July 2022 Issue

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We cannot accept copyrighted photos without permission from owner. You must have permission before reprinting anything from East Coast Equestrian. For permission please call (717) 509-9800 or email steph@eastcoastequestrian.net By Silvia Sidesaddle Well, hello again darlings! It’s summer so let’s get right to the news! Who would abandon a skin- ny horse on the hot sidewalk of a busy street in the Hunting Park section of the city of Philadel- phia? Apparently someone who purchased him earlier in the day and had second thoughts. The gelding, now named Darien, was kept cool and safe by the nearby community until the Animal Care and Control Team of Philadelphia was called to take custody, which they then transferred to Last Chance Ranch . The Quaker- town, PA rescue determined he was, at 642 pounds, about 100 pounds underweight. He will be cared for and eventually avail- able for adoption, but until that happens, donations to help with his care are welcome at lastchan- ceranch.org. The Brandywine Horse Shows will not be held this year, it was announced in mid-June. Low entries were the culprit, so the Executive Committee decided to take a year off ‘to regroup and hopefully come back even better next year’. The shows were to be held at the Devon Horse Show Grounds in Devon, PA June 29 to July 3 and July 5-10. Joyce Billings , of Warren County, NJ, was the lucky winner of $5,000 in the Standardbred Retirement Foundation’s live Facebook drawing. Joyce is a supporter of SRF and continues to support the rescue through her restaurant, Post Time Pub. All donations are welcome as the foundation supports 500 retired Standardbreds and receives approximately new ones 700 each year. Syl has a soft spot for the breed because her first horse many, many, many, many years ago was a distinguished older bay gentleman named Jimmy. New Jersey’s Alice Tarjan and her Serenade MF are on the short list to represent the US in the 2022 FEI Dressage World Championships in Denmark in August. In the meantime, they are competing at observation events in Europe before final team se- lection in July. Key competitions include the Rotterdam CDIO5* and the Aachen CDIO5*/CDI4*. Make us proud Alice!!! Alex Matz was a member of the US Team that finished sixth in the FEI Jumping Nations Cup of Madrid CSIO3* recently. He traveled to Europe with his mom Dorothy ’s Cashew CR, a 2008 Holsteiner, where they competed as the anchor combination in an event without a first-round drop score. Pressure darlings! They added just four faults, finishing in 75.05 seconds, to qualify the team for the second round with a score of 12. Prior to heading to Madrid, the team, which also included Daisy Farish, Charlotte Jacobs, and Julie Welles , and which was led by Chef d’Equipe Anne Kursinski competed in Portugal at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of Lisbon CSIO3*. In his US Jumping Team debut there, Alex, age 25 of Coatesville, PA and Cashew had the team’s only double clear, finishing their first round in 71.01 seconds. They went clear in the second round as well, one of only three combinations to do so, in a time of 71.06 seconds. Syl senses a new star rising in the famous Matz family!!! His parents are Show Jumping Hall of Famer turned racehorse trainer Michael Matz and Pan Am Games medalist D.D. Alexander Matz , but of course you knew that, you sweet things. Syl is just learning that Hope Hand of Malvern, PA, passed away June 12, just days after her 73rd birthday. Devoted to Para Equestrian sports, she spurred para-athletes to three ground- breaking medals at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics and recruited and inspired countless others. In 1998 she was one of four para-dressage riders who competed on teams with able bodied riders in the USEF Festival of Champions, where her score broke a tie to earn her team the win. She also won bronze at the 1999 World Dres- sage Championships and com- peted in the 2000 Paralympics in Australia. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December. She will be missed darlings! The end of an era darlings!!!! The Devon Horse Show ended with a gasp this year when ma- ny-decades-long managers David Distler and Peter Doubleday resigned. Distler told the Chron- icle of the Horse “certain things we did for the show were taken away and given to other people that we ended up having to fix.” Peter had been with the show for 46 years and David for 49. Peter will continue to manage the Royal in Toronto and David will still manage Washington and the Show Jumping Talent Search, and both were former managers at Harris- burg before the staff shakeup a few years ago. David and Peter were both elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame in March. Syl thinks they will be missed! There were some new faces on the US team at the FEI Event- ing Nations Cup Great Britain CCIO4*-S in May. Caroline Martin , the veteran of the group, and Islandwood Captain Jack led the team to the silver medal and finished fifth individually. Caroline spends her winters in Ocala and summers in Riegelsville, PA. Also on the team, which is finishing their tour of Europe as Syl writes, were Isabella Bosley , Cochranville, PA and her mount Night Quality and fellow freshmen Cornelia Dorr and Allie Knowles . Local connections were ev- erywhere in early June as Jennie Brannigan , Coatesville, PA, and Twilightslastgleam finished first in the four star at the Mars Equestrian Bromont CCI Three Day Event in Quebec. Twilight- slastgleam is owned by Tim and Nina Gardner , members of the Maryland 5 Star Event Commit- tee. Congratulations all! And finally, now there’s a device called Trotify that makes a sound like hoofbeats when you ride your bike. It is wooden, fits on the front of your bike like a reflector and makes hoofbeat sounds at a slow (walk maybe?) or medium (definite trot) pace. Pedal too fast and it doesn’t break into a canter, it just stops. Syl wonders if her darlings can diag- nose a lameness from the sound? Find one for yourself at Trotify. com. (Who else would tell you these things????) And that’s it for Syl for anoth- er month! Until next time, remem- ber to S.S.S. (Send Syl Scoop) at PAEquest@aol.comAnd …be careful where you step! King of Devon Continues His Reign at the 2022 Devon Horse Show (Continued from page 17) Championship, Ceil Wheeler and her own CH Callaway’s Brioni went home with the tricolor, repeating their 2019 win. Candy M. Chieppo and Air Above the Clouds were reserve champions. Breeding The coveted Best Young Horse awards went to Kimberly Sweeny’s Pangea and handler 19-year-old Hailey Raach. Pangea earned the Devon blue in the 2-Year-Old Pennsylvania Bred-Fillies class with handler Jay Raach, and won the 2-Year- Old Other Than Thorough- bred-Filles class with Hailey as the handler. Pangea was also awarded the Best Pennsylvania Bred Horse. Reserve Best Young Horse was awarded to Susan Tice-Grossmann’s Rougemont handled by Drew Taylor. The Leading Handler Award was presented to William Howland, who handled Gina Filewicz’s Thepreacherswife to the Best Thoroughbred award and Diana Dodge’s Avon and Abbie Fischer’s Indescretionable to top titles. McLain Ward celebrates his twelfth Devon Grand Prix win before a packed crowd at the Devon Horse Show. The class was also broadcast to viewers across the country on ESPN3. Photo Credit: Emma Miller, Phelps Media Group