Hybels: 73 | Davos : 27 | Combined: 100 Davos was born on the Therapeutic Riding, in Straloch Estate near Aberdeen, him successfully in adult hunter Crownsville, MD. He is now Scotland, on April 17, 1989, to and equitation classes throughout a well-loved member of their two German warmblood parents. New England, with trainers therapy horse herd, enjoying all Although he was imported to Cookie and Robin Petersen. He the attention from staff, volunteers the United States as a four-year- won many hunter championships, and riders. old dressage prospect, he clearly and qualified for Massachusetts We celebrated 20 years preferred jumping. In February and New England Equitation together with our Century Ride 1996, Vermont hunter/jumper Finals with both of us. Cindy won at the Potomac Valley Dressage trainer Greg Prince trailered him the Massachusetts Young Adult Association’s Ride for Life at Prince down to Dana Hall for me and my Equitation Finals with him in 1999. George’s County Equestrian Center trainer, Cookie Shirley DeSimone, to Starting in 2002, I took Davos to in Upper Marlboro, MD, on June evaluate as a hunter prospect. Florida in the winter for dressage 25th. Although Davos was very We bonded immediately, as training with Tori Polonitza, and excited to be back at a horse show, Davos clearly had the talent returned north in the summer luckily he behaved himself in the and temperament for an adult to resume his hunter showing. ring. We scored a 63.3% for our hunter. My daughter, Cindy In January of 2010, I bought First Level Test 1 ride, his first and Hybels Johnson, and I showed Farbough, a Hanoverian dressage only at a rated dressage show.

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TEAM #246: Suzanne Hall and April’s Cricket Team 246 Suzanne Hall and leader. She retired April’s Cricket rode from her day job as an for the Century Club Information Systems on June 26th with Customer Support the Western Dressage Manager for Douglas Introductory Level County and has a tax Test 1 at the Umpqua preparation business. Valley Chapter of Suzanne planned to ODS Summer Solstice quit horsing around Dressage Show. Their when the event ride earned a score of horses owned by her 66.876% and a second daughter, Julie Hughey, place finish in the class passed away at ages at Poco Loco Ranch. 34 and 27. Then along This was Cricket’s first came her grandchildren attempt at dressage as Suzanne Hall: 70 | April’s Cricket: 30 | Combined: 100 wanting to ride. Her she is a Quarter Horse grandson started his who was primarily used caught and does not want to be left horse competition for equitation and trail. She was out. She has also raised babies for with Cricket and she took care of a trooper with all the practices, a prior owners. Suzanne feels it is a him. Then his sister Audrey got her show bath and the competition. privilege to know her. first horse ride on Cricket and was Cricket was purchased at age 19 Suzanne has ridden horses since addicted. They have graduated for a first 4-H horse for Suzanne’s she was five years old and has to younger animals but still love grandson, Eston Hughey, who owned fourteen different animals Cricket, and she returns their owns Cricket. They earned many over the 65 years of horsing around. affection. ribbons and championships before Cricket is one of the best. Suzanne It was an honor for Suzanne to her navicular disease made regular is a member of Umpqua Valley ride Cricket so she could become competition too difficult, so she Chapter of the Oregon Dressage a member of The Dressage was retired to providing first rides Society, a former member of the Foundation’s Century Club. Suzanne for other kids just starting out. Dougette’s Douglas County Sheriff’s believes every horse owner should She is always the first volunteer Posse, a former student of Nancy have the opportunity to own a at the gate whenever horses are Hart, and a former 4-H horse club horse with as much heart as Cricket.

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TEAM #247: Elizabeth Rohde and Duke Team 247 As long as I can I can’t thank them remember, I have enough. loved horses. My Duke and I have parents told a story been in a few that when I was schooling shows about three years thoughout the years. old, they took me His teeth are almost to an amusement gone and he has park and put me on Cushing’s disease, a kiddy pony ride. which is controlled When it came time to thanks to his caring dismount, I screamed vet, Dr. Gloria and cried and begged Harrison. His will is Elizabeth Rohde: 70 | Duke: 30 | Combined: 100 to go again. When I just as strong as the Photo credit: Franke Photo Design was ten, we bought day I got him. a farm and one of the decided that was the horse for Duke and I first things my father got me was a me. It was a Thursday at 9:30 a.m. competed at the NEWDA Dressage Morgan stallion. I was told to pull when I told my husband about this Schooling Show on June 26th on the reins to stop, kick my heels horse. To my shock, he said we at the Washington County Fair to go, and if I fell off, check to see should go see him. So at age 58, I Grounds in Intro A to join the if I’m okay and get back on. I fell became the owner of an Arabian Century Club. My final thanks goes off a lot. We had the farm for two Quarter horse named Duke. to Jenny Schmitt, my supportive years, but had to move to town. I boarded him at a local stable trainer who has a lot of patience. My heart truly hurt the day I had to where I met a lot of wonderful As a side note, my husband leave my horse. people who helped me. I couldn’t and I met on a blind date. And I Fast forward to 2004 - a remember how to saddle a horse mentioned that I had a horse when marriage, three kids and pets and I had never seen an English I was younger and someday I galore. We were living in saddle. But two people, Pat Black would have a horse again. Presently Kewaskum, WI, and one day at and Rosie Curtis, were instrumental we have six horses, two are minis. the feed store, I saw a picture of in convincing me that dressage was He should have run away when a horse for sale on the board and for everyone and should be fun. he could.

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TEAM #248: Margo Wain Lee and Temptation Team 248 His real name is Margo is retired Temptation, but from her career as a everyone calls him registered nurse and Tempi. He is a beautiful maintains her license. Hanoverian gelding with She is President of the the wisdom of age and Wain Foundation, a the temperament of charitable organization youth. that helps support St. Dressage trainer John’s Medical Center L.J. Banks took Tempi and other medical off the hands of his establishments. She previous owner, a very is also President of the nice lady who had Los Angeles Mounted decided that at 20 years Police Foundation, a old, Tempi should retire. charitable foundation Fortunately, Tempi had that provides horses, other ideas. He knew equipment and training that he was destined to the Los Angeles to help people learn Margo Wain Lee: 72 | Temptation: 29 | Combined: 101 Mounted Platoon. to ride, and even do Margo and her dressage. Tempi quickly over 40 years and has competed husband, David, learned to work well in his new job. successfully in many shows. Her have four children and seven Since then, at least 40 different horse, James PM, is a beautiful grandchildren, as well as their people have trained on Tempi, 13-year-old Friesian with his own pet, Amadeus Hieronymus Paisley all at different times over many web page, www.jamespmfriesian. Tortoise. years. All these people either com. In 2009, James was the Margo and Tempi worked started their equestrian education champion Star Stallion in the United together for many weeks to prepare with Tempi, or developed more States. Margo’s second horse for their Century Club Ride. The pair confidence in their riding under is Christoper Robin, a beautiful rode at the Los Angeles Chapter the guidance of L.J. miniature stallion who also has his of CDS Summer Dressage Show at Margo has been riding for own web page, www.ministud.com. Training Level on July 10th.

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TEAM #249: Kristann Cooper and Sage Team 249 Kristann Cooper holds Foothills Chapter of the Rocky a Masters in Counseling Mountain Dressage Society where Psychology from Iowa State she helps organize and operate University. After working numerous other clinics and shows 20 years in corporate and throughout the year. governmental organizations, The horse, Sage, was donated she joined her husband in 1992 to the non-profit, Centaur Rising, to work full time as a horse in 2013. He had been abandoned trainer and riding instructor. by previous owners who were She competed first in the North moving away. Michele White American Trail Ride Conference rescued Sage, but could not keep in 1981-85, specialized in the him, due to his requirements for showing of Arabian horses special feed at his advanced age. in 1986-96, operated as an Kristann Cooper: 71 | Sage: 30 | Combined: 101 Kris’ husband, Jim, has always outfitter/guide in the Pike kept Sage healthy, constantly National Forest from 1990-2001, monitoring his welfare. He is and participated in the USDF kept indoors at night year round Instructor Certification Program and blanketed at night in the from 1997-2001. wintertime. She and her husband Jim In the beginning, Sage was have started thousands of dead-eyed and seemed to have people in dressage. They have given up on life. He has since followed in the footsteps of blossomed with the love of both Violet Hopkins, Jim’s mentor youth and adult riders, who in Michigan in the late 1970s. shower him with affection. His Numerous former students now youngest rider has been age two, compete at the international the oldest 73. He won the high level; many are instructors and point junior exhibitor award at the stable owners themselves. At Centaur Rising Dressage Show age 70, Kris continues to teach in 2015, despite the fact that his 20-30 students per week. and instruct since 1981, as well odd initial gaits included neither Approximately 60 students per as a fully operational bed and trot nor canter! year are introduced to dressage at breakfast since 1998. Kris manages On July 10th, Kris and Sage the horse camps Kris has managed 2-3 GMO-sanctioned shows at competed at the Centaur Rising annually since 1993. Kris and Jim Anchorage Farm each summer Dressage Show in Pine, CO, earning Cooper have owned Anchorage and has done so since 2007. the highest score in her class of Farm where they board, train She is currently President of the Intro Level Test B.

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TEAM #250: Ingrid Grossberg and Hideaway’s Erin Prophet Team 250 As far back as I can and I have made! remember, I have always I am very lucky to have the loved horses. As a child support and love of my non- growing up, I lived in a horsey husband, Sid, who large metropolitan city and has always encouraged me horses lived mostly in books to keep pursuing the sport and an occasional one hour I love. ride around a corral. Once I Because Jazze is only 11, entered my teens and was and I am 73, I needed an able to earn some money older mount in order to babysitting, I was able to do my Century Ride. Enter take some hunt seat lessons Hideaway’s Erin Prophet, on school horses. a 29-year-old Connemara College, marriage, and owned by Kate Esterline. In Ingrid Grossberg: 73 | Hideaway’s Erin Prophet: 29 | Combined: 102 two children took my time 2012, Kate showed him and my money and horses Photo credit: Bob Tarr at the USEF Dressage weren’t in the picture at Once I finished my Ph.D., I leased Seat Medal 13 and Under Finals, all. Then a colleague of mine offered a horse and began taking regular where they placed 7th. In 2013, me the chance to take dressage dressage lessons. he won USDF All-Breeds American lessons on his horse. I wasn’t sure Then came a string of horses that Connemara Pony Society Champion exactly what dressage was, but I owned; each one teaching me at Training Level and was Training after one lesson, I was bitten and something new and helping me Level Champion at the Lendon Gray infected by the dressage bug! My move up the levels. During those Midwest Youth Festival. first instructor was Lois Lackey (now years, I endured several injuries and After a few lessons from Joan Yukins) and I learned a great deal illnesses, including two badly broken Esterline on Prophet, I completed from her. legs, a shattered pelvis, fractures, two my Century Ride on July 16 at the I was then fortunate to take bouts with breast cancer and one Dressage at Waterloo Show at the lessons with Carole Grant on her with uterine cancer. But I kept on Waterloo Hunt Club in Grass Lake, daughter’s horse, Mighty Mouse, riding! Michigan. It is my “home” show and finished a successful show My current mount is Jazzebelle G, a grounds, where I have competed for season as Training Level Champions. 14.2hh Arabian mare. We have been many years. It was an honor and so I returned to graduate school to together for seven years, and are exciting to do this ride at Waterloo, obtain my doctorate, which took me planning to show at Third Level next as many in the audience have known seven years to complete. During that show season. I train with Teah Bankes me for years and were excited to see time, I would go on trail rides on at Summerwood Equestrian Center me reach this milestone. Maybe, if all rented horses, but that was my only in Hartland, Michigan. I have her to is well in eight years, Jazze and I will contact with my beloved equines. thank for all of the progress Jazze also reach this milestone together!

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TEAM #251: Margaret Flippo and Honor Bright Team 251 Margaret (Peggy) Flippo award, she was overjoyed, as was originally from Texas she could use the money to and moved to California purchase a horse! in 1978 with her husband In the summer of 2002, and three children. She Peggy went to Tucson, AZ, became a teacher in the to buy an Al-Marah Arabian. Youth Authority, a juvenile These Arabians are known correctional institution. for their good temperament Peggy had ridden a Quarter and good health. She found Horse in Texas, but had no Honor Bright, a six-year-old instruction. She realized that gelding, who had a little she needed help in order to training in basic riding. Peggy enjoy the sport, and started and Honor began the long taking riding lessons. When road to becoming a dressage she started her lessons, she team, which was not easy for was about 64 years old. a green horse and green rider. Peggy began her lessons Peggy had many on school horses, but improvements and unfortunately, school horses discouragements along the were not always available. way as she continued riding

In order to keep riding, she Margaret Flippo: 81 | Honor Bright: 20 | Combined: 101 and training. However, the leased horses, one of which sport was a great release was an Arabian. She liked the prison where she worked knew from her days at work, size and the agility of the Arab and that she really wanted a horse of teaching in prison. began to think that she would like her own. Without her knowledge, On July 23rd, Honor Bright and to have a horse of her own, with some of her colleagues entered Peggy competed at the Spirit preference towards an Arabian. her name for an award for good Equestrian Dressage Show to gain Most of Peggy’s friends at the teaching. When Peggy won the their Century Club membership.

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TEAM #252: Nancy Sawyer and The Dragon Master Team 252 I first met The Dragon many people of all ages. Master, also known as He has taught numerous HotSpot, when he was children to ride, carrying 16 years old. He is triple the most fearful rider registered as a Half- dependably and quietly. Arabian, National Show As we both age, Horse and Pinto. He was we continue to be a very successfully shown connected team. We in halter and later used both are experiencing the as a breeding stallion, aches and pains that go owned by Jean (Lohrman) with aging, but neither of Kitchens for the first 12 us do well without a job. years of his life. When The Century Club Ride Jean decided it was time was Hotspot’s final show to start downsizing, ride, and we proudly Nancy Sawyer: 71 | The Dragon Master: 29 | Combined: 100 HotSpot was gelded, sold, exemplify that aging trained and successfully introduced him to a variety of doesn’t mean quitting. shown saddle seat. After a few activities, in a quest to see what On July 23, 2016, we successfully years, Jean and HotSpot’s current truly “made his heart sing.” We fox completed our ride for the Century owner both recognized that this hunted with Long Lake Hounds in Club at Equitation Station in dearly beloved horse was no longer Long Lake, MN, showed saddle seat, Hastings, MN. We performed very happy with a life of flashy hunt seat and costume, but his true a freestyle to a brass version of showing. So Jean bought him back, love was definitely trail riding. From Barbara Ann. Judge Martina and then retired to Florida. When it the beginning, he would happily go Chapman honored Hotspot with was time to downsize completely, out on his own, relaxed and forward a final score of 80.5%. Her mark Jean wanted to find the perfect through any terrain. of ‘9’ for harmony between horse home for HotSpot. Jean and I were I then began schooling and and rider tells the story. To say friends through the internet horse showing my other horse in dressage that this was an emotional ride is world, and the way she reports and as I schooled Hotspot in that an understatement, as the horse it, she knew in her heart that this discipline, I realized that the gaits, clearly understood on some level horse belonged with me. frame, partnership, and flexibility the significance of this ride. He was HotSpot and I spent the first required to be successful for relaxed, focused and ‘on’ like never several months getting to know competitions were a good fit for us. before. I am incredibly blessed and each other, and gradually I His flashy appearance and love of grateful! attention has endeared him to so

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TEAM #253: Marion Ritchey Vance and Noble Quickly Team 253 This story has a particular Over the three following decades, symmetry to it. In my late teens, I I studied or worked in Europe, Latin spent summers as a children’s riding America and Washington DC, catch instructor for the Broadmoor Hotel in riding, exercising other people’s my hometown of Colorado Springs. horses and dabbling in dressage. Fast One of my students was Mary Carter, forward to the mid 90s when my age 12. Over the next half-century, husband and I returned to my native Mary caught up with and surpassed Colorado, purchased 35 acres in the me in the equestrian field. It is she mountains west of Colorado Springs who coaxed and prodded me into and bought horses. The horse that riding for the Century Club. caught my eye was an 8-year-old Back to the beginning: like many off the track Thoroughbred mare, young girls of my generation, I Marion Ritchey Vance: 78 | Noble Quickly: 22 looking totally out of place in a rocky was horse crazy. Unlike most of Combined: 100 rural pasture among cobs and mules. them, I never grew out of it. My High-strung and insecure, she had first horse was a present for my gained the reputation of “crazy eleventh birthday. Foreshadowing mare.” Fourteen years and many trail a pattern that persisted over miles later, Noble Quickly (Miss Ellie) ensuing years, that horse was a has mellowed but lost little of her mare with behavior problems that youthful verve. testified to mishandling in earlier A year or so ago, she and I were life. In hindsight, dealing with those dug out of semi-retirement by my problems helped build the self- former student and still dedicated confidence I needed to get through rider, Mary Carter O’Connor. There my teenage phase. ensued periodic ring work and finally When it came time to pick a a month of more intense schooling to college, my parents’ main criterion mold an old jumper rider and an off was academic excellence. Mine was the track Thoroughbred turned trail riding. Carleton College offered both. horse into a dressage team. In July I served as president of Saddle Club Broadmoor to select the US Team for of 2016, we had the good fortune for sophomore, junior and senior the 1959 Pan American Games. As a to perform the Century Ride for years. During the summers, I taught side note, although five women were the respected trainer and dressage riding and showed open jumpers among the fourteen finishers in the judge, Janet Foy. We are grateful for the Broadmoor Hotel. In 1958, I 1958 Trials, women were not eligible to everyone we came to know at was an unlikely contender, and even for selection to the Three-Day Team, Inside Track Training in Black Forest more unlikely finisher in the National as the event was considered too for seeing us through an amazing Open Three-Day Trials held at the grueling for them. experience.

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TEAM #254: Mary Brady and Shatar Team 254 I cannot remember a time again won the Northwest when I did not love horses. I Championship Adult Amateur grew up in the suburbs Award at Third Level. I of Seattle before it was a received my bronze medal heavily populated city. When in 1994. I was 8 years old, my father After retiring from teaching, bought a young, green- I joined the Lower Puget broke gelding that really was Sound Dressage Club and unsuitable for a child. He have competed in the was later replaced by a Oregon Dressage Society gentle trail horse and then a league shows/Washington pony horse that came from State Horsemen “B” the racetrack. As a teenager, dressage shows. I joined Washington State I want to thank some Horsemen through a local of my teachers including saddle club. We trail rode Karen Green, Kari McClain, and also participated Gwen Blake, Paula Helm, in parades. and Pat Stauffer. I owe them Fast forward: Seattle thanks and gratitude for the University, marriage, knowledge they have passed Elementary teacher, on to me. Mary Brady: 73 | Shatar: 29 | Combined: 102 motherhood. Jennifer Madden, D.V.M., Photo credit: Renee Hanover When my daughter, Kathy, graciously loaned me her was six, she began hunt seat named “Baliup.” Two years later, wonderful horse, Shatar, so we lessons. She rode a Welsh pony in my dressage days began. “Bally could do a Century Ride. He had walk-trot classes. I also began to Miss,” as she was renamed, was been retired for two years, but take lessons, riding an Arabian/ a “diamond in the rough” and was happy and responsive to once Thoroughbred mare that I’d bred her forte’ was dressage. With the again be in a dressage arena. He and raised. help of instructor, Kari McClain, is an accomplished animal who As my daughter grew older, she we began to compete. Bally won competed at Intermediare 1. He has competed at the “A” rated hunter- the Thoroughbred Breed Award at carried his owners to win silver and jumper shows. When she outgrew First Level in 1990 and again won bronze medals. We rode Intro B at a horse, I inherited it and competed the award in 1992 at Second Level. the Summervale Dressage Festival in in the Washington State Horsemen We competed in the Northwest Roy, WA, earning a score of 75%! “B” rated hunter shows. Championships at Region 6 and My goal is to continue riding and In 1988, a neighbor gave me a won the Adult Amateur Award at to show my mare, Shelby, who is beautiful Thoroughbred brood mare Second Level in 1994. In 1996, we recovering from an injury.

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TEAM #255: Susan Gurin and Jacintha Team 255 Susan, age 75, and Jacintha, age 25 completed their Century Club Ride on August 7th at the Eastern Maine Dressage Association’s schooling show held at Peppergrass Farm in Dixmont, Maine. They completed the Intro B Test with a score of 65%.

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TEAM #256: Leanne Tousey and Sage Team 256 For as long as I can a rather mature remember, I have adult beginner and loved horses and the rest is history. dogs. As a youngster, Kris, who is a couple my first exposure of years younger to horses began at than I, was able summer camp in to understand the Iowa. Every year I limits of a 72-year- signed up for camp old beginning and, as usual, came rider and patiently home and pestered worked with me. She my parents to buy recently completed me a horse. That was a Century Club Ride not to happen, but herself. She selected we always had dogs, Sage, a 30-year- which became a very old Standardbred, important part of my one of the farm’s life. Leanne Tousey: 72 | Sage : 30 | Combined: 102 lesson horses, for my After college and training. It has been a degree in Medical Technology on dressage. a perfect match ever since. Sage, from Mt. Mercy University in Cedar In the meantime, I began breeding no youngster himself, is patient Rapids, Iowa, my husband Mike and exhibiting Miniature Schnauzers, and reliable and we have become and I were married in 1965 and which culminated in handling a dog quite the team. Kristann suggested started our family. We moved from I bred to the ultimate compliment of I train for the Century Club and that a quiet life in northern Iowa to busy Best in Show. became our goal. southern California, and focused After thirty years of breeding I will never forget the day of on the kids and keeping them and showing dogs, and a move our ride, August 14, 2016. With busy. This resulted in horseback to Colorado, I decided it was time my husband Mike, our daughter riding lessons for both of them. to follow my dream and return Sue, and Kris at my side, Sage and Our daughter spent hours training, to riding. So, in September of I completed our test and we are showing and enjoying time at the 2015, at the age of 72, I found so proud to now be members of Cal Poly Pomona Arabian Farm with Kristann Cooper, trainer and owner The Dressage Foundation’s Century her trainer. It was at this time that of Anchorage Farms in Conifer, Club. Thank you for an incredible it became my dream to someday Colorado. She was willing to take day honoring this senior dressage return to riding, especially focusing on the challenges of working with rider and Mr. Sage.

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TEAM #257: Myra Wagener and Bona Fide Beau Team 25 7 I have been thinking about the concentrated more on teaching Century Club for more than a than training. Both of which I year. What a great goal for an have enjoyed in England, where older horse and rider team! I was born, and subsequently Although I stopped riding Canada, then the Bahamas professionally in my mid-60s, (where I owned my own barn I’ve ridden horses belonging for 24 years), then Wellington, to friends or clients over the FL, and since 1999, Grand years. My problem was finding Rapids, MI. the right horse for the Century On Saturday, August 20th, Ride; sound, sane, the right age I entered a dressage show at and available. This horse came Rivendell Stables in Lowell, to me through my good friend MI. It was admirably run by Susan Bellinger, owner of Sunset the All Dressage Association Farm in Shepherd, MI. Susan just of Michigan. I decided not to happened to mention that her challenge myself too much elderly Quarter Horse, Charlie and entered at Intro Level for

(registered as Bona Fide Beau), Myra Wagener: 74 | Bona Fide Beau: 26 | Combined: 100 fun, although I knew Charlie was 26 years old this year. At was more than capable to do last, the stars had lined up! First Level. It was a blast! The Charlie still goes fox hunting, show management made it a maybe not “first flight,” but out party atmosphere, and as you there for the day, regardless. will see from the photograph Susan rides him side saddle, (thank you Stephanie Toth), the and he has been to many 4-H judge and I had a good time. Fairs and Pony Club Rallies. He The judge, Joan Esterline, was mainly lives outside, unless the generous enough to award us a weather is really bad, and Susan 78.4%, enough to win the class attributes his longevity to living and receive a high percentage this way, plus his wonderful championship medal. These all bloodlines. I had ridden Charlie go to Charlie- what a good boy when he first came to the barn he is. eighteen years ago. Having I had a huge crowd of come from a western barn, jumping! supporters and students, and he quickly found out what we I have been a professional for inspired more than one other wanted, and retrained to English most of my life, and gradually, person to find the right horse and with no problem. Besides, he loved through older years, have join the Century Club.

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TEAM #258: Gail McIntyre and Sailor Team 258 I am currently a a tiara. We called her the retired physician, lawyer, Queen all weekend and hospital administrator, happily did all the horse wife, mother of two, care required, allowing her grandmother of six and to focus on riding. Gail owner of three horses. owns three horses Since the age of twelve herself including a retired or so, horses have been a Thoroughbred mare who part of my life whenever she evented. She currently I could find the time and rides her eight-year-old money for them. Over the Friesian cross, Rion, and years, I have owned seven Tuff, a reliable Quarter horses, rented, borrowed Horse for trail riding. Gail or leased even more, is always working at and enjoyed every one improving. She rides three of them. Gail McIntyre: 72 | Sailor: 29 | Combined: 101 or more times a week as Most recently, I have her schedule allows and had the privilege of riding Sailor, to do a Century Ride in partnership works with a variety of trainers, a truly unique personality. While I with this guy! Jane says, “Sailor has always trying to further master have my own two horses that I ride always been a wonderful equine the intricacies of dressage. We regularly, the opportunity to ride partner in the show ring or on the had a great time at the show. Our Sailor is a real bonus. He has been trail. He loves to give rides to all barn friends all supported Gail owned by my friend, Jane Nutter, my grandchildren. We ride Sailor and Sailor. It was a fun, fun, fun for sixteen years now, gifted to three or four times a week and he weekend filled with lots of laughter. Jane as her 50th birthday present. is also used to help beginner riders With the true spirit of dressage, the He came by the name of Strammer learn how to post. I can’t think journey is not about the ribbons, Max, but Jane changed it to Sailor, of better way of honoring this it’s about the wonderful, caring as her husband was a sailor and she amazing horse.” people we meet who love the thought having two sailor boys in Despite a torrential downpour horses like we do.” her life would be a good thing. that delayed my ride by several Despite his age, Sailor has got a It is a unique experience to hours, leaving the rings very wet, we lot of ‘go’ still left. Jane is crossing ride an older horse that has been managed to score a 61.923% for her fingers that in three years he loved and cared for, and allowed Training Level Test 2 on July 27th at will still be able to carry her for her to continue in work to the age of the Dressage at Waterloo Summer chance at joining the Century Club. 29. He is a pleasure to ride, to feel Finale Show. What a great way to celebrate older him move freely, with energy and Sailor’s owner, Jane, adds, “Gail riders and horses and I am very spirit at 29. What a gift to be able decorated her riding helmet with proud to join this very special club.

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TEAM #259: Harry Alban and MNK Made to Play Team 25 9 At age 25, MNK Made to since Western Dressage became Play, or Playboy, as he’s been a recognized USEF discipline, known since he was two days and although with each passing old, has a lot of life and living year, there’s a little more silver yet to come. He greets Harry in Playboy’s tail, and a little less and his wife, Lyn, each morning hair on Harry’s head, they will with a nicker- either of greeting continue to do so as long as or annoyance if he believes his both are able and willing. breakfast is late. Harry, a retired engineer, Although sired by Park loves technical details and Saddle Champion, Chantwood finesse, and while the trail Charterson, Playboy’s young rides were soothing and a lot owner decided that he would of fun with friends, he and be a Western Pleasure horse, Playboy welcomed this new and so he became one, challenge. Who’d have thought garnishing many wins and riding a simple circle could be championships under AOTS so darn hard? Then again, for (Amateur Owned Trained and an engineer, the geometry and Shown) rider, Denielle Peters. precision are thrilling. At 76, When Harry and Playboy Harry is still going strong but teamed up in 2001, Denielle Harry Alban: 76 | MNK Made to Play: 25 | Combined: 101 often thinks there isn’t enough encouraged Harry to continue Photo credit: Howard Schatzberg Ibuprofen in the world to deal Playboy’s show career at A-Rated with the process of aging. Tennessee, the Mark Twain National Morgan shows and the Illinois State On August 31st, Harry and Waterways in Missouri and many Fair, and so they successfully did. Playboy rode Western Dressage others - riding all day, every day for Playboy did triple duty as Harry’s Basic 2 test before judge Marie a week at a time. And yes, Lyn and show horse, trail horse and a lesson Johnson at the Jubilee Regional her Morgan, Edgewood Harley D horse for several young riders. Championship Morgan Show Rider, are right there beside them! In 2012, it was decided to retire to qualify for the Century Club, Playboy was retired from these Playboy from the show ring and scoring 66.52%. This is truly an trail trips in 2011, but he wasn’t he became a full-time trail horse accomplishment for anyone, let ready for pasture just yet. Harry par excel-lance. Playboy and Harry alone a team who meets the and Playboy wanted a little bit have ridden hundreds of miles requirements for this exclusive club. more of a challenge, so they over difficult trails in the Shawnee started taking lessons in Western National Forest in southern (Story by Deb Halsted and Dressage. They have shown every Illinois, the Cumberland Plateau in Lyn Alban) year at the Jubilee Morgan Show

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TEAM #260: Alice Hoffner and Bo Team 260 My love affair with Champion Arabian at horses started with ten Second Level. Life has a cent pony rides a few way of getting in the way blocks from where I lived of fun and in 1984, my in southern California. husband died of cancer. This progressed to weekly My horse riding became lessons and begging for limited and I was no a horse of my own while longer showing because reading Black Beauty, I was running the cattle Smokey and every horse ranch. book I could get my hands Eleven years later I on. My parents’ friends remarried, and shortly said, “Get the kid a horse. Alice Hoffner: 88 | Bo: 16 | Combined: 104 after purchased Bo. She will get over it.” Having just had my hip Being a little on the chubby side, While laid up, I read Drinkers of replaced, my daughter started Bo my father told me I could have a the Wind. Out of my cast, I began for me. I rode him briefly that fall horse if I would lose 15 pounds. a search for an Arabian and found but felt insecure on him. He spent That was motivation enough and Fersam #2055. He had a great 10 years in the pasture until my in no time, I had my wish. It came temperament and we developed an daughter’s dressage horse died and in the form of a mare named Sorrel excellent partnership. A few years she needed a mount. Remembering who was purchased for $40. I rode after purchasing Fersam, I married how much she liked Bo, she took her all over the Santa Monica hills; and moved to Colorado. Fersam was him and began to ride him at the she was a perfect kid’s horse. one of the early Arabian stallions in local Grand Valley dressage shows, During World War II, the race the state and I became a founding eventually showing him at Second track shut down and some of the member of the Arabian Horse Club Level. horses were auctioned. I purchased in Colorado. After a 33 year absence from 2-year-old Arctic Bird, who whirled In 1968, we began a breeding showing, with support from my me around in circles all the way program centered on Polish Arabians daughter and the members of home from the auction. Although and my daughter and I began to Grand Valley Dressage Society, I was able to ride him, he threw revive an interest in dressage. The Bo and I put in a respectable First me off multiple times, and one two of us showed extensively in Level Century Ride at the GVDS Fall unfortunate toss broke my back. the 1970s and 80s. One year my Schooling Show and garnered a I was in a body cast for several Arabian stallion, Magna Terra Rajah, 61%. months, and during this period, had the highest median score at All in all, it’s been a great ride— Arctic Bird foundered and had to be Second Level in Colorado and was and I proved my parent’s friends put down. USDF Top Ten and National Reserve wrong—I’m still horse crazy.

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TEAM #261: Joanna Baker and Maggie Team 261 Joanna never rode horses Maggie, an aged novice as a child or as a young rider on an aged novice person, but she decided to horse. The pair competed take some lessons when in Intro Level Test A to she was in her fifties. She gain membership in to the learned the basics, but Century Club. never got past trotting Maggie, whose vet says in the round pen. After is at least 24, has her own that she went on several story. She was a rescue flat, easy trail rides, but horse found wandering in eventually moved away the desert by the Border from the area in which she Patrol about nine years rode. ago. She was in bad shape At the age of 75, she and the assumption is that decided she wanted to learn she was a Mexican drug to be a competent rider. She Joanna Baker: 76 | Maggie: 24 | Combined: 100 horse. These horses are had read about the Century used hard, and then turned Club and made that loose to live or die when her goal. they get their cargo to its She started lessons with destination. She came to Katherine Calkins at the live at Polly Turner’s farm, J6 Equestrian Center in and Polly introduced her Benson, Arizona. It was a to human kindness. Polly serious struggle. Joanna loved Maggie and rode was not in good shape her on trails. Polly died and realized she knew little about three years ago and about riding. She found Maggie eventually found she was exhausted after her way to J6 and Joanna. most lessons. But over time Joanna had to teach her things slowly got better, and most of her dressage she is certain it has changed moves. “Maggie has been her life. “Before starting the best partner I could riding, I think I was just enthusiasm. imagine,” Joanna said. sitting around waiting to die,” she Her first dressage appearance “She is calm and very willing and remembered. She has lost weight, was in the St. Georg Schooling forgiving of my mistakes. I hope gained muscle and recovered Show on September 10th riding she lives to be 50.”

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TEAM #262: Elizabeth Crosby and Descarado Team 262 Perhaps the first time I saw push forward from behind a horse there was instant and take the bit forward while recognition of a future to be yielding in the jaw. It truly shared with such a marvelous works. creature. At age four, I For over 20 years, I also had started lobbying for a horse. the pleasure of being an “R” At fourteen, my dad said he dressage and “r” eventing would buy a horse for me judge. I retired from my licenses if I could figure out how to in 2005. support it. I could not. For Arthritis changes in my back years, I attended horse camps have ended my riding. I mourn and rode any horse that I could the loss of the ability to ride get close to. a good horse well, but will At age forty, married with always applaud those who three sons, I finally got my ride in harmony with their first horse, a Thoroughbred/ own mounts. I salute those Quarter Horse cross. This horse whom have gone before and could jump over the moon, will follow. but struggled with dressage. I My Century Club Ride was stayed with this horse for ten partnered with a dear friend, a years until I finally figured out horse I have known for more Elizabeth Crosby: 82 | Descarado: 19 | Combined: 101 that it was the horse and not than a dozen years. Desi is an the rider that could not do the Photo credit: Whitney Petersen McIntosh Andalusian gelding that has work. I later learned he had competing through Intermediare 1. belonged to just two owners an untreated neck injury as I earned my USDF bronze and silver since he left the breeder’s barn - a youngster. medals with him, as well as the FEI Dawn McDonald and Melissa Smith. My first serious dressage horse Masters Challenge Award. Both are caring and intelligent was Tirioso, an Oldenburg gelding Through the process of reading, women with whom I have had from Germany who was found watching, listening, analyzing the privilege of working. It was a for me by the late Bodo Hangen. and developing feel, I came to very fitting finale for me at the All Tiri was a wonderful teacher. We understand that the riding masters Dressage Association show in Ada, learned a lot from each other, really meant that the horse must MI, on September 22, 2016.

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TEAM #263: Leanna Mae Bellinger and Fleeting Chance Team 263 My love for horses We moved her to started when I was able our little farmette in to walk and I would Gloucester, VA, and we crawl on my hands have grown together for and knees pretending the last fifteen years. She I was a horse. I loved gives me her very best, my grandfather’s work and I give her mine. I love horses and my aunt’s my Fleeting Chance and I black horse named call her my “last chance!” Traveller. I grew up in I heard about the Maine around animals; Century Club and put however, I would not it on my bucket list, as have my own horse until Fleeting Chance and I much later in life. turned 100 together this I moved to Virginia and year. What a wonderful my husband bought me way to recognize older a horse named “Trace a riders and horses. Thank Leanna Mae Bellinger: 76 | Fleeting Chance: 24 | Combined: 100 Tee,” as his face had a you to TDF’s Century white ‘T’ on it. I loved him Fleeting Chance had been Club, and an even so much, and he lived to what we abandoned by her owner, but my bigger thanks to my wonderful thought was his late twenties. We barn manager continued to care Arabian horse, Fleeting Chance. did not know his real age because for her. I fell in love with her at We rode a Western Dressage Intro he had been bought at an auction first sight. She is a registered full class on September 10th at the from someone else. I boarded him Arabian, and was nine years old Airfield Western Dressage Show at the same farm where I found my when the barn manager gave her in Wakefield, VA, and scored a Century Horse, Fleeting Chance. to me. 69.375%!

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TEAM #264: Robert Gaebel and Special Edition Team 264 Bob Gaebel began going, and never riding Special Edition complaining. In training, (Eddy), a Thoroughbred he requires properly gelding, six years ago applied aids to which when he retired his he always responds so 27-year-old Trakehner that the rider quickly mare, Dynamik. In the realizes if he is doing time since, they have his share correctly. Bob developed a close feels honored to share a working relationship Century Ride with Eddy. and friendship that Bob and Eddy’s Century reminds him of words Ride took place on written by Dick Francis September 17, 2016, that appeared in his at a Classical Attraction novel, Come to Grief (p. Dressage Society show 68). Francis wrote, “I’d held at Ridgewood loved horses always: Stables in Medina, OH. it was hard to explain For their Century Ride, the intimacy that grew they completed the Adult between horses and Amateur Training Level Robert Gaebel: 79 | Special Edition: 22 | Combined: 101 those who tended or Test 2. rode them. Horses lived in merging on an untamed, untamable Bob was also part of a parallel world, spoke a parallel mysterious level of spirit. The Great Team #217 when he completed a language, were a mass of instincts, God Pan lived in racehorses.” Century Ride on Silver King Jimo lacked human perceptions of Eddy is an honest, trustworthy (Bubba) in 2015. kindness or guilt, and allowed a friend. He is always willing, easy

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TEAM #265: Yvonne Ross and Good Boy Garth Team 265 Yvonne started riding as have been riding more, a child and bought her first within reason. Garth has horse with money saved been consistently sound from her paper route. and healthy well into his She and a girlfriend rode 20s because of his steady together in high school and workload and exercise. wanted the horses to be at Garth loves to be groomed, the lake where her friend’s and Yvonne loves to groom. parents had a cabin. The Yvonne says, “He is sensitive girls couldn’t find anyone and willing, and his gaits to haul their horses, so they challenge me. He is a great rode them there! After size and easy to talk to. each day of their trek, they He gives clear cues so you found stabling for their Yvonne Ross: 79 | Good Boy Garth: 27 | Combined: 106 understand him, as well.” horses on the edge of town Yvonne received and walked to a motel began riding at Cross Creek Stables encouragement from family each night. It took them three in 2013 with trainer Heather and friends at the barn, and from a days to ride 100 miles! They had a Salden-Kurtz. She leased a lovely clinic with Kate Phillips who shared, wonderful summer riding around Morgan named Murphy, and a year “A Century Ride doesn’t happen the lake country. and a half ago began leasing Garth. often, and it’s a neat opportunity When Yvonne got married and “Cross Creek is one of the loveliest for more than just the horse started her family, she had to put facilities I have been at,” Yvonne and rider; it inspires the judge, riding aside. Her riding genes were said. “The people are so supportive organizers and spectators.” passed onto both of her daughters, and nice, and the facility is well The Century Ride was Yvonne’s Jackie and Joy. Jackie and her run with a great staff!” Yvonne first experience at a recognized husband live in Wisconsin and both says that she loves training with show, and she spent time working have horses. Jackie does dressage Heather because of her connection on basics and test elements to build and eventing and her husband with people and knowledge of up to the performance on Saturday, does reining. Joy lives in California horses. “She knows how to get the September 24th at the Central and has three upper level dressage best out of each horse and rider, States Dressage and Eventing horses that she bred and trained. understands their limitations, but Association’s Dressage Festival and Next year at Del Mar, Joy and a still pushes them to be the best Championship Show. The team had friend will perform a Grand Prix Pas they can.” a monumental ride in Training Level De Deux! Good Boy Garth, known as Garth, Test 3. Yvonne was both excited It wasn’t until her 60s that is owned by Becky Marchland and nervous, but said that she Yvonne retired and began trail and half-leased by Yvonne. To get now, “understands the place that riding with a friend again. She ready for their Century Ride, they showing has in the Training Scale.”

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TEAM #266: Marcia Campbell and Olster Team 266 “I need to try Olster again,” Outside of horses, Marcia Marcia insisted to her husband, attended Moore College of Art Ross. in Philadelphia and founded “AGAIN? Marcia, you like the the Interior Design Company, horse, just buy him,” said Ross, Campbell and Alexander. She emphatically. has always been involved in the “Well, I am not quite sure if he is arts: botanical painting, jewelry, the right horse for me and I need photography and basket weaving. to know. He can be a handful.” Her elegance as a rider has been “Ok, let’s make arrangements cultivated by her other career to see the horse one more time. as a model for Nan Duskins, the Just one more time. I mean who Philadelphia-based elite fashion on earth tries a horse five times Marcia Campbell and Olster store which was considered one of before making a decision to the best of its kind. purchase him?” her age. “Oh no, people will know Like many horse lovers, Marcia Marcia’s piercing hazel eyes how old I am. Everybody thinks I has been involved with horses since captured Ross’s gaze as she quickly am much younger, as indicated on she was a child and most enjoyed corrected Ross, “Seven. It will be my my Facebook page,” she whispered fox hunting and show jumping. Her seventh time riding Olster.” as she pulled up Facebook on her introduction to dressage was with Marcia and Olster have been iPhone. And there it was, to the the purchase of a New Zealand partners since that day in 2007. For right of the birthday cake icon: Thoroughbred who had a penchant nearly ten years, she has religiously February 5, 1950. for bolting out of the dressage ridden him 4-5 days a week. The Marcia knew she and Olster were arena and beyond. Marcia promptly imported Trakehner has been the capable of showing Third Level, so donated him to Park Rangers and subject of paintings and his image they found a local schooling show replaced him with Widar, a Dutch has adorned the family Christmas through the French Creek Dressage Warmblood, who provided her card year after year. He has been Association. Dr. Sherilyn Allen’s with her first 60% at First Level in Marcia’s confidant, a part of the bucolic and picturesque Ironstone 1992. Since 1992 she has shown Campbell Family. Farm was the perfect setting on four horses in 56 USDF recognized Her trainers, Joanne Coleman that beautiful fall day in September shows. She plans to continue to Greene and Lt. Col. (ret.) Doug for Marcia and Olster to accomplish compete, pursuing her bronze medal Greene of Performance Horse their Third Level ride. Judge Patti and designing a musical freestyle, a Specialists LLC, introduced Marcia Thompson presented Marcia with decade-long dream. She wishes to to the Century Club in the spring of the special black and gold ribbon ride until she is 90. Maybe by then 2016. She immediately embraced which perfectly complimented the Facebook will have her correct the goal until she realized something bouquet of flowers presented to her year of birth. Knowing Marcia, of high concern: the revealing of by Joanne and Doug. don’t bet on it!

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TEAM #267: Lindsay Hofman and Famous Last Words Team 267 The coat my mother had than I had ever owned, and bought me when I was in high Famous had to learn to walk school was fresh from the in the woods; stepping over cleaners, the boots inherited logs and wiggly branches, and from my daughter-in-law were learning that deer aren’t going polished to shine like new, all to hurt us. The walk through the tack was freshly cleaned, the woods was the way we Famous’s mane was braided for got to arenas and lessons. the first time since I got her. The She learned so well that now velvet cover was on my helmet I ride her on a loose rein on and we were ready to ride to the trails and let her find her own park for our Century Ride when way over roots and through it started to rain. puddles. In the ring, Famous Lindsay Hofman: 75 | Famous Last Words: 25 | Combined: 100 We had a 25 minute ride was the teacher. through the woods to the Paradise Carolina and both my boys became In my first year of dressage Ridge arena where the Olympus swimmers. I didn’t have time or training, I learned about muscles I Pony Club was having its fall money for any kind of organized didn’t know I had. I even lost ten schooling show on Vashon Island, training until I retired from Clinical pounds. It’s been a great five years WA. Off came the velvet cover, out Chemistry in my late 60s. At that working with trainers Asia Thayer, came the raincoat and rain sheet point, I was very interested in Jen Verharen and Kyra Gustafson and we were on our way. Happily, dressage but realized that I needed a (Kyra and Jen in the picture), who the rain had stopped by the time we horse who knew what it was about. seem to enjoy working with Famous got to the arena, so we were able to Amy, my son’s girlfriend (soon-to- as much as I do. look our best for our Century Ride. be wife), had a broodmare, Famous Famous is a 16.2hh Westphalian The moment I had been dreaming Last Words, whom she could no Warmblood with the heart of a about arrived when we halted for longer keep. Famous had been lap dog. She loved having people our final salute and judge, Nichole trained to Fourth Level when she all around after our Century Ride, Charbonneau, raised her arm to had injured her left hind suspensory congratulating us and telling her indicate we had completed the test. ligament, and she was retired. She what a great horse she is. I was We were very close to her, as we was sound when I met her, but going to give her a week off after had just finished First Level Test 3 needed rehabilitation. Amy asked our ride, but after three days she with the final halt at G. if I would like her, and since I could was following me around and I was a horse crazy girl who never keep her at home with trails, an leaning over the pasture fence outgrew her horse craziness. I had arena and good trainers nearby, it giving me a look asking, “Why horses at various times in my life seemed worth trying. aren’t we going out?” I hope we and my son rode for a few years in The first year, I had to learn to be will be going out together for a Pony Club, but we moved to North comfortable with a bigger horse long time to come.

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TEAM #268: Barbara Burkhart-Spragg and Arie Team 268 When I came to Michigan stifle injury and we did a few from Ohio at the age of 29, schooling shows after that. both of my children were in He’s been a great horse for my school so I joined the Tray, MI, grandchildren to hop on and riding club. There I met a dear feel safe. He loves attention friend named Peg Okamoto and is fun to ride. who encouraged me to get a I donated two of my horses horse, ride and show. My very in the past to Bloomfield first horse was a Morgan cross School Farm where I worked named Kory and our jumping with the students and career didn’t last long when he managed some horse shows sustained an injury. We started for them. I hope someday taking dressage lessons from to be able to give back, stay Judith Franklin and it was at in horses, maybe work with that point my dressage passion handicapped riders or a began. I’ve had five horses in veterans riding program. my life so far. We joined the Century Club Doing the Century Ride was on October 8th at the Ashley a thrill for me. The horse I Oaks Farm Schooling Show, rode, my “retirement horse,” and rode Intro Test B. Thank was Arie, a 29-year-old grey you to the Century Club and Trakehner. We showed up to Arie. I feel blessed to be a Third Level before he had a Barbara Burkhart-Spragg: 71 | Arie: 29 | Combined: 100 part of it.

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TEAM #269: Judith Simms and Beyers Charge It Team 269 My first introduction to horses Skip Fourth Level Horse of the Year, was through the writings of and me a Qualified Rider at Fourth Walter Farley. The Black Stallion Level Certificate. That same year I galloped through my dreams earned my USDF bronze medal. when, as a ten-year-old city While I was showing the “big” dweller, I fell in love with horses. horses, my Arabians at home were At the age of 32, my husband aging. It was my intent to ride Just bought me my first horse who Right (JR) for the Century Club in admittedly knew a lot more 2016. Sadly, in June of 2015, JR about me than I did about her! I colicked and died. Needless to say, struggled for years trying to ride I not only mourned his passing, I on my own with little success. mourned losing our partnership for When I was 39, a friend of mine the Century Ride. At that point, my started taking jumping lessons. neighbor, Grant McKee, offered Judith Simms: 73 | Beyers Charge It: 27 | Combined: 100 Well that’s all she wrote - I was the use of his Quarter Horse. Not hooked! Showing Arabians at breed shows only was this a generous offer, but In 1981, my husband Charlie and was fine, but when I went to open Grant and his wife Janet spent many I moved to a small 30-acre farm, 45 dressage shows, I realized that my hours working with me, helping me miles from my job at KMOX radio in size and Hawk’s size were not a off and on the horse when I couldn’t downtown St. Louis. Having our own compatible picture in the open ring- do it by myself. Beyers Charge It farm enabled us to raise, train and I’m 5’11” and Hawk was barely 15 (Cotton) proved to be an extremely show horses, which we did for many hands. I began looking for a larger talented horse. After working with years. I always told my city friends horse. Meeting Sommersby (Skip) him for three weeks, he and I went that I didn’t need the tranquilizers changed my whole riding life. Here into the ring at the SLADS show and they took - I had horses to keep me was a 17-hand Anglo-Trahkener, earned a 70% in Intro A. sane. After several years of breeding, shown through Intermediare, who I want to thank the Century Club training and showing Arabians, I could take me up through the levels. for giving me a chance to once again entered my Arabian stallion, Saracin Don’t let anyone tell you that owning enter the show ring. I haven’t been Hawk, in a dressage class. We didn’t a schoolmaster automatically makes able to show for several years, but do very well, but I was very lucky you a Grand Prix rider! For two the chance to ride for the Century to attract the attention of Arabian- years we trailered to ride in clinics Club gave me the incentive to dressage pioneer, Alice Martin. She at StarWest with Gerhard Politz. I get back in the saddle. Thanks to came up to me while I was working never worked as hard as I did then all the outstanding trainers who with Hawk and offered her services to make my riding reach the level of have helped me along the way, as a teacher. I began working with Skip’s training. The hard work paid and especially to the friends and Alice, and it has been a friendship of off in 2006 when the St. Louis Area neighbors who helped prepare me 25 years. Dressage Society (SLADS) awarded for this wonderful ride!

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TEAM #270: Leona Dushin and Bit O’ Honey Team 270 I came from a family of well- For 44 years, I have been reputed horsemen - both my selectively breeding Morgan grandfather and father were horses for their disposition and known in horse circles around gait. These horses have proven Long Island. I got my first to be outstanding for teaching pony when I was five and a children. Thoroughbred jumping horse Honey was born here out of at the age of thirteen. In high a POA mare (no spots) by my school, I was a member of the stallion, Glory B, out of Broadwall June Taylor Dancers. Betsy Lyn by Broadwall Parade. During the war, I helped train Her dam, Sweet Honesty, was race horses from Long Island the best pony I ever had. My tracks. I started teaching riding at Leona Dushin: 90 | Bit O’ Honey: 37 | Combined: 127 daughter never left a show the age of sixteen as President of without winning Champion Pony the Queens College Riding Club. At NY, and continued teaching Hunter. We got her as a ten-year-old 19, I joined Ringling Brothers Circus horsemanship at Manitou Farm who had never been backed and two and rode in a ménage (quadrille to children, adults and sometimes weeks later, she earned second in a with eight horses) trained by Captain handicapped riders. My operation, walk-trot class! William Heyer. I studied with Dr. called The Horse and Pony Club, Honey has been as reliable as H.L.M. Van Schaick for four winters was sponsored for a number of her dam and a favorite of my Pony and also completed three Pony Club years by the Garrison School PTO. Clubbers over the years, and I have instructor courses including one at As the operations of Manitou Farm evented on her as well. I know Honey Teala-Wooket Camp with “Cappy” expanded, it became a branch of the could do Training Level even just Marsman. These three instructors US Pony Club. In 1978, it became out of the pasture, but I’m afraid were on the same Netherlands Grand apparent that the handicapped and I would run out of breath after Prix team at the 1936 Olympics. emotionally challenged benefitted the first trot sequence and need I received my B.A. in Art and enormously from the contact with to stop. Therefore, we rode the Education from Queens College, an equines. That year the Foundation for Introductory Level Test at Frazier Farm M.A. in Science from City College Therapeutic Riding was established, in Woodbury, CT, on June 6th for our and an M.A. in Special Education also which included recreational therapy, Century Ride. from City College. I have a bilingual hippology and equine facilitated The vet is very satisfied with Honey’s ancillary license to teach Spanish. I mental health. The work with condition at age 37 and I’m better taught Middle School Science in New handicapped riders brought benefit to than ever at 90, and still having fun York City for seven years and was a children and adults I gave lessons to, with horses. Honey is also a carriage Bilingual Educational Evaluator for six as they were presented a chance to horse, therapy horse and vaulting years before retirement. volunteer and understand people with horse! She will carry anybody safely In 1955, I moved to Garrison, disabilities. and soundly, even at her age.

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TEAM #271: Conni Purciarele and Aladdin Team 271 I grew up on St. Simons Island, gelding for me to ride instead. GA, where I adored horses for She got Aladdin when he was as far back as I can remember. I 12 years old. He is out of Raffles, read every horse book I could get which is a Crabbet line. He was a my hands on and pretty much trail horse, and when he turned learned to ride from books. I fifteen, she did a series of limited was always drawing horses in distance (25 mile) endurance school, and I rode as much as rides. He always finished in the possible during high school, but middle of the pack, except for managed to go practically every one fifteen mile race that he weekend once I was in college. won! He is 29 now and is still I studied graphic arts in college ridden regularly. He loves to go! and returned to St. Simons, got He is very sweet tempered and married and had a family while has been a willing trail partner. working as a graphic designer The Arabian in him still shows up and photographer. when he is in a group of horses. My first horse was a Quarter His job was, and he still thinks it is, Conni Purciarele: 72 | Aladdin: 28 | Combined: 100 Horse gelding my cousin gave to get to the front of the line! me when I was 31. He had run with Belle Mead, Whiskey Road and We have been working on our wild with a herd until I brought him Misty Morning Hounds. We even dressage test for the last couple of home. For the next fifteen years, did a 25 mile endurance ride down months. It’s not his favorite thing, but we rode trails and learned to jump, near Tampa. We loved to come up he has been a fantastic partner, and eventually exhibiting at local horse to South Carolina to visit an old high I’m pleased to be riding him for such shows. After the horse’s death, my school buddy to ride in Hitchcock a momentous occasion. husband purchased my once-in-a- Woods and camp in the mountains. Of particular interest is the fact that lifetime partner, Kahlua, a Quarter Kahlua also had the distinction of Mary Lewis, the dressage judge who Horse who moved and looked more being in two of Reba McEntire’s scored my Century Ride at Stable like a Thoroughbred. Together we videos! View in October, was my sorority jumped, showed, rode the beach My husband and I moved to sister, roommate and riding partner and trails and worked on dressage. Trenton in 2000 where I later in college! We have remained close After starting with hunter paces, we retired and began painting again, friends over the years in spite of not moved up to eventing, where we specializing in animal portraits. living near each other. It was super competed at Beginner Novice and When I heard of the Century Club, having lots of my riding partners and eventually Novice level. I was telling a new acquaintance, horse-loving friends come out to I never had regular lessons or Connie Jarznick, that unfortunately cheer me on as I completed Intro A schooling, just an occasional lesson Kahlua did not live long enough for for my Century Club membership! once a year or so. We fox hunted us to join. She offered her Arabian Horse friends are the BEST friends!

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TEAM #272: John Weir and Admiral Team 272 John rode backyard horses the group. in cowboy style as a youth. Admiral is a quarter When his daughter developed Hanoverian, three-quarters an interest in horses he readily Quarter Horse, who was bred agreed to support her. She and raised on the Weir Farm wanted to compete and he in Marshfield, WI, with hopes decided that if he was going of becoming an eventer. to haul her and her horses, However, he developed anxiety he would compete as well. for standards, poles and any When she developed interest form of arena decoration. in dressage he tried it, then Consequently, he was always tried jumping and got hooked, second, sometimes third, on the especially with cross country. list for training and working. For several years he bred, He was started in dressage and raised and worked with his eventing several times but never horses in Marshfield, WI. He developed thoroughly. competed in Quarter Horse and When his stall mate developed John Weir: 82 | Admiral: 19 | Combined: 101 USCTA events in the 1970s and tendon problems, Admiral 80s, being Wisconsin Training for this ride with the idea of being became the only ride, but was Level Champion and District competitive, not just doing it. It used for trail and pleasure riding. He Reserve Champion one year. was difficult through June and July. has always been content to be “the He showed his Quarter Horse, The two stiff, achy old men scored other horse.” He has been easy to The Windy Dude, to Fourth poorly in their first competitions. In keep, loveable and eager to please Level dressage. August and September it became over the years. After two years of In 2013, John showed a friend’s more enjoyable; both John and very limited riding, John decided horse, Bo Rambo, in a Century Ride Admiral were having fun. Scores to give him some real time. They and earned membership as Team increased and they earned a score spent the summer developing new #133. After several years of very of 68.636% for their Century Ride muscles and moves. Admiral seems limited riding, he and his horse, on October 13th at the Virginia to have enjoyed it and seems to be Admiral, have reached Century Dressage Association’s Fall Show, asking, “Why didn’t we do this Ride age and they have worked which was quite competitive in long ago?”

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TEAM #273: Barbara O’Kelly and Joys Midnite Jazz Team 273 I was one of those horse-crazy Perky became a boarder at girls stuck in the city. My first Massman Stables in 1994, and we words were “Mommy,” “Daddy” earned a few ribbons at Training and “Pony.” At age three I was Level. Then, in August, Perky trotting on roadside ponies; at started to be ‘off.’ She became seven I took the streetcar to increasingly uncoordinated over weekly lessons at a livery stable. a period of months. EPM was At 10, I got bucked off in my first suspected, but there was no horse show. During high school, known treatment. a classmate’s father drove us to a Over the winter Perky stabilized; suburban stable to ride. we started by hand-walking, Adulthood interrupted my and I resumed light riding a year horse pursuits, but in 1968 later. We eventually progressed husband Larry and I fell in love to exploring Michigan’s fabulous Barbara O’Kelly: 76 | Joys Midnite Jazz: 25 | Combined: 101 with Arabian horses. We decided trails. Perky LOVES trail riding! to breed Half-Arabians—starting lessons with Roz Kinstler on her Goodbye, show ring. with a high-stepping Half-Morgan school horses while doing ground In 2010, I got to celebrate Century mare. Justin’s Fancy was definitely work with Joy. I’ll never forget the Club Ride #76 by Roz’s student, not for sale, but owner James Miller first time I mounted Joy - I touched Dr. Jorge Gomez, and in 2013 I agreed to a loan while he attended her with my left leg, and her applauded both Jorge’s (#142) and college. hindquarters moved right. I touched Sue Hughes’ (#143) qualifying rides. In 1971 I met Fadene El Azjaa, her with my right leg, and her A whole new possibility emerged for a two-year-old grandson of the hindquarters moved left. I touched fulfilling my long-dormant freestyle legendary Fadjur. Fancy’s Joy–the first with both legs, and she walked dream! horse I owned–was born the next forward! On October 27, 2016, it came true. April at Willowpond Stable in Mason, Joy produced five lovely foals by Maryal Barnett judged Joys Midnite MI. We moved to our farm in 1973, Avatar Al Sufi, but when Avatar’s Jazz and me riding a Training Level and Cody (Weiss) Siebert rode her 1984 promotional showed several Freestyle to “Take Five” at Massman pony two miles down the highway Percussion get trotting in perfect time Stables, and many friends helped us to help me. (Cody is now a dressage to Brubeck’s “Take Five,” I thought celebrate. I am extremely grateful instructor and trainer in Texas; she “freestyle dressage test!” The last to TDF, Maryal, Roz, Avatar’s Jan was recently World Champion of Joy’s four Percussion foals, Joys Senneker, Leesa Massman…to so Western Dressage Freestyle!) Midnite Jazz, was born in March many people over so many years As Joy was growing up, I got some 1991. “Perky” quickly earned her who made possible all the milestones excellent advice: basic dressage is nickname, and I started dressage leading Perky and me to reach the ideal preparation for any equine lessons with Maryal Barnett to Century mark in good health with discipline. In 1974, I started taking improve my riding! enduring zest for life. Thank you all!

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TEAM #274: Barbara Bagg and Irish April Team 2 74 By Elese Viloria my grandma and April began Irish April (registered name working on those perfect 20 meter April in Ireland) came off the circles. April enjoyed the work racetrack when she was 5 years almost as much as she enjoyed old. With 47 starts at the cheap sleeping, but not quite as much as tracks in Oregon, she never won she enjoyed her carrots. a whole lot and for that we’re April and my grandma had set grateful. My grandma bought to achieve the Century Ride goal 7-year-old April for $600 at a this past year. April turned 24 in broodmare dispersal. Our initial April, and my grandma turned 77 intention wasn’t for April to in September, and the ride was become the great dressage horse scheduled for October. However, she was, but for her to provide Barbara Bagg: 77 | Irish April: 24 | Combined: 101 April passed away just a few short us great sporthorse babies for weeks before their Century Ride. BJB Sporthorses. However, April trail riding; April, as quiet as she Fortunately, the pair had been never seemed to keep a foal. We was, wasn’t spooked by much on practicing a musical freestyle for found out that she previously had the trail but she did have to learn their Century Ride, and had a video already had a miscarriage and been that the world wasn’t flat and she recording that was judged for their left infertile. So there ended April’s actually had to look where she induction into the Club. broodmare career. was putting her feet. The pair also April was a great partner April had the sweetest disposition did some light jumping, where and teacher who will never and best ground manners, so in Grandma learned she didn’t quite be forgotten. As Barbara’s 2002, my grandma took her to have the tact and timing to support granddaughter, April was the first Horse Butte Equestrian Center in April in that endeavor. However, horse I learned to canter on as a Bend, OR, to the family trainer, it was then we learned that April child, also the first horse to dump Betsy Soule. Betsy began training had a bone chip that might have me in the dirt. Many who knew her April to be a proper riding horse for caused her discomfort in jumping. have fond memories of her, and she my grandma to ride, but just like So from there on out, the pair was will always remembered as the quiet any off the track Thoroughbred, grounded. chestnut mare over by the pond, April had her quirks. She learned April, Grandma and Betsy began or the mare asleep in the crossties. that life wasn’t always a race; that focusing on the art of dressage in We’d like to thank Betsy Soule for she didn’t have to take off when training and lessons. One might her long-lasting riding and training horses came up behind her, and have cocked his head at the idea of April, Audrey Goldsmith for her that it was perfectly acceptable to of April doing dressage, with her never-ending dressage knowledge fall asleep in the crossties. high head and bright eyes, but with and everyone at TDF for helping Grandma and April spent 14 the help of local dressage trainer my grandma and April achieve years riding together. They began extraordinaire, Audrey Goldsmith, this honor.

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TEAM #275: Karen Kim and Strippers Red Robin Team 275 My life with horses started if the horse trailer is already about 40 years ago while hooked up to the truck, or if I was living in Houston, she’s even seen me go into TX, and took a vacation to the trailer, then she’ll take off visit my sister who lived in again. She wasn’t broke to Minneapolis. She had been the saddle until she was nine, taking jumping lessons, as and it took both my sister and I remember, and I went to I to get her going. She refused watch one of her lessons. to move on her own. One of Horses had always intrigued us would have to get on and me, so when I returned home the other lead her around. At I got out the yellow pages least she didn’t try to buck and looked up riding lessons. I and take off with someone Karen Kim: 73 | Strippers Red Robin: 27 | Combined: 100 ended up at a stable that had on her back! She was stiff an eventing trainer and started footsteps; he was also very good and very crooked, I think taking group lessons, driving an hour at dressage! One year he tied for because she was started so late and after work to the opposite side of third in the old AHSA Zone 7 when was not as limber as a younger horse. town. only scores from recognized shows We worked through the stiffness and Eventually I bought a four-year-old were counted and there was no she actually ended up being a nice Quarter Horse mare (Mama) with a championship show. He also received mover and did well at the schooling foal at side (Little Man). By then I had a USDF Breed Award for Quarter shows we went to. She really enjoys also started doing competitive trail Horses one year. He’s 32 now and trail rides and is very dependable. riding with the North American Trail I don’t ride him anymore, so he is Robin was seven years old Ride Conference. At the same time enjoying a well-deserved retirement. when the Century Club was first that I began to realize that jumping Then there’s Robin, my Century announced 20 years ago, and I was not for me, I began to realize Club horse, who was another foal thought at the time, “How great how much I enjoyed dressage. It out of Mama. She was born with would it be to still have one of my gave me so much enjoyment just her ears pinned back! For several horses to do the Century Club ride to ride and work with my horses. years, when she saw me coming she on!” And we did it on October 30th I broke Mama and did a couple would take off and gallop through at the STRIDE Dressage Association of dressage schooling shows with all the pastures, and when she finally schooling show, riding Training her, but mostly did competitive trail stopped she would always turn her Level Test 2. My goal of 20 years riding. She placed in almost every butt to me and threaten to kick. I still has been realized! Thank you to ride we ever entered, all over Texas. have to have some cookies when I TDF for continuing to promote the She was a rock on the trail! I started fetch her from pasture, but at least Century Club, and to STRIDE for their working Little Man when he was two now she will nicker when she sees encouragement to their members to years old, and he followed in Mama’s me coming and stand still – except complete the ride.

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TEAM #276: Sarah Weiner and Jet Team 276 My father order not to mess was an Army up her attempts at officer and he eventing. was assigned to My Tokyo, Japan, granddaughter in 1949. It was never actually in Japan that I showed him, but I started taking had fallen in love riding lessons. with dressage. From 1950-1952, Over the next I used the Army years, I took Cavalry horses, lessons when I jumping them could and really over five foot enjoyed them. fences. After I showed Jet we left Japan, I Sarah Weiner: 76 | Jet: 25 | Combined: 101 twice in Training did not ride again Photo credit: High Time Photography Level. When the until 1969, when North Carolina State Dressage I bought my own horse, Princess granddaughter enrolled in NC State Team relocated to the barn where Fleta Gal. I kept her until I divorced shortly after my move. I board Jet, I found my teachers in 1983. I purchased Jet in 2006; he had Jan Jacobson and Jennie Lorenzen. I did not ride again until 1998, been a school horse for a barn in They have been instrumental in when I was living in Florida and the northern area of NC. At first, I improving my riding with Jet. I shared a horse named Swift rode Jet just for pleasure and fun hope to be able to continue getting Award with my granddaughter. I and jumped him on occasion. My better for a long time. rode in the morning and she granddaughter decided to do some On October 30th at the Harvest rode in the afternoon. That eventing with him, so I agreed. I Moon Show in Rayford, NC, we worked for a while until I moved decided at that point that I should completed First Level Test One to to North Carolina in 2005. My learn something about dressage, in join the Century Club!

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TEAM #277: Dolores Murphy and Take Note Team 277 My first years. introduction to When I learned horses was when about the Century our daughter Club, I thought decided she it would be fun wanted to ride. to return to the Brigeen joined the dressage arena Fresno Pony Club, and would be such which started the an honor to join adventure of my this elite group of life. After many people. On Sunday, hours of cooling out October 30th, Mister her horses, hauling Dolores Murphy: 80 | Take Note: 21 | Combined: 101 and I joined the horse and child from Club at the Fresno here to there, it was Surprise Package, known as Jody. County Horse Park my turn. My riding career started Jody and I competed in Training Dressage Show and rode Training at the age of 45. To say the least, I Level dressage, the Long Stirrup Level Test 2. I must thank the very was a bit reluctant, but determined Hunters and quadrilles. During that special group who helped make to fulfill my dream. time, my children and husband this possible for me: My husband Sir Tahlequah, a classic chestnut rode and competed with me. We Mike, daughter Brigeen, sons and white blanket Appaloosa had a great time together. It was a Patrick and Michael, my dear friend became my first horse. He was my family affair. Merrie Velden, my trainers Lucinda teacher. We did our first Novice When Jody retired it was not easy Striker (dressage) and Gary Striker event in 1986 at RAM TAP, now to find the right horse again, until (hunters) of Striker Stables, Fresno Fresno County Horse Park. We Take Note, known as Mister, arrived County Horse Park and the Fresno continued to event and do dressage upon the scene. Mister is a spunky Chapter of California Dressage for the next few years until his ex-racehorse who was an amateur Society. Mister has the privilege retirement. Time passed. The next owned jumper before coming to of living at the Striker stables. I special horse to enter my life was me. Mister and I have had a great can’t begin to express my joy in a very sweet school horse named time in the hunter ring together for accomplishing this dream.

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TEAM #278: Richard Freeman and Laoma Team 278 Riding started for me as to get over the “Second Level a 12-year-old at a stable hump” and work towards specializing in Saddlebred earning her USDF Medals. They horses located at Audubon earned the Bronze Medal two Park in New Orleans. I gave years later, and the Silver Medal up that effort after too many one year after that! falls. Over the years, I rode Laura shared, “After dead broke horses at dude taking a two year break from ranches and sedated horses competing, I loaned Laoma to a in Mardi Gras parades in friend who needed her two Prix New Orleans. In the late St. Georges scores for her Silver eighties, I bought a horse Medal. They accomplished that after purchasing a country in one show. Following another place with a stable. Riding two year semi-retirement, lessons followed, of course, Laoma went back to the ring at and since I was being tutored Prix St. Georges as a 21-year- by a dressage rider, I struggled Richard Freeman: 78 | Laoma: 23 | Combined: 101 old after I got a new horse, and eventually joined the ranks and he suddenly stepped up of riders who spend a lifetime with my Arab stallion! The trip was his quality of work. It seemed learning to ride dressage. Later, after a “get acquainted trip,” but I liked he wanted to prove he still had it, so purchasing a trained horse, the horse what I saw so much that I imported he went along to shows and actually took me around in some Prix St. five mares after the visit to Denmark. beat the younger horse in most of Georges tests. In addition, I began a relationship their classes.” By now, I was seriously under with Leif Soerensen, which is still “That’s when I got the idea of the influence of the horse bug going strong. Today I enjoy breeding loaning Laoma to Richard for a and had begun breeding Polish warmbloods, but I relish the fact Century Club Ride. Laoma and Arabians. Since I wanted to breed a that one client from the days of Richard had to wait a couple of larger riding horse, I thought about the Arab-warmblood cross is still years to meet the minimum age warmbloods as a way to cross with breeding successfully from that early requirement, so 2016 became the the Arabians to increase their size. experiment. year to go for it. The pair made a A business associate had talked My niece, Laura Freeman, owns great match and even share the same to me about his wife’s riding and the horse which was a critical part birthday. At 23, now Laoma gets to her warmbloods, so I called him. of the team. Laoma is a KWPN really, REALLY retire.” The trainer his wife worked with gelding, imported from Holland by On November 5, 2016, Laoma and happened to be on his property Sally Dietrich as a three-year-old, and I entered the ring to ride Third Level when I called, and a week later I was trained to Prix St. Georges. Laura Test 1 at the Amen Corner Farm in Denmark looking at mares to cross purchased him as a school master Schooling Show.

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TEAM #279: Karen Stapf and Corie Team 279 As a kid, I had always wanted Carr at MSU, he was. The to ride and have a horse, but second incident was blowing we lived near the ocean and out his medial collateral horses were not a way of life. ligament. It hung together by The passion never ceased, but threads. Corie spent almost a life got in the way. Corie was year in a stall and rehabbed my 50th birthday gift from my very slowly to return to being husband, and my first horse. completely sound, thanks to Quite by accident, I met a Dr. Rob van Wessum. All this wonderful breeder, Lynn Shpak time, Corie’s fantastic Morgan of Statesman Farm in Maryland, temperament never changed. who introduced me to the Corie is and will be my only world of the Morgan horse. She horse. Today I ride him or do was a true horse whisperer. I Karen Stapf: 74 | Corie: 26 | Combined: 100 ground work five days a week began lessons on Corie’s father, and my vets say to keep it up. The Statesman, and very soon Jeanette Landrith. I knock on wood because I after, we purchased Corie as a two- Corie and I have spent 24 know there will come a time to say year-old, not yet gelded. years together, and as with any goodbye. As I write this, the tears This began our life together. We relationship, it has had its ups and are welling up just thinking of it. established a close relationship downs. He was my rock when I lost We have been a couple; actually the spending hours teaching him his my husband at 52, just two short longest male relationship of my life, ground manners, how to load, take a years after purchasing Corie. He and I adore my boy! bath and even be vacuumed. I taught absorbed more hours of tears than On November 18th, I rode the him basic obedience as I would my I could count. His gentle nickering Green As Grass Dressage Test 1 at dogs. He doesn’t sit but does heel! helped me through so many the Tristan Manor Farm Schooling To this day, he has the best manners dismal days and months. In return I Show, earning a 78%! There were of any horse in any barn where I’ve promised him that he would have my 30 people in attendance for my ride, boarded! love and the very best of care for his and the crowd didn’t faze Corie Initially, I thought I would be a entire life. in the least, even with applause pleasure rider, but I learned about Corie has had two very close calls. and cameras flashing. There were dressage and thought for a 50-year- First he contracted Potomac Fever flowers, gifts and big party with old green rider, it might be the (he was fully vaccinated), and then flowing bubbly. It was an unexpected smarter, safer way to go. In the end, Salmonella. In all, he spent 30 days emotional experience and so very I am a pleasure rider with a dressage in the ICU at Michigan State. I was meaningful, clearly a pinnacle bent. After relocation to Michigan, assured that if he survived with moment for me! Thank you for the I board at Tristan Manor Farm, a proper rehab, he would be good as opportunity of honoring our 100 dressage training barn owned by new. Thanks to the care of Dr. Betsy combined years.

55 ISSUE 21 / JANUARY 2017 THE CENTURY CLUB NEWS We are so proud of all of the CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS 1996 - 2016 Century Club Members! YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE 2006 1996 1 Lazelle Knocke Readington, NJ Don Perignon 2005 35 Mary A. Towsley Durango, CO Zico 2 Dr. Max Gahwyler Darien, CT Prinz Eugen 36 Audrey E. Evans Philadelphia, PA Robin Hood 3 Dr. John Bland Cambridge, VT Bay Flint 37 Carol Stratton Hartland Corners, VT Galloping Sofa 1997 4 Charles A. Chapin Chatham, IL Chicaro Cocoa 2006 38 Edwin Sayre Ride #2 Carmel 5 Charles A. Chapin Ride #2 Piroshka 39 Russell Fawcett Sierra Vista, AZ Iron Cloud 1998 6 Ruth Fanton Honeoye Falls, NY Little Once 40 Russell Fawcett Ride #2 Snowy River 7 Patricia Metcalf Koloa, HI Fleur de Lis 41 Carey Evans Portland, OR Enjoy 8 Nan Agar Rocky Hill, NJ Skipper 42 Lothar H. Pinkers Bellevue, WA Get’s Spellbinder 1999 9 Charles A. Chapin Ride #3 Touche (Fred) 43 William H. Van Cleve Jacksonville, AR VC IBN Zypress 10 Jean P. Naukam Phelps, NY Chell-Win-Sahib 2007 44 Mary Dure Johnson Akron, OH Chelsea Love 2000 11 Charles A. Chapin Ride #4 Zeus 45 Lila (Winnie) Malin, OR Trail Bender Heiney-Duncan 2001 12 Cynthia (Cinch) Schell Lander, WY Rudy Van James 13 Dennis Trettel Deerfield, IL Boulder 46 Dawn Ruthven Victoria BC, Canada Wisla 14 Peter Lert Scotts Valley, CA Legere 47 Rebecca Snell Boerne, TX Atraysa Santi 15 Elizabeth Stich Jacksonville, FL Southern Jewel 48 Carol F. Judge Houston, TX Gaby 16 Eugene Dueber, Lt. Col. Port Orchard, WA VP Medley 49 Susan Fawcett Sierra Vista, AZ Iron Cloud USMC ret. 50 Susan Fawcett Ride #2 Snowy River 2002 17 Edalee Harwell Ramona, CA Mr. A 2008 51 Chester V. Braun Osprey, FL Secret Ice 18 Charles A. Chapin Ride #5 Beezie 52 Carole Nuckton Bend, OR Zeb 19 Roxanna Jones Sonoma, CA Hekla 53 Annis Buell Dallas, TX Wally 20 Cynthia (Cinch) Schell Ride #2 Mystique’s Baby Blue 54 Joann Fletcher Lexington, OH Vice Versa 21 Virginia (Ginny) Wegener Canon City, CO MHR Handsome (Sam) 55 David Keiser Medford, OR Othello 22 Marion Benedict Sindorf Palmer, AK Suavicito 56 Shirley Jones Napa, CA Dust Buster 23 Dr. Max Gahwyler Ride #2 Dresden 57 Theresa Stephens Penrose, CO Cal 24 Edwin Sayre Los Gatos, CA Pee Wee 58 Mary Lou Harper Monroe, WA Flashee Starshine 2003 25 Maria Beek McFadden Oxford, MS Permian Way 59 Carriellen DeMuth Franktown, CO Arc 26 Charles A. Chapin Ride #6 Ask Mikey 2009 60 Ellie Metelits Ocala, FL Justa Enuff Sun 27 Anne Barlow Ramsay Fernandina Beach, FL Fridjoff 61 Sally Chionsini Willis, TX Bert 28 Evelyn Wallis Kailua, HI Somer’s Dream 62 Annis Buell Ride #2 Poco Fisty’s Kid 29 Ruth Peckham Topeka, KS Madonna 63 Martin T. Sosnoff New York, NY Montalban 30 Cynthia (Cinch) Schell Ride #3 Leonard 64 Mary Phillips Ocala, FL Dominick 2004 31 Zena Ervin Reno, NV Deelite 65 Barbara Ramsay Los Alamos, NM Danish Manners 32 Peter Klopfer Durham, NC Mondavi 66 Jeremy Beale Chester Springs, PA Casual Water 2005 33 Mary Faith Urquhart Seminole, FL Tajcheba McCoy 2010 67 Susan Maire Naples, FL Continuum 34 Ted Z. Plaut Madison, CT Vista Gee Whiz 68 Lillian Floyd Wellington, FL Law and Order (continued)

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CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS 1996 - 2016 (continued) YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE 2006 YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE 2006 2010 69 Norma Talburt Roseburg, OR Lady of Fame 2012 105 Toni Frary Medford Lakes, NJ Something Special 70 Virginia (Ginny) Wegener Ride #2 RT Loki 106 Joseph Cresci Jr. MD Verona, KY Ian 71 Cynthia Dunoyer Denver, CO Casanova 107 Ann Yellott Cockeysville, MD Icastico 72 John Claridge Erie, PA Clockwork 108 Marion Julier Gaithersburg, MD Schaeferin 73 Barbara Larson Grants Pass, OR Lynx N Willy 109 Ami Howard Joppa, MD Olney Zoe 74 Carol L. Morehouse Ferndale, WA Batiste 110 Martha Wallis Pahrump, NV Diagramm+ 75 Jane Rutlege Monument, CO Gandalf the Grey 111 Cookie Clark Vacaville, CA Ben 76 Dr. Jorge Gomez Okenos, MI Semik 112 Jim Snook Brighton, CO Amie Phoenix + 77 Stayner Haller Lansing, MI LGM Challanger 113 Cayce Black Jupiter, FL Liquid Asset 78 Josephine Rodgers Houston, TX Hershey 114 Elizabeth Benney Upton, MA In A Moment 79 Barbara Ellis Woodford, VA Probable Cause 115 Roberta O’dell West Chester, PA No Mo 80 Susan Fawcett Ride #3 Doctor Doabunch 116 Deborah Nicely Woodinville, WA Bric’s Pebble 2011 81 Mary Grace Davidson Walnut Creek, CA Adrenaline Rush 117 Carol Ahlf Sunny Valley , OR Hoppi 82 Barbara Cleveland Santa Barbara, CA Valentales 118 Caroline Jacob Washington, MI Shinee Coin 83 Ellen Newman Omro, WI Diana 119 Catherine Grove Sandy Hook, VA Madge 84 Robert Mayne Deer Creek, OK Romeo 120 Anne Kulak Scotia, NY London Gem 85 Penelope Miller Goshen, NY MB Applause 121 Sally Chionsini Ride #2 Castus 86 Linda Lester Fort Walton Beach, FL Seyvilla Baskella 122 Rosalie Nitzsche De Witt, MI Bonny Glen High Jack 87 Mary Faith Urquhart Ride #2 Dominick 123 Janice Morin Walnut Creek, CA UVM Rhinewood 88 Norm Brown Wellington,CO Amie Phoenix + 124 Jane Schicke Wilton, CT Isis 89 Marion Grady Irvine, CA *Edyl (aka Amir) 125 Jean Gore Baltimore, MD High Design 90 Marilyn Lee Smith N. Concord, VT Katydid 2013 126 Joan Sussman Winter Park , FL Siglavy Adria 91 Margaret Stout Los Angeles, CA Ilion 127 Sy Budofsky Palm Beach Garden, FL Romeo’s Krystal Bay 92 Patty Smith San Jose, CA Westerly 128 Elizabeth Hotchkiss Columbia, MO Oliver 93 Kay Gale Roland, AR Clear Creek Slim 129 Carol Angle Charlottesville, VA Tigger 94 Barbara Middleton Bisbee, AZ Snowy River 130 Joy Quinn Edmond, OK Chico Gray 95 Joan Shapleigh Dover-Foxcroft, ME One in a Million 131 June Hooks Gastonia, NC Mydan Mydandy+ 96 Marilyn Cantey Santa Cruz, CA Cameo Leia 132 Nancy Isaacson Middletown, MD Halftone 2012 97 Marian Baldwin Gardnerville, NV I am Rhythm 133 John Weir Singers Glen, VA Bel Rambo 98 Elinor Spellerberg Tiffin, OH King Solomon 134 Barbara Fleming Colfax, CA Dancity Wing n Prayer 99 Laurel Ritter Alamo, CA Deje’

100 Alma Perkins Shreveport, LA Charisma 135 Kathy Knappitsch Fairview, TX General Lee 101 John Stone Fair Oaks Ranch, TX Heru+ 136 Judy Finkel Ottawa Falls, OH Coke Nally 102 Martha Hall Pinehurst, NC Ozzie 137 Sharon Berkshire Pinehurst, NC Chesterton 103 Leslie Hubbell Germantown, MD Waps Classic 138 Donna Brown Wellington, CO Amie Phoenix + 104 Harriet Kiehl Camden, SC Tosca 139 Herman Aguayo Port Orchard, WA SA Wasim + (continued) 57 ISSUE 21 / JANUARY 2017 THE CENTURY CLUB NEWS

CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS 1996 - 2016 (continued) YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE 2006 YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE 2014 2013 140 Ruth Crennell Oregon, WI St. George 2014 174 Sally Temple Noti, OR Baloo 141 William Wise Columbia, MO Jake 175 Mary Jane Alumbaugh Arroyo Grande, CA Scoot 142 Jorge Gomez Ride #2 Embrujado G 176 Joan Shapleigh Ride #2 Tuffy’s Business 143 Sue Hughes Plymouth, MI Zippo’s Imprint 177 Judith Fiorentino Madison, AL Goliath 144 Mary Goss North Windham, CT Cajun 178 Evie Tumlin Oxford, MS Roemer Has It 145 Sally Barber Pennington, NJ Honest Knockout 179 Howard Dubin Milford, MI Enfant Grande 146 Martin T. Sosnoff Ride #2 Scirocco 180 Virlene Arnold Bend, OR Calypso 147 Robert Clements Flint Hill, VA Golden Rosebud 181 Elizabeth Osborne Salem, NY Sammie 148 Kate Champa Providence, RI Starfish 182 Mimi Leggett Ocala, FL Reynolds Aluminum 149 Judith Wagley Muncie, IN Sweet William 183 Lillian Floyd Ride #2 Kris 150 Susan Shattuck Shreveport, LA Lotus 184 Lillian Floyd Ride #3 Griggs 151 Vita Pariente College Station, TX Cupcake 185 Lillian Floyd Ride #4 Moonshine 152 Rowena Blythe Orlando, FL Du A Dance 186 Lillian Floyd Ride #5 Levi 153 Kit Carson Sebastopol, CA Silent Treatment 187 Lillian Floyd Ride #6 Motto (Miss Hattie) 188 Lillian Floyd Ride #7 Brandy 154 Willi Hillard Healdsburg, CA Silent Treatment 189 Lillian Floyd Ride #8 Onyx (Miss Hattie) 190 Lillian Floyd Ride #9 Darby 155 Helen Stearns Cochranville, PA Just Saber 191 Lillian Floyd Ride #10 Just Clowning Around 156 Sharon Curran Bethlehem, CT Slick 192 Lillian Floyd Ride #11 Cloudy 157 Peter Rosow Woodbury, CT Hammer 193 Judy Seeherman Brookeville, MD Levi 158 Mary Jane Scott West Palm Beach, FL HA Bold Flyer 194 Audrey Hickman Spring, TX Ludwig 2014 159 Larry Campbell Escondido, CA Estate 195 Susan Fawcett Ride #4 Streakin’ Rain 160 Jo Ann Cooke McMinnville, OR Tong Shan 196 Nancy Sobba Jacksonville, AR Velvet 161 John FitzGerald Hakalau, HI Jacks Host 2015 197 Michael Fisher Sandler The Villages, FL Royal Rascal 162 Marilyn Schroer Altadena, CA Kastanjette 198 Michael Fisher Sandler The Villages, FL Royal Raba 163 Nancy Litsch Duncan, OK Classic Tale 199 Thomas Faylor Ann Arbor, MI Wildmoon 164 Charles Grove Sandy Hook, VA Madge 200 Thann Hanchett Annabella, UT Magellan 165 Daisy Sagebiel San Rafael, CA Monty 201 Donna Donaghy North Kingstown, RI Toblerone 166 Joan Smith Cornelius, OR Marley 202 Anne Santer Bakersfield, CA BA Ibn Dream+ 167 Paddy Rossbach Salisbury, CT Cha Sienna 203 Elizabeth Gathright Batesville, VA Little Sure Shot 168 Alma Perkins Ride #2 Pandora 204 Cindy Bishop Gorham, ME Star 169 Cathy Humphries Sumter, SC Tex 205 Beverly Van Nieuwal Marshallville, OH Silver King Jimo 170 Elise de Papp Pittsford, NY Bolido 206 Lois Giovinetto College Park, MD Puttin’ on the Ritz 171 John Stromberg Lake Forest, IL Adjidamo 207 Sally MacGowan Coopersburg, PA Steelmarket 172 Sally Briney Chatham, IL Champagne’s Angelic 208 Jerry Kleffman St. Paul, MN Photon 173 Sandi Grossi Wauconda, IL Just In Time 209 Elaine Taub Somerset, NJ Rocky

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CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS 1996 - 2016 (continued) YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE YEAR TEAM # NAME CITY HORSE 2015 210 Selma Powers Brunswick, ME Hungarian Jane 2016 245 Judith Hybels Naples, FL Davos 211 Florence Bittner St. Paul, MN Rhoyal Zeke 246 Suzanne Hall Winchester, OR Aprils Cricket 212 Eldon Kordes Tehachapi, CA Ben 247 Elizabeth Rohde Kewaskum, WI Duke 213 Peggy Abbott Pickens, SC Dulcimer 248 Margo Wain Lee Santa Monica, CA Temptation 214 Rachel Sigler Stafford, VA Probable Cause 249 Kristann Cooper Pine, CO Sage 215 Rachel Sigler Stafford, VA Emily 250 Ingrid Grossberg West Bloomfield, MI Hideaway’s Erin Prophet 216 Janet Chisholm Cambridge, Ontario Simon 251 Margaret Flippo Camarillo, CA Honor Bright 217 Robert Gaebel Akron, OH Silver King Jimo 252 Nancy Sawyer Orono, MN The Dragon Master 218 Norma Talburt Roseburg, OR OK Kit Kat 253 Marion Ritchey Vance Woodland Park, CO Noble Quickly 219 Jane Sage Aiken, SC Keswick 254 Mary Brady Yelm, WA Shatar 220 Martha Klopfer Durham, NC Trebbiana 255 Susan Gurin Blue Hill, ME Jacintha 221 Judith Levin Chester, NY MB Applause 256 Leanne Tousey Morrison, CO Sage 222 Russell Guinn Portland, OR Mud Pie 257 Myra Wagener Grand Rapids, MI Bona Fide Beau 223 Susan Reed Albuquerque, NM Jamaica Rain 258 Gail McIntyre Fort Gratiot, MI Sailor 224 Janet Wingate Parker, CO Narcisco Caballeroso 259 Harry Alban Grand Junction, MI MNK Made To Play 225 Carol Gonyo Chesapeake, VA Erette’ 260 Alice Hoffner Grand Junction, CO Bo 226 Katherine Rideout Ormond Beach, FL Tallahassee 261 Joanna Baker Benson, AZ Maggie 2016 227 Wanda Wiggins Jacksonville, FL Dusine 262 Elizabeth Crosby Ada, MI Descarado 228 Cherie Hibbs Cedar Hill, TX Par Bar Twist 263 Leanna Bellinger Hayes, VA Fleeting Chance 229 Michael Schultz Wellington, FL Nice Catch 264 Robert Gaebel Ride #2 Special Edition 230 Laura King Alachua, FL Chocolate Chip 265 Yvonne Ross Minneapolis, MN Good Boy Garth 231 Katherine Pessin Prescott, AZ Tango 266 Marcia Campbell Birdsboro, PA Olster 232 Yan Ross Prescott, AZ Merlin 267 Lindsay Hofman Vashon, WA Famous Last Words 233 Hermann Spielkamp Palmer Lake, CO Fire Fighter 268 Barbara Burkhart-Spragg Rochester Hills, MI Arie 234 Egil Hansen Gibsons, British Columbia O’Malley 269 Judith Simms DeSoto, MO Beyers Charge It 235 Marcetta Darensbourg College Station, TX Great Scott 270 Leona Dushin Garrison, NY Bit O Honey 236 Arlene Meyer Scottsdale, AZ Midtway 271 Conni Purciarele Trenton, SC Aladdin 237 Olwen Busch Jacksonville, FL Filibuster 272 John Weir Ride #2 Admiral 238 Charles Mess Olney, MD Olie 273 Barbara O’Kelly Okemos, MI Joys Midnite Jazz 239 Mary Jo Herkenrath Wenatchee, WA Unique Conversion 274 Barbara Bagg Bend, OR Irish April 240 Sara Magee Sartell, MN Lar Halcon 275 Karen Kim Reddick, FL Strippers Red Robin 241 Susan Becker Golden, CO Geppetto 276 Sally Weiner Fuquay Varina, NC Jet 242 Judith Judd Cherry Hills Village, CO Zordo 277 Dolores Murphy Fresno, CA Take Note 243 Julie Lawson Park City, UT HK Muster 278 Richard Freeman Folsom, LA Laoma 244 Esther Siegel Redwood Valley, CA Harmony 279 Karen Stapf West Bloomfield, MI Corie

59 THIS IS My Horse™

He probably took twice as long as other horses to accomplish each level of training, but it's not just about the sport for me. It's about the journey. I was a little girl when I got Diddy, and he was a baby. We've grown up together. I'll probably never feel this way about another horse. We're so connected. I ride a lot of other horses, and I can't help but compare how they ride to riding Diddy. He's just amazing!

Laura Graves Olympic Bronze Medalist, Team Dressage, Verdades Platinum Performance® Client since 2015 Aka “Diddy” Dutch Warmblood Gelding Laura Graves is a sponsored endorsee and actual client.

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this is My Platinum

Laura supplements Diddy with Platinum Paks® containing Platinum Performance® CJ, Platinum Electrolyte, Selenium Yeast and Vitamin E.

Platinum Performance® CJ supports: 800-553-2400 • Joint Health • Performance & Recovery www.PlatinumPerformance.com • Hoof Health • Digestive Health • Skin & Coat Health • Bone & Tendon Health To find the right Platinum Performance® solution, and to learn about the science behind the supplements, call or visit Platinum Electrolyte Supports Healthy Hydration our website, or speak with your equine veterinarian. Selenium Yeast Major Antioxidant Trace Mineral Vitamin E For Advanced Muscle Support © 2016 PLATINUM PERFORMANCE, INC.