| WELCOME New Mill Creekers! | |
Please join us in welcoming Mill Creek's newest boarders:
Margie Cochrane with Dresden & Debet & Jenny Berger with Finnegan Margie just moved to California from the East Coast with her two very nice Dressage horses. Jenny Berger just moved in her pretty gray gelding, named Finnegan, who Joe will begin Eventing soon.
Both Margie and Jenny are clients of Mette's. |
| Welcome Devlano! | |
On April 21, Robyn Fisher Nash's lovely mare, Lady Calido, gave birth to Devlano.
Below are photos of the beautiful little filly at 4 days old!
You can also view a YouTube video of Devlano's gorgeous sire, Secret Agent. |
| Summer Day Camp Starts June 21! | |
|
| Get Well Soon Dr. Toni! | |
We send you our best wishes for a speedy recovery!
We hope to see you back in the saddle again soon! |
| Horse Show News | |
Successful First Show at Twin Rivers:
At the beginning of March, Lorie Fee rode her young horse, Good to Go in their first official show outing together and came in Second place in the Senior Novice Division. Robyn Fisher Nash rode her young gelding Cornell at his first official Event and came in First place in Open Novice!
Congratulations to both of you!
Visit the Mill Creek Results page for results of recent Horse Shows, Horse Trials and Three Day Events. Upcoming Shows:EVENTS/HORSE TRIALS
Galway Downs Spring Horse Trials, May 13-15 (entries due 4/26)
Copper Meadows Horse Trials, June 11-12
Shepherd Ranch SYVPC Horse Trials I, June 24-26 (entries due 6/7)
Shepherd Ranch SYVPC Horse Trials II*, August 26-28 (entries due 8/9)
*Cory says to plan to use the August Shepherd Ranch show as your summer progress report.
DRESSAGE SHOWS
Dressage at Flintridge, May 27-29
Cool August Nights Dressage Show (LAEC), August 25-28
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
USEF Festival of Champions & Pan American Games Selection Trials (Gladstone, NJ), September 8-11.
USEA American Eventing Championships (Fairburn, GA), September 8-11.
Don't forget you can always visit the Mill Creek Calendar for the latest information on upcoming shows. |
| Mill Creek Marketplace |
Remember we always have items listed for sale on the Mill Creek Marketplace page! This is a great way to get excellent deals on tack and riding equipment. Have something to sell?
Just email us with details of any items you'd like to sell. Photos will be included if you send them. |
|
Easter Egg Hunt 2011 |
Thanks to everyone for coming out! We hope you had a great time! A very special thanks to Lorie Fee for doing her usual stellar job in organizing this annual event. Photos are available on the website. |
| IMPORTANT Invoice Policy Change | |
Please understand that payment is due at the time lessons are scheduled. Payment is expected before time of service.
A $5.00 bookkeeping fee is being charge for sending out any statement with a balance due. The bookkeeping fee will double with each unpaid statement sent.
Remember that we now take Visa and MasterCard for lesson payments. Thank you in advance for your attention to this important matter. |
| CAUTION!! |
For your safety, when entering Mill Creek from the South (PCH) side, please be sure to pull forward far enough so you can see around the blind curve before making a left turn!! |
| Featured Photo | |
A photo of Mario from a few years ago! Courtesy of Karene. |
|
|
Greetings!
The year started out very busy for me. Robyn and I traveled East looking for horses for our clients. We were disappointed that we weren't able to find horses for Joanne Horwitz or Joyce Yamamoto, but we will keep looking. We did however find a wonderful horse in Georgia for Madi Holtzman. His name is Ringwood Murphy and he's a big bay Irish bred horse. He's very kind and has been showing at the training and preliminary levels. As you will discover from reading this newsletter, there are many, many new faces and horses at the barn and we are very happy to welcome them to our Mill Creek family.
Spring is here and the horse show season is in full swing. Even if you are not planning to compete, I strongly encourage you to go watch, help other riders or volunteer for the show committee-it's an incredible learning experience. Many shows are close by & upcoming shows are listed in this newsletter. The Mill Creek Show will be June 5; I hope to see all of you there.
Once again we have a full Summer Day Camp Program planned, which begins June 21 this year. Details and enrollment forms are now available on the website. I'm looking forward to another full Summer at Mill Creek!
I hope you enjoy this second edition of our email newsletter. Please note that it contains several features that either didn't fit into our print newsletter or occured after the print version went to press.
Sincerely,
Cory Walkey
Mill Creek Equestrian Center
(310) 455-1116 |
|
Update on Mette & Her Clients
Are the Pan Am Games in her future? 
Mette has already had an extremely busy year. She went on a buying trip to Denmark with Anne Solbraekke and came home with another lovely horse for Anne named Rico, a chestnut Warmblood gelding with a beautiful flaxen mane and tail. Rico is an elegant, advanced level Dressage horse.
While in Denmark, the Finally Partners, LLC went crazy and bought a fabulous 3-year-old gelding named Regent for Mette to develop. She hopes to qualify him for the 4-year-old championships in Chicago.
PAN AM GAMES?
The 2nd weekend in April, Mette competed in the CDI 3* Dressage Festival at Rancho Murieta; an international level show that will help Mette in her goal of qualifying for the Pan Am games in Guadalajara in October this year. Riding her impressive chestnut, Finally, they placed 1st in Prix St. Georges and just missed first by 2/10 of a point in Intermediare I. This should qualify them for the national championships at Gladstone in September, where the Pan American team will be selected.
 | |
Mette's new young horse, Regent |
|
|
Congratulations to Paulina & King!
The pair did a fabulous job at Galway Downs in April!
In their first outing at the Training Level, Paulina and King won first place in a large class at Galway Downs the first weekend in April. Cory & Joe are extremely proud of their fantastic go-Paulina won effortlessly on her Dressage score! |
|
Mill Creek Shows Well at Trancas
Results of the Trancas Riders & Ropers Hunter/Equitation Benefit Show On April 3, Karene took several of our students to the TR&R Hunter/Equitation Benefit Show in Malibu and everyone placed very well! Most notably, Stella Gage on Marcus took home the High Point Championship and Arienne Martin on Serena and Zoe Camparoso on Sleepy were co-Reserve High Point Champions (see photo below). Other ribbon counts are below:
| Stella Gage & Marcus |
2 - 1sts; 2 - 4ths | |
Zoe Camparoso & Sleepy | 1 - 1st; 1 - 4th | |
Arienne Martin & Serena | 1 - 2nd; 4 - 3rds | | Sofia Guarachi & Merry | 1 - 5th; 1 - 2nd | | Julia Brittain & Brady | 2 - 4ths; 1 - 2nd | | Lila Mass & Lego | 1 - 2nd; 1 - 4th | | Maxine Hoesdorff-Rosen & Bows | 1 - 1st; 1 - ? | |
Carole Lieberman & Gimli | ? |
Three Champions at Trancas!  | |
Stella Gage on Marcus (center) took home the High Point Championship & Arienne Martin on Serena (left) & Zoe Camparoso (right) on Sleepy were co-Reserve High Point Champions. |
|
|
Many New Horses at Mill Creek!
Congratulations new horse owners!
Elle de Recat has a new Pinto gelding named Pacino. He is from Washington State and has competed up to the Preliminary Level. Cory says "Elle looks very lovely on him."
Tessa Robinson has purchased a nice preliminary Event horse named Gideon. We will be excited to see Tessa competing on her beautiful new horse.
Anna Dahlberg, Mette's assistant, brought over a nice 4- year-old Swedish chestnut gelding. He was bred by her parents and she will be training and competing on him this year.
As mentioned in Cory's introduction, Madi Holtzman has a new Irish bred gelding named Murphy.
Jordyn Horwitz with her new German-bred gelding. Nico is 8-years old and has been Eventing at the Advanced level.
LuLu Shamberg's athletic new chestnut Trakehner mare, Maizie, has been winning in Preliminary at almost every Event. |
|
Clinic Report from Sylvia Wong
On January 9, 2011, Sylvia and Loren attended a clinic with Juan Munoz Diaz at Dove Hollow Dressage in Encinitas, CA.
 | |
Sylvia and Lauren working with Juan |
Juan represented Spain at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington , KY this past September on his Andalusian stallion Fuego XII.
Juan has trained Fuego since he was a 4 year old and at the WEG in Kentucky, Juan was rewarded for his dedication and hard work by scoring 81.45% and fifth place in a spectacular freestyle performance. He enjoyed talking about this special horse - his riding, training and horse care. I was honored to ride with him and felt both challenged and encouraged. I will remember the key words - "forward", "more collection" and most of all "sit!" He demanded lots of lateral work interspersed with riding forward (and half halt to come back) to improve straightness, collection and submission. He demonstrated this clearly when he rode Loren and showed the effectiveness of his seat.
Loren was instantly recognized by his former groom as soon as he stepped off the trailer. Flo Brown, the owner of Dove Hollow and former owner of Loren came out especially to see him and told me stories of his younger days! Loren entertained his home town fans and even showed his Spanish walk - with Juan exclaiming in surprise "and he's not even a Spanish horse!"
Huge thanks to Lindsay Smith for her support and prep for this event. |
|
Blankets! Blankets! Blankets!
A Message from Cory
Spring is here so once again it's time to send your winter blankets off to be cleaned and repaired and stored in your garage until next October. We like to use Diana Dover (818-674-8691) for cleaning and repair.
 This summer, Cory would like to see all the horses in a stable sheet to keep their coats clean, flat and shiny. Also, please plan ahead and consider using a mesh fly sheet (pictured right) for your horse in August and September.
For all blankets, please be sure to write your last name in at least 2 inch letters on the inside chest flap.
Cory thanks you and your horses will thank you!
|
About Mill Creek Equestrian Center
Mill Creek is a full service boarding and training facility in Topanga, California. We specialize in Eventing and Dressage training for all levels of horses and riders. Mill Creek Equestrian Center
1881 Old Topanga Canyon Road
Topanga, California 90290
(310) 455-1116
|
|
