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2009 Broodmare Elite Winners |
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2009 HONOREES:
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CANDELITA SF
Candelita SF is owned by Punch and Ann Benson of Prairie View Farm and theyare presenting her. The Bensons are much honored to have Candelita recognized by the Minnesota Arabian Horse Breeders Association.
Cande is by the great Bey Shah son, NV Elite and out of CR Candelabra who is out of the multi-talented, Ariston. She was bred by Mike and Jan Zierke of Sensation Farm and purchased by the Bensons at the age of 3 to serve as the foundation mare for their fledgling breeding program. She, herself was 3rd in the Fall Fest Medallion class as a yearling.
Cande has had 7 foals for the Bensons, 5 were from Fall Fest auction breedings. Here are some highlights from those offspring:
Cartier PVF sired by Barritz SF
- 2003 Reg. 6 Champion Yearling Sweepstakes Colt
- 2003 Fall Fest Champion Auction Colt
- 2004 Fall Fest Res. Champion 2 yr. Old Colt
- 2008 Fall Fest Top 5 Maiden Western
- 2009 Region 10 Champion Gelding ATH
Magnifique PVF sired by Magnum Psyche
- 2004 Fall Fest Res. Champion Yearling Medallion Colt
- 2005 Scottsdale Res. Champion 2 yr. Old Gelding
- 2005 Fall Fest Res. Champion 2 Yr. Old Colt
Alchemy PVF sired by Magnum Gold
- 2006 Fall Fest Top 5 Auction Colt
Dixie Chick PVF sired by DS Major Afire
- 2007 Northstar Champion Yearling Filly
- 2007 Reg. 10 unanimous Champion Yearling Sweepstakes Filly
- 2007 Fall Fest Champion Medallion Yearling Filly
Cande’s 2001 Barritz bred filly, Chocolat PVF sustained an injury and was retired to the breeding shed. She is now producing champions of her own including Tango PVF who was 2006 Scottsdale Top 5 Auction Colt, 2006 Northstar Champion Yearling Colt and 2006 Fall Fest Top 10 Medallion Colt. He is being shown at this show in Junior and Maiden Hunter. This year Chocolat had a DS Major Afire colt who is a 2010 Fall Fest auction contender.
Punch and Ann would like to give a very special thanks to Jeff and Jerry Schall and the Shada family for finding Candelita for them; and for training, preparing and showing these wonderful, winning offspring.
This special mare brings much to her offspring. She exemplifies Arabian type, presence and attitude. These traits carry over to her everyday life on the farm. Cande puts on a “blow and snort” show every morning upon being turned out. She is the undisputed head mare. She alone determines the place of each and every horse in the herd. She designates where they stand, where they graze, and when they drink, and she does all this with a flick of an ear, the look, or a snake of the neck. Elite is defined as “the choicest or the best”, a fitting description for this mare. She is truly a very special, one of a kind mare.
As you can see, the Bensons and their beautiful mare have been and continue to be loyal supporters of the Minnesota Breeders program. Right now they are pondering which Medallion Stallion to choose for their special mare for 2010.
Heartfelt thanks to the Minnesota Breeders for this wonderful honor from the Benson Family.
PADRONS NIKE
The beautiful 14 year old mare Padrons Nike is owned by Mike and Donna Hentges of Greymoor Farm, and is being presented today by Donna Hentges and Lindsey Cornelius, the Farm Manager.
Nike is by Padrons Psyche out of the Aristocrat mare and dam of 10 champions, Niya. Nike was a show mare herself and is both a US National and Canadian National Top Ten Mare.
Nike is now proving herself to be a fine broodmare. All of her shown foals are champions and all are by FIRST CYTE+. They include Katalysst who was third in the Auction Colt Class at Minnesota Fall Fest, a Champion in the Fall Fest Two Year old Colt and Geldings class and a Reserve Champion in the Fall Fest Maiden Hunter class.
He also was 2005 U.S. National Top Ten Futurity Gelding, 2005 Canadian National Top ten Futurity Gelding and a 2007 Top Ten Youth Nationals Gelding.
Nike’s most famous son is here today to honor his dam. Relentlyss by First Cyte, shown at Minnesota Fall Fest was the Champion in the Two Year Old Colt and Geldings class, and Reserve Champion in both the Hunter Junior Horse and 18-39 Hunter classes . From there he went on to win:
- U.S. Reserve National Champion Futurity Gelding
- Canadian Reserve National Champion Futurity Gelding
- U.S. National Top Ten Hunter Pleasure Maturity
- Canadian National Top Ten Hunter Pleasure Junior horse.
2009 is proving to be a stellar year for this guy as he has been named the Las Vegas World Cup Supreme Champion Gelding and recently, the Canadian National Champion Gelding. We wish him the best of luck at U.S. Nationals.
Nike will continue to be bred to First Cyte. Mike and Donna’s most fervent hope is that she will decide one day to present them with a filly- although with her track record of winning sons they are not complaining.
The people of Greymoor Farm thank the Minnesota Breeders and are proud to have this honor presented to Padrons Nike.
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2008 Broodmare Elite Winners |
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At the 2008 MN Fall Fest,
three mares were honored as
Minnesota Breeders Broodmares Elite.
Mares can be nominated
by their owners to receive this award.
To be eligible to be honored a mare may qualify in one of three ways:
- She must have produced a foal that was either a Champion or
Reserve Champion in any MN Fall Fest class.
That foal must have gone on to win a national Top Ten or
higher at Canadian or U.S. Nationals.
- Or, the mare must have been either a Champion or Reserve Champion herself in any MN Fall Fest class and then
produced a foal that went on to win a National Top Ten or
higher at Canadian or U.S. Nationals.
- Or, the mare must have been either a Champion or Reserve Champion herself in any MN Fall Fest class
and then produced a foal that was Champion or
Reserve Champion in any MN Fall Fest class.
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2008 HONOREES:
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DIVINITI
REPRESENTED BY Rick, Tammy, and Danielle Anderson
Diviniti is proudly owned by Rick, Tammy, and
Danielle Anderson of Summerfield Farm.
Diviniti is only nine years old, and her oldest foal is
only 4 years old. Diviniti is by National and International
Champion, Magnum Psyche. Diviniti’s dam
is Tuscany Bey, who is by Bey Shah.
Diviniti’s tail female line includes * Marsianin, *Bask,
Gazon, Azraff, and Raffles.
Diviniti is a very well bred mare.
Diviniti was bred by River Valley Farm, and has been owned by the
Andersons for all of her breeding life. The Andersons showed her a few
times until she was in foal, making her a Class A Champion
and a Region XI Top 5 Mare.
Then she retired to do what she does best.
Diviniti is the dam of 5 foals, and is now in foal for the 6th time -
all by Georgio AF.
Her winningest foal so far is Tiamo SF. He was the
2006 Minnesota Fall Fest
Unanimous Champion Yearling Colt – shown by his owner,
Danielle Anderson.
Later that year he was named US National Top Ten Yearling
colt, placing third.
In 2007, Tiamo was Buckeye Champion gelding, and was
the unanimous Canadian
National Champion 2 year old gelding. So far in 2008,
Tiamo was the Scottsdale
Champion Gelding, and the unanimous Canadian National
Champion Futurity Gelding.
Next month he will go to US Nationals with Andy Sellman
to compete for US National
Champion Futurity gelding for his owners, Lucky Stripes Ranch.
Divniti’s other foals include the beautiful young mare,
Love Divine SF. Love Divine is a
Scottsdale Top Ten fily, Iowa Gold Star Champion, and
multiple Regional Top 5 champion.
The Andersons have kept her to use as broodmare,
anticipating that she will do as well as her dam.
Love Divine will be bred to Aria Impressario in 2009.
Diviniti’s colt, DiMaggio SF was a Scottsdale Signature
Top Ten yearling. DiMaggio
will be shown as a Jr Western Pleasure horse in 2009 for
his new owners, the Nedler family.
Glamorous SF was a Scottsdale Signature Top Ten
yearling filly this year, and will compete
here this weekend. Like her brother Tiamo, we
expect her to do amazing things in the show ring.
She is an exotic, elegant filly.
Diviniti’s 2008 colt, Aria Jaguar SF is an incredible colt.
He has been purchased by
Jeff Sloan of Aria International and will start his show
career in Scottsdale this coming February.
All of Diviniti’s foals have been sired by Georgio AF,
and are making a significant
contribution to Georgio’s tally of national winning foals.
Diviniti’s foals are a truly great
group of siblings. They are all full siblings, but seldom if ever,
has a family looked this
much alike and been this outstanding. We are looking forward
to another sibling in 2009.
Rick, Tammy and Danielle Anderson of Summerfield Farm
have truly been
blessed with this outstanding mare.
JER A FAME
PRESENTED BY Indira Van Handel and Larry Jerome
The 10 year old bay mare Jer A Fame is proud to be recognized as one
the the Minnesota
Arabian Horse Breeder's Broodmare Elite.
Her sire is the Varian bred Fame VF son, Star of Fame V,
and her mother is one of Jerland's
foundation mares, the Goldinn Touch daughter, Jer-A-Gold.
As a young mare, Fame as she is called at
home, was sent to training to be a western pleasure horse, but before her
potential as a show horse could be realized, her potential as a breeding
mare become apparent and she
was retired to the Jerland Broodmare band. In her first foal sired by
the Jerland stallion MPA Giovanni, Fame produced a lovely bay filly that was special from the start, Alana Fame J. She would dance and show off as if she owned the world. A trait much like her mother's.
At a young age, Alana Fame J was sold to family friends,
the Bob & Rose Wiechmann family where upon she earned the title of Reserve Champion Medallion filly at last year's Fall Festival
in her debut to the show world.
This year, she followed it up with a Regional Championship, National Top Ten, and Iowa Gold Star Championship.
She is competing in the 2 year old filly class here.
Fame produced a look alike to Alana for us this spring and we look forward to her foal by *Khadraj NA next year.
TF PSYCHES ANGEL
(1994 – 2008)-is represented by her daughter Miss Independence AAL
PRESENTED BY Dave and Debbie Treadwell
Miss Independence AAL is a 3 year old filly out of TF Psyches Angel and
sired by Medallion stallion Odyssey SC. Miss Independence AAL was a Region 6 and Region 11 Top 5 filly, as well as a Fall Festival Top 10 2 year
old filly last year. She will make her debut in Western Pleasure this weekend.
The aristocrat mare TF Psyches Angel was a true example of
what the Minnesota Arabian Horse Breeders program is all about. She was
bred by founding members Curtis and LaVonne Hough who used the
Medallion stallion Padrons Psyche to
cross on one of their foundation mares VS Khourtney. The result
was a big, bold chestnut filly who later won the heart of former MN Arabian Horse
Breeder Penny Smeby. Penny purchased TF Psyches
Angel and bred her to the Medallion Stallion Sirius Trouble.
The result of this cross qualifies TF Psyches Angel for the
Minnesota Arabian Horse Breeders
Broodmare Elite program because it produced the
Medallion Stallion RSA Troublesome.
A few highlights from RSA Troublesome’s illustrious show career include:
* Fall Festival Reserve Champion 2 Year Old Stallion
* Region 6 Champion Stallion in 2002 and 2004
* Region 10 Champion Stallion in 2002 and 2005
* Region 10 Hunter Pleasure Reserve Champion in 2007
* Region 12 Hunter Pleasure Reserve Champion in 2008
* Region 15 Hunter Pleasure Champion in 2008
* Canadian National Top 10 Hunter Pleasure in 2008
Psyches Angel’s other foals by Medallion Stallion
Sirius Trouble have also won top honors in Scottsdale and Canada.
* Whole Lotta Trouble – a Canadian National Top 10 Gelding,
Fall Festival Top 10 Gelding and Fall Festival Top 5 Hunter Pleasure under saddle horse.
* Lil Bita Trouble – a Scottsdale Champion Yearling fill
When Penny Smeby retired in 2002, she offered
TF Psyches Angel to MN Arabian Horse Breeder Debbie Treadwell.
Debbie purchased her over the phone and bred her 3 times to the Medallion
Stallion and National Champion Odyssey SC.
This cross produced the filly she is with here tonight and
* Miss Congeniality AAL – a Region 10 Top 5 Yearling filly
* Successor AAL – a big beautiful bay Gelding that will debut in the
2 year old colt/gelding class tomorrow afternoon.
This horse is sure to be another Hunter Pleasure Champion in future.
The Treadwell family is looking forward to continuing the legacy
Psyches Angel started for them by promoting
her offspring in both halter and performance divisions.
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2007 Broodmare Elite Winners |
At the 2007 MN Fall Fest,
three mares were honored as
Minnesota Breeders Broodmares Elite.
Mares can be nominated
by their owners to receive this award.
To be eligible to be honored a mare may qualify in one of three ways:
- She must have produced a foal that was either a Champion or
Reserve Champion in any MN Fall Fest class.
That foal must have gone on to win a national Top Ten or
higher at Canadian or U.S. Nationals.
- Or, the mare must have been either a Champion or
Reserve Champion herself in any MN Fall Fest class
and then produced a foal that went on to win a
National Top Ten or higher at Canadian or U.S. Nationals.
- Or, the mare must have been either a Champion or
Reserve Champion herself in any MN Fall Fest class
and then produced a foal that was Champion or
Reserve Champion in any MN Fall Fest class.
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2007 HONOREES:
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Indira Jerome, LH Maharani, Larry Jerome
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LH MAHARANI,
owned by Hermann Blaser
MAHARANI is an Eternety daughter, out of a *GG Samir daughter,
out of an *Aramus daughter. She represents 4 generations of
Hermann Blaser's breeding program.
She has never been off the farm until coming to this horse show.
Maharani is in foal to MPA Giovanni for a 2008 foal!
She has only produced five foals; the following four have been shown:
H Chevago by Padrons Psyche, owned by Savannah Morris
* Fall Festival Champion Hunter Pleasure Jr. Horse
* Fall Festival Top Five Hunter Pleasure 17 & under
* Numerous Regional Championships in Hunter Pleasure 17 & under
* National Top Ten Hunter Pleasure JTR
LH Odessa by Odyssey SC, owned by Jerad & Christi Cooper
* Regional Reserve Champion
LH Gina Lola Bridgetta by MPA Giovanni, owned by Hermann Blaser
* 3 time Regional Champion at age 2
* Fall Festival Top Ten Medallion Filly
LH Machio by MPA Giovanni, owned by Hermann Blaser
* Unanimous Buckeye Jr. Champion
* Competing in Medallion Yearling colts at this show
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TF Queen Ahearts and Les Van Dyke |
TF QUEEN AHEARTS,
owned by Les and Diane Van Dyke
TF Queen Ahearts, born on Valentines Day, 1995, is proudly owned by
Les and Diane Van Dyke
of Chandler, Minnesota. “Queenie” as she is affectionately
called, is by Khouros, out of the mare Klassic,
an Aristocrat Mare who is one of the breed’s
leading living dams of champions. Klassic
was honoured as a MN Broodmare Elite in 2005.
Queen Ahearts began her illustrious show career,
right here at the Minnesota Fall Festival,
winning champion honors in her 2 year old filly class.
She went on the
following year to win the Scottsdale Grand Champion Mare award,
Ohio Buckeye Grand Champion,
and ended the year as a National Champion!
Queenie has gone on the produce her own line of champions, including
Queen Adiamonds, by Magnum Psyche, who qualified
her for this award by placing Reserve
Champion in the Fall Fest
Yearling Filly Class, winning the two year old Fall Fest class and
going on to a national Top Ten as a Futurity Filly.
Queenie has also produced Ahearts Afire LD,
by Baske Afire, a Regional Top Ten winner and
Queens Legacy, by Legacy of Fame, also a Regional Top Ten winner.
Her 2006 colt by First Cyte is showing this year in the Auction Colts class.
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Larry Hoffman, No Small Affair, Jody and Hilary Hoffman
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NO SMALL AFFAIR,
owned by Larry & Jody Hoffman
In 1989 a bay filly was born on the southern Minnesota
farm of Ronald and Linda Calhoon, named No Small Affair, this bay
filly would face a life of brief glory, much struggle, moving from
pasture to pasture in obscurity and finally a life time home
with Larry and Jody Hoffman.
No Small Affair is by the *Bask son Elect and out of a
Bak daughter who was out of a predominately
Crabbet bred mare. She is the golden cross, *Bask and Crabbet.
In 1990, with Hesten Park, No Small Affair was named Region VI AHA
Breeders Sweepstakes Champion Filly,
but by the end of her yearling year she had faced almost fatal
pneumonia and colic surgery.
As a result of her treatments, No Small Affair was unable to
fulfill a promising show career
with her appearance at Region VI being the only show she ever attended.
She then disappeared into pastures in Southern Minnesota.
Larry and Jody Hoffman were reunited with
No Small Affair in 1999.
Remembering her quality and
wonderful disposition they felt she would
make an outstanding broodmare.
In 2000 she was bred to the MN Breeders stallion
Desert Heat VF. She foaled a bay colt in
April of 2001. In the 2002 Colt Auction Class,
this first foal named Voyageurs,
placed third. Then, in his first return trip to
the Fall Festival show, he was named champion in the 2006 Junior
Western Pleasure class. With her first foal,
No Small Affair achieved what few mares have done by producing
an Auction class money winner
and then a champion performance horse
in the MN Breeders program.
In fact, her first foal became the first recipient of
the added money available to those
foals that resulted from auction breedings and then become
champions under saddle at the MN Breeders Fall Festival.
No Small Affair has more then fulfilled the faith that the Hoffman’s
had in her. Her own show career was cut short but No
Small Affair found another calling, broodmare.
The Hoffman’s are honored to have had her included with the
other outstanding broodmares named MN Breeders Elite Broodmares.
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