Youth Spotlight – March 2006
Name: Binny Jahl, owner of Log Cabin’s Eclipse
Hometown and State: Phillipston Massachusetts
Age and Years Riding: age 16, riding for 8 years
My Favorite New Forester: Eclipse, who else?
Five Words That Describe My New Forester: Smart, mischievous, sweet, cuddly, actor
My Biggest Riding Accomplishment or Win: Winning 8th place in a class with 40 horses.
The Hardest Thing I Find About My Riding Is: Keeping my elbows by my sides. So my weakness is bat wings, I’m working on it.
The Most Nervous I’ve Ever Been: Going to public school for the first time in 9 years after being home-schooled since second grade.
My Best Moment Was: Winning my first blue ribbon
My Worst Moment: On a trail ride with Mom, I was riding Merritt our Arabian, she was driving the carriage. Merritt spooked and my foot got stuck in the spokes of the cartwheel, and pulled me off.
My Favorite Book: The Hobbit
My Favorite Food: Chinese
Best Subject in School: Geometry, but they’re all good
Five Words That Describe Me: Creative, bright, nice, random, likable
My One Wish: To have horses my whole life, especially Eclipse
Youth Spotlight – December 2005
Name: Morgan Richards
Hometown and State: Lakeland, Florida
Age and Years Riding: 11 yrs old, riding now for 1 year
My Favorite New Forester: Jennifer
Five Words That Describe My New Forester: Cute, friendly, loveable, loyal, silly
My Biggest Riding Accomplishment or Win: Learning to ride in groups and trotting over poles.
The Hardest Thing I Find About My Riding Is: Learning to canter
The Most Nervous I’ve Ever Been: When Jennifer almost bucked me off while learning to cantor
My Best Moment Was: When I learned that Jennifer was going to be mine.
My Worst Moment: I have not had a worst moment yet. I hope I don’t have one.
My Favorite Book: Happy Horsemanship book and the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe.
My Favorite Food: Chinese food of any kind
Best Subject In School: Geography
Five Words That Describe Me: Funny, cute, loyal, talkative and kind.
My One Wish: To ride professionally.
Youth Spotlight – October 2005
Name: Rianne Weijs
Hometown & State: Salmon Arm B.C. Canada
Age & Years Riding: I am 13 years old and have been riding for 2 years now.
My Favorite New Forester: Well, Cheval de Bois Albi is my pony and he is very fancy and I like him a lot!
Five Words That Describe My New Forester: kind, sweet, loyal, active and he has the most beautiful tail you can imagine!
My Biggest Riding Accomplishment or Win; I never placed very high yet, but Cheval de Bois Albi is very green (he was our breeding stallion till last fall, and I started him after he was gelded).
The Hardest Thing I Find About My Riding Is: Jumping with Albi, since he’s so green.
The Most Nervous I've Ever Been While Riding Was: My first canter.
My Best (riding) Moment Was: Being placed fourth at my first show with Albi! He was only broke for 6 weeks!
My Worst (riding) Moment: When I fell of Albi, since he bucked for the first time ever (and never done it since) when another pony came in the ring and the yearlings were fooling around.
My Favorite Book: Pony palls
My Favorite Food: French fries
Best Subject in School: Math
Five Words That Describe Me: Kind, always laughing, not very tall, pony lunatic, crazy about jumping.
My One Wish: become a professional rider
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