Watership Downs, LLC

17/11/2024

Congratulations on an outstanding 2024 season!:) So happy for everyone, their horses and their connections:) Thank you so much to TEAM for this generous support of our sport and the continued enthusiasm:)

Maura O’Connor:
BN Junior Rider Champion
Castleberry Trophy (Top Overall Junior Rider)
Will You Be Mine: Overall High Point Champion, Junior Rider:)

Molly Nachtrieb:
BN Junior Rider 4th place:)

Slater Boos:
Novice Junior Rider Reserve Champion
Lowest Overall Event Penalty Score Trophy 23.1 Novice Level:)

Bridget Herrmann:
Starter Senior Amateur Rider Champion:)

Margaret Wooldridge: Starter Senior Amateur Rider 4th place:)

Deena Zaitounh:
BN Senior Amateur Rider Champion
Bob Hutton Trophy (Top Senior Amateur Rider)
See My Tuxedo: Overall High Point Champion, Senior Rider:)

Julie Wooldridge:
Hunters Run Farm Derby Trophy (Lowest Overall Derby Score)
BN Derby Champion
Starter Senior Amateur Rider 5th place
BN Senior Amateur Rider 3rd place:)

Cannot wait for 2025!!!:):):)

11/11/2024

I love the Virginia Horse Park!!:) Such a fun show and Punchie was a blast!:) so proud of him for working to relax and figure it all out and such a wonderful girls' weekend:) this beautiful weather makes it so hard to believe winter/2025 is just around the corner:) grateful for the 2024 season and already can't wait for spring!:)

29/10/2024

Fantastic last derby of the season at Revel Run this past weekend!:) first of all, thank you so much to RR for being so accommodating and making this work for our peeps and our crazy schedule:) thank you to the volunteers and our group for showing up strong to help put on a great show:)

The weekend was definitely highlighted by Jules and Galahad scoring a 15.6 in the Beginner Novice:) May we please all aspire to follow in these footprints in the sandbox:)

Jules kicked us off with a super first Novice with Cleo to jump around clear with one rail to finish 7th:)

Then Jules had the win in BN, with Bridget and Tannis finishing 3rd in their first BN completion:) Huge shoutout on that 28.2, which they have been studiously and patiently working on:)

Allie and Stellar easily hopped around the Starter to finish 4th and Cami was awesome both piloting her big guy around, and cruising around clean on an awesome catch ride:)

In the Grasshopper, Adeline and Analee finished 3rd and 4th in their first ever eventing experiences:) so fun to have an exciting new partnership and a 30yr old Joeseph showing us how it's done:) They definitely have the cross country adrenaline bug:)

And finally, in the Junior Grasshopper, Mikala and Alissia rocked it to finish 3rd and 7th:) Both were awesome as they learned to canter across the country:)

That was a fantastically fun weekend and i think i speak for all of us when i say that we are not feeling ready for this show season to wrap up:) i feel like we are just getting going for so many of us, but i am also looking forward to the winter months as we build on our foundation:) i have one more quick outing with Punch and then cannot wait for the 2025 season!!!:):):) congratulations to everyone:)

26/10/2024

They did it!!!:):):) Biggest congratulations to the 2024 Division 2, Michigan State Champions!!!:):):)

25/10/2024

Chelsea Field Hockey is state championship game bound!!!:):):) So proud of this team and their coaches and cannot wait for Saturday!!!:):):)

16/10/2024

Jules issued a challenge and Susanne was game enough to help me work on baby ponying over the last two weeks:) They both were little gems for our second time working on this and our first time cantering!:) Bay Jake is getting so many extra treats and hugs and Susanne, i owe you a lot of chocolate but at least i didn't make you go off roading into the corn this a.m.:) thank you!:) it is so much fun:):):)

13/10/2024

I was laughing when i saw these four walking together at Revel Run today because we most definitely have a type:) What a beautiful day for a schooling show and thank you so much to RR for hosting!:) The horses were saints and the riders were spot on:) So excited for their futures and that we still have a few more weeks of the show season!:)

08/10/2024

07/10/2024

Such a fun day at the Honey Run Horse Trials!:) Both of the Beginner Novice and Starter teams that we were on won their divisions and Jules won her BN start to finish!:) Super fun mash ups of teams and thank you to everyone that helped make this favorite show happen!:) the day was capped off with a lovely and funny lady riders night at Susanne's, and it was so fun to check out the artwork in her real life fairy house!:) seems like i blinked and October arrived:)

06/10/2024

It was WET last weekend for the Area VIII Championships at Jumpstart:) both horses and riders had outstanding attitudes throughout and put in two great phases as they shortened it to a combined test:) we had two horses/riders that had never been to the KHP and the best compliment i can give them, is that i never would have known this was their first trip:) most excellent job to everyone looking exactly like you knew what you were doing, and the stars of the show were Bay Jake and Molly finishing 5th in the Beginner Novice Championships as a junior rider and a horse that doubles as a full on lesson horse!:) so amazed/proud of you both for how very far you have come!:) major shoutout and thank you to the organizers and volunteers for keeping the show going and for letting Lola ride HC so that we could leave 24 hours earlier!:) i made sure that everyone promised to not let the weather scare them off from the horse park forever, so the next time cannot come soon enough (though perhaps without getting a golf cart broken/ locked out of the park/ trespassing and driving it on Newtown Pike):) also some fall sport/ senior night activities because i continue to fluctuate between asking myself, "how did we get here?" and being so darn excited for their futures!:)