Round of Applause

 
Terry Sosa on Doublet

Terry (an adult amateur) heads up the biostatistics department for Quintiles in RTP. Terry has previously owned two lower level dressage horses, and purchased Doublet from Cathy Morelli as a schoolmaster in the Spring of 2004. Doublet is a 20 year old, 16.3 hand Thoroughbred/Hanoverian cross. Doublet resides in full training at North Star Training Center.

In 2007 Terry and Doublet started out the season showing Intermediare 1 and qualified for the Regional Championships for this level. In August, Terry showed her first Grand Prix test with Doublet at the Summer Mountain Getaway show in Asheville. She followed that up by showing Grand Prix at the Labor of Love show in Raleigh in September. Her scores ranged in the high 50s for her first time at Grand Prix. At the Regional Championships in Lexington Virginia, Terry and Doublet placed 4th in the Intermediare 1 Adult Amateur Championship with a score of 62%. Terry is looking forward to the 2008 show season where she can continue to show Doublet Grand Prix with her goal of getting her two scores to complete her USDF Gold Medal.

In 2006 At March Magic, Terry and Doublet began their show season by placing Fourth and Fifth Place in the Prix St. Georges with 62% and 60.5% respectively.

At Dressage in the Sandhills, they won Second Place in the PSG class with 67.25%. They the debuted at Intermediare 1 and scored a respectable 61.0%. Terry and Doublet also won the Sylvia Miller Memorial Award at this show for PSG high score for Adult Amateur.

At CDI-Raleigh, they earned third place for the Prix St. Georges class with a score of 63.3%.

At Dressage at Fellowship, Terry and Doublet won First Place in the Intermediare 1 with 70.8% and won the FEI High Score award.

At Labor of Love, they placed third in the Prix St. Georges with 65.3% and they won the Intermediare 1 with 69.3%.

In 2006, Terry and Doublet earned the USDF national ranking of 17th at PSG for Adult Amateur and 5th at Intermediare 1 for Adult Amateur for 2006.

In 2005 Terry's debut at Fourth level was at Dressage in the Sandhills, where she captured the High Score Championship with a score of 65%

Terry's debut at Prix St. Georges was at the CDI-Raleigh where she achieved a score of 68.5% and earned her USDF Silver Medal.

Donna Christopher on Dancer
Donna Christopher is the VP of Operations for Clinical Trial Services, and the mother of three girls. She has worked with Lynn for the past 10 years.

Dancer is a 8 year old, 16.3 hand Hanoverian gelding. He is a half brother to Lynn's horse d'Artagnan; they share the same sire (Del Piero). Dancer resides in full training at North Star Training Center.
Dawn Weniger on Indy

Dawn Weniger on Indecent Proposal. Dawn teaches dressage and trains horses out of her Firstview Farm in Apex. Indy is a 12 year old, 15.3 hand Connemara/Thoroughbred mare. Dawn has been a student of Lynn's since 1990, and trailers Indy to North Star Training Center for weekly lessons and clinics.

Indy is a "hot" and somewhat complicated horse to ride. Dawn's patience and tactful riding has brought her along to where she is today. Dawn and Indecent Proposal finished 2007 with two wins at Intermediare I with a 65% and 67%.

Dawn Weniger on Don Derrick
Dawn Weniger on Don Derrick, who Dawn imported as an unbroke 3-year-old in February 2007, won three training level classes at his first recognized show in October, the huge Region 1 championship show in Lexington, VA. Dressage in the Sandhills May 2008 Dawn and Don Derrick made a complete sweep by winning their 4 year old developing young horse class with a 74.4%. Their First level test 2 class with a 70.2%. And their Training level 3 class with a 68%.

Jeanie Battle and on Gianna
Jeanie is in charge of all the orders processed at Constrata Surface Innovations. Gianna is a 6 year old Oldenburg mare
In 2007 Gianna had many first place wins at Training level at shows like Capital Dressage Classic and Summer Highland Fling. With the pair placing 4th for NCDCTA horse of the year in the Jr/Yr division for Training level.
The pair ended the year showing First level test 1 at MacNairs Coutry Acres schooling show on October 14 with 4th place 61.34%

Anita Quinn on Cover Girl
Anita hails from Chicago and is a Molecular Microbiologist. Anita showed hunters, exercised Thoroughbreds on the track, and was on the Intercollegiate Equestrian Team in college where she was introduced to the sport of eventing. She has spent the last 4 yrs in NC, bringing along young horses and retraining off-the-track Thoroughbreds for eventing. Anita trailers Cooper to North Star Training Center for weekly lessons.

Covergirl won her division at Paradise Farm HT (SC) and Fancy Hill Farm HT (VA) in the first part of 2007, thus qualifying for the AEC's at BN. She moved up to Novice mid-year where she finished in top 5 at Pinehurst HT and NCDCTA HT, both finishing on her dressage score. She finished her year moving up to Training at Jumping Branch HT (SC) where she was placed 4th out of 20th after dressage.

Anita Quinn on Codachrome
Codachrome came to Anita mid-year from a Hunter background and started his career in eventing. Cody completed Pinehurst HT and NCDCTA HT at Novice the end of 2007, going double clean in cross country at both events. At Pinehurst HT, Cody earned a dressage score of 33.2 which put him in a tie with Covergirl after dressage. Unfortunately, one rail in stadium placed him in 6th, just behind Covergirl at his first Horse Trial. Cody is currently for sale.

Carla Moss on Painted Shamrock
Shamrock's Highlights for 2007 include NCDCTA Reserve HOY at Training Level, Sport Horse Amateur Challenge Champion at Training Level in Lexingtion, VA and USDF All Breed Adult Amateur Champion at Training Level for the American Paint Horse Association

Ellen Staples on Inkantation
The pair showed Second 1,2, and 3 at Old Dominion Arab show and showed second 3 and 4 at Latta in November.

Jean DeVenny on Rain or Shine
Rain or Shine is a 10-year-old Oldenburg mare, bred and owned by Mary Jane Rivers. The pair won the NCDCTA 2007 Horse of the Year title for 3rd level. Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 1 Dressage Championships 2nd 2 64.643%, 2nd place 2nd level Freestyle 71.563% 1st place and 3rd 3 65.465% 8th.

Jean DeVenny on Last Call
Last Call bred and raised by Deonna Donohue and trained by Jean DeVenny is a 6 year old 16.3 Trakehner gelding by Valhalla Farm’s Martini out of Deonna’s retired event mare, Liebeslied (Maggie).
2007 accomplishments:
Dressage at Fence ATA High Score Award NC Bred Horse High Score Award Training 3 - 75.6%
March Magic Dressage Show NC Bred Horse High Score Award First 1 - 73.%
GAIG Finals, Open Training 3rds place 67.6. %
USDF ranked 36th Open Training Level 70.8%
USDF/American Trakehner Association All breeds award, 3rd place Open Training 70.8%
American Trakehner Association Futurity, 3rd place. 70.8%
NCDCTA HOY 6th place Open Training

Liz Bromberg and Magda
Liz and her filly Glacier (aka Lacie) worked with Lynn this summer to learn how to long line, and in September, began working under saddle (with Lynn's guidance). A month after they started her, Liz hauled her over to Lucile , her breeder, at honey Locust Farm, and showed off Lacie's paces! Two months later, the pair participated in a "Spook Clinic" with Linda Hoover, over at Dawn Weniger's Firstview Farm. Lacie walked over tarps, a mattress, even flares!

When I started riding with Lynn in 2005, I told her I would never NEVER show. But my Trakehner mare Magda and I rode Training Level test 1 in Asheville in August and scored a 65%. The highlight of our year however was Fenridge, in November, where we scored 71% at Training test 4, and placed first!

Patricia Roberts and Romke
Patricia Roberts is a scientist at GSK, Patricia also owns and operates FenRidge Farm Romke is a 7yo saddlebred cross owned by Teresa Del Vecchio. The dressage highlights for 2007 include a 27ppt(73%) at Green Hill Horse Trial and 24ppt (76%) at Lumbar River Horse Trial best dressage score for the whole show.
The pair started 2008 with a win at the Carolina horse park Pipe Opener combined test with a 28ppt (72%) at Training level eventing.



In Memory of Intact

 
Mary Von Werne and Intact
"Intact passed away in June of 2007 from colic. He was a once in a lifetime horse and I will always miss him. Not only will I miss him as a teacher and competition partner, I will miss him as a friend. He was always there to put a smile on my face and my barn is really not the same without him. I will never find a horse to replace him and I just consider myself lucky to have had him for the short time that I did. He gave me so much knowledge and a passion for dressage that I never had before I met him. I have other horses that mean a lot to me, but Intact will always have a special place in my heart. Words can't really describe how it feels to have a special bond with a horse, but that is what I had with him. I loved him, and miss him greatly."
~Mary Von Werne