Wednesday May 2, 2004

2004 Detroit Dressage

Limestone Springtime Wins Positive Start Perpetual Trophy

Wright rode Limestone Springtime, 16.1, , 5, to a first in USEF Training Level Test 2 Open with a very respectable 74.231. Limestone Spring, a Canadian warmblood, is by Good Times out of a Goldschläger mare and is partly owned by Wright and Limestone Stables in Kingston. Also, the pair won the Positive Start Perpetual Trophy sponsored by Positive Step Farm which goes to the first rider of the season to score 70% at the Zada Enterprises LLC Detroit Dressage I/II shows, which Spring did with a 70.46 in Training 1 Open on the first day.

Limestone Stables produces fine jumpers as well as dressage horses and Wright found the enthusiastic Spring bounding over puddles to make for a few uneven dressage scores but Wright was basically happy with her performance and prospects, "having had an eye on her since she was a weanling."

As a youngster, Wright rode hunter/jumper and eventing and ended up in dressage. She recalls that in eventing she received high marks in dressage and lost them on cross country. After college, Wright spent a year in Switzerland training with George Wahl and Christine Stuckelburger. After that she went for an MBA and then devoted 2 years to IT consulting. In l992 she turned away from the regular work world and opened her training facility. She hasn't looked back. "I'm glad to have the education because it freed me to know I really chose horses. I do them because I want to."