Amateur Team

 

No stranger to the TOP TEN circle, Austin Burger shows that he can do equally well in the Western Division. KB Firemarq and Austin only partnered up this spring. Went to a qualifying show, went  Top Five twice and placed Reserve Champion and then went Youth Nationals where they  went TOP TEN in JOTR 14-17 Purebred Western Pleasure.  He had done virtually the same thing his very  first year of showing his Country English horse, A Kings Ransom.

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Tim Wipperman and Slow Hand do a repeat performance…Top Fives at both Region 12 and 14.

Hailey Rowe wins double Top Fives at Region 14 once again. A high school senior in the fall, Hailey has decided to offer her multi-Regional Winner for sale to a junior or amateur that is serious about winning.

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It was destiny that determined Torchic, a Pokemon character, to be the “official” mascot of the Amateur Team. Wearing the Torchic hat signifies whatever the wearer is feeling at that very moment “I'm a winner!...I WANT to be a winner!...Glad I made it out of that class!…or I'm just having a great time!”

…To be a master is my dream
All I got to do is believe
I got a chance to win I'm on my way to victory
I can be a champion if I just believe
I'm on a master quest
I want the whole world to see
I'm gonna be the very best
'Cause all I have to do is believe in me…

From Pokemon

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A Camp Copperhill graduate, Austin “I’m Qualified for Regionals!” Burger won two Championships at the TAHA Spring Classic on A Kings Ransom.  This was Austin’s very first show, but you wouldn’t have known it by the way he put Ransom through his paces.  He said he wasn’t nervous, but his mom, Susan Burger, said her nerves more than made up the difference.

Now that was his FIRST show….for an encore he went to Region 12 and placed TOP FIVE in a very large and talented class!!  Way to go Austin!!!

Tara Salamy made it look easy by winning two Reserve Championships on KB Firemarq at their first show together. 

She won a TOP FIVE title at Region 12 for their second show together! 

Tara’s “firsts” are always a big success….her first Halter show, she placed a TOP FIVE in the AOTH  gelding class at Region 12 and  then at her first Regional performance class she places TOP FIVE. 

After having shown American Saddlebreds for many years, Tania Smith made the switch to Arabian horses where her natural riding talent has expanded into the Western Pleasure and Hunter Pleasure divisions.  Currently she is winning with her mare,  Copperhillkrystle,  in the large AAOTR 18-39 Hunter classes.  She has qualified Krystle in four different Regions in the last four shows!

Hailey Rowe and Rohara Moonstruk have been named Hunter Pleasure 13 & Under Champions in both shows they’ve been in this year.  Watch for them to be making victory passes in Western Pleasure later this year!

Also a graduate of Camp Copperhill, Abby Burger recently took her “camp horse”,  Peppermint Lace,  to their first show together and placed second in the Western Pleasure class. 

Kathy Houk and TA Firestarter always making winning look easy!