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We are proud to announce the year-end awards earned by many of our horses:
Masterpiece - USDF Mature Horse Stallion HOY, with the highest median score ever
given in USDF Dressage Sporthorse Breeding: 87.250%!
Rashka - USDF 4&5 YO Materiale HOY, with an 85.5%, the highest under-saddle median
score ever recorded by USDF
USDF 1st Level Freestyle Challenge HOY
USDF Training Level Reserve HOY
USDF 1st Level Freestyle Reserve HOY
USDF DSHB Mature Horse Stallion Reserve HOY
USDF All Breeds - ISR/Oldenburg
FEI 5 YO Horse of the Year
Open 1st Level Horse of the Year
Open Training Level Horse of the Year
1st Level Musical Freestyle Horse of the Year
4&5 YO Materiale Horse of the Year
DSHB Mature Horse Stallion Horse of the Year
Little Bit Farm is delighted to be hosting two visiting mares, Tinkerbell and "Yukon," from
Colorado. They are recipient mares for embryos out of Tashka, dam of Rashka. One embryo is by Raymeister
and will be a full sibling to Rashka. The other embryo is by Masterpiece, Raymeister's half brother, so the foal will be a
3/4 sibling to Rashka.
RMDS Championship & Open Show - September 25 - 27
Rashka won all four of his classes and was high score of show.
CSDEA Dressage Festival & Championship - September 19 - 20
Rashka earned TWO scores of 80% or better at Training level to win his two classes and high score of show, (83+%).
SWANA Inspection at Little Bit Farm - September 16
Recess (Rashka x Mona Lisa/Masterpiece) was judged Class I
Rashanga Z (Rashka x Rotanga Z/Contango) was judged Class I
Rotanga Z (Contango x Ro-Z/Robin Z) was judged a Class I Mare
DSHB In-hand Championships Silverwood Farm, Camp Lake, WI - September
12
Rashka was Reserve Champion Mature Stallion.
ISR/Oldenburg Inspection at Little Bit Farm - September 10
Royal Highness (Rashka x Her Highness) was Champion Filly and high score of the inspection with 8.6 on type and conformation, 8.4 on
movement, 8.5 on overall impression, for a total of 8.5.
R Zauberin (Rashka x Zauberlanka) was Reserve Filly Champion and premium with a total score of 8.4.
Rayley (Raymeister x Carlotta) was premium with a total of 8.3.
Coco Hit (Coconut Grove x Sinderella) was Colt Champion and premium with a total score of 8.2.
Rotendro (Rashka x Contendra) scored 8.2 on type and conformation, 7.8 on movement, 8.1 on overall impression, for a total of 8.0.
Godiva (Gambol x Spatlaisse) scored 103 points for entry into the Main Mare Book.
At the AHHA Inspection at Little Bit Farm on Sept 3, of the four R Cor
Ray foals that were presented, 3 were Premium and 1 was Merit (one point below Premium).
Rock and Roll (out of O'She's Gauguin) was Premium with 7 on type and 9 on gaits!
Brava Cor Ray (out of Paloma) was Premium with 8 on type and 8 on movement.
R Corrito (out of Rosalita) was Merit with 7 on type and 7 on movement.
Congratulations also go to Stephanie Celander and her R Cor Ray filly Bayria, who was also a Premium foal with 8 on type and 7 on movement.
Little Bit Farm also presented 3 mares:
Paloma was Premium (MMP) with 43 points and an outstanding performance record.
Rosalita was approved for the Main Mare Book (MM).
Dressage at Waterloo DSHB Breed Show - Sept 2
Kalander Boy (Kevekko x Shirly) showing for the first time, won his class, was Champion Colts and Geldings, and
was Reserve Champion Young Horse.
Brava Cor Ray (R Cor Ray x Paloma) won Fillies of '09 and was Reserve Champion Filly.
Masterpiece won Mature Stallion, Mature Horse, and was Grand Champion. His median score is now 87.250, which is
the highest in USDF history.
Centerlline Dressage Classic I & II - August 29 - 30
Rashka won all 6 of his classes with scores from 73.667% to 79.565, and was high score of show.
Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships
- August 21-23
Rashka after a layoff for an abcess, Rashka came back to place 7th in the Markel Young Horse Championship
with a score of 72. He also won 1st Level Freestyle with a 78.125.
ODS DownCenterline
III and IV, August 8 - 9
Rashka won all his classes and was high score of show at Training and 1st levels, with a 79.000 at 1st level,
and a 81.071 at Training level. Only 2 other horses scored in the 70s.
In USDF rankings, Rashka is now leading Materiale with an 85.500%.
Sorensen Dressage Show - July 30 - Aug 1
Tiamo won all his I-2 classes with scores as high as 67.632%.
Masterpiece won all his 3rd level classes with scores as high as 69.302%.
Rock 'n' Roll (R Cor Ray x O' She's Gauguin) scored 85.5% and was 3rd in the Young Horse Championship.
Ovation (Opus x Windspiel) won his class with 89.3% and was Young Horse Champion.
Raytango, owned by Carol Petty, was Reserve Young Horse Champion.
Owen (by Opus), owned by Dorothy Skye and shown by trainer Kathy Kopp, was high score of show with a
76+%.
ISR/Oldenburg Inspection at Entropy Farm
Rayne, Rashka's first foal to be presented (she's out of Paradel by Parabol) was champion and high score of the inspection
with 8.2 on conformation/type, 8.8 on movement, 8.5 on overall impression, for an overall score of 8.5.
Sorensen Dressage Show - July 16 - 18
Rock 'n' Roll (R Cor Ray x O' She's Gauguin) won his class and was Champion Young Horse.
Rashka was Champion Stallion with an 84.5%, won the 4-5 YO Materiale with an 86.5%, and won both his 3rd level qualifier
classes.
Tiamo had a qualifying score at I-2.
Dressage at Waterloo - July 10 - 13
Rashka Won 9 of 10 classes, Champion Mature Horse, 4-5 YO Materiale, and Grand Champion of Show. He had scores as
high as 85%, and was Reserve Champion at 2nd level to George Williams on a horse that's currently top 5 in HOY standings.
Tiamo placed in all his Grand Prix classes with scores in the 60's.
Ovation (Opus x Windspiel) won colts of 2009, Reserve Champion Colts & Geldings, 3 YO and Under, and Reserve Champion
Young Horse.
Rashka impresses at Robert Dover clinic:
Check out www.Doversworld.com, June 29, 2009. Dover reports on his Farewell (Cher) Tour, and calls Rashka "absolutely
fantastic." He is not the first professional to recognize Rashka's "international quality."
Lamplight IDCTA Show, June 19 - 21
Rashka extended his 2009 winning streak to 28 by winning all four of his classes, with three of the highest scores of the
show. He was the only horse to score in the 80's (three times)! His scores were: 1st-2 76.389; 1st-1
80.000; Training - 4 82.400; Training - 2 86.786 ( with 10 for one of his halts and all 9's in the collectives (gaits,
impulsion, submission, and rider). The judge wrote, "Super Quality! A pleasure to officiate. Doesn't get any better than this."
Sorensen DSHB and Dressage Show, June 11 - 13:
Brava Cor Ray won Fillies of '09 with 82.100% and was 3rd in the Filly Championships.
Harmony in the Park, May 22 - 23
Rashka won all 5 of his classes, was high score of sho and Training Level Champion. All his scores
were 70% - 76%
Tiamo won at Grand Prix.
At our first dressage show of the year, Silverwood, May 9 - 10:
Tiamo Trocadero got a qualifying score at Grand Prix, so be looking for Tiamo and Ken in the GP Freestyle.
Rashka won his only two classes, scoring 75.2% at T-4, and 76.6% in the FEI 5yo test; and he came home on Sunday
to greet his first Little Bit Farm foal, a sweet colt out of Contendra (Contendro/Opus).
| Ken and Tiamo at Silverwood |
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All three horses from Little Bit Farm did well
at Ledges Winter Classic - Feb 13-16
Wradel (Wradar x Paradel/Parabol) and her owner Joey Miner placed
in 13 out of 14 hunter and equitation classes.
Elmer (El Bundy x Kuwaiti Gem) at his first show, placed in all his classes including 1st in Baby
Green and 3rd under saddle.
Valiant (Iroko x Condina/Cor de la Bryere) whose first foals arrive in 2009, placed in Baby Green Hunter classes and moved his way
up to numerous placings in three jumper divisions (schooling, training, and modified).
Congratulations to Lee and Michael Kuiphof of Everview Boarding &
Training on the purchase of My Fling by Masterpiece out of Shirly/Flemmingh.
All Masterpeice offpspring have been sold, either in utero or before the age of one, except the two-year-old Premium
Oldenburg, Mona Lisa (Masterpiece / Hohenstein), who is due to foal in June 2009. If
you would like your own "Masterpiece," please contact us before we rebreed Mona Lisa, or put your name on our waiting
list for 2010.
A number of our fine horses received 2008 year-end awards from USDF:
Rashka:
Mature Horse Stallion HOY
4+5 Year Old Stallion Materiale HOY
ISR/Oldenburg Open Training Level HOY
ISR/Oldenburg Open First Level HOY
O'She's Gauguin:
Mature Horse Bred Mare HOY
ISR/Oldenburg All Breeds Bred Mare HOY
Olympic Rubio:
Weanling Colt or Gelding HOY
In addition, Rashka was top 10 at both Training and First Level, and O' So Friendly was 3rd in 3 YO Fillies,
and 4th in 3 YO Materiale.
Little Bit Farm Welcomes Grand Prix Stallion Tiamo Trocadero and his '08 colt, Tiamo's
Royal Reid
| Tiamo Trocadero |
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| Tiamo's Royal Reid |
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| photo by Emily Covington |
Little
Bit Farm is pleased and proud to announce the addition of the Hanoverian stallion Tiamo Trocadero (Trapper x Diana/Darling/Traumgeist
xx) to their herd and breeding program. An international Grand Prix dressage
competitor earning over 70% at top CDIs in Europe, Tiamo was an alternate on the British Dressage team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
before being purchased byKarin Reid Offield of Offield Farms. As an amateur owner, Karin won multiple USDF year-end awards at the FEI levels
with Tiamo, and then retired him to stand at Hilltop Farm.
Tiamo Trocadero
is licensed by the German Hanoverian Verband and approved by the American Hanoverian Society, ISR/Oldenburg, and GOV. We will continue to make Tiamo’s foundation Hanoverian bloodlines available
with fresh cooled and frozen semen.
Tiamo's 2008 colt, Tiamo’s Royal Reid, out
of a Davignon/Werther mare will also join his sire at Little Bit Farm.
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