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Sponsor Paul Cohen of Associations Underwriters, Inc. & Ziplow Horse Insurance
Agency (AUIZHI) presents the $1,000 AUIZHI-MAHB award check for the highest
placing Hanoverian in the Mature Horse division in the 2008 Dressage at Devon Breed
Show to Hilltop Farm owner Jane MacElree with handler Michael Bragdell and Conturri.
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NEWS
[ AMERICAN HANOVER ]
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American Hanoverians Take Home $8,000 in Special Awards at Dressage
at Devon
October 2, 2008
American-bred Hanoverians vied for several special cash awards offered at Dressage
at Devon, September 23-28. This was the second year that Paul Cohen of Associations
Underwriters, Inc. & Ziplow Horse Insurance Agency (AUIZHI) donated
$2,000 for Hanoverians bred by members of the Mid-Atlantic Hanoverian Breeders Club
(MAHB) competing in the breeding division of the prestigious show in Devon, Pa.
The AUIZHI-MAHB award endows $1,000 to the highest-placed young horse and $1,000
to the highest-placed mature horse, money to be split between owner and breeder.
The only stipulation is that the horse must be an AHS (American Hanoverian Society)
registered Hanoverian that was bred by a member of MAHB. The current owner need
not be a MAHB member.
In the Young Horse division this year, Rhodora (Royal Prince-Con Dia/Contucci) placed
second in the Yearling Fillies class but went on to be Young Horse Champion. Her
accomplishments earned owner and breeder, Hilltop Farm, Colora, Md., the $1,000
AUIZHI-MAHB award for this division. Then on Wednesday, Hilltop revisited the the
winner's circle for the Four-Year-Old and Older Maiden Mare class with Conturri
(Contucci-SPS Komtess V/Riverman) to earn the second $1,000 AUIZHI-MAHB award. Quite
a remarkable accomplishment given the quality of horses presented at Devon!
Earlier this year at the AHS Annual Meeting in Lexington, Ky., Paul Cohen proposed
another set of cash awards for Hanoverians, this time for horses competing in the
Young Horse Dressage classes. Cohen and five other AHS members donated a total of
$6,000 to create the "All-American Hanoverian Young Dressage Horse Awards"
with $2,000 to be awarded to the highest-placing All-American-bred Hanoverian in
each of the three classes - USEF Dressage Test for Four-Year-Olds, FEI Dressage
Test for Five-Year-Olds, and FEI Dressage Test for Six-Year-Olds. Criteria for eligibility
includes that the horse must be registered with the AHS, bred by an AHS member,
sired by and out of AHS member-owned stallion and mare, and born in this country.
The prize money in each class is to be split between owner and breeder.
Sponsors of the Four-Year-Old class were Mary Lou Winn, Home Again Farm, Waldo,
Fla., and Barb Schmidt, DVM, Bridlewood Farm, Union, Ky. Sponsors of the Five-Year-Old
class were Paul Cohen, Associations Underwriters, Inc. & Ziplow Horse Insurance
Agency, Westminster, Md., and Anne Sparks Whitten, Horses Unlimited, Albuquerque,
N.M. The Six-Year-Old class was sponsored by Wendy and Marty Costello, Kent Island
Sporthorses, Stevensville, Md., and Dee and Don Kapper, Outer Banks Farm and Progressive
Nutrition, Beach City, Ohio.
Recipient of the cash award in the Four-Year-Old class was Pikko Del Rio (Pik L-Rohweena/Rohdiamant)
owned and bred by Anne Sparks Whitten, Horses Unlimited, Albuquerque, N.M. In the
Five-Year-Old class, Pikko Del Cerro, also by Pik L out of Rohweena/Rohdiamant and
owned and bred by Anne Sparks Whitten, was the winner earning another $2,000 for
Horses Unlimited. Winner of the Six-Year-Old class was Cabana Boy (Contucci-Britania/Bordeaux)
owned by Hilltop Farm, Colora, Md., and bred by Doug and Shannon Langer of Wisconsin.
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