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U.S. Three-Gaited and Five-Gaited Teams Win Gold and Bronze at 2022 Saddle Seat Equitation World Cup
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Beatrice Huang
SURE FIRE RED EMPTION
2022 YOUTH NATIONAL CHAMPION
Half-Arabian Native Costume JTR 15-18
2022 YOUTH NATIONAL TOP TEN
Half-Arabian Native Costume JOTR, Half-Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 15-18 and Half-Arabian Country Pleasure Driving JTD
Proudly Owned & Loved by Janna O’Neill
BEST OF MY LOVE+//
V E G AZ | R IV E R D ANCE NA Ow ned by: Janna O’Neill | B red by: Sharon K eating
11X U.S. National Top Ten
10X Regional Champion
5X Scottsdale Champion or Reserve
FAV ORITE M EM ORY
It would be impossible to choose a favorite memory from my time showing Sugar. e rst time I showed her was in Wendell in Scottsdale. She never dropped an ear the entire class and was a complete joy to ride. Winning that class was just the icing on the cake. is summer we attended Region 13 and she was just as fun to ride that week to two Regional Championships. A perfect ending to our career together. Watching Ryan Strand ride and drive her was equally as thrilling. e two of them winning the Country Pleasure Driving will be etched in my memory forever. Our show career was just part of the bond I share with this horse. As beautiful as she is on the outside, she carries with her a heart of gold. I’m so grateful to have this gorgeous partner, my horse of a lifetime.
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Sugar will retire in Bucyrus, KS at Liberty Meadows. She will enjoy the good life, getting turned out to play and be a retired show horse. While she has o spring already on the ground, with any luck she will carry her own foal and enjoy motherhood.
~ Janna
RETIRED & R E ME MB E R E D
CP SHENANIGAN+/
ANZA PAD R ON | CP D ANCE CAR D B red by: Cal Poly Pom ona | Ow ned by: K irby Arabians LLC
2022 National Champion Arabian English Pleasure Jackpot 2021 National Champion Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR 2020 National Champion Arabian English Pleasure Jackpot 2019 Reserve National Champion Arabian English Pleasure Jackpot 2018 Reserve National Champion Arabian Park AAOTR 2017 Unanimous National Champion Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR 2016 National Champion Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR 2015 Reserve National Champion Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR 2014 Unanimous National Champion Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR 2013 Unanimous National Champion Arabian English Pleasure Maturity & AAOTR 2012 Unanimous National Champion Arabian English Pleasure Maturity & AAOTR 2010 National Champion Arabian English Pleasure Futurity
FAV ORITE M EM ORY
ere are so many, it’s hard to choose! One of my favorites would be our 2013 win in the Arabian English Pleasure Maturity. It was a 19-horse nal and I remember I put a lot of pressure on myself since we had won the year prior. I remember right when the gate opened and I pushed him into the trot, he was locked in and in the zone. He continued to get better as the class went on. We ended up winning the class unanimously!
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My plan is to bring him home. e rest of his years will be spent trail riding and living it up in a pasture!
~ Katherine Kirby
RETIRED & R E ME MB E R E D
7X NATIONAL CHAMPION | 8X RESERVE NATIONAL CHAMPION PROUDLY OWNED & LOVED BY HAGALE FAMILY ARABIANS | JIM, MARY MARTHA, JENNIFER & JAMIE
CSP HOT DAM+// MAMAG E | THE V INTAG E R OSE CSP HOT DAM+// Bred by: Shan & Molly W ilson | Owned by: Hagale Fam ily Arabians MAMAG E | THE V INTAG E R OSE Bred by: Shan & Molly W ilson | Owned by: Hagale Fam ily Arabians
7x National Champion 8x Reserve National Champion 26x Top Ten English Pleasure, Park, Driving & Native Costume
FAV ORITE M EM ORY
My relationship with Hot Dam runs deep, being the son of Mamage, who gave me so many exciting moments and National Championships when I was young and just starting to show.
With my return to the show ring after 22 years, I was looking for a heart horse to get me back to the winner’s circle. I rst saw him with Shan trotting around I had never seen anything quite like it. When I got on him, I thought I was going to y over his head! Mom said, “Absolutely not, we are not buying that horse,” but Dad just giggled and said, “Baby, do you want that horse?” We didn’t listen to the voice of reason and bought the horse.
Our rst show in Spring eld, Illinois was a wild ride—pretty much out of control. Mom said I had no business riding that horse, and Dad said that it was the most fun he had ever had losing.
We eventually went on to win Regional and National Championships and Mom ended up putting her foot down that the horse would never be sold—just live out his life as a horse on our farm.
His retirement was not planned as he was not acting his age—he still loved to show, but at his rst championship class at Nationals this year, we decided if he went Champion or Reserve, we would retire him on the green shavings. It was very emotional for all of us as he was announced Reserve National Champion. e die was cast for his retirement ceremony.
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Future plans for Hot Dam include enjoying retired life on the farm in Rogersville, Missouri. He’ll be in pasture by day and sleep cozily in his favorite stall at night. ~ Jennifer Hagale Drinnon
RETIRED & R E ME MB E R E D
EMPERORS FIRE
AFIR E B E Y V | R ITID A B red by: Tim & Marty Shea | Ow ned by: Starline Arabians LLC
2022 National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR 50 & Over 2021 Reserve National Champion ABS Country English Pleasure AAOTR Jackpot 2020 National Champion ABS Country English Pleasure AAOTR Jackpot 2019 Reserve National Champion ABS Country English Pleasure AAOTR Jackpot 2018 Reserve National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 2017 Reserve National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 2016 Unanimous National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 2016 Unanimous National Champion H/A English Pleasure 2015 Reserve National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 2015 Unanimous National Champion H/A English Pleasure 2014 Unanimous National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR Maturity 2014 Unanimous National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 2013 National Champion H/A English Pleasure Jr Horse 2013 Unanimous National Champion H/A English Pleasure AAOTR Maturity 2012 Reserve National Champion AEPA $50,000 H/A Saddle Seat Futurity 2011 National Champion H/A English Pleasure Futurity
FAV ORITE M EM ORY
When I think back, I am reminded of my rst year with Emperors Fire. After my career with his full brother Adams Fire, he had big shoes to ll, but he did so e ortlessly. Emperor and I were never out of the roses as we were named U.S. National Champion our rst year together and every other year we competed.
I also think of the many exciting open classes and work-o s he won with Joel Kiesner, and seeing him win his nal set of roses this year with my mom. I was not able to make his last trip around the Tulsa arena myself due to just having my second baby, but it was a joy to watch him and my mom come together as a team. It was a perfect ending to a storybook career to have Emperor trot out of the ring one nal time wearing the red roses over his shoulders. But my favorite memory was my nal class on Emperor in 2021. Victor Botha trained Emperor for me that year and Emperor went around the whole class with his ears up, so happy and so light. It felt like we were just oating around the arena. It was one of the softest, best rides I have ever had on him. When picking up our roses, my mom passed my daughter, Opal, up to me for the win photo. at moment just epitomizes who Emperor is—he is a spit re English horse, but with the kindest heart; so kind, that I trusted him completely with my 2-year-old up on his back.
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Emperor gets to come home to Rancho Santa Fe, CA, completely sound with many years left in the tank to begin the next chapter of his life. My mom and I will have the time of our lives riding him and his brother, Adam, on the trails together … a couple of fancy trail horses! I can’t wait to spoil him every day with carrots, love, and everything else he deserves! ~ Nicole Chapparone
RETIRED & R E ME MB E R E D
On ursday night at the 2022 United States Nationals, Enrico made his final Victory Pass. S traw berryBanks Farm Owned, bred and adored by Strawberry Banks Farm, Enrico is retiring at the age of 14 a er receiving FOUR National Champion titles, FOUR Reserve National Champion titles and NINE Regional Championship titles in Arabian Native Costume in Open and Amateur with Lance Lewis and Lissa Chur.
Shatzberg Photo
Winston Churchill
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ENRICO
A TE MPTATION | E A CAND Y G IR L B red & Ow ned by: Straw berry B anks Farm
4x U.S. National Champion Mounted Native Costume 4x U.S. National Champion Mounted Native Costume AAOTR 4x U.S. National Reserve Champion Mounted Native Costume 4x U.S. National Reserve Champion Mounted Native Costume AAOTR 5x U.S. National Top Ten Mounted Native Costume 5x U.S. National Top Ten Mounted Native Costume AAOTR
FAV ORITE M EM ORY
I have been around a lot of horses over the last 45 years of my life and have NEVER had a bond with a horse like I do with Enrico. He is as beautiful on the inside, as he is on the outside. He absolutely “gets me” … and I get him.
Enrico comes from incredible bloodlines but has a few unique physical traits some would not regard as positive. To me, however, they are super special things that make me love him even more! Always one to favor and support the underdog, Enrico became my favorite, and he is beyond extra special to me. I also truly think that feeling between Enrico and I is mutual.
As an adult learning to ride and show, Enrico is the one who taught me a lot about myself, gave me the con dence I needed, and—more than any person—taught me trust.
I had always been timid and nervous and self-conscious learning to ride, and didn’t know if I would ever feel con dent, much less comfortable, riding. I knew in my gut though, if I was to ever overcome my fears, Enrico would be the horse to help me, but I really struggled and didn’t know if I could do it, until faced with the possibility of losing him when one day my mom said she would sell him if I didn’t ride him. And various people were interested in buying him and they rode him, but it never went well—no one really gelled with him—so that was, in my mind when I decided that Enrico and I were going to be a team. ere was no way I was going to let him leave Strawberry Banks Farm. I was going to do whatever I could to be by his side (or in the saddle), support him and let everyone know how wonderful he is. In my mind, together, we were going to be something special, whatever that was, truly never even DREAMING of a National Championship!
After years of lessons and practice, my con dence grew, and I was proud to show everyone how special Enrico truly is.
For me, it is bittersweet that Enrico has retired. I am so thankful for all that he has given to me, for all that he has done for me, for all the wonderful memories that we have shared, and that he proudly nished his career as a BEAUTIFUL Champion. He deserves it more than any horse I’ve ever known, and I am so thankful for Brian’s patience and tenacity to help achieve a beautiful result to a beautiful relationship.
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I look forward to many more beautiful trail rides around Strawberry Banks Farm with Enrico; they have been some of my most favorite and best bonding moments with the most incredible horse ever!
~ Lissa Chur
RETIRED & R E ME MB E R E D
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