Looking Back at the 2000 SHOW SEASON

2000 was quite a year for Idea Offsrping!

Region Six Champions

Louie (Illusion) and Val Zeek win Five For Five with scores as high as 77% at the ABIC/USDF Region 6 Championships at Fox Ridge! Their 77% Score was the Highest of the entire Finals! Louie and Val also And came in First in The Oregon State Finals!

Won First Level Test 4 Open with a score of 70%. Jackie Oldham Judge. (Qualifying Test.)

Won Northwest Regional Dressage Championship First Level Open with a score of 70%. Class was Judged by Charlotte Bredahl and Jackie Oldham.

Won First Level Test 4 Open with a score of 77%. Jackie Linberg Judge the Class. (Qualifying Test)

Won ABIC/USDF REGION 6 Training Level Open CHAMPIONSHIP with a score of 71%. Fran Dearing and Jenifer Roth were the Judges. (10 on Halt and a few 9's were included in the score.)

Won ABIC/USDF REGION 6 First Level Open CHAMPIONSHIP with a score of 69%. Judging the Class were Jackie Lindberg and Mary Grace Davidson.

Won First Level Open Championship at Oregon Dressage Society Championships. The pressure of coming off her performance ar the Regional Championship got to Val for a moment and she went off course. But Val and Illusion won with a score of 69% despite the fact lapse!

Congratulations to Val, who has only been riding Dressage for five years and competing for two years and to Michelle Ives-Purdy her trainer and breeder of Illusion the highly successful and equally unusual IDEAL/ Belgium Mare Draft Cross. Illusion is a school master in the Ultimate Piaffe lesson program.

Another Ideal Oregon State Champion!

Imprint and Lindsey Moneta (13) and Imprint (six year old, Ideal mare out of paint mare) won the the Oregon Dressage Society ChampionsTraining Level Jr/Yr. She won the Blue Ribbon for Training Level Test 4 with 65%+ and Training Level Test 2 with 62%+ under Judge Carey Evans where Lindsey and her golden filly qualified for the ODS Finals. And won!

Imprint and Lindsey were also 8th out out of 28 riders At the ABIC/USDF region 6 Championships.

At the 4-H Fair, Lindsey and Imprint won the Training Level Test Four with a score of 82%.

Lindsey is Michelle Ives-Purdy's student, as is her older sister Lauren, who was one of twelve Young Riders chosen from all across America to participate in the Cosequine/ASHA Jr. National Dressage Championships where she brought home the Silver Medal.) Can Lindsey be far behind?

INCI IS FLORIDA STATE CHAMPION

IDEAL OFFSPRING SHINE AT SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THE COSEQUIN/USDF BREEDERS CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ON NOV. 18 & 19

Carey Zukaitis of Archer, Florida, entered her Premium Oldenburg filly, Inci, by Ideal out of her Trakehner/Holsteiner mare Ashley by Hurrikhan in the Southeastern USDF Florida Breed Championships. Much to Carey's delight, Inci was Champion of her 2000 Weanling filly class with a score of 80.6 and then secured herself a spot in the next days Cosequin/USDF Breeders Championship series by earning the Reserve Young Horse Champion title in the USDF Qualifier. This is quite an accomplishment for a weanling to do so well up against yearling, two year olds and 3 year olds.

Later that day Inci teamed up with Pat Sullivan's Champion Ideal yearling filly Iashi (she won the filly class at the 1999 show and qualified for the 2000 championship series as well) to represent their
sire in the Get of Sire class. The exquisite fillies drew favorable comments from the judges and from the gathering of spectators as well. They tied for First Place with the Dutch Stallion Lodestar. Although the
judges broke the tie in favor of the older offspring from the Dutch stallion, Ideal was very well represented.

Oh yes, one more win. Inci was the highest scoring Oldenburg against ALL horses of ALL ages at the show!

Carey was thrilled with Inci's placing and who wouldn't have been proud to have a home bred weanling filly in the company of the finest pedigrees of Europe and North America. On Sunday, November 19, the Cosequin/USDF/ DSHB Southeast USA Series Final, Inci placed 3rd in the Young Horse Championship.

A healthy congratulations to Carey Zukaitis and a heads up to buyers out there looking for a top quality foal......this one is for sale. For sales page, click here.

USDF BREEDER'S SHOWCASE IN CONYERS, GEORGIA

.Ilexa, a 2 year old filly by Ideal out of Court Rose, a Thoroughbred mare, just barely made it to the USDF Breeder's Showcase in Conyers, Georgia. Breeder/owner Susen Shields had to "steal' her barn owner's truck after her truck died and race to the 96 Olympic venue. Susen unloaded Lexi and threw on her bridle while her husband, Don, ran for the bridle number. At the in gate, Susen was informed that her 1/2 hour had been given away but the agreeable Judge Janet Brown decided to judge Lexi anyway. Brown had witnessed the frenzy in the parking lot and was very impressed by how calm Lexi was through the ordeal. Brown placed Lexi second with a 71%. Shields was thrilled.

The next class, the Oldenburg Breed Class, was judged by Col. Axel Steiner, and with Lexi warmed up, she won the class with a 75%!

Congratulations to Susen and her husband, Don.

EURO PRO IKO and Sandy Howard (three time USET Rider and S Judge) are cleaning up in California. June 16,17,18 at the Golden State Dressage Show at Murietta, IKO won ABIG Freestyle with Janet Brown scoring 73.750% and Marilyn Payne and Jeannie McDonald judging 69.541%. IKO won a second level AGIG 2-4 class judged by Jeannie McDonald with a score of 64.186%.

Congratulations IKO and Sandy. (By the way, Sandy conducts clinic's at the Ultimate Piaffe every other month. See Michelle's page for details.)

INTUITION by IDEAL'S Black Stallion son, INBEGRIFF becomes a Materiale girl and multiple winner first time out at the Letter Perfect Dressage Show Ridgefield, Washington.(4th of July Weekend.) Intuition won the Three Year Old Filly Championship, Won the Brood Mare Championship, second in the Three Year Old Oldenburg Breed Class and Won the Three Year Old Fillies Materiale Class. The Judge was Debbie Riehl-Rodriquez of Golden Colorado. 'Intu' qualified for the USDF Breeder Series Championship.
Photo by Galloping Video

IRISH ROSE and new owner Angela McDaniel win the Blue Ribbon for 2 Year Old Fillies In-Hand at Lake Oswego Hunt Club Dressage Show August 4th, 2000. The Judge was Judy Hedreen.

DEEP COVE INCOGNITO also scored big at Letter Perfect Show 4th of July Weekend by winning the Material Class for Three Year Old Geldings and Reserve in Three Year Old Gelding Class! Deep Cove Incognito (barn name Luke) owned and bred by Dama Courtright who spreads her time between North Saanich, B.C. Canada and Salem, Oregon. The dam is Amber Gold a Hannoverian/Throughbred by All The Gold. 'Luke' is shown here with Trainer Bill Miller.

Dr. Sue Buxton on Icarus. Carla Ward on India Ink.

(Above Left) ICARUS (a.k.a Russ) shown over the water jump at Anxious Acres in Northern California. In this year's IDEAL 2000 Video Sue and Icarus are seen on the foggy course at Pebble Beach.

(Above Right) INDIA INK and Carla Ward, owner-rider, compete at sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

ICON debuts among the Palm Trees at Indio, California

ICON with just 90 days under saddle made his new owner, Nancy Markwell of California, justly proud by winning a Blue Ribbon on out of a class of 25 entrants at Indio.. ICON also won a number of 2nd and 3rd prizes his first time out. Thanks to his former owner, Deborah Cummings, who traveled to Indio from her home in Newberg, Oregon, to keep tabs on the handsome gelding . Shown riding ICON (formerly Ixotica) is Leslie Steele noted Hunter Jumper Trainer Rider.

IASHI Reserve Champion Filly at Valhalla USDFBC

Iashi shown with owner Dr. Pat Sullivan is racking up Blue Ribbons! Iashi was reserve Champion at the USDFB Qualifier held Valhalla at Wellborn, Florida. She is qualified for the 2000 USDFBC Championships. Iashi got off to a great start by being Champion filly at her ISR/Oldenburg N.A. evaluation and tied for 7th out of 533 foals presented in Canada and the USA in 1999. Nice going!

INDEPENDENCE GROWS UP!

POOR 'LIL' ORPHAN WINS IN HIS FIRST OUTING!

The Ultimate Piaffe & ISR/Oldenburg judges agreed ... Independence would never be as big as his stable mates born the same season 'the poor little orphan' would never be much of a horse... Indie proved them wrong.

Independence was only a few hours old when his dam, Bel Kalai, passed away. We had exchanged a breeding to Ideal with her owner and in return, we would take the second foal out of Bel Kalai. The owner was upset and felt she couldn't take care of the little orphan colt so Carol, Darrel and Michelle beded their Ford van in straw and brought the tiny colt home.

After sharing the responsibility of bottle feeding and raising Independence to be as much like a horse as possible, it was clear that we could never part with the dark grey colt.

Darrel was in charge of exercising the little orphan and he and Independence would "run" with the herd. We laughed our heads of when Darrel (under Michelle's direction) would give a threatening squeal and hike up a "hind leg." to back off the other mares when they got too close to his foal. Even our black and white Great Dane, Sigma, took on rearing duties spending 24 hours a day with her "puppy" leaving the stall only to relieve herself. We even fed the dog in the foaling stall. Remarkably, Signa, who at that time wasn't fixed, actually lactated and although there wasn't any nutritional value, Independence would greedily nurse on Sigma.

Independence thrived on goat's milk and our company and although his TB dam was only a little over 15 h, Independence stands just under 17 h and has grown into a handsome, round creature. But it isn't his dark grey coat, adorable antics with his tongue or his great size and stature that has made Independence a barn favorite, he is perhaps the best mover at our facility.

Like the cobbler whose children go without shoes, we have been busy with our clients and horses so Indy hasn't had the exposure he deserves but he did go to his first schooling show in October where he won his Training Level Test class with his trainer and "mom", Darrel Purdy. Debbie Evans, FEI rider and ABIC/USDF Champion several times over, gave Indy a 68% with especially favorable comments on his brilliant canter.

Look for Darrel and Indy at recognized shows in 2001. Despite the fact that Indy is green in the show ring, his frame, engagement and training are doing well so he'll probably compete at First Level.

People keep asking ... "Is Indie for sale?" The answer is ... "No Way!"

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