Event Team Results

January 31 - February 2 - Rocking Horse Stable Horse Trials - Altoona, Florida

In the Even Team's 1st competition of the year, Courtney rode King Reilly and Dillon to ribbons at the Novice Level. Both horses earned good dressage scores and finished without any cross country or stadium jumping faults to earn 4th place ribbons. Courtney also competed at the Training Level, riding Toy Story, who combined his own good dressage test with no jump penalties in cross country or stadium jumping to finish in 10th place.

Lauren Barone also competed. Making her 1st outing on Patty Moshanko's The Color of Kells, she rode well in all three phases adding no cross country or stadium jumping faults to complete her 1st Novice Level horse trials.

February 7-9 - Basingstoke Farm Horse Trials - Old Town, Florida

Just weeks after arriving from England, Samson competed in his first event with Courtney. Entered at the Training Level, to let horse and rider get acquainted with each other, the pair had a lovely dressage test, before adding faults on the cross county or show jumping course to come home with the blue ribbon. Courtney also rode Dillon, who finished his 2nd horse trials and Irish Watercolour (Gaffney) who completed his 1st horse trials.

Justine Dutton, riding Patty Moshanko's The Color of Kells, adding to the success of the weekend, adding good cross country and stadium jumping rounds on top of her dressage to finish in 7th place at the Novice Level.

February 22-24 - Rocking Horse Stable Horse Trials - Altoona, Florida

Courtney and Justine rode eight horses to successful results for the Event Team's final 2003 Winter Event in Florida.

Dillon led the way for Courtney's four novice rides finishing on his dressage score and bringing home a 6th place ribbon. Raven and Davey both finished their first Novice Level events joining Irish Watercolour by adding solid cross country & stadium jumping rounds to their dressage scores in the 30s (60-70%).

At Training Level, Justine rode King Reilly to complete her first event at this level, and Courtney guided Patty Moshanko's The Color of Kells to clean cross country and stadium jumping rounds. At the Preliminary Level, Courtney had strong outings on Toy Story and Samson.