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Hello Everyone!

This is Krisie, Erin, Connor, Jackie and Lisa here to give you an update on the Aiken adventures from our perspective. Skyeler and I haven't killed each other yet but .... time will tell. Connor and Erin are getting prepared for their first training level this season and we are all very excited to see how Moose and Story will feel about them afterwards. 

Today was a relatively relaxed day as Matus, Argie and Autumn are still on vacation from this past weekend. We finished the barn work/ riding quickly this AM because there was a forecast for rain in the afternoon. Ironically, it barely rained at all so we spent some quality time playing with Remi and watching Krisie attempt to show off her gymnastics skills she once had. It was 65 degrees out and a beautiful day for outdoor activities in the trailer park. 

For lunch we went the "The Pizza Joint" and waited a good 45 minutes for two medium pizzas.... that was fun...after we spent ten minutes searching for a parking spot and listening to Connor pretend he knew anything about parking and driving for that matter. 

Last night Skyeler and I went to WALMART  to get some essentials. This of course included a new toy for Remi Roo Roo... a little fuzzy hedge hog. She and the hedge hog were inseparable all night but then Connor informed us that she peed on it during their morning walk. That was a bummer.  

Life has been pretty great with the kids here. All week the kids have woken me up in the RV with a coffee and a hash brown. It's beginning to feel like the norm so I will be very sad when they leave. 

Last but not least I want to report on our movie experience here in Aiken.  We all went with Allison Smith to see Dear John.  "Dear John...you suck...worst romantic drama of the year" Love Krisie

Beep Bo BEEP BOP AIKEN. PEACEEE. 

Krisie and the Kids

Aiken 2010 Feb pics

Aiken 2010

Hello everyone! Here it is the first blog of our Aiken adventure. The blogs will be via iPhone so they will be short and sweet.Our first week has been a great start for all the Angelica crew. Krisie and I have not killed each other living in the RV. Sallie and the kids made it down here in one piece. Jackie came down to provide an extra set of hands and has been our savior! We avoided 4ft of snow and have had beautiful sunny weather and wonderful footing.We started right out of the gates on Wednesday with Argie competing at full gallop. He won the Open Training by 10 points with a 26. We then took 5 horses to Sporting Days on Sunday. Argie did his first prelim dressage and SJ. He was such a star winning the dressage and only having one rail on a HUGE prelim SJ track. He ended 2nd in the Prelim- Training division. The kids all started the season with a novice. While they all had a very hard dressage judge they put in solid performances and jumped clean. Krisie and Lisa were 4th and 6th in there novice rider division. Connor and Erin were in the huge open novice division with lots of professionals but did great finishing 6th and 9th with picture perfect jumping rounds.We will keep you updated with lots of pictures as that will really give you an idea of Aiken life. We are moving on to Full Gallop this Wednesday. Stay warm in Virginia and a huge thanks to Julie, Jessie, Joanne, and my family keeping life going back home on the farm. Much love we miss you all!Skye

New Horses

I can't believe I am actually keeping up with this blog. We have exciting news on the farm as we have had two new horses join the Angelica Run team. Yesterday we went up to Penn-National with Sharon Miller who kindly took us to see many many off the track prospects. Wonderful Clayton, my fiancee, and my Papa (Grandfather) have decided to re-invest in these two new horses for me as they have realized that Argie will be hanging around for awhile. One will be a re-sale horse and the other we bought as an upper level prospect. Both horses are 4 years old. The re-sale horse is a 15.3h black gelding. He is the sweetest little horse and wants nothing but love from everyone in the barn. The chestnut is 16.2 and stunning to look at and a huge mover. I can only hope that the chestnut will turn out to be half the horse that my baby Argie has been for us. Stay tuned for names and updates on these two new youngsters.

End of Summer

The summer is now coming to an end and everyone at Angelica is now gearing up for an exciting fall season.  Tika and Argie competed at Fair Hill before I left for a week long (much needed) vacation.  Tika placed 6th in the Intermediate with an unfortunately over the top dressage test but a brilliant XC.  Little baby Argie pulled off another win in the Open Training ending on his dressage score of 27. Tika's plans for the fall include the upcoming Loudoun Horse Trials followed by Seneca Valley Horse Trials.  She will then compete in the CIC** at Plantation Field, Morven Park Horse Trials, and then the Fair Hill CCI** in October.  We had to delay our move up to advanced due to Tika's summer stifle surgery.  I hope to move her up in Aiken and aim for either the Bromont CCI*** or the Jersey CCI***.  Little baby Argie will hopefully round out his fall season with a Preliminary or two with hopes of a Spring CCI*. 

The rest of the Angelica Run team is about to end the working student summer and head back to school.  Connor, Krisie, and Erin will be preparing for Loudoun Horse Trials and Seneca Horse Trials.  Petie had a great showing at Difficult Run Horse Trials and Lauren is vetting a hopeful horse this week. Ann Bellinger will be starting the season with her new horse Foggy at some schooling shows and aiming for the recognized circuit this fall.  Courtney Detore and our newest boarder Caroline Muller will be aiming for some unrecognized events in the near future and both girls and ponies will be looking forward to a possible beginner novice in the late fall. After a very successful showing at Novice Nationals, Erica will be moving Carrie back up to Training.  Our two off the farm Angelica Runners, Izzy and Lisa, will be joining us in all of the recognized horse trials this fall at the Novice level. Our very own Built Fjord Tuff dominated with Tammy at the Fjord show being the highest placed Fjord Gelding in the confirmation classes and winning the riding test.  

To end this entry I would like to welcome Jackie Imholte to the Angelica Run Team.  She will be joining us in September with her horse Ty.  Finally, I would love to tell everyone that aside from planning my 2009-2010 competition season I will also now be planning a wedding.  Clayton and I got engaged early July and I am the luckiest girl in the world. 

Summer 2009!

Hello Everyone!
It has officially been forever since we last touched base with everyone. I am now handing over the blog to Krisie Southern who will, I promise, be way more entertaining then I am. Krisie has now been my barn manager for the last year and has promised to stay on board for one more year before leaving us to go to school. I roped her in by promising her the ride on the very talented, very naughty Matus for her remaining year.

The barn has taken off since we returned from Aiken. I feel like I have been buying new horses for everyone in the barn and we now have some pretty exciting talent at Angelica Run Farm. Connor Husain retired his horse Ozzie and has bought Folk Lore "Story" from Allison Springer. The new pair has started out very strong and are a promising pair to watch in the future. Erica Jacquay just competed Carrie at USPC Nationals and finished 9th individually out of a huge Novice division. Ann Bellinger has retired Tangler after a strong Training finish at Rubicon and bought the young and talented Foggy a 6yr Grey TB mare. Erin Murphy placed 3rd at CDCTA in her first Training and is now looking for a young riders horse to keep moving up the levels with. Angelica Run sent a Dressage Team to the Junior Dressage Championships at Morven Park. Amy G, Krisie S, Izzy, and Katie Hansen all competed for the Eventing team and finished with the bronze medal. Amy is sadly leaving us with Ricky where they will be recieving a much higher education at Notre Dame. Krisie has been jumping Matus again for the first time since his EPM diagnosis. They will be competing BN/Novice this fall. Lauren is continueing the search for her next event horse and has been riding Tally for "PETER" while has been away at Drama camp. Both Kaitlyn and Courtney Detore have been riding with me this season and their horses have been going so well!

My horses have had some ups and downs this season. Tika when she has been healthy has been her normal superstar self. She had a very nasty cellulitis infection that spread to her stifle where she had to have surgery and 3 months off. She has started back with strong finishes at the two Maryland Horse Trials. Since we missed Bromont we will be aiming for the CCI** at Fairhill again and moving up to some advanced Horse Trials. Argento is the rising star in the barn winning 2 of his last four training and finishing 2nd in the other two. His dressage scores have been 24, 26, 27, and 28 in his last few dressage tests.

We took the whole barn to the Middleburg Combined Test this past weekend.
Tika- Intermediate- 1st
Ricky and Amy- Prelim- 4th
Argie- Training- 1st (0nly score of the whole show in the 20's)
Cocoa- Training- 2nd
River and Krisie- Open Novice- 1st (despite falling off across the finish line =)
Story and Connor- JR Novice- 1st ( low score junior of the whole show)
Matus and Krisie- Beginner Novice- 2nd
and our new boarder Caroline and her pony Sam won the Baby Novice!!!

All together out of 8 horses we had 5 wins, 2 seconds, and a 4th. Well DONE ANGELICA!



Alright so you now we have the new website and you will be reading a very entertaining blog from the one and only Krisie. We have been working with new sponsors (Andis, Kangen Water) and we have many new talented horses and riders. Stay tuned and I PROMISE we will keep blogging!

Skyeler

Rubicon and Jumper Show

I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to get back to everyone. Alot has happened since the last post and I could not be happier with the way our season ended for both my horses and my students.

Rubicon Horse Trials:
Amy, Petie, Erin, and Krisie all competed at the Rubicon Horse Trials in early Nov. Amy finished 6th in the Preliminary division. She had a BEAUTIFUL show jumping and ended with a very positive weekend. Erin and Cocoa were our stars of the weekend scoring a 29 in dressage and finishing second in the Novice division. Cocoa has had some health issues this year so to see her looking so positive and happy in all three phases was the highlight of the weekend. Erin could not have ridden her better and she learned alot about how she has to ride Cocoa in competition. Petie and Talli had a great weekend finishing in the top 10 in the Novice division and Krisie competed in her first recognized horse trials at the Novice level on Argie. Despite two rails Krisie rose to the occasion taking a very green horse around a challenging Novice course.

Frying Pan Jumper Show
Angelica Run dominated the Frying Pan Jumpers! With over 30 people in some of the classes our riders took champion in three our of the four divisions. Erin Murphy and Cocoa were champion in the 2'9 division besting 28 people. They did not have any faults in all four rounds and three jump offs. Petie and Talli took champion in the Childrens Jumpers and Amy and Ricky were champion in the high jumpers which did not end until 9:30 at night. We also had five other riders at the show who all placed in various divisions. Izzy and Owen had awesome rounds and placed in their two classes. Owen looked very excited to be back out and Izzy did a great job keeping him quiet. Lauren and Gracie were fourth in their class and made alot of progress in all of their rounds. Tess and Liza our newest riders took their new horses TC and Buddy. Tess was 5th and 6th in her classes with Buddy. Liza and TC were 6th in one of their classes and made it to the jump off having beautiful and fast rounds. Krisie and Argie were 5th in the class that they did making many improvements to young Argie's show jumping.

We had the barn bonfire and despite the rain had a fantastic time as usual. We have a new addition to the barn. Congrats to the Edgemond family and to (little) Amy for her new horse Joy. Joy came last week and is a Dutch Warmblood mare. I am so excited for little Amy and hope that they have a great partnership.

We now set our sights on Aiken. We will be leaving Jan. 17 and heading to Full Gallop farm. I will be taking my three horses, Ricky, Gracie, and Cocoa. Krisie and Sallie Spenard will stay down there with me for the six weeks. The girls will fly down on the weekends to compete and I will keep the horses going during the week. This would not be possible without the Murphy family's private plane and fantastic grandfather who will help us with all of our traveling!

I promise I will not take as long to update next time!