Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Ellie Rawle and Waldaire Debut New Footing at Ocala Dressage

Ellie Rawle and Waldaire, her American Warmblood stallion traveled to Florida for Ocala Dressage at the Florida Horse Park, giving themselves plenty of time to settle in before the show. Camped in her horse trailer, Ellie didn’t flinch when a cold front came through, as she has had plenty of experience spending cold nights in her down sleeping bag in Pennsylvania winters during foaling season at her Watermark Farm, which Ellie operates with her parents Bill and Anne.

Being in Ocala with just one horse, her first time in Florida was a new experience. And for Waldaire, the handsome chestnut stallion the Rawle family has bred to some of their finest broodmares, it was a homecoming of sorts. Dana Fiore who sold Waldaire to the Rawles, made a special trip from West Palm Beach with her new young horse Redford to Ocala Dressage, to ride in a couple of classes, but mostly to visit her old friend “Wally”.