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This Page| 2008 Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge I Presented by Collecting Gaits Farm Amy Stuhr and Her “Mixed Breed” Dinar Enjoy Their Win at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge I
Dinar’s official name is Dinar As, but Stuhr dropped the second part. “Too often it came out as ‘ass’ and I didn’t need that,” she joked. He was a breeding stallion in Germany and scored a 135 in his 100-day test coming in just behind the popular stallion Contendro. Stuhr is only his second owner. Dinar was a German Federal Riding Horse champion in both jumping and dressage. The road that brought Stuhr and Dinar together was a winding one. Stuhr and her parents own Greenwood Sporthorses. In 2000, they bought a filly at the Hanoverian Elite Auction. The breeder of that filly introduced them to Holger Kubelke, from whom they later bought a number of young horses. It was Kubelke who told Stuhr of Dinar, who was then a stallion. He convinced Dinar’s breeder and owner, Armin Gantczkow, to let him take the horse for training. It was while Dinar was with Kubelke that Stuhr came to see him. “My father and I pulled into Holger’s farm and right behind us was a carload of Spaniards looking at horses. We walked in the barn and on crossties is this black beauty. He was just stunning. I thought, ‘I hope he’s not an idiot to ride because he’s gorgeous.’ Holger rode him and he was a darling. I got on him and this carload of Spaniards was there and I would not get off this horse until they left because I did not want them to try him. I had been kissing so many frogs and I finally found my prince and I was not losing him to this other group of people,” Stuhr said. “The Spaniards finally gave up and went away. I got off and told them I’d be back next week with my trainer Chris Hickey. Chris came back with me the next week and rode him and gave me the thumbs up and that was that.”
Stuhr said she’s also now looking for another riding horse for herself and hopes eventually to compete at Grand Prix. But for now, she’ll soon be leaving Florida behind to return with Dinar to her family’s other horses that are still back home in Kansas – two riding horses, a broodmare and a yearling. “And I want to thank everyone who has helped make this possible. My parents, Chris, Melissa and I want to thank Jan Smith who has the farm next to us and has been a lot of help.” FEI Prix St Georges Open GAIG/USDF Qualify (P2)
FEI Intermadiaire 1 Freestyle Open GAIG/USDF Qual
  
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Ask Amy Stuhr about her partner in Saturday’s Prix St. Georges win at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge I and she’ll tell you that Dinar is a “bit of a mix with a little bit of everything in there.” She imported the 13-year-old gelding from Germany when he was eight. “Officially, he’s a German, part-bred Arabian gelding,” Stuhr said. His dam is Anika, a Holsteiner mare. His sire is Decoration by the Anglo-Arab stallion Matcho and out of a mare that is by the Thoroughbred stallion Black Sky. 
It was at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge I Sunday in the covered arena that Stuhr also rode her very first freestyle, and topped the class with a 71.5%. Her immediate plans for this year are to do more freestyles and try to qualify to compete at Devon in the fall. After that, Dinar may find himself with a new rider. Stuhr said that her chance to compete in the Young Rider Championships resulted from someone loaning her a good horse. Hence, she aims to pass that generosity along by loaning out Dinar to her friend Aless Hall’s daughter, Jackie.
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