Baby Green Championship
Awarded to Cruising Bay
NEW LONDON (Clearfield,
Co.) The Triangle Horse
Show series started the year
2000 series on Sunday, April 16.
The first show of the season was
held at Grazing Acres in New
London. The start time of 8 a.m.
was delayed for Vi hour and the
rain lessened and the sky
cleared, making for pleasant
horse show weather for the rest
of the day.
New for this year’s series is
the awarding of cash prizes for
the Baby Green Division. This is
in addition to the cash prizes for
Low Hunter and Pleasure Horse
and Pleasure Pony Divisions.
The first Baby Green Champion
of the season under the new
prize system was Cruising Bay,
shown by Jessica Hinderer of
Landenberg.
Hinderer was also the Cham- Old Wilmington Road, Coates
pion of the Advanced Short Stir- ville, riding Siri. Reserve Cham
rup Division. Wrinkle In Time, pion was Kasey St. John of New
shown by Brooke Holloway of London riding Poco Bo Reiney.
Marlboro Road, Kennett New this year is a separate
Square, was Reserve Champion class, with its own set of year
of the Baby Green Division. Liz end awards, for advanced young
DiSabatino of Flint Hill Road, riders, a Junior Medals Class.
Landenberg, riding Trouble Sue, Winner of the first class of the
was Reserve Champion in Ad- season was Melissa Donohue of
vanced Short Stirrup. General Cornwallis Drive, West
Other changes for 2000 in- Chester, riding Without a
elude having two halter classes Doubt. This pair were also Re
instead of one. Now there is a serve Champions of the Pleasure
Hunter class and a Stock-Type Pony and Low Hunter Divisions,
class, with the Champion and Pleasure Pony Champion was
Reserve Champion selected Dixie, ridden by Leane Buckley
from the top entries in both of Steelville Mill Road, Atglen.
classes. First Halter Champion Low Hunter Champion was
under the new rules was Luck Caserio Tsalturi, ridden by Sara
Be a Lady, handled by Betsy Ko- Wilson of Elizabeth Drive,
betis of West Grove, with Quar- Coatesville.
ter Moon Princess, owned and Four farms participate in this
showed by Audrey Saunders of show series. They are KA Eques-
Rising Sun, MD, as Reserve trian Center and Blue Goose
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Champion. The halter class is
open to horses and ponies aged 3
and under.
An age limit was placed on
Leadline for the year 2000 (this
division is now open to riders
age six and under) and the age
limit for Beginner Riders was
lowered. Beginner Riders, who
are in their first or second year
of showing, can be age 6 or
higher (riders who are exactly
six, must choose between Lead
line and Beginner Rider).
Leadline Champion on April
16 was Chelsea Frank of Green
field Road, Cochranville, riding
Waldo. Reserve Champion was
Anthony DiNenno of West
London Grove Road, West
Grove, riding Sabrina. In the
Beginner Rider division, the
Champion was Kristin Deets of
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Stable in Cochranville, Grazing
Acres, and Fox Meadow in Un
ionville. Call any of the partici
pating farms for information
and/or to be placed on the mail
ing list for the year 2000 series:
Grazing Acres: 610-255-5009;
KA Equestrian: 610-869-0746;
Fox Meadow: 610-444-8805;
Blue Goose: 610-869-2233.
In the Mini Mini Division, for
riders 8 and under, the Cham
pion was Ciara Danese of
Thomas Farm Lane, Landen
berg, riding Zamahirah. Reserve
Champion was David Deets
riding Desert Fire Belle. “Belle”
then carried a different rider to
the Championship of the Mini
Division (for riders 10 and
under), with this award going to
Jenna DiNenno of West Grove.
Reserve Champion of the Mini
Division was Taylor Marcus of
Street Road, West Grove, riding
One Last Trick. Miss Marcus
then moved up a division and
was Champion of the Beginner
Short Stirrup Division. Reserve
Champion in Beginner Short
Stirrup was Kelsey Sherman of
Waverly Road, Kennett Square,
riding Starburst.
In Open Equitation, for rider
13 and older, the Champion was
Jennifer Haines of Boothwyn
riding Sidekick. This pair were
also Champions of the Pleasure
Horse Division. Sarah Shaffer of
West Grove, riding Low Down
Louie, was Reserve Champion
in Open Equitation.
In the Western Division, the
Champion was AB Sunset
Hunter, ridden by Alicia Boyle
of Farmington Circle, West
Grove. Reserve Champion was
Indian Jane, ridden by Bethany
Moore of Peachtree Lane, Lan
denberg. Indian Jane and Miss
Moore were also Reserve Cham
pions of the Pleasure Horse Di
vision.
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A Division of
Com Growers President
Presents Alternative To Current
WASHINGTON, D.C. In
an address before the Con
sumers Federation of America’s
23rd Annual National Food and
Policy Conference in Washing
ton, D.C. recently, American
Corn Growers President Keith
Dittrich showed that consumer
food prices has risen sharply
compared to prices farmers
receive for their commodities.
Dittrich, a Tilden, Neb. com
and soybean producer, used
these numbers to show that farm
prices have very little relation
ship to retail food prices.
Dittrich showed that con
sumer food prices have risen
about 250 percent since the
1975-1979 period, but prices
farmers receive have declined or
remained nearly steady.
“Consumers have long been
given the excuse by food proces
sors and retailers that food
prices have risen because of in
creased farm prices. These num
bers clearly show that not to be
the case,” said Dittrich.
Citing the failure of Freedom
to Farm and the influence that
giant food processors and ex
porting companies had on writ
ing this legislation, Dittrich
wondered why consumers of this
nation should feel comfortable
allowing the continued concen
tration of agribusiness. He pre
dicted that two or three of these
companies will very soon domi-
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nate the entire food chain from
seed to finished product.
“Will consumers then get
what they want in their food
system safety, reliability, and
fair prices? I bet not. Due to ig
norance, shortsightedness, and
most of all greed by large agribu
siness corporations, we may
soon see a feudal system of agri
culture paid for by the tax
payer,” said Dittrich.
To change course and guaran
tee that family farm agriculture
remains stable and viable as the
major source of food for Ameri
ca’s consumers, the ACGA has
developed a comprehensive
farm policy proposal that would
replace the current Freedom to
Farm legislation.
“This farm proposal protects
not only farmers’ interests but
also consumers’ as well, by en
suring a strong, safe, abundant
and fairly priced food supply
produced by family farmers.
This would be accomplished by
encouraging fair market prices,
providing food reserves for con
sumers and allowing producers
to manage their inventories,”
said Dittrich.
The food and farm prices
charts presented by President
Dittrich to the Consumers Fed
eration of America are available
on the ACGA website at
http://www.acga.org/
foodvrsfarm/.
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