Tuesday August 17, 2004

Dressage At Waterloo July

By Debby Buck DeJonge

We almost didn’t need our muck boots even though July is supposed to be a scorcher, instead shared the weathervane dished out: rain, and thunderstorms, and an occasional afternoon worthy of waving the coat rule. None of this put a damper on the 260 entries, and 894 rides of the combined Sport Horse breeding show and three day annual dressage show which always serves up some fun on the Saturday.

The golf-dressage challenge went by the wayside in favor of the lead line class where everyone was a winner much like the seventh annual Fun Freestyle (sponsored by Dr. Rob DeJonge and me), which followed. A couple other winners were newcomers, Christina Moore on her four year old, Fidelo, while Pati Pierucci handily won the PSG, with the Andulusian mount owned by Hampton Green Farm.

Non-horse people would have gotten a kick out of the “dog-show” factor in that almost every color and breed of horse were present and accounted for. However, I did not get a gander of a curly at this show as I did last year. Trailer’s brandished license plates as far away as Wellington, Florida were parked, (or shall I say packed-in) next to a country away ahhh, the Canadians.

Photo by Randy Fosth, ShutterbugStudio.net