Colorado Girls At Maclay

Another year's Maclay has come and gone. Pretty proud of my barn buddy, Ande Sozzi for qualifying and making the journey out there. Unfortunately, she had a stop at jumps 1 and 2 and did not move into the finals. She is so young (only 13 years old), I know she will be back next year!

Another Colorado girl, Kelli Cruciotti, took second place in the finals! Kelli qualified at the Colorado Horse Park taking first place in the ASPCA Maclay Region 6 Finals over the summer. She trains and rides out of Serenity Farm in Elizabeth, Colorado. An amazing equestrian facility with rolling green turnouts, amazing jumps, and many young excellent riders. I bought my now semi-retired Irish Sporthorse, Paddy, from that stable. The trainer there, Cindy Cruciotti, has trained many young riders and has pushed them through to qualifying for the Maclay. Reviewing her show results, I would say Cindy is one of the state's best equitation trainers.

Seriously though, their stable is beautiful! I had to add these photos of Serenity Farms. How could you not want to train here everyday?! No wonder every rider is a super star here, they probably are at the barn all the time! Check out Serenity Farm on facebook.

Okay...back to talking about Maclay....Kelli all smiles with a second place win at Maclay! 

Kelli on Monterrey at Maclay. He is such a handsome guy, love his cute face over the jumps. Photo by Nancy Jaffer

After one round at Maclay, Kelli was called back at 8th place. A total of 30 riders moved into the next round, an an extensive flat class that including extension, counter canter, sitting trot, and half passes at the trot and canter. After the brutal, ab burning flat class 20 riders were invited back and Kelli was again one of them. Kelli's performance in the flat placed her in third place from there. 

The final test was three oxers in a row to a bending line over the ASPCA jump. The competitors then cantered an oxer to a trot a gate and then cantering again to another oxer, followed by a double wall combination without standards and then a counter canter to a fan jump. From there, they had another bending line and a triple bar to a vertical-oxer double combination and a final oxer. Just typing this has got me exhausted! Kelli rode her horse, Monterrey, beautifully and shined at the trot gate where her transition was smooth. and flawless. Personally, my favorite obstacle in her round.

Kelli at the double wall combination without standards int he final round at Maclay.

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Kelli has now proudly added her Maclay second place onto her extensive show background and other wins in Junior Large Hunter divisions 15 and Under. It's hard to believe such a well educated rider is not over 15 years old! She is truly an experienced rider, making her visits to many east coast shows prior to Kentucky, like the Pennsylvania National Horse Show where she took 10th place in the Pessoa Medal Finals on her horse Monterrey.

A Successful Weekend At The Colorado Horse Park

Early Sunday morning a friend and I heading down to the Colorado Horse Park in Parker, CO to watch our friends ride cross country in the Colorado Horse Park Fall Horse Trials which also include Region 9 USEA Championships!

A friend on her beautiful horse went Intermediate, her horse's first time. The horse had two refusals caused by a confusing flag incident in a combination, but finished strong in the cross country. Personally, I thought it was a perfect and successful ride for the horse's first Intermediate! My vet took second in Open Training with a clean and flawless cross country. The most exciting ride for me to watch was my friend, Angelika ride a clean cross country on her new horse! Her horse is the cutest (want to steal it) little 15.3H Swedish warmblood who was all knees jumping. She took first place in the Region 9 Training Championships! The second best thing to horse showing yourself is watching friends successfully horse show instead. I am really happy for all of them.

Angelika Beutel taking first in Region 9 Training Championships

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I would not consider myself really into eventing compared to other things like show jumping, but it is so easy to be involved in eventing compared to other equestrian disciplines. The scoring system is easy to follow, it's kind of like a football game...you know who is in the lead but there is still that unpredictability of the last quarter or in eventing the last discipline as to who is going to win. The online, live scoring is so fun to keep track of on Event Entries.



CHP Event Results Posted on Evententries.com on Oct 13, 2013

Intermediate Championships
XC Optimum Time: 6:21
Rider	Horse	Dress Score	Dress Place	Stad Jump	Stad Time	To Date Score	To Date Place	XC Jump	XC Elapsed	XC Time	Final Score	Final Place
Kathy Cain	Legal Limit	29.60	1	4.00	0.00	33.60	1	0.00	6:18	0.00	33.60	1
Hailey Rich	Kingfisher II	38.40	3	12.00	5.00	55.40	3	20.00	6:36	6.00	81.40	2
Martha McDowell	Nabouco de Lessay	30.00	2	4.00	0.00	34.00	2	80.00	0:00	R	R	R

Open Intermediate
XC Optimum Time: 6:21
Rider	Horse	Dress Score	Dress Place	Stad Jump	Stad Time	To Date Score	To Date Place	XC Jump	XC Elapsed	XC Time	Final Score	Final Place
Amanda Hund	Pik Pilot	34.80	1	4.00	3.00	41.80	1	40.00	10:27	98.40	180.20	1

Open Preliminary
XC Optimum Time: 5:32
Rider	Horse	Dress Score	Dress Place	Stad Jump	Stad Time	To Date Score	To Date Place	XC Jump	XC Elapsed	XC Time	Final Score	Final Place
Madeline Backus	P.S. Arianna	34.40	2	8.00	6.00	48.40	2	0.00	5:30	0.00	48.40	1
Hailey Patno	Syncotina	46.10	3	8.00	10.00	64.10	3	20.00	6:10	15.20	99.30	2
Christina Henriksen	Jos Calfun	30.90	1	8.00	1.00	39.90	1	60.00	0:00	E	E	E

Preliminary Championships
XC Optimum Time: 5:32
Rider	Horse	Dress Score	Dress Place	Stad Jump	Stad Time	To Date Score	To Date Place	XC Jump	XC Elapsed	XC Time	Final Score	Final Place
Rochelle Costanza	Lionhart	31.70	1	4.00	2.00	37.70	1	0.00	5:20	0.00	37.70	1
Summer Peterson	Tim	35.20	2-T	4.00	3.00	42.20	3	0.00	5:29	0.00	42.20	2
Wendy Webb	T.H. Royal Flush	35.20	2-T	4.00	0.00	39.20	2	0.00	5:47	6.00	45.20	3
Amy Gilbertson	One Honest Man	43.90	5	4.00	11.00	58.90	5	40.00	6:18	18.40	117.30	4
Darlene McInnes	Warlord	40.00	4	8.00	3.00	51.00	4	0.00	0:00	W	W	W

Open Training
XC Optimum Time: 6:01
Rider	Horse	Dress Score	Dress Place	Stad Jump	Stad Time	To Date Score	To Date Place	XC Jump	XC Elapsed	XC Time	Final Score	Final Place
Reed Ayers	De Rien	32.70	5	0.00	0.00	32.70	2	0.00	5:44	0.00	32.70	1
Nancy Carr	Wedgewood	24.10	1	8.00	2.00	34.10	3	0.00	5:56	0.00	34.10	2
Dorothy Hamilton	Cabrio	36.40	6-T	0.00	1.00	37.40	4	0.00	5:38	0.00	37.40	3
Nicole S Ackerman	Scarlett	29.60	4	8.00	0.00	37.60	5	0.00	5:10	0.00	37.60	4
Ashley Demander	BeBe LaRue	28.60	3	12.00	3.00	43.60	8	0.00	5:03	0.00	43.60	5
Nicole S Ackerman	Ringfort Fighting Chance	26.80	2	0.00	0.00	26.80	1	20.00	6:00	0.00	46.80	6
Alessandra Allen-Shinn	Zip Wyatt	36.80	8	4.00	0.00	40.80	7	20.00	5:28	0.00	60.80	7
Melissa Thorson	Master Plan	36.40	6-T	0.00	3.00	39.40	6	20.00	6:24	9.20	68.60	8

Training Championships
XC Optimum Time: 6:01
Rider	Horse	Dress Score	Dress Place	Stad Jump	Stad Time	To Date Score	To Date Place	XC Jump	XC Elapsed	XC Time	Final Score	Final Place
Angelika Beutel	Varekai	23.20	1	4.00	0.00	27.20	1	0.00	5:40	0.00	27.20	1
Madeline Backus	P.S. King of Hearts	29.60	3	0.00	0.00	29.60	2	0.00	5:39	0.00	29.60	2
Todd Smyrl	Gemini Tiara	36.80	5-T	4.00	0.00	40.80	3	0.00	5:27	0.00	40.80	3
Christina Henriksen	Princess Pavan	37.70	7	4.00	0.00	41.70	4	0.00	5:50	0.00	41.70	4
Heather Haubrich	Jasmine	36.80	5-T	8.00	0.00	44.80	5	0.00	5:45	0.00	44.80	5
Cynthia Moore-West	Zalig	45.00	14	0.00	0.00	45.00	6	0.00	5:20	0.00	45.00	6
Grace Simpson	Rapport	29.10	2	16.00	1.00	46.10	7	0.00	5:37	0.00	46.10	7
Tracey Dalton	Burgundy	38.20	8	8.00	0.00	46.20	8	0.00	5:43	0.00	46.20	8
Kimberly Hamilton-Wendel	Cool Cutie	44.60	13	4.00	0.00	48.60	9	0.00	5:26	0.00	48.60	9
Lorraine Barrows	Space Cowboy	45.90	15	4.00	0.00	49.90	10	0.00	5:35	0.00	49.90	10
Noelani Bevill	Weekend Edition	42.70	10	8.00	0.00	50.70	11	0.00	5:54	0.00	50.70	11
Kari Hall	Rigel	43.20	11-T	8.00	0.00	51.20	12	0.00	6:06	2.00	53.20	12
Summer Peterson	Jake the Fish	43.20	11-T	12.00	0.00	55.20	13	0.00	5:08	0.00	55.20	13
Nicole Musmanno	JHN Imogen	35.50	4	20.00	0.00	55.50	14	0.00	5:39	0.00	55.50	14
Eileen Galoostian	Ratifier	46.40	16	20.00	0.00	66.40	15	0.00	5:19	0.00	66.40	15
Anne Ladd	Proper Gent	41.40	9	12.00	40.00	93.40	16	60.00	0:00	E	E	E
Tashi Brundige	Ringo Star	E	E	0.00	E	E	E	0.00	0:00	E	E	E