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CFD's
2012 Ride-A-Test with Tina Drake
and
Raswan "Most Harmonious Horse and Rider' Selection
- Article by Susan Croft -
What started as a brisk, cold morning turned into a beautiful Florida winter day. Five riders, six horses, and auditors turned out to brave the day. Tina Drake inaugurated the newly built judge's box at Plumwood Arena. Owner of Plumwood Arabians, Laura Causey, designed the judge's box and pushed her workers to have it finished for our event. Thank you, Laura! After rides were finished, horses put away and tests scored, all participants had a beautiful picnic lunch from Old Crow BBQ. We realized what a small world we live in when one of the auditors has a descendent from Tina Drake's Raswan.
Riders
in this clinic were:
Laura Causey & Omar
Stacy Rutledge & Sunny
Mary Robinson & Cavan
Linda Thompson & Judge
Stacy
Rutledge & Saxon
Susan Croft & Arrow
At the end of the
clinic day, Tina Drake selected the winner of the Raswan Trophy 'Most Harmonious
Horse and Rider'. Want to know who won? It’s a secret until our 2012 Annual
Banquet and Awards Ceremony on April 30th, 2012. See more info on the
2012 Banquet and Awards night here.
After the rides, the winner of the Rider Raffle was drawn. Laura Causey won
the drawning and her choice of color of a breakaway halter donated by Lisa
Mousseau.
Pictured below is Lilly in her new halter.
"Thank
you all for the new breakaway halter for Lilly from the rider's raffle at
the Tina Drake Ride-a-Test. I wanted to show you it fits after adding a few
more holes on the break-away! It was a great day-- thanks for everything!"
- :Laura Causey
Thanks
again to everyone who helped put on this clinic. Our CFD board, Diane Delmain
for setting the day, coordinating our clinician and location and photos, Kathy
Dennis who did Rider Registration and Scheduling, Kimberley Puthoff for handling
finances and paperwork, Susan Croft for doing setup, breakdown, taking photos,
and riding in the clinic, Ann Chartier for posting the photos on our website,
and Charity Messer for posting pictures on Facebook.
Special thanks to our scribe, Corrine Glass, and to our clinican, Tina Drake
for her on-going support of our annual Ride - A- Test and Raswan Trophy selections.
Many thanks to Laura and Billy Causey for hosting the event at her location under their beautiful covered arena, Plumwood Arabians www.plumwoodarabians.com and for building a judges booth at C to deput at this year's Ride-A-Test.
New
Judges Booth At 'C'