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Stoner
Ridge Farm News
Robert
& Lyngle Lawson
2469 Clintonville Rd., Paris, KY40361
859.988.9092
or 859.749.3008
Foundation First Mountain
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Hope everyone had a Happy Easter
It’s Show Time
The show season got off to a cold start on March 7th at the Al
Prewitt, Carson Masters Spring Premier.
School was dismissed early so I headed toward NC just ahead of the
impending KY snow storm. Friday
in NC was pretty pleasant but boy did it get cold on Saturday!
Our horses did well in spite of less than favorable conditions.
We were very pleased with China,
who belongs to Don and Nancy (well, Ella actually), as she made her debut
in the show ring. She placed in both her classes and was calm and
collected throughout the show.
We have several seasoned horses that also did well.
Congratulations to Pepper and her open Four Gait win.
Silver and Jazzy also performed well and placed in their classes.
Knight’s Sudden Storm was shown as well.
What a gorgeous horse! Most impressive was Merry Go Blue and his
Park Pleasure wins in the Stallion class and the championship.
It
was great to see everyone! Nancy
and Steve made it to the show as did Scott and Barrie.
We have lots to look forward to this summer.
Equine
Affaire . . . Here we Come!
Congratulations to Charlie and Pepper!
They have been accepted to compete in Craig Cameron’s Extreme
Cowboy Race TM at the Equine Affaire.
The race is a timed event during which the performance of each
horse and rider team will be judged on each obstacle for quality of
horsemanship. For each
obstacle, judges will award performance points on a scale of 1—10 based
on the following criteria: horsemanship,
cadence, control, horse’s attitude, and overall execution.
Horses and riders are required to complete each obstacle within a
given time in order to receive points.
If an obstacle is not completed within the given time frame, the
contestant will be flagged and must move on to the next obstacle.
Times will be translated into points, with the highest overall
point score winning the race. Cash
prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers and the winner will
receive the title of “Extreme Cowboy Race TM
Champion.” The competition will take place April 12 at 5:00
P.M. and at 1:30 P.M. on April 13 (time has been changed from previous
printed material.)
See www.equineaffaire.com
for more information. Come
join us for the excitement.
Everyone’s
Invited
To
a Baby Shower
for
Charlie
and Erin
May
17 at 1:00 P.M.
Goff
Corner
First
Church of God
115
Kiddville Rd
Winchester,
KY
40391
They
are registered at Babies-R-Us
www.babiesrus.com
Nursery
furniture could not be reserved for purchase on line.
Contact Lyngle if you’d like to join in with her on this gift for
the baby.
Junior
League
The Stoner Ridge Farm crew has been invited back to perform
the flag ceremony again at the Lexington Junior League Horse Show in July
this year. It is one of the
largest shows in the nation for Saddledbreds.
It is a real opportunity to showcase the breed and to get to be a
part of this prestigious show held annually at the Red Mile Harness Track
in Lexington.
You will also be able to see the ceremony and the show on live
streaming video. We appreciate
the invitation and will have more information available closer to the
event.
Big
South Fork
The Stoner
Ridge Farm crew plans to leave the farm about 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, May
1st heading toward Oneida,
TN and Wilderness
Resorts. We’ll be staying at
the Holly Patch cabin again. It
is the first one on the right as you enter the resort.
I’ll try to send most of what we need but you can help by
bringing drinks, snacks, and anything you want to take on the trail to
eat. I will not get there until late Friday so we’ll need some
volunteers to help cook before I get there. Let me know what you like . .
.I’m flexible! Give us a
call to confirm which horses you’d like to take.
We are limited on stall space so we’ll probably need to take only
one horse per rider unless something changes.
We’ll have a blast!
NE Mountain Horse Club Clinic
March 15 Robert
conducted a clinic for the NE Club. I
was glad to get to go with him. It
was his second year in a row to travel to NJ to share his Foundation First
philosophies. The focus this year was on how to help horses overcome their
fear of obstacles on the trail. He
began by describing various bits and their uses.
He then worked with three year old Thunder, first helping him learn
to load and then helping him get over
various obstacles including a live pig and geese (what a hoot!).
We’d like to thank Harold and Gayle brown for opening their home
to us and to say how much we appreciate the club for all they do to
promote the Mountain Horses. in the North East.
Terry Injured
On Easter morning Terry Kleier
suffer a fall down her basement stairs.
She broke her wrist, dislocated her shoulder, and had a bump on her
head. She will be ok but it
will put riding on hold for 6 to 8 weeks.
If you get a chance, you might want to send her a card.
Her address is 1184
Siry Rd., California,
KY 41007.
Road to the Horse
We never get tired of watching
great horsemen when they work. That
is why we enjoy going to the Road to the Hose so much.
We were glad to get to attend again this year and thank Nancy
that she took care of getting the tickets for us.
Chris Cox, Tommy Garland, Mike Kevil, and Ken McNab all did an
outstanding job working their horses.
They each gave excellent mini-clinics on Saturday.
Chris talked about his passion for the horse and how horses have
given us so much. He talked
about the life lessons that he’s learned from his horses.
One tip he gave was that we all want our horses to be better but we
have to change ourselves first if we want that to happen.
Ken talked about teaching horses through the release of pressure
and how it teaches a horse to think but to not forget about you.
Training is a journey that continues onward.
Mike, one of last year’s judges, was the mystery trainer this
year. He always tries to keep
an open mind as he listens to other trainers.
He said there
are really no training secrets anymore.
He says he doesn’t do anything different than anyone else but he
stressed the importance of timing an feel.
If you can’t feel it, you can’t reward it.
Tommy, shows Arabians and talked about the importance of learning
how to learn. He cited early
experiences with his dad that helped make him the trainer he is today.
We all learned a lot from the clinicians and we really enjoyed the
company of Doug & Jill and Don & Nancy.
Another highlight was the Cowgirl Chicks who did fantastic
acrobatics on their horses at a full gallop.
You have never seen such a great flag ceremony as they did at this
event. What talent!
As the competition drew to a close on Sunday, we were trying to
figure out who would be the winner. The
horses had all performed so well in their obstacle course it was amazing.
In a very close call, Chris Cox was deemed the winner for the
second year in a row. We
thought Tommy had really brought his horse a long way too.
It was great. Next
year, John Lyons will be competing along with Tommy Garland and others yet
to be announced. Remember,
tickets sell out early at this
event if you plan to go next year.
You can find out more at the web site www.roadtothehorse.com.
Welcome
While Robert and I were in New
Jersey, we met some wonderful folks, Jim
Davidson and Dawn Heasley. They
sent their spotted stallion home with us to be started.
HMH Bravehart (“Scottie”) has been shown in conformation
classes and has been great to work with so far.
He is for sale so if you see someone looking for a great black and
white spotted stallion, pass the word on to them that Scottie is here and
he’s very reasonably priced.
We
also got a horse from Kathy Ordosh who lives in Cincinnati.
Elvis is a light palomino and he’s really a gentle giant.
Robert is working on tuning him up for trail riding.
Welcome!
Branson Blue
Born
4/15/08
One Chance Fancy by
Merry Go Blue
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