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Celebration
Wins Best Young Horse At Inaugural Hunter Breeding Championship
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Celebration
(Our Diplomat - Pardon Me Mister, by Mr. Inspector) a two-year-old
Thoroughbred gelding, owned by Cismont Manor Farm and handled
by Kenneth Wheeler, received the Dave Kelly Perpetual Trophy donated
by Nokomis Farm and Diana Dodge, as the Overall Grand Hunter Breeding
Champion at the 2002 Sallie B. Wheeler/USA National Hunter Breeding
Championship.
Kenneth
Wheeler was awarded the Belcort Farm Perpetual Trophy and Lita
"Squeaky" Wangensteen received the J. Arthur Reynolds
Memorial Trophy as the breeder of the Overall Grand Hunter Breeding
Champion.
A
panel of two judges, Rick Abbott of Cochranville, PA and Daniel
Robertshaw of Camden, SC, adjudicated the classes offered for
yearling colts and fillies, two-year-old colts and fillies and
three-year-old colts and fillies. For complete results please
visit the USA Equestrian web site at <http://www.equestrian.org/press/CompetitionResults/National/>.
Champions by division are as follows:
Yearling
Colts/Geldings
Le Blanc Reynard
Owned By: John W. Kelly Jr
Handled By: Oliver Brown
Breeder: John W. Kelly Jr
Sire: Chenin Blanc
Dam: Autumns Foxy Lady
Sire of Dam: Bold Conqueror
Yearling
Fillies
Follow the Moon
Owned By: Susan Crotty and Woodland Farm
Handled By: Sam Manno
Breeder: Susan Crotty
Sire: Zarr
Dam: Skim the Moon
Sire of Dam: Sail Ahoy
Two-Year-Old
Colts/Geldings
Celebration
Owned by: Cismont Manor Farm
Handled By: Kenneth Wheeler
Breeder: Lita "Squeaky" Wangensteen
Sire: Our Diplomat
Dam: Pardon Me Mister
Sire of Dam: Mr. Inspector
Two-Year-Old
Fillies
Piczazz
Owner: Mark Godby
Handled By: Jane Ervine
Sire: Alla' Czar
Dam: Persian Company
Sire of Dam: King Persian
Three-Year-Old
Colt/Gelding
Steal The Fire
Owner: Cismont Manor Farm
Handler: Kenneth Wheeler
Breeder: Sherry Kohler
Sire: Knick Press
Dam: The Hope Diamond
Sire of Dam: Jimmy Hamilton
Three-Year-Old
Fillies
As Good As Gold
Owner: Susan Stanton
Handler: Lin Anderson
Breeder: Susan Stanton
Sire: All the Gold
Dam: Later For Love
Sire of Dam: Rock Royalty
USA
Equestrian Inc., as the National Equestrian Federation of the
U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship
sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show
jumping, and vaulting, as well as 19 other breeds and disciplines
of equestrian competition. As
the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation
has over 80,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions
nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including
educating and licensing all judges, stewards, and technical delegates
who officiate at these shows.
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sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of
excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on
a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its
horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian
federation in the world.
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