It was an amazing day for Bentley IHSA!!! So proud of the team - you guys are truly awesome!!! It was not so long ago that there were only four people on our team and look where we are now - Reserve High Point Team at Boston College today!! Great riding all around! Can’t wait to keep the momentum going!
Congratulations to our IEA Team on a fantastic home show yesterday!!! Our horses were wonderful as always (and got tons of compliments), our parents worked their tails off to make things go smoothly, and the kids worked hard and rode well! Thank you to our friends at Unity Equestrian, Lizzie and Bentley IHSA rider CeCe for helping us horse hold! Thanks also go out to Jai for the facility, horses and guidance that make all of this possible; Becky for her flawless warmup riding and coaching and Lindsey, Victoria and Lizzie for their warmup riding! It truly takes a village - or in this case the entire farm.
High School team was 3rd place overall and Middle School team won!
George was voted Horse of the Day. Thank you George!!
Captain Evie Simone won the Sportsmanship Award!
We are incredibly proud to announce that 3 of our horses ended the year with Grand Circuit awards from Saugerties!
-Lucaya (Owned by Laurie Indressano) & Coach Becky St. Onge: Circuit Champion HITS Hunter 2
-Trending & Lindsey deMont: Circuit Champion Adequan Hunters
-Mid Knight Memories & Coach Becky St. Onge: Reserve Circuit Champion Adequan Hunters!
Elizabeth Kenny with It’s Avantos and Victoria Zinsmeyer with her Speechless both went to New England Equitation Championships this year! It was both of their horses first final and first indoor! The horses were both spectacular and the girls both learned a lot and had great rides. Elizabeth Kenny also received the Younger Adult Sportsmanship Award! We can’t wait to go back next year!
We had so much fun at M&S finals 2019! Especially at the year end banquet!
Becky St. Onge & Mid Knight Memories - Adequan Hunter Champion
Lindsey deMont & Trending - 4th Adequan Hunter o/f, 3rd Adequan Hunter u/s
Lindsey deMont & As You Wish - 8th HITS Working Hunter Pro o/f
Becky St. Onge & Due North - 2nd HITS Working Hunter Pro u/s
Victoria Zinsmeyer & Speechless - 7th HITS Working Hunter Non-Pro o/f, 4th HITS Working Hunter u/s, 5th Adult Working Hunter u/s
Katelyn Rezac & Mid Knight Memories - 2nd HITS Working Hunter Non-Pro u/s, 4th Children’s Working Hunter o/f, 3rd Children’s Working Hunter u/s
Katelyn Rezac & Easy Living - 5th, 5th Children’s Working Hunter o/f
Tracy Harding & Lindbergh - 5th Hudson Adult 2’6” Equitation
Lizzie Kenny & It’s Avantos - Reserve Champion Jr/Amateur Horsemanship Medal
Somehow we ended up BACK at HITS Saugerties this year! But oh boy was it worth it! Both Katie Rezac and Elizabeth Kenny rode in the $100,000 Platinum Performance Hunter Prix Final and they laid it down! Katie Rezac showed her Easy Living and put in quality rounds and Elizabeth Kenny showed both It’s Avantos and C-Star and made it all the way to the money Round with the top 25. She put in one more stellar round on each horse to end up top ten on both horses, being the only rider to finish top 10 with two mounts! Elizabeth finished in 6th with It’s Avantos and a close 10th with C-Star! Great Riding Girls!
2 riders, 2 ribbons! Not too shabby for MHJ Finals 2019!
Elizabeth Harding and Tuxedo rode to 12th in the Short Stirrup Final! Her first ever final! Congrats Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Kenny and C-Star rode to 8th in the MHJ Adult medal Final!
The Elizabeth’s rocked it!
As usual, our three weeks at HITS Saugerties was so successful, there are too many results to post!!! We’re very tired, but it’s so much fun showing with the whole CMS Family!
Some highlights include:
-Top placings for Coach Rebecca St. Onge and Mid Knight memories in the Adequan Hunters
-Top placings for Lindsey deMont and Trending in the Adequan Hunters
-Top placings and numerous tri-color ribbons for Coach Liz Kleinfeld and Le Beau in the HITS Hunter 2
-Champion for Coach Rebecca St. Onge and Laurie Indressano’s Lucaya in the HITS Hunter 2 as well as numerous top placings in the 3’ Green Hunters and Low 3’ Hunters and 2nd in the National Derby
-Great Rides from Katie Rezac on her two mounts Easy Living and Mid Knight Memories. Including Qualifying for Junior Hunter Finals her second time out in the 3’3
-Great ribbons for Elizabeth Kenny and all three of her mounts, Unwritten, It’s Avantos, and C-Star in the Green Hunters, Adult Hunters, Adult Equitation, and Medals
-Fantastic Ribbons from Sammy Murphy and Le Beau in the hunters and equitation
-Reserve Champion for Victoria Zinsmeyer and Speechless in the Adult Hunters
-Reserve Champion for Tracy Harding and her Lindbergh in the Middle Adult Hunters (Their first time in the 3’!!!!)
-Great rides for the Clemson sisters on C-Star and Holly Go Lightly! It was so much fun having you guys back!
-Numerous Ribbons for the CMS Imports, Bravo, It’s Avantos, Unwritten, Lucaya, Speechless, Keepsake, Trending
CMS’s first time out at this gorgeous horse show and we had a great time!
Highlights include:
-top placings for Coach Rebecca St. Onge and Mid Knight Memories in the 3’6 Performance Hunters
- Coach Rebecca St. Onge and Speechless jogging in the 3’ Green Hunters
-Great rides for Katie Rezac and her Easy Living in the Children’s Hunter and National Derby
-Great ribbons for Katie Rezac and her Mid Knight Memories in the Children’s Hunters and National Derby including a WIN in the Children’s Hunter Hack out of truly impressive company
-Great rides for Victoria Zinsmeyer and her Speechless in the Adult Hunters and National Derby
Sad we were only here for a week, but we can’t wait to go back next year!
Ken Whelihan came back for another 2 day clinic this January! We learned so much over the two days!
THANKS KEN! We can’t wait for your return!
BIG congrats to the Bentley Equestrian Team for an impressive showing at the Mount Ida IHSA show on 11/11
Highlights include:
-Mackenna Dillon winning a tie breaker and picking up the Reserve High Point Rider of the day from her win in the Novice Flat and 4th over fences
-Lottie Smalla winning and pointing out of beginner walk trot canter
-Sam Bowden winning her Intermediate flat and placing 4th over fences
-Carly Elliot placing 4th in Novice flat and 5th over fences
All together our 4 person team collected a whopping 27 points for the day. So proud!
And at the Boston College show on 11/12...
-BIG congratulations to Sam Bowden, who qualified for Regionals in both Intermediate Fences and Intermediate Flat!! She also almost made the ride off for High Point Rider of the day!
Sam was 1st in Intermediate Fences and 2nd in Intermediate Flat and will be moving into Open! Wohoo!
-Mackenna Dillon once again won Novice Flat and was 4th in Novice Fences!
-Carly Elliot was third in Novice Fences and sixth in Novice Flat!
-Lottie Smalla made her debut in Advanced Walk Trot Canter to a successful sixth place finish!
Congratulations to the Bentley Team on again having every rider finish in the top 3! Sam Bowden was third in both classes, Mackenna Dillon won Novice flat and was 5th over fences, Carly Elliott was 4th in her first ever jumping class and 2nd in her first time in Novice Flat, and Carlotta Smalla was 3rd in WTC!!! All while running a great show!!
Huge special thank you to our incredible IEA team for your tireless horseholding and great warmup riding!!! WOW!
