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BY JENNIFER ROBERTS
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[LEFT] Bettina Scherer, shown here with Jack Mitich of World Development Group (second from left) and Susan Gilliland of Live Oak International, was one of three talented combined drivers who drove away as the winners of the World Development Group sponsored Triple Crown. [TOP RIGHT] Boots Wright was one of three talented combined drivers who drove away as the winners of the Triple Crown. [BOTTOM RIGHT] Leslie Berndl, one of the winners of the World Development Group Triple Crown.
The American Shetland Pony Club, Inc. (ASPC), established a Super Gelding Program a couple of years ago to promote geldings in all of its registries—the ASPC (American Shetlands), the American Miniature Horse Registry, the American Show Pony Registry and the National Sports Performance Pony Registry. This incentive program rewards those members showing and campaigning their small equine geldings. For 2012, the Super Gelding Program is expanding and reaching new levels thanks to recent reinvigoration and promotion. “This is going to be an amazing year for the Super Gelding Program, and there is still time to nominate your gelding,” says Trace Anderson, Chair of the Super Gelding Program for the ASPC/AMHR/ ASPR/NSPPR. Anderson noted it is easy for members of the ASPC and its other registries to enter their small equine geldings and join
the fun. Rules for this program are on the association’s website at www.shetlandminiature.com.
TRIPLE CROWN Three talented combined drivers (Bettina Scherer, Boots Wright and Leslie Berndl) drove away as winners of the World Development Group sponsored Triple Crown, after edging out their competitors by earning the highest score at three events— the Live Oak International CDE, Sunshine State CDE and the Little Everglades CDE. Bettina Scherer, who won the Preliminary division, said, “I competed my Welsh pony, Rio, in the three combined driving events and won the Triple Crown for the Preliminary Single Pony. I didn’t set out with a plan to capture the Triple Crown; I knew that you had to compete at all three events, but I am thrilled to have won.” Boots Wright was the Intermediate division winner, and Leslie Berndl was the FEI Winner.
REMEMBRANCE Life member of the American Hackney Horse Society, Marilyn Lynch Kennedy of Scottsdale, AZ, and Taylorville, IL, recently passed away at her home in Taylorville with her family by her side, after a long battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, ALS.
AHHSF SCHOLARSHIP The American Hackney Horse Society Foundation, Inc., Lexington, KY, announced that it will award four college scholarships this summer. The AHHSF has annually supported a scholarship program for college students who have shown an interest in the Hackney breed; this organization is proud of the number of students who have applied for and received these funded scholarships and continued an involvement with the Hackney horse and pony. For further information on these scholarships, contact AHHSF Scholarship Committee Chairperson, Anna Marie Knipp,
at 314-605-4622, or by email at Jdmamk@aol.com. Forms will also be available on the American Hackney Horse Society website, www.hackneysociety.com.
CONDOLENCES Albert William Hammerlund, “Bill,” of Independence, MN, passed away on May 8, 2012. He was active in the American Saddlebred Horse Association as an owner/exhibitor/ breeder for over 50 years. He was the founding President of the Minnesota Saddlebred Horse Association and owned some great horses, such as: CH Cherokee King, Midnight Seduction, True To Color, Slight Indulgence, My Sheer Magic and many others too numerous to name. He also owned the great Hackney Pony, Blockbuster DV, shown by his granddaughter, Ashlinn Thommes. He leaves a legacy of successfully showing (and training) American Saddlebreds to his children and grandchildren, most of who also show. July 2012
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