Upper Marlboro, MD – October 7, 2009 – The highlight event of the Capital Challenge Horse Show was held this evening to a solid crowd of fans in the stands. In the WCHR Professional Finals, the top six qualified hunter riders in the nation went head-to-head in a four-round class to determine the 2009 Professional World Champion Hunter Rider. Hunt Tosh of Milton, GA, led the class from the beginning to win in his debut in the prestigious event.
Tosh started out the night with a bang when he scored a 93 in the first round on the horse he brought to the competition, Lone Star, who is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wheeler. In the second round, he rode Camira, owned by Melanie Barnes, brought to the competition by Peter Pletcher. They scored a 90.16 to raise Tosh’s total to 183.16.
In the third round, Tosh and Lindsay Wolf’s Lazy Sunday had a score of 89.33 for a total of 272.49. Tosh qualified as one of the top three riders to return for the final handy round. He piloted Fine Kiss, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Oare. They scored the highest round of the night with a 94.33 to give Tosh a total of 366.82 points for the win. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8417
Photo: A partnership of trust: Dr. Cesar Parra, an international dressage rider and owner of Piaffe-Performance, and owner Michael Davis with Grandioso at Dressage at Devon, where Parra schooled Grandioso with Dr. Volker Moritz. (Photo courtesy of JRPR – no photo credit necessary)
Wellington, FL (October 7, 2009) – Now an American citizen, international dressage rider and trainer Dr. Cesar Parra has a new partner on his Piaffe-Performance team, the talented and much talked about Grandioso. Dressage rider and aficionado Michael Davis acquired the celebrated Westfalen gelding to support Parra’s goal of representing the United States as a team rider.
“This whole relationship was fostered out of trust,” explains Davis. Davis, his wife Sarah and his daughter Bebe are all dressage riders at Parra’s Piaffe-Performance. “I met Cesar four years ago and over the years I have really come to know and trust Cesar. His hard work behind the scenes, his willingness to share his knowledge and his drive to be the best truly impressed me,” said Davis.
“I am thrilled that Michael (Davis) has made this all possible,” said Parra about the purchase of Grandioso. Cesar was in Europe looking at horses when the opportunity to consider Grandioso came up. Parra and Davis flew to see the horse in Georgia. Grandioso was owned by Jason Canton who had a great deal of success with him. Along with their appreciation of talented dressage horses, Canton and Parra also shared the experience of having a stroke in the last year. Michael Davis was in awe as the two trainers shared their experiences. “I watched as the bond between Jason and Cesar unfolded,” said Davis, “and I had a feeling that this was going to be the right thing for everyone involved including my family and the horse himself.” It was a rainy nigh in Georgia,” Davis quipped about the night he and Parra went to see Grandioso. “Despite the hour and weather, Grandioso was unphased. He showed he was not only talented but has a sweet character.” Davis told us that Cesar got on well with Grandioso on that first ride, and that Jason expressed that the pair worked exceptionally well together. Once again the trust factor came into play. This time Davis would trust his instincts and his faith, and four days later Grandioso arrived at Piaffe-Performance. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8414
Photo: Combined Driver Chester Weber earned a record-setting seventh win at the Four-In-Hand Driving Championship at the Kentucky Cup and Lexington Driving Classic at the Kentucky Horse Park. Weber had stated throughout the year that his goal was to become the first driver to win the Four-in-Hand National Championship seven years in a row. (Photo by Pics of You)
Lexington, KY (October 7, 2009) – Combined Driving National Champion Chester Weber is known for setting goals and achieving them. He added a factor of risk to it this year, by announcing his goal was to become the first driver to win the USEF National Four-In-Hand Driving Championships seven years in a row.
It was a risk worth taking for Weber, who captured his seventh win during the Four-In-Hand Driving Championship at the Kentucky Cup and Lexington Driving Classic. “When you set goals and make them clear to everyone around you it does add more pressure,” Weber said. “However, you also make the goal very clear to yourself and your team and there is no question what you are trying to achieve.”
Weber won the record-setting title by 10 points, beating out fellow American Tucker Johnson, who was also going for the lucky seventh win. Throughout the three phases of the competition, Weber and his team won the dressage and cones phase and came in second to Australian driver Boyd Exell in the marathon. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8408
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