HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas to all!! and Happy New Year!!
We wish to thank everyone for a wonderful year; thanks to our clients and friends for your commitment and support; thanks to our healthy horses, those in recovery and those that have passed for all of your greatness;  thanks to our barn and Libby Sprunt for your kindness and good humor; thanks to our vets and farriers for always doing a great job, thanks to our doggies and kitties for sweetening our days : )

Lots of happiness for 2010!

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Lots of food and lots of fun!

CHP DECEMBER CLASSIC

Carolina Horse Park - Raeford, NC
December 3-6, 2009

Jordan Heithold, Paige Wilson, Caitie Gibbs, Sophy and Carlos Aramburo

Nice small show, everyone did awesome although the weather was a bit awful especially on Saturday. We enjoyed the company of Sue and Caitie, Elizabeth Wilson and the girls and Dale Wright and girls; had dinner every night at around 6 pm :-) which is kind of rare at horse shows. Caitie and Pilot won the Low Child/Adult Jumper Stake. Pony girls Jordan and Paige did very well, Paige and Linus were champion in the Large Pony Hunter, Jordan and Linus placed 2nd in the USEF Pony Medal, Paige and Pretty won the NCHJA Pony Medal. Sophy and Ori were champion in the Adult Jumpers. Carlos and Fandango were champion in the 1.25m Jumpers.

CHP THANKSGIVING CLASSIC

Carolina Horse Park - Raeford, NC
November 29, 2009

Carlos and Oriental K

Carlos and Fandango

Carlos and Wilson

Beautiful weekend and super fun show! Oriental K was amazingly fast and careful winning first place in the $5,000 Mini Prix. Fandango did awesome as well but ran out of steam in the very large jumping field and had a couple of rails. Wilson was a very good boy with two nice rounds in the 3' Hunter classic; scoring a great 80 in his first round, coming back to the 2nd round a bit slow poke not stretching up enough finishing 9th overall.  I think the two marshmallow boys are going to have to get in shape and learn from the oreo girl! :-)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

SEDGEFIELD

Greensboro, NC
November 21-22, 2009

Jane Hartner, Carolina, Carlos and Sophy Aramburo, Sandy Hopper, Maren Londahl-Smidt, Monica and Lindsey Jacks, Ashley Moore, Cindy Young, Erinn Moore

Carlos Aramburo and Cast Away

2009 Sedgefield Schooling Hunter Champion

Sandy Hopper and Cast Away

2009 Sedgefield Adult Hunter Reserve Champion

Very good and fun weekend with lots of ribbons for the last show of the year in Greensboro. Congratulations to everyone, especially Sandy Hopper and Wilson for winning the Reserve Champion Sedgefield year end award in the Adult Hunters and to Carlos and Wilson for winning Champion year end in the Schooling Hunters.

Carlos and Wilson won Champion in the Schooling Hunters both Saturday and Sunday, and Ashley Moore was Reserve champion in the Adult Hunters. Lindsey and Ace went super fast in the jumpers and won some blues and more ribbons as well as Erinn and Carlos with Apogee, Maren and Carlos with Dream Catcher and Carlos with Nighthawk.

RMI RALEIGH BENEFIT

Raleigh, NC
November 11-15, 2009

Abby Propst, Sophy and Carlos Aramburo

Sophy Aramburo and Oriental K

Abby Propst and Asprey

Our second week in Raleigh was a bit damp... cold and rainy during the week but it cleared for the weekend. The warm-up area was muddy so preparing Fandango and Oriental K for their jumper classes during the week was a bit difficult. Sophy and Oriental won Champion in the Adult Jumpers, Abby and Asprey placed in all of their classes pinning 2nd in one over fences and the under saddle. Carlos and Asprey won some ribbons in the Pre-Greens.

DUKE CHILDRENS BENEFIT

Raleigh, NC
November 3-8, 2009

Abby Propst, Carolina, Carlos and Sophy Aramburo

Asprey, Abby and Robert Propst, Carlos and Sophy Aramburo

We enjoyed beautiful weather the entire week. Oriental K and Carlos did very well in the 1.30 m Jumpers and so did Sophy, Fandango, and Abby with Asprey. We enjoyed Libby and Brittany coming for a visit and nice dinner on Wednesday and Sarah Lowe for lunch on Thursday... excited about the new saddle!

LIBBY'S BIRTHDAY

Fun party, Happy Birthday Libby!

Busy days getting ready for two weeks in Raleigh - Duke and RMI. Fandango and Oriental are having a couple of beauty salon days- hair and nails done (body clipping, mane pulling and farrier)

ART

Very sweet drawings from Emma Grace!

CAROLINA HORSE PARK

Raeford, NC
October 17-18, 2009

Ok everybody, hands in your pockets...

Cindy Burnett, Carlos Aramburo, Sandy Hopper, Maren Londahl-Smidt, Kristen Conant

We had a very good show in spite of the freezing cold windy weather... it was COLD! Good thing it was a small show so it ended pretty early both days. Carlos rode all the horses and won Champion in the Open Hunter division on Cast Away:
Cast Away / Sandy Hopper - Adult Amateur Hunter / ribbons and won the Warm up on Sunday
Ollie Bombay / Kristen Conant - Children Hunter / ribbons and Reserve Champion
Time will tell / Cindy Burnett - Pre-Adult Hunter / Reserve Champion
Dream Catcher / Maren Londahl-Smidt / ribbons. This was DC's first horse show so he only showed in the hack classes and behaved extremely well. Didn't mind the activity or very windy conditions.
As always thanks to Maren's parents for the food and goodies. We got to hang out with the Overbys and Old homestead Farm crowd who had a ton of food so we ate a lot!

CLI @ PSJ FENCE

Tryon, NC
October 8-11, 2009
WAVEJUMPERS at City League International

SEDGEFIELD

Greensboro, NC
September 19-20, 2009

Carolina, Carlos and Sophy Aramburo, Sandy Hopper, Jane Hartner, Lindsey and Monica Jacks.

Very nice weekend for a horse show! Small group but lots of ribbons. Ace of Hearts and Lindsey Jacks won a few classes and placed in others. He is a talented horse that does it all, he was a happy horse as Jane grazed him a lot throughout the weekend.

Cast Away won some ribbons and Carlos was Champion in the Schooling Hunters on Sunday, and Sandy Hopper was Reserve Champion in the Adult Hunters on Saturday.

We did the usual Elizabeth's pizza and mexican across the street and enjoyed a large crowd Saturday night UFC fight night at Buffalo Wild Wings with Dale Wright.

AIKEN FALL CLASSIC II

Aiken, SC
September 10-13, 2009

PSJ PINEHURST MINI PRIX

Pinehurst, NC
August 20-30, 2009

CLI MOUNTAIN CLASSIC

Asheville, NC
August 13-16, 2009
WAVEJUMPERS at City League International Show

EQUINE COUNTRY USA

Jacksonville, NC
August 8, 2009

BLOWING ROCK CHARITY I & II

Blowing Rock, NC
July 22-26 & July 29- August 2, 2009

SEDGEFIELD

Greensboro, NC
July 11-12, 2009

CLINIC

RGS BOOT CAMP - Natalie Kimball
Myrtle Beach, SC
July 1, 2009

NCHJA ANNUAL SHOW

Raleigh, NC
June 24-28, 2009

SEDGEFIELD

Greensboro, NC
June 13-14, 2009

81st TRYON RIDING & HUNT CLUB

Tryon, NC
June 3-7, 2009

CLI OLD ATLANTA CLASSIC

WAVEJUMPERS at City League International
Alpharetta, GA
May 28-31, 2009

ALEX HARTNER MEMORIAL

JUMPER HORSE SHOW
Boyds, MD
May 21-24, 2009
http://www.bigeasyfarm.com/

CHP BENEFIT

Raeford, NC
May 14-17, 2009

SEDGEFIELD A

Greensboro, NC
April 30 - May 3, 2009

SEDGEFIELD

Greensboro, NC
April 25-26, 2009

AIKEN SPRING CLASSIC

Aiken, SC
April 15-19, 2009

SOPHY'S BIRTHDAY

CHARLOTTE JUMPER CLASSIC WEEKEND & BARN PARTY
Fun weekend celebration, some lessons, a bit of watching the horse show, eating, shopping, museum visits, etc.

SEDGEFIELD

Greensboro, NC
April 4-5, 2009

ALEX HARTNER

MEMORIAL HORSE SHOW BANQUET
Capt'n Bill's Banquet Hall
Wilmington, NC
Jane and George Hartner, parents of Alex, held a benefit show last October in North Carolina where they now live and Alex graduated from high school. The horse show raised over $40,000 which was awarded at the Banquet to the scholarships in Alex’s name for kids at her high school (Topsail High) and college (St. Andrews Presbyterian) where she was a member of the equestrian team.
http://www.alexhartner.org/

CLI SPRING FLING

WaveJumpers at City League International
Ocala, FL
March 19-22

HITS OCALA

Winter Finals / March 3-8

Winter Celebration / March 10-15

IN MEMORY OF STONEY

"SILVERSTONE" - Cheryl Boon
Beautiful, talented, playful, brave, kind, sweet... young.
We'll miss you. Rest in peace.

PSJ HIGHFIELDS

Aiken, SC

February 21-22, 2009

Christmas Party 2008