Stapleton Farm
Stapleton Farm News and Show Results
Dec 2009
Ruth has enjoyed taking her young horse Scirocco out to several clinics this fall - Michael Bragdell from Hilltop gave a great young horse clinic at Lost World Farm in december where Rocco was a superstar. In November and December he attended clinics with FEI 'I' judge Jeanne Mcdonald who was very positive about his future!
Legs also participated in the clinics with Jeanne Mcdonald continuing his preparation for the 2010 show season.
2009 Awards -What a Year!
Ruth and Allegro
National AWS/USDF All Breed Awards
1st through 4th level Freestyle Champion with a 69.3%
3rd Level Freestyle Champion
Reserve Champion at Third Level
Open
National USDF Awards
USDF Freestyle Challenge at 3rd Level - 7th in the US
USDF Musical Freestyle Award 3rd
Level- 12th in the US
MDA Awards
3rd Level Open - Reserve Champion
4th Level Open - Fourth
Place
Waterloo Year End Awards
Third Level Grand Champion
Fourth Level Reserve Champion
Nicci and Hayden
National USDF All Breed Awards
Training Level AA- Reserve Champion
MDA Awards
Training Level AA - 4th
place
Waterloo Year End Awards
Training Level AA Grand Champion
11/26/09
New faces! Welcome to Carrie and her lovely young mare Trudy, Sharon and her gelding Slick who is in training with Ruth for the winter, and Courtney and her mare Chelsea a very talented mare who is in training with Ruth
9/8/09
Last Waterloo show of the year went very well. Allegro had a fantastic freestyle Saturday night scoring a 72.3%! He was the Series champion at third level and reserve champion at 4th level. Nicci and Hayden were the Adult Am. Training Level Champions for both the show and year end. Congrats!
Welcome to Carrie and Sam - Sam will be used in the lesson program and Carrie will be working with Ruth.
8/27/09
Welcome to Ronnin! Sheila is the proud owner of a lovely young gelding named Ronnin. He comes to us from CFH Dressage - what a wonderful experience working with Chrissa Hoffman. Ronnin has shown through Third Level dressage and will be ridden by Sheila and also used in the School Program. Ruth will also continue his Training. Look for pictures soon.
8/23/09
The crew had fun at Woodbine schooling show on saturday. Luke went to his first show and was a super star - very well behaved. He came home with a first, second and third.
Rob and Kees did very well! Getting a 2nd place and showing huge improvement from the last show.
Elise and Robbie had a really nice First level Test 4 - their first time riding it!
Tanya and Belle rode 2 second level tests - belle had some beautiful lateral work! A good first show for the year!
8/10/09
What a great weekend! Nicci and hayden were Training Level Reserve Champions at Waterloo with some great scores and NICE tests despite monsoon like weather. Legs rocked out to Queen music in his fereeestyle getting the audience stomping and clapping saturday night. He also was the fourth level Reserve Champion with scores to 66++% at Fourth level.
Ms. Moneypenny went to her first show and did very well with Hannah - what a great temperment!!! quiet and easy all weekend despite bad weather. Hannah did well with scored to 65+% at Training level
7/30/09
Ms. Money Penny is now listed on the sale page - what a sweet girl!
Luke is preparing to go to his first show the end of august
7/19/09
What a great summer so far!
At the July waterloo show Ruth and Legs were the Third Level Champions and Legs also did his first 4th level tests - he did exceptionally well with a 64+ and 65+ percent winning one class and placing second in another. Ruth was particularly pleased as he was competing against some very nice well seasoned horses.
Nicci and Hayden had a super show and won the Training level champion with lot's of scores in the 70's - go Nicci! Both Hayden and Legs are qualified for regionals for the year.
Luke is now going well undersaddle - check him out on the horses page.
Ruth also welcomes 2 new horses to her herd - Alex a Holst/Tb gelding and a lovely Selle francias/tb mare who will be arriving at the end of July both are sale horses so watch the sales page for more info.
At the June Waterloo show Nicci and Hayden went to their first class A show and did extreemly well! with lots of ribbons coming home. Ruth also rode Hayden placing second in a huge Training level class.
Legs also did well winning the Reserve Champion for Third level with some lovely rides.
The Woodbine show in June was a great success with Barb, Pat and Rob all placing in the top 3 in their classes. Elise rode First level for the first time and had a lovely test. Our friend Carrie rocked the training level with a high percentage award and Scirocco went to his first show and was a superstar and won both his classes with a 69 and 72 and was the high percentage score of the day.
5/9/09
The first show of the year at copper creek on Saturday May 9th was a great success! Robyn and Kees placed 1st and 2nd in their classes, Pat and Nala got two 2nd's and Nicci and Hayden won both their classes. Ruth also took Stuart to his first show and he acted like he'd shown his whole life. He won the Training level test 3 and placed 4th in a huge Training level test 4 class. Ruth also rode Hayden in Training level test 4 and scored the high score for the day a 74.8%!
On sunday Ruth was able to take Legs to a clinic and ride with Shannon Peters where Legs was super!
4/23/09
Ruth Coached Erin Tans and Melanie Thompson at IDA nationals April 19th. They both had really good rides. Erin was 5th and Melanie was 7th - GREATJOB!
Laura and Tanya have both purchased new horses - welcome to Rex and Remington!
See the sale page for several new horses.
4/6/09
Congratulations to Erin Tans and Melanie Thompson on qualifying for IDA nationals Ruth will be going to Findlay University in April to coach them at the IDA Nationals!
Welcome to Stuart - Ruth's new project - a handsome 2001 gelding see him on the horses page.
Welcome to Tonya and Belle and Cassie and Sam
Sam will be in training with Ruth and will be on the market shortly and Tonya and Belle will be working with Ruth.
2/20/09
An exciting month at the farm! Sadly Shadow has gone to her new home in WI - we'll miss her lots but her new owner loves her - congrats to Alicia!
Sir Victor has also been sold - congrats to Jerri in PA! We'll miss that cute face! But Jerri and V are perfect together.
Ruth welcomes 2 new horses of her own - Luke a stunning black AWS gelding - he's 3 years old and ready to be trained - pics coming soon! And Rocky a lovely Appendix gelding who has beautiful paint markings and will be the new school horse.
Legs coninues to recover well from surgery and will be back undersaddle next month and Scirocco is as mischevious as ever -Ruth is looking forwards to spring when she can ride him outside!
1/9/08
Happy New year to all!
Updates - We have 4 horses currently on the market -
Everyone is doing well and looking forwards to spring and warmer weather.
11/15/08
Congratulations to Chelsie who purchased Isaac and Leah who purchased Lexus!
Welcome to Berry a lovely Thoroughbred mare owned by Yvonne Bellairs and Protege Barb Sougstad's young gelding both in for training.
9/25/08
Regionals! Congratulations to Ruth and Legs who were the Region 2 Third Level Freestyle Champions! Isaac also placed well with an 8th at First Level and 13th at Training level. Kodiak and Becca did super with a 10th at Second Level. Congratulations to Cindy who purchased Kodiak!
9/15/08
Welcome to Heather and Shaz! Shaz is in training with Ruth and will be shown this summer by both Heather and Ruth. This mare show's great talent and Ruth is already enjoying her progress.
9/2/08
On to Regional Championships! Isaac, Legs and Kodiak head for Regionals Sept 18-21st.
Welcome to Nicci and Hayden! Ruth has Hayden in partial training and is looking forwards to the 2009 show season with them both. Hayden has a lovely trot and a huge canter!
8/7/08
Scirocco is now undersaddle! watch for more photos on his page soon. He has been a superstar and is showing a very willing attitude.
7/30-8/3/08 Dressage by the Bay
Allegro and Kodiak went to the Dressage by the Bay show with Ruth and Becca and had a lovely time. Not only did we show but we watched the grandprix show jumping and a polo match!
Allegro was Third Level High percentage champion at both shows with scores to 67.9%! He also had a lovely Freestyle that recieved a huge crowd response.
Kodiak was First and Second Level high percentage champion at both shows, won all 8 classes he was entered in and qualified for regionals at Second Level with Becca -Great job!!
6/23/08 USDF Waterloo Show
What a show!
Legs was Third Level Open Reserve Champion despite only riding three classes.
Legs also did his first freestyle which was
very well recieved with the audience and judge loving the choice of Queen
compilations. He recieved a qualifying score for regionals of
65%!
Isaac showed First Level for the first time and did exceptionally well scoring in the 70's and winning the First Level Open Reserve Champion award and also scoring in the 70's and winning the Open Training Level Championship! He also qualified for regionals at Training Level and First Level.
Kodiak was First Level Champion in the Junior division with scores up to 71% at First level and 69% at Training Level with Becca Donaldson. He recieved several very nice comments and lots of 8's. See his Sale Page for more details.
Zabella had a great show and recieved lots of positive comments and 8's. She braved awful weather in the last test of the day showing great work ethic. She was the open Training Level Reserve Champion.
Sebastien had wonderful tests at Second Level and took home the Second Level Open Championship. What a good boy!
6/10/08 USDF Waterloo Show
Allegro, Zabella, Isaac and Kodiak went to the first USDF Show of the year and did very well.
Legs had his Third Level debut and did very
well winning 3 classes placing 2nd in two and winning the Third Level Open
Championship for the show. He also qualified for regionals!
Isaac had an exceptional first USDF show with a 72.8% Taining Level test with Ruth giving him one of his qualifying scores for regionals.
Erin Tans rode Isaac in the Adult
Am. division and was the Adult Am. Reserve Champion at Training Level for
the show with two scores of 68%!
Kodiak also did well scoring 9's on his leg
yields and recieving many good comments.
Zabella had a great show with wonderful moments
Coppe Creek Schooling Show 5/23/08
Well done to Isaac, Zabella, Kees and Toy at the first show of the year!
Isaac did exceptionally well winning both his
classes and the show's high percentage award with a 72.8!
Kees and Robyn had huge improvement from last
year and placed well.
Toy and Deborah got a 2nd and two
thirds