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of the excitement only a Regional show can offer. Here’s the latest news from some recently held shows.
Region 1 Championship Show May 27-31, 2009 · Del Mar, California Judges: Julie Fisher Bruns Addante, John Ryan, Corky Sutton, Connie Cole O’Brien, Arlene Rigdon
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he 30th Annual Region 1 Championship show was held the last weekend in May and featured a preshow, $15,000 in prizes and prize money, a one-stop progressive dinner, and more. Greg Gallún showed 2005 Polish National Junior Champion Filly *Pinga (*Gazal Al Shaqab x Pilar) to the Champion Mare win. The 2004 bay mare, recently leased from Poland, was with foal at side during the show. “*Pinga showed beautifully,” says Greg. “I think she stands a great chance for us at this year’s Nationals. She’s very much along the same lines as *Pianissima, maybe not quite as exotic, but she’s close — and she can really move. Last year at the Polish Nationals she was the high scorer of the show in movement. She is one of Janow’s best young Gazal daughters. ”Jim Lowe rode twelve-year-old Papa Rhazi (*El Ghazi x Mama Jazz), for owner Brie Reiter, Aptos, California, to the Championship in the Half-Arabian English Pleasure class. Papa Rhazi was also Scottsdale Reserve Champion HalfRegion 1 Champion Stallion Eden C (Enzo x Silken Sable), owned by Dona Bellinger, Paonia, CA, and shown by Greg Gallún.
Arabian English Pleasure AOTR earlier this year. “Seven years ago this was one of the best two English horses in the country — and now he’s almost as good as he was then,” Jim says. “He’s as exciting as any English horse there is on the West Coast, without a doubt. He has a wicked silhouette and is as outrageous looking as any horse you’ll see at a horse show — the kind of horse where people will go to the ring just to see him show. I was totally excited to get to show him — especially in that new arena at Del Mar.” Jim also rode the four-year-old grey gelding Forte Afire VF (Afire Bey V x Duet VF), to win Region 1 Champion Country English Pleasure horse. “He’s the biggest, highest purebred I’ve ever ridden,” Jim says. “When someone says they have a really big horse, my first thought is that it’s going to be a big hunter, but this horse can trot — he’s really pretty with tons of quality. “The covered arena at Del Mar had the ambience of Tingley, Louisville, and Springfield — it made you feel like you were at a big-time horse show,” says Jim. REGION 1 SHOW RESULTS IN BRIEF CHAMPION STALLION (3): Eden C (Enzo x Silken Sable), Dona Bellinger, Paonia, CO; RESERVE: Ever After NA (*Sir Fames HBV x Entaicying NA), Robert and Dixie North Family Trust, Ramona, CA CHAMPION MARE (7): *Pinga (*Gazal Al Shaqab x Pilar), leased to Frank & Frank Partners, LLC; RESERVE: *Donna Fantastykah RB (Don El Chall x Sabah El Kair RB), Robert & Dixie North Family Trust, Ramona, CA CHAMPION GELDING (5): Swing Thyme MGF (Pyro Thyme SA x Peekaboo Heat VF), Richard and Hattie Martin, San Marcos, CA; RESERVE: SR Reygal (GR Psyches Rey x VP Shes Soshai), Jay and Diane M. Allen, Phoenix, AZ