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THE SUMMER
OF 2004
Comings and Goings
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Lindsay Sousa
18 year old Lindsay will be leaving for Canada in July. She and Alizé (who
flew out of Bermuda on May 27th), will be trained by Beth
Underhill of Schomberg, Ontario. This will be Lindsay’s third year
competing in Canada, and Alizé’s second. Beth will be preparing
Lindsay for the North American Young Riders. Lindsay will have the
opportunity this year to travel to the Competition, enabling her to enter
other classes available at the event. Lindsay would like to thank Nick
DeCosta for his hard work in seeking out a very impressive overseas trainer
for her and Alizé. His fine reputation and professionalism still holds
strong in the minds of those he knows in Canada - Beth made no hesitation in
accepting Lindsay as a part of her team at Beth Underhill Stables. Finally
yet importantly, Lindsay would also like to express once again, her
gratitude to the BEF Executive Committee for selecting her as the winner,
for the second time, for the Government Junior Athlete Scholarship. This is
Lindsay’s last year as a junior member of the BEF.
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Marlena Tucker
10 year old Marlena Tucker who rides out of Inwood Stables will be on her
way to Carron Smith’s horse camp in Virginia for two weeks this summer. Her
Mum says this will be a great experience for her and that it is her first
trip away to a horse camp.
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Kirsty Anderson and Sandy Mitchell
Kirsty and Sandy will be representing Bermuda at the Paralympic Games in
Athens in September 2004. The Bermuda team consists of Carol Green as the
Coach, Judy Hagen as Chef d’Equipe and Ann Lindroth as Chef de Mission. We
wish them the best of luck.
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Stephanie Wilkinson
13 year old Stephanie was the recipient of the $5,000.00 BHPA Rising Star
Series 2004. She will be traveling to England to be coached by Patrick
Nisbett for the month of July and to compete in Show Jumping at several
horse shows while she is there.
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Stephanie Kemp
Stephaniewho is 10 years old is extremely excited to be going to Carron’s
Smith’s Camp in Virginia this summer to do the competitions and cross
country and to swim. Her Mum (Michelle) can’t wait to hear the stories when
she comes back. Also going to Carron’s is Rebecca Faulks who is 14
years old.
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Olivia Gracie
12 year old Olivia will be attending The Bonnie Castle Riding Camp at
Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield Ma. for 2 weeks (Session I –July 4
to17) again this summer. She had a great time last year! 11 year old
Megan Diel is also going at the same time. Bonnie Castle Riding Camp
features instruction at all levels in Hunters, Jumpers, Equitation,
Dressage, Combined Training and Equine Studies. At the beginning of each
session, the camper's ability is evaluated to determine her instructional
needs. Session I focuses on Combined Training. Campers learn fundamental
dressage and jumping techniques, while equitation is stressed throughout. At
the end of Session I all campers participate in dressage and jumping tests
appropriate for their level. The SBS summer Horse Trials will take place at
the end of the first week of Session I. The Trials are open to experienced
competitive riders who have previous eventing experience. If anyone
wants to check out this establishment their web site is
http://www.sbschool.org/pages/bcrc.htm
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Cori Williams
Cori who is 12 years old will be going to Carron Smith’s Summer Camp in
Virginia for two weeks in July, as will 13 year old Brittany Outerbridge.
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Heidi Mello
Heidi will be traveling to Calgary Alberta, and then on to Medford, Ontario
to continue her experiences of course design.
Foothills Show Jumping Classic June 23 – 27, 2004
Anderson Ranch, Calgary
www.showjumping.com
Assistant to Olaf Peterson Jr.
Olaf has asked Heidi to arrive one day early so that she can build his
courses without him. The courses will be emailed to her ahead of time. She
will be responsible for the choice of material, color, type and build. Heidi
feels that this in its self is an awesome experience. While assisting Olaf
she will be responsible for 2 jumper rings. Sue Ashe is one of the hunter
judges. The featured classes are the 1.40m $2500.00 Triple Crown Challenge;
this class is a Talent Squad Qualifier class. 1.25m $2,000.00 Welcome
Jumper - 1.25m $15,000.00 Speed class - 1.35m $25,000.00 Grand Prix.
Foothills Country Classic July 1st – 4th
Anderson Ranch, Calgary
www.showjumping.com
Assistant to Anthony D’Ambrosio
Featured class of the week:- CET medal - 1.20m $2,000.00 Mini Prix - 1.15m
$1,500.00 Showjumping.com jumper classic - 1.30m $5,000 Modified Grand prix
2004 Spirit of Excellence July 8th – 11th
Y-Not Farms, Ontario
www.ynotfarms.ca
FEI Course Designer for a 4-day show
Heidi will be designing courses for Baby, Pre Green, Workings, Junior,
Children’s, and Adult Hunter, as well as large, medium, and small pony
classes. Featured class of the show is a $6,000.00 Horse Sport Hunter
Classic held in a 250 x 150 feet sand ring with 3 levels of jumping, 1.10m /
1.25m / 1.30m all under table A with immediate jump off. There is also a
Modified division of 1.35m with a $6,000.00 Open Welcome class, a $6,000.00
Stakes class and a $10,000.00 Grand Prix. This will all be held in a Grass
GP ring 300 x 300 feet and judged by Barbara Mitchell. Heidi says
these opportunities are a result of the experience she gained in West Palm
Beach earlier this year, and she would, once again, like to thank the BEF
and the BHPA for their support.
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FEI/PSI Children’s Dressage Final
Erin Marini will be traveling to Germany at the end of June in order to
compete in the finals of the Children’s Competition of the FEI/PSI World
Dressage Challenge. Erin earned the invitation by placing high enough in
the 2003 competition behind Raina Morrison from Jamaica. She will be
accompanied by her mother Jennifer and sister Sarah, and will meet up in
Germany with Betty Wates from Jamaica.
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Student Exchange with La Chabraque
France
Christy Corbett and Amanda Mayne are the fortunate ones traveling to France
this year as part of the Annual Exchange with students at the Show Jumping
facility in Southern France operated by Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Ardon. They will
leave in mid July for three weeks, returning with two student from La
Chambraque who will stay in Bermuda for three weeks.
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North American Young Riders
Championships 2004
Although we will not have a competitor this year in the actual championships
Bermuda will be represented in an official capacity, as Paul Pereech has
been invited by the FEI to be the Foreign Member of the Ground Jury. Paul
is an International level FEI Show Jumping Judge as well as an FEI Steward,
and this is quite a prestigious appointment.
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Kristina Gibbons
Kris is going to work for her Dad. Get herself ready for the IB programme at
BHS next year, which may well curtail her riding next season as it is a very
demanding programme, and fortunately it would appear that her education is
#1 in her priorities. But she tells her Dad that she intends to work really
hard at dressage with Shadow.
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Heather McKirdy
Following her graduation in May from the BHS IB Program, in September 18
year old Heather will be attending Hartpury College, University of the West
of England in Gloucestershire, England where she will commence studies for a
BSc in Equine Science with a concentration on Equine Therapy. In addition to
her studies Heather is looking forward to continuing her riding and the
opportunity to train and compete in England.
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Claire Howard
Claire is going Hartpury College University of the
West of England in Gloucestershire, England near Cheltenham to do a
BSC in Equine Studies with Business Management. Just A Whisper will be
going too.
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Megan Mahoney
Megan will be attending Driftwood Ranch Camp for three weeks beginning 26th
June.
http://www.driftwoodstables.com/ranchcam_hilights.htm is the link to the
website.
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Raishun Burch
Raishun will be going to England to train with Patrick Nisbett for a month
in July/August. Raishun won Group IV FEI Children’s Show Jumping and he
was presented with the FEI Trophy at the BEF Prize Giving on the 5th
of June. And just as a matter of interest you may remember he was riding the
pony Maybeline.
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Stefan Olson
11 year old Stefan will be attending boarding school this September, he will
be attending the Greenwood School in Putney Vermont. Good luck Stefan and
keep riding.
Rachel Roblin
Rachel will be going to boarding school in the
UK in September. The school is Haileybury and she will do her International
Baccalaureate there for the next two years. The school is about a half an
hour away in location from Jane and John Engestrom’s farm and she will visit
them from time to time for long weekends where Jane says she will put her to
work with Bailey and DK!
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Rayman Butterfield
Rayman is still quite active on the horse show circuit in Florida, Calgary(
Spruce Meadows) and Ontario Canada. This winter he competed extensively in
Florida and placed consistently in the top three placings at classes with
obstacles well over five feet. His winter show circuit had him in West Palm
Beach, Ocala and Tampa. He is now at Spruce Meadows for the months of June
and July 2004 competing on several horses under his management at Southern
Ways which as you know is operated by Mac Cone. In fact just yesterday
Rayman took first place honours in a 1.30 metre class at Spruce. He will be
showing there for the next several weeks. Rayman will return to the
Ontario circuit for the balance of the summer. Rayman is continuing to
broaden his horizons in the equestrian world as an accomplished show jumper
and expects to compete at Grand prix level during the summer months. He is a
working apprentice with Mac Cone and he will be pursuing further education
in the fall 2004 as well as developing his background in all related areas
of the equestrian sport. He is no longer eligible for Young Rider level
since he is now over the qualifying age which is 21. But his exposure at
Young Riders could probably be regarded as a major achievement in his show
jumping career. Rayman’s Dad Malcolm says, he still has his sights on both
the Pan Am Games going forward and possibly Olympics thereafter but his
family realise that they still have to plan and be patient here going
forward.
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Katie Titterton and Florence Pedro
Submitted by Katie’s Mum
Hi Mrs. Cherry - here is some information for you - Since Class
Afloat was founded some 20 years ago, it has sailed some 400,000 nautical
miles, been to 235 ports of call on 6 continents and graduated over 1000
students. In celebration of this 20th anniversary, the class of 2004/05 are
(lucky enough!!) to be undertaking a complete circumnavigation of the world
aboard the S.V. Concordia, a 188 ft Barquentine rigged vessel, specifically
designed and built for the Class Afloat programme. In addition to the
professional crew, the vessel accommodates between 24-32 students. In
addition to their "crew" responsibilities (supervised) they will be enrolled
in a full academic college preparatory programme (sanctioned by both Alberta
Learning and the Quebec Ministry of Education) and undertake required
courses such an anthropology, philosophy & Western civilization - modern
world history, plus marine biology, economics, calculus, maths etc. The
programme is affiliated with numerous institutions such as the Canadian Sail
Training Assoc. and the American Sail Training Assoc. Katie and Florence
will leave Victoria, Canada on the 20th August and set sail for Honolulu,
Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Darwin, Australia, Indonesia, Cocos Is.
Australia, Perus Banhos, Chagos, Victoria, Seychelles, Zanzibar, and Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania in time for a Christmas break on the 22nd December. They
will be flying home for a 2 week break (the route alone is breathtaking!)
and back to the ship for January 7th, 2005 and set sail for Madagascar,
Durban South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, Walvis Bay, Namibia, St.
Helena, U.K., Natal, Brazil, Cayenne, French Guyana, Port of Spain Trinidad,
Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic, Nassau, Norfolk U.S.A.,
Woodshole, U.S., Burin, Canada and finish in Quebec City, Canada by the 28th
June!!!!!! i.e. 30,000 nautical miles, 25 ports, 5 continents!! Do I wish I
could go!!!! You bettcha!!! I'm sorry this is so long - maybe too long for
what you want but it is just so exciting! The kids and the programme can be
followed on
www.classafloat.com we, as parents, will be complete nervous wrecks for
the next year, but it was just such a wonderful opportunity - the girls were
the ones who came home with the book (from a university fair at the Hamilton
Princess) and said they wanted to do this, you might also like to know that
apart from Katie and Florence there are 4 other Bermuda kids going!!! best
wishes and thanks for your interest!! Liz
Editors note: Wow! What a trip!
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Thanks to everyone, best wishes
and good luck in all you do.
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