...and the winner is!

Show Results for 2009 SPORT HORSE NATIONAL CHAMP
1232 A/HA/AA Carriage Pleasure Driving Turnout Champ SFF
Final Results
Exh #
Horse Name
Rider
Owner
1) 595
LUSCIOUS LORRAINE
VAS, SARAH E
SCHLUND, MARGARET M VALLEY CITY OH

(above photo is of "Hattie (Winfield Haute Couture) and her new baby "Lucious Lorraine" fondly known at "LuLu")

She did it! Sarah and Maggie's filly won the National Championship in Carriage Pleasure Driving Turnout!

What a thrill for me. I'm sure for everyone involved, but especially to me. When Sarah was born, I knew she would be a horsewoman. I did not know at the time that she would be so gifted, but she has proved herself time and time again with the horses.

She was a "horse whisperer" even a a teenager. She has marched to her own drum for a long time, and she has studied, observed, practiced, tried, failed, tried again.

She owned this filly's mother. She bred her mother, Winfield Haute Couture to Monarch V and produced "Lucious Lorraine" a dark brown filly who was tall and slender. The filly has a leg injury that required serious surgery and long post op down time, and rehab. When Maggie had to have her other filly humanely euthanized, she bought "LuLu" as a replacement horse. She kept the filly with Sarah who broke her and trained her to drive, and then this year, LuLu competed in two shows in Indiana that garnered enough qualifing points to allow her to enter this National Competion.

The results are in, and she beat the best of the best!

Congrats to "Sis" and "Lulu". A well deserved win at Sarah's first ever National competition!

Additionally, Sarah and Lulu placed National Top Ten in two other carriage divisions. All of this with the filly being off work for 3-1/2 weeks due to Sarah's injury, and Sarah's injury left her in lots of "pain" at the show as well.

My dreams for her have come true. I knew she could do it some day, and she did.

My heart overflowed with joy for both Sarah and Maggie!

I don't have photos yet of the "Red Rose blanket and trophy" presentation, but I will send them soon!