County, District, State Awards Gain Top Placing For Horse-Loving Teen
BY LOU ANN GOOD
LITITZ (Lancaster Co.) —For the
third year in a row, Alison Farring
ton earned the top county award at
the 4-H Horse Club recognition
banquet lield at the Farm and
Home Center.
The Lititz teen amassed the
most points at county, district and
state levels to win the coveted
award.
“She’s been riding and showing
horses since she was three-years
old,” Alison’s mother, Helen,
remarked. “We didn’t know what
to do with her when we were show
ing horses so we stuck her on a
horse and she took off.”
Helen and her husband John
own Lower Hopewell Farms
where they raise registered Appa
loosas and board horses.
Alison said that her older sister,
Alida, won the same award three
years in a row. “I couldn’t get it
At
Christmas Evening At Landis
Valley. A free program of tradi
tional Christmas cheer- music,
caroling by a bonfire, cider and
cookies, Christmas trees, tours of
decorated buildings. December 19
from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Landis Valley,
until she got too old to compete in
4-H,” Alison said.
The Warwick senior partici
pates in the diversified occupation
program, which enables her to earn
credit by working at the stables
from 1 to 5 o’clock each afternoon.
Alison credits her training
instructor, Natalie Kline, and 4-H
leaders, Pete and Jean Immel of the
Broken Bit Club, for helping her
successfully compete on county,
state and national levels. This year
alone she placed first in western
pleasure, 3-year-old; third with
two-year-old filly; fourth with
Western Pleasure two-year-old;
third with stock seat equitation in
the senior division; and seventh in
open trail.
With her favorite horse, “Wheat
Eater”, Alison won the Pleasure
Futurity category two years in a
row. She believes she is the only
person that won the title in two
Christmas
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successive years.
In addition to her 4-H competi
tion, Alison has won national titles
on the Appaloosa circuit in perfor
mance classes such as English rid
ing, hunt seat equitation, and hunt
er hack, and in confirmation clas
ses such as halter youth mare and
youth geldings.
From mid-April until October,
Alison shows horses. But she
works year around with the 40
horses on her parents’ 250-acre
farm. She and her sister train the
horses, feed them and clean out the
stables. She also has a winter pro
ject of breaking a horse.
Alison said, “If a horse is really
smart, it may take only 30 days to
break them; otherwise, it can take a
year.”
The 17-year-old enjoys doing
everything with horses and plans
to continue working on her
parents’ farm after graduation.
In gratitude to the 4-H program,
Allison said, “4-H keeps me out of
trouble because there isn’t time to
do anything else.”
Other award winners at the 4-H
banquet held December 2,
included: Deana Mentzer, hunter
seat eq., Jr. and sixth in hunter
hack horses; Jennie Olweiler,
hunter horse; Becky Preiss,
grooming and showmanship; Kate
Moxley, first in hunter seat eq. Jr.;
Angela Frantz, first yearling geld
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County 4-H Horse Clubs’ annual banquet on December 2.
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