East Hill Farm Dressage Riders Score at Champlain Valley Fair Grounds

Local riders earn ribbons at annual “Vermont Dressage Days” Event

Aug 15, 2005, Essex, VT – Six riders representing East Hill Farm and Poulsen Dressage LLC drove away from the annual Vermont Dressage Days show in Essex, VT, this weekend with seven wins out of 14 classes entered.  Both professional and amateur riders represented East Hill Farm in this annual event known as “Dressage for Dignity” in honor of its fundraising for battered women of Vermont. 

Earning the High-Point Score award for the two-day show as well as winning the class for her First Level Musical Freestyle aboard Dream Lady, this score also qualified Plainfield’s Ruth Hogan-Poulsen to compete in the Region Eight Championships in September in Saugerties, NY. Hogan-Poulsen and Dream Lady also took home a blue ribbon in a First Level ride.

Aboard the six year old stallion Finnegan, Hogan-Poulsen scored another first with a score of 72.559% in the pairs’ first attempt at a Fourth Level test.  The pair also scored a blue in an earlier Third Level class.  A professional International-level rider, trainer, and instructor, Ruth Hogan-Poulsen has previously been long-listed by the USET and has been awarded the USDF Gold Medal and USDF Freestyle Gold Bar.  She is based out of East Hill Farm in Plainfield, Vermont. 

East Hill Farm’s Assistant Trainer Gina Couture of Williamstown earned her spot in the Region Eight Championships with a second place finish in a First Level qualifying class on Cindy Catto’s mare Cosi Fan Tutti. Couture followed up with a win in a Training Level class aboard the grey gelding Hollywood’s Wise Guy, owned by Barbara Goulette of Barre.  Couture and “Wise Guy” placed third in a later Training Level class.

Riding her own mare, Cosi Fan Tutti, Adult Amateur rider Cindy Catto of Barre earned both a first and a second place in classes at First Level.  Barbara Goulette brought home two ribbons of her own for first and second finishes in Introductory Level tests on her gelding Hollywood’s Wise Guy.

Graniteville’s Lauren McNab, earned a third place ribbon on Jaguar at Third Level, with Megan Woodruff of Barre scoring a solid 62% on Jeannette Hogan’s Armando at Fourth Level.

In the competitive equestrian discipline of dressage, horses and riders move through the national levels including training and first levels, up through fourth level before progressing into the International competition levels.

For more information about riding and training at East Hill Farm, visit www.EastHillFarm.org or  www.RuthHoganPoulsen.com. 

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