Tuesday, Septeber 13, 2005

USEF/Markel Young Horse Dressage Championships Final Presents the Horses For the Future

Cash Confetti and Merrie Velden

Californian Merrie Velden trailered to the Kentucky Horse Park giving her own Westfalen gelding Cash Confetti a few days of R&R before the Young Horse competition. Her first trip to Kentucky, Velden shared the opinions of all the visitors to the Kentucky Horse Park on the beauty of the facility and its surroundings, as well as the warm and friendly southern hospitality of the management of the competition.

It was worth the trip as the large dark brown gelding by Cordobes II out of Drossana by Drossan, with a handsome face and expressive eyes impressed the judges’ panel with his “effortless, energetic trot” earning an 8.5, and his canter showing a “good jump” scoring a 7.7. A horse for the future, the judges gave the gelding, bred in German by Martin Lange, an 8.0 for his type. In his submission scores, they suggested he be encouraged to come more through, giving him more access to his hindquarters.