This past summer Fairweather Equitation Center hosted three horse shows. Riders ranged in age from 7 to 73, and they rode horses of various breeds and colors. Placings in the Fireweed Classic and Cowboy Up counted towards year-end awards. The show season closed with a “game day” in which horses and riders competed in timed events. <\/p>\n
The 2017 Awards Dinner was held on Nov. 18. Awards were presented in the following categories: Equitation, including On the rider in English and Western in Stock Seat Equitation, Western Bareback Equitation, Hunt Seat Equitation and English Bareback Equitation.<\/p>\n
The Western Horse category is based on suitability\/performance of horse in Trail, Western Riding Pattern, Western Pleasure and Ideal Horse.<\/p>\n
English Horse is based on suitability\/performance of horse in Dressage, English Pleasure, Bridle Path Hack and English Pleasure Judges Command.<\/p>\n
Versatile Horse is based on suitability\/performance of horse in Western and English in Halter, Trail, Western Pleasure, Dressage, English Pleasure and Bridle Path Hack.<\/p>\n
The winners of the 2017 Champion and Reserve Champion Awards for the 12 and under age group are:<\/strong> Bella Smith, Champion Equitation, riding Zans Sliding Charm and Alexander Smith, Reserve Champion Equitation, riding Spot of Independence. The Western Horse Champion is Spot of Independence (ridden by Alexander Smith.)<\/p>\n Western Horse Reserve Champion Zans Sliding Charm (ridden by Bella Smith)<\/p>\n English Horse Champion Zans Sliding Charm (ridden by Bella Smith)<\/p>\n English Horse Reserve Champion Spot of Independence (ridden by Alexander Smith)<\/p>\n For the 13-17 age group:<\/strong><\/p>\n Krystal Lynn Corsette, Champion of Equitation, riding Zans Sliding Charm.<\/p>\n Dara Reeves, Reserve Champion, riding Shadow.<\/p>\n Western Horse Champion Zans Sliding Charm (ridden by Krystal Lynn Corsette)<\/p>\n Western Horse Reserve Champion Spot of Independence (ridden by Andrew Smith)<\/p>\n English Horse Champion Essence of Dawn (ridden by Paige Turner)<\/p>\n English Horse Reserve Champion Zans Sliding Charm (ridden by Krystal Lynn Corsette)<\/p>\n For the 18 and older age group:<\/strong><\/p>\n Susan Hunter-Joerns, Champion Equitation, riding Dante<\/p>\n Katina Holmberg, Reserve Champion Equitation, riding Zans Sliding Charm<\/p>\n Western Horse Champion Dante (ridden by Susan Hunter Joerns)<\/p>\n Western Horse Reserve Champion Maverick (ridden by Laura Baker)<\/p>\n English Horse Champion Dante (ridden by Susan Hunter Joerns)<\/p>\n English Horse Reserve Champion Mr. Ed Tuff Dude (ridden by Tabitha Anderson)<\/p>\n Versatile Horse Champion Dante (owned by Susan Hunter-Joerns)<\/p>\n Reserve Champion Zans Sliding Charm (owned by Katina Holmberg)<\/p>\n 2017 Improved Rider Awards, going to a group of younger riders:<\/strong><\/p>\n Aiden Epperly (riding Shadow Fax)<\/p>\n Erik Holmberg (riding Sayla)<\/p>\n Jenna Sidney (riding Namara)<\/p>\n Sean Jones (riding Smoke)<\/p>\n Tasha Romsberg (riding Alaskan Fox Fire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past summer Fairweather Equitation Center hosted three horse shows. Riders ranged in age from 7 to 73, and they rode horses of various breeds and colors. Placings in the Fireweed Classic and Cowboy Up counted towards year-end awards. The show season closed with a “game day” in which horses and riders competed in timed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}