2007 WORLDCUP
HGF attended the World Cup Finals in Las Vegas in April. We shared a box and sponsorship of the event with Kimberly Keenan and Meka Farms, Hanoverian breeders from New York and Florida. Below is our ad for the 2007 event.
Grandioso - Grand Champion at Fiesta Florida
Hampton Green Farms' GRANDIOSO wins Grand Champion at Fiesta Florida. This past June, at the Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse's Florida breed show, Grandioso III came away with top honors for the show. Amidst demanding competition, Spanish judges awarded him Champion for Senior Stallions as well as Champion of the Breed. Congratulations and thanks to his handlers, Tom Reed and Pati Pierucci. Grandioso has shown in Wellington the past year and has a number of high point awards at open dressage at his various levels. He will be shown in 2007 at Fourth Level and will have offspring on the ground in the summer.
Grandioso - Grand Champion at Fiesta - Florida - 1
Hampton Green Farms' GRANDIOSO wins Grand Champion at Fiesta Florida. This past June, at the Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse's Florida breed show, Grandioso III came away with top honors for the show. Amidst demanding competition, Spanish judges awarded him Champion for Senior Stallions as well as Champion of the Breed. Congratulations and thanks to his handlers, Tom Reed and Pati Pierucci. Grandioso has shown in Wellington the past year and has a number of high point awards at open dressage at his various levels. He will be shown in 2007 at Fourth Level and will have offspring on the ground in the summer.
HGF Open House 2006 - 2
Our 2006 Open House was another success and thousands of dollars were raised for the Child Abuse Council of Muskegon. Our thanks to WMUS and Pam Roberts, HGF staff, Members of the Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse, and our tireless orange-shirted volunteer staff!
Fiesta for Hope
Original article at the Equestrian Aid Foundation Fiesta for Hope
 On July 29, 2006 the first annual Fiesta for Hope took place at Horse Shows by the Bay, Traverse City, Michigan which was hosted and sponsored by Kim Boyer, Hampton Green Farm, and Dean and Alex Rheinheimer of Horse Sports by the Bay, Inc. Party goers were treated to an authentic Spanish Paella and Sangria created and prepared by Galipette Restaurant (Wellington, FL) Owner Chef Frederic while watching a musical dressage demonstration and the Junior-Amateur Owner Show Jumping Prix from the Hospitality Tent. The benefit generated over $15,000 in donations to EAF. Six time dressage Olympian Robert Dover flew into Traverse City for the day and was on site to introduce Pati Pierucci's musical ride and EAF's mission to the general audience. A big thank you goes out to all of the silent and live auction donors: Carole Grant, Deb Van Leen, EverAfter Diamonds, Ariat International, Inc., Susan Gohl, Peter Moss, Katie Whaley, Romance Farm, Ann. K. Hubbard's Tack Shop, R. Scot Evans, Heidi Birath, English Riding Supply, Ashley Holzer, River's Edge Farm, Schreiber Corporation, Positive Step Farm, The Tack Box, The Pink Turtle, Sporthorse Saddlery, Hampton Green Farm, and Horse Sports by the Bay, Inc.
Pati Pierucci/Cosaco Score 10 on Piaffe
Read the original news at www.DressageDaily.com Thursday, June 29, 2006 Hampton Green Farm Debuts Two Spanish Stallions at Grand Prix at Dressage at Lamplight Pati Pierucci and Cosaco Score 10 on Piaffe Pati Pierucci and Cosaco Score 10 on PiaffeLast weekend, Hampton Green Farm successfully presented two of their young Pure Spanish stallions at Grand Prix at the IDCTA Summer Dressage Series at Lamplight in Wayne, IL, outside of Chicago. Pati Pierucci, Hampton Green's trainer, showed both horses for three days under judges Barbara Ebner, Tom Poulin, and Maryal Barnett. Cosaco, a ten-year-old 16 hand grey stallion imported in 2005, received scores of 8s and 9s from all three judges in piaffe and passage, and a precedent-setting score of a perfect 10 in piaffe from judge Ebner. Cosaco came to Lamplight with some experience, having been shown once at Grand Prix in Spain and once in Wellington over the winter. 'I felt like this weekend he was finally my horse,' commented Pierucci. 'We were connected and together. For him, the whole thing was about pleasing me, which is such a different experience from my previous Grand Prix horses. When I go in the ring with him, I am not thinking about what can go wrong, but about how I can make the next movement even better.' Pierucci and Cosaco received consistent marks throughout the weekend from all three judges, and took home three Grand Prix scores of 66.87%, 67.5%, and 66.25%.
Pati Pierucci and Hampton Green's Idilio Debuts in the Grand Prix Pati Pierucci and Hampton Green's Idilio Debuts in the Grand PrixHampton Green's Idilio has been competing in the States and in Spain at all levels below Grand Prix since he was imported in 2000. For the past two years he has been shown only occasionally as Pierucci and her coach, Kathy Connelly, have been finishing the 16.3 hand pearl-white eleven-year-old for Grand Prix competition. This weekend marked his first time in the Grand Prix ring and he did not fail to show exceptional promise at this level. Idilio and Pierucci began the weekend with a 71.7% in the Intermediare 2 and finished on Sunday with a 64.1% in the Grand Prix B test. They received a number of marks of 8 in the piaffe and passage tours, as well as 9s in the lateral work and the pirouettes. 'It's been a waiting game to finally get to this point,' said Pierucci, 'but Kathy's strategy of holding off until he was ready really paid off. In the Intermediare 2, since he has done that test a few times, I was able to really go for it. He's less familiar with the Grand Prix test itself, and I felt we needed to be more conservative so that he could be confident and enjoy what he was doing.'
Pati Pierucci/Cosaco Score 10 - 1
Read the original news at www.DressageDaily.com Hampton Green Farm Debuts Two Spanish Stallions at Grand Prix at Dressage at Lamplight Hampton Green Farm Breeders of the Pure Spanish Horse (PRE) Hampton Green Farm Breeders of the Pure Spanish Horse (PRE)Hampton Green Farm is a breeding and training operation specialized in the Pure Spanish Horse (PRE). The breeding farm is located in Fruitport, Michigan, where over 40 head of breeding stock live year-round. In the winters, the stallions in training are taken to Wellington to compete in the Winter Equestrian Festival. Pierucci has been a leader in firsts for the PRE breed in the American dressage ring, having won many awards and distinctions at all levels with her young PRE stallions. This past winter, she competed fourth-level Mejorano and first-level Grandioso and obtained a number of high-point awards with each. Her work with Kathy Connelly has been fundamental to the success of the two FEI horses, both of whom were regulars at Connelly's Apple Valley Farm schooling shows last winter. 'I especially want to thank Kathy for her support and for believing in what we are doing with our Spanish horses--but first and foremost, Peter and Kim for having my back. I am never in the ring alone.'
Martin Schaudt to Train Pati Pierucci
Read the original news at www.DressageDaily.com Martin Schaudt to Train Pati Pierucci at Hampton Green Farm in Wellington
German Olympian Martin Schaudt is planning to spend the winter in Wellington. A recent visit to Hampton Green Farm in Fruitport, Michigan, gave Schaudt the opportunity to finalize his plans to come to Florida later this year for the Winter Equestrian Festival season. Beginning in November, he will be spending several weeks a month at Hampton Green's Wellington location in order to train Pati Pierucci and Hampton Green's two Grand Prix Spanish stallions, Idilio and Cosaco, to prepare for the upcoming Sunshine Tour in March 2007.
While in Michigan, Schaudt selected one of the farm's young horses, a five-year-old bay Spanish (PRE) stallion named Cuatrero, to train and show himself this winter in Wellington and to take back to Germany in the spring for training and competing. In addition, Schaudt has purchased for himself two 2006 PRE foals from Hampton Green Farm, from sires Idilio and Grandioso.
Martin Schaudt, consistently ranked among the world's top dressage riders, rode for the German Gold in Athens on his Hanoverian gelding, Weltall. He has been interested in Spanish horses for several years. For a time, he trained the horse Minero from the Yeguada Maipe, who currently is showing in the small tour in Spain with Jose Ignacio Lopez Porras.
He was introduced last winter to Kimberly Van Kampen-Boyer, owner of Hampton Green Farms, and made several visits to the Wellington facility when he was in town for clinics. He was interested in rider Pati Pierucci's work with her Grand Prix horses which led to discussions of his coming to Wellington and his visit to Michigan this past summer during the week of the WEG competition.
Idilio and Cosaco to Debut at Grand Prix
Hampton Green Farm debuted two stallions at Grand Prix this past summer and both horses qualified for Devon at that level. The decision was made not to compete at Devon this year, as the horses were inexperienced at CDIs. Pierucci has been trained and coached by Kathy Connelly for the past three years, who is supportive of Schaudt’s work with the Hampton Green horses.
The Sunshine Tour falls in the middle of the Wellington season, which makes it impossible for Connelly to be available for this series of three CDIs in Vejer, Spain, and she was pleased that the situation with Shaudt afforded itself to Pierucci and the horses.
In addition to Idilio and Cosaco, Hampton Green is competing two seven year-olds: Mejorano at Prix St. George and Grandioso, brother to Cuatrero, at Fourth Level.
Hampton Green Farm’s Michigan location is a breeding farm that is developing a generation of Spanish (PRE) horses for dressage competition. Schaudt purchased two stud colts from Hampton Green mares and stallions, both of which will spend the winter in Michigan prior to leaving for Europe.
Shopping for Horses with HGF
Shopping for Horses with
Hampton Green Farm - May, 2006
Last May, we traveled to Spain with Valerie and Frank Lazzara, Michael Kohl, and Mark Ulanowski. Five intense days took us from Malaga to Jerez to Sevilla and back to Marbella, where we looked at a number of prospects for a number of clients, both amateur and professional. When it comes to locating competitive horses in Spain, Hampton Green draws on years of experience and relationships with breeders and riders who are actively competing there. The trip was successful on many levels. One horse is on his way to New York, and there are several other options under consideration. Most importantly, the first-time shoppers were educated in the process of purchasing a PRE for American dressage competition through riding many types of horses with all varieties of comformation and training. We also found time to enjoy the friendships we made there and the wonderful Andalusian culture.
Shopping for Horses with HGF
Shopping for Horses with
Hampton Green Farm - May, 2006
Last May, we traveled to Spain with Valerie and Frank Lazzara, Michael Kohl, and Mark Ulanowski. Five intense days took us from Malaga to Jerez to Sevilla and back to Marbella, where we looked at a number of prospects for a number of clients, both amateur and professional. When it comes to locating competitive horses in Spain, Hampton Green draws on years of experience and relationships with breeders and riders who are actively competing there. The trip was successful on many levels. One horse is on his way to New York, and there are several other options under consideration. Most importantly, the first-time shoppers were educated in the process of purchasing a PRE for American dressage competition through riding many types of horses with all varieties of comformation and training. We also found time to enjoy the friendships we made there and the wonderful Andalusian culture.
Hampton Green Farm Forum 06 - 1
Hampton Green Farm Hosts the Wellington Forum
for Riders of Spanish Horses for Dressage
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Hampton Green Farm hosted its second Wellington Forum for Riders of Spanish Horses for Dressage on March 20th. An audience of over 60 people attended representing various fields related to the development, training and showing of Spanish horses, including breeders, professional Grand Prix riders, USDF judges and amateur riders. Wellington attendees included Charlotte Bredahl, Carol Lavell, Michael Kohl and Marc Ulanowski, Fran Smith and Joni Cherbo, Meg Hilly, Linda Smith, Marcia Pepper and Joli Burrell. Several Board Members and Directors from the breed foundation (the Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse) were also in attendance, including Lanys Kaye-Eddie, Mary Adams, and Janne Rumbaugh.
The HGF Wellington Forum was first held in 2004, and its unique format was devised at that time. Given the relative newness of the Spanish Horse in American competition, the Forum was conceived as a tool for information about the breed in general in all its uses for dressage, from the amateur level to the professional, from starting young horses to preparing for the Grand Prix. Unlike a clinic that features one particular trainer and training philosophy, the HGF Forum has featured a number of trainers and their students, as well as individuals who presented their training successes and challenges with their own horses. The structure is rather informal, with questions fielded throughout the sessions and discussion encouraged. Exhibitors at this year's Forum were: Kathy Connelly and Pati Pierucci, Janne Rumbaugh, John Zapati, Tom Reed, Sheri Reiber, Lily Zilo and Linda Smith, Lee Burton, Julie Ann Steiger, and Hannah Pierucci.
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The day began with three of Hampton Green Farm's competing stallions, all ridden by Pati Pierucci and in training with Wellington Trainer, Judge, and former USET member Kathy Connelly. She began with a long-lining session with Cosaco, a 10 year old green Grand Prix horse, to demonstrate the training of the piaffe and passage with this method that has both historical and modern importance in the refinement of these movements. (Kathy and Cosaco did a similar demonstration for the 2006 Wellington Young Riders Clinic a few weeks prior.) Pati then mounted the horse to show the effects of the exercise under saddle. The next session featured Grandioso, a 7 year old schooling the Fourth Level. The emphasis for this session was the warm-up, proper and effective stretching and collection while amplifying the gaits. Next, Pati rode Hampton Green's Idilio, an 11 year old green Grand Prix horse, for Kathy who used him to demonstrate a number of exercises in ultra-collection at both the trot and canter, such as the haunches-in at the counter canter, the extended trot to passage, and the pirouette.
Tom Reed, from Medieval Times and a regular exhibition rider at the annual USET luncheon at the Palm Beach Derby, demonstrated suppleing and strengthening techniques on a handsome bay 5 year old of 17 hands bred by Manor Hill Farm. Later in the day, Tom, with several young stallions, provided helpful advice for the amateur in stallion handling and management. Although so many of these horses remain intact due to their sensible and easy natures, many first-time owners are still in need of basic safety and handling techniques for working with stallions.
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Janne Rumbaugh is currently training and showing an American-bred 7 year old bay PRE stallion, Gorron (Gremlan Farm), with considerable success at Fourth Level and Prix St. George in Wellington. She used her session to explain how different musical styles affect the performing horse, and how the Spanish horse is particularly expressive within the Kur. She performed a 'spontaneous' Free-Style with her horse who was hearing the sound track for the first time. Lee Burton, an amateur rider with a number of USDF All-Breeds awards with Amando, a 12 year old stallion she located at a riding school in Spain, also performed her I-1 Free-Style for the audience who especially enjoyed her enthusiasm and creativity. Wellington resident Lily Zilo is another All-Breeds Award winner as well as a Markel Insurance Amateur Award Recipient with her imported stallion Edil at Training Level. Linda Smith coached Lily through a demonstration of the kind of training that they utilized to transform this horse, which was purchased as a trail horse, into a horse with a national ranking in open dressage competition.
Professional rider and trainer John Zapati, who has worked with several Spanish horses in the past, demonstrated in-hand exercises for the young horse that he has found helpful with his warmbloods as well as the Iberian horses that he has in training. Former USET member Sheri Reiber schooled the movements required for the FEI tests with her young stallion, with whom she has begun to show in Wellington CDIs and other places. Julie Ann Steiger rode a recent import by Hampton Green, a 10 year old stallion owned by Mary Magee, who is schooling all the Grand Prix movements, and Hannah Pierucci rode HGF's Camaron, demonstrating the gentleness and work ethic of this breed, even in the hands of a child. Pati Pierucci finished the day with Hampton Green's Mejorano, a 7 year old Fourth Level/Prix St. George competitor, and explained the training of the tempis.
A lunch of paella, salads, and sangria was prepared by Galipette Restaurant and during the luncheon, Kimberly Boyer, owner of Hampton Green Farms, presented an overview of the success of the Spanish horse, both individually and as part of the Spanish Team, in international dressage competition. She emphasized that the ascendancy of the Spanish Team to its current Silver Medal status at the last Olympics in Athens was not a sudden success, but the result of a carefully choreographed program over the past 10 years on the part of Jan Bemelsman and the members of the Spanish Team. In general, she stressed, Americans appear to be unaware that the Spanish Team has placed in the top three teams internationally for the past five years in non-Olympic European championships, many of which have included American teams and riders, such as CHIO Aachen, the World Equestrian Games, and the European Championships. Based on their individual and collective scores, the Spanish horse has been successful at some time or another against the majority of the dressage world's top riders and warmbloods, and yet the perception in the States is that the breed has somehow less aptitude for the sport. She encouraged audience members to educate the dressage community whenever the chance arises, to buy and breed high quality young horses, and most importantly, show these horses in the American dressage rings. Following the long list of successes of the breed, the audience responded with enthusiastic applause. A question and answer session followed with Kim and Pati, discussing the factors involved in purchasing a Spanish Horse. Board members from the Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse invited the audience to attend its various breed shows across the country, especially the upcoming Fiesta Florida in Jacksonville, FL, the first weekend in June.
At the end of the day, there was general agreement by the audience members that this breed will continue to impact the dressage scene in the United States, and that the only problem lies in the fact that the demand for this horse outpaces the supply. The potential for American breeders of the Spanish Horse is great as the dressage world discovers this breed's unique abilities to compete in modern day competition at the sport for which they were originally designed in history.
Hampton Green Farm Forum 06 - 3
2006 - MARCH You are invited to attend a Forum for Riders of Spanish Horses for Dressage, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MONDAY, MARCH 20 - 2006, at Hampton Green Farm, 13285 Southfields Road, Wellington, FL. Featuring Kathy Connelly and Pati Pierucci, as well as John Zapoti, Tom Reed, Sheri Reiber, and many more horse and rider pairs. Luncheon provided by Galipette RESTAURANT&CLUB Auditing Fee: $25 per personFOR RESERVATIONS CALL 231.865.6000 FORUM TOPICS INCLUDE: Long and Low with the Spanish Horse: Does it work? Stallion Handling and Management for the Amateur. Developing Piaffe and Passage with Kathy Connelly. The Kur: The Forte of the Spanish Horse. The Progress of the Spanish Horse in International FEI Competition. And more.
HGF Open House 2005
This year's Open House was a paying-crowd record for Hampton Green Farm. Over $7500.00 was raised to benefit the Muskegon Child Abuse Council. As in the prior year, a team of expert volunteers from the Council made the day run smoothly and without a hitch. This year, their bright orange HGF shirts and red hats made them readily accessible to anyone needing assistance. As in year's past, a delicious lunch was prepared by Chef Frederic and his team of teenage assistants, and people were happy to see Zell Tucker from Chicago behind the bar again this year. Eleven hundred visitors came through the barns, enjoyed lunch, shopping, and hourly riding demonstrations by Pati Pierucci and friends of HGF. Several changes to the program made this year special: Judge Kelly Farmer provided a commentary to a First Level test, ridden by Analiese Van Heukelom, explaining not only the movements of lower level dressage, but the attention to detail that a judge employs when awarding points. Mac Bonselaar and Hannah Pierucci were crowd pleasers with their rendition of 'Me and My Shadow'. Mac, at 6'3, on his 17 hand warmblood, and tiny Hannah trailing on her little pony, were arguably more entertaining than Sinatra and Davis. Shawna Krutel provided a demonstration of Spanish style riding in full costume, and later joined fellow groom Liz Brown, both riding white stallions in the equestrian version of 'Dueling Banjos'. To the tune of 'Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better', Liz and Shawna showed off their pirouhettes, extended trots, tempis, and finally Spanish Walk. A special thanks to Valerie Lazzaro for providing her Osado for this number. Pati Peirucci rode several freestyles, including a PSG level freestyle with Mejorano to famous television themes from the 60s and 70s, and also an in hand exhibition with Grandioso
