News & Clinic information
Greenwood SportHorses presents frequent clinics with Christopher Hickey at our farm in Lees Summit, MO. Chris is the Director of Training at Hilltop Farm and successfully competed at the 2007 Pan-Am Games at Rio De Janeiro where he won an individual gold medal and was on the gold medal winning U.S. team.
To learn more about Christopher Hickey you may
visit his website at
www.chrishickeydressage.com or
www.hilltopfarminc.com/services_training.htm
The next Christopher Hickey clinics are scheduled for the following dates:
Saturday and Sunday July 26 & 27
Saturday and Sunday August 30 & 31
Make reservations for your lesson times now as these clinics are generally full with waiting lists.
Lesson times for July 26 & July 27
For clinic information contact Amy Stuhr at als1225@msn.com or 913 636-0863.
The foals at early morning breakfast.....
Donner und Blitzen
May
1, '08 - Amidst tornadic thunder storms, wailing sirens, high winds, thunder and
lightning our second foal of the season was born. "Song Sung
Blue" is a dark bay colt by Sinatra Song (Sandro Hit) out of our
Elite Hanoverian Mare Dabadu Blue (Don Primero) What an
introduction to this little guy's new world !
Both Mother and Foal are healthy and well.
April 1, '08
An April Fool surprise !! (Ein Aprilscherz !) -
Danke, Armin Gantzckow
This
morning at around 9:00 our Dutch mare "Remolina" (Flemmingh x Zoogedacht) gave
birth to a beautiful chestnut filly. We had been watching the mare on our
wireless barn cam at about 90 minute intervals every night for the past 10 days
but so far she had not done anything but cause us to lose sleep. Although
the mare was at least a week overdue she showed none of the classic signs that
she was about to give birth. She gave us a real surprise this morning when
we went to check her at about 10:00 a.m. and found a foal on her feet, at her
side, and already nursing! Our vet
pronounced both mother and foal healthy and well.
"Dorina" Chestnut Filly (Rousseau x Flemmingh)
Greenwood
SportHorses 2007 AHS & USDF Year End Award Placings:
Elite Mare Dabadu Blue owned by GWSH and ridden by Amy Stuhr placed 2nd in the American Hanoverian Society Open Horse of the Year Awards, and 10th nationwide in the USDF Open Horse of the Year Awards at 1st Level with a 71.5% median Average!
Daina imported by GWSH and now owned and ridden by Melissa Hervert Allen placed 2nd in the AHS Open 4th level Horse of the Year and 11th in the USDF Open Horse of the Year at 4th level with a 67.292% Median Average.
Dinar owned by GWSH and ridden by Amy Stuhr placed 10th nationwide in the USDF Prix St Georges Open Horse of the Year Standings with a 69.375% median average!!
The 2007 show season was a great year for us, and we all look forward to 2008!
Amy
just returned from our 2007 Regional Dressage Championships at St Louis where she and
Dinar won Reserve Champion at Prix St Georges (67.5%) and Reserve Champion at Intermediare I (64.6%).
Greenwood SportHorses is proud to announce that our imported Hanoverian mare "Dabadu Blue" (Don Primero x Argentan) has earned her Elite Mare status from the American Hanoverian Society. Dabadu was originally one of the foals we purchased at the Elite Foal Auction at Verden, Germany in 2000.
"SPS
Daina" (DeNiro x Maurice) Hanoverian mare owned, trained and ridden by Melissa
Hervert Allen. Daina was imported by Greenwood SportHorses to be shown in
hand and trained for dressage. She was started under saddle by her breeder in
northern Germany but all training after her arrival at our farm has been done by
Melissa. Under her expert guidance, Melissa and Daina have achieved remarkable
success at 4th level in 2007 and will be moving up in the next show season.
Three year old Hanoverian Gelding "Royal Blue" (Rhodes Scholar x Don Primero) with his new owner Ann Haecker on a recent outing at Blue's new home in Minnesota.
Royal Blue was bred by Greenwood SportHorses and is out of our Don Primero mare, E. M. Dabadu Blue.