Summer Wrap Up!

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Foxtale Farm had yet another busy summer with pony camp, horse shows and preparing for the USEF Pony Finals in Lexington, Ky!  We had several new kids at pony camp and a couple newcomers to the horse show world with Alix Wilson riding Sashay in the Jr. Beginner Rider & Modified Hunter divisions and Grace Gdowik riding Picture Perfect (Mariah) in the Jr. Beginner Rider division as well.

The 2011 USEF Pony Finals was an exciting trip with several of our riders qualified & traveling with Linda down to Lexington, Ky. to ride against the best in the country!  Out of 74 Large Green ponies,  Alex DiMaggio riding her own Final Designer was 9th over fences & 9th overall, and Hannah Fisher, riding Sequoia's JJ Flyer, was 17th over fences & 21st overall.   Alex also won the Best Presented Pony award in the model class for the entire division!

In addition, Emily DiMaggio competed in the Small Green Hunter Pony Division on Redfield Farm's Page 6, where she was 5th in the model, 12th under saddle & 21st overall.   Our jumper team also had a great showing at Pony Finals with Nicole Kehrli on Northwind's Opus,  Lauren Anatassio on Rascal and Alyssa Kurtz riding Captain.  A special thanks to Maria DiMaggio, Traci Fisher, Sloan Fisher, Shannon Kozik and Maren Nordhoy for all of their hard work and to Laurie and Keilly Kirkpatrick for coming to support out team!

As always, the annual Labor Day show at Ludwig's corner was extremely busy again this year with approximately 20 students competing with Foxtale Farm in multiple divisions from Leadline through the Jumpers.  We want to congratulate all of our competitors who rode so well, and although it would be tough to list of all our results, we want to mention a few of the highlights:

Our huge cheer goes out to our resident photographer and groom extraodinaire, Shannon Kozik, who was Champion in the Adult Beginners on her new horse Cort!  Chelsea Thompson was Reserve in the Chester County Hunters on (sister Bernie's pony) Pendermere Legacy, our youngest competitor Isabella Conway was the Leadline Reserve Champion on Twilight's Whisper, Emily DiMaggio was Reserve Champion in the 13 and Under Eq. on Cailliou, Nicole Kehrli was Reserve Champ in the 14 - 17 Eq.  on LJS Red Deco & won the Schooling Pony Jumper Class & the Child Adult Jumper Classic! Whew!!

A special thanks to Shannon Kozik, Abbie Brauer and Jess Patterson for their tireless efforts grooming the entire weekend....and for all the friends and parents who come out to support all of our riders at the area's largest local show!

We hope you enjoy the slideshow of pictures from these two shows & will continue to add photos from Pony Camp & our fall shows to our blog & website. Check back soon for more updates!!