Chester County’s 4-H Dairy
Goat Roundup Features Quality
HONEY BROOK (Chester
Co.) The Chester County 4-H
Dairy Goat Roundup was Aug.
7 here at the Romano 4-H
Center. Thirteen goat projects
were exhibited and six 4-H
youth participated.
This year the show was di
vided into two breed classes
Alpines and Nubians.
Heather Glennon of Doyles
town not only placed the ani
mals, but also instructing the 4-
H’ers in how to improve their
animals through breeding.
In the Alpine breed, Erin
Whitesel of Landenberg cap
tured senior and grand cham
pion with her doe, Muffin, in the
does one and under two years of
age class. Joe Batchelder of
Glenn Mills received the reserve
senior and reserve grand cham
pion title in the Alpine breed
with Jellyrole, a doe in the three
five years of age division.
Nectar, who showed in the 4-
to 12-month-old kid class, was
the junior champion for Daniel
Smith of Lincoln University.
Erin Whitesel won reserve
junior ribbon with Nibble, who
also showed in the 4- to 12-
month-old class.
In the Nubian breed, Glennon
selected a 3- to 5-year-old doe
named Midnight, owned by
Veronica Bates of Gradyville,
for senior and grand champion.
America’s Top Equestrians Return For National Horse Show
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania Na
tional Horse Show (PNHS), one
of Pennsylvania’s premier sport
ing events and America’s largest
indoor all-brepd horse show, will
conduct its 55th annual 10-day
competition here Oct. 12-21.
Since its inception in 1945, the
event at Harrisburg’s State
Farm Show Arena, has raised
more than $1.4 million for youth
literacy, educational, and recre
ational programs through the
Harrisburg Kiwanis Youth
Foundation.
Each year, hundreds of thou
sands of hunter, jumper, and
equitation riders across the U.S.
compete year-long for an invita
tion to join the best of the best at
“The Show Of Champions” in
Harrisburg.
The Pennsylvania National
Horse Show is a celebration of
horse sports, featuring more
than 1,400 of America’s top
horses and riders, unique enter
tainment, shopping, food, and
family fun.
Eight national championships
are decided at the PNHS. The
American Horse Shows Associa
tion/Black Entertainment Tele
vision National Junior Jumper
Championship, Saturday night
Oct. 14, is one of only three USA
Junior Olympics-Equestrian
events, and features America’s
top under-18 jumper riders.
More than 200 young riders cul
minate a year of competition on
Sunday, Oct. 15, as they vie for
the American Horse Shows As
sociation/Eisers and Pessoa Na
tional Hunter Seat Equitation
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Chester County Dairy Goat Roundup Nubians, from left,
Nora Demchur, reserve, and Veronica Bates, champion.
Reserve senior and reserve
grand champion went to Made
line, who showed in the 3- to 5-
year-old group, owned by Nora
Demchur of West Chester.
Eloise, a kid in the 12 to 24
month of age class, also owned
by Nora Demchur, was awarded
junior champion. Reserve junior
champion went to Veronica
Bates with Pop Tart, a kid in the
12- to 24-month-old class.
The highlight of the roundup
was when the judge selected
Erin Whitesei’s outstanding
Medal Championship one of
the few events where the rider,
rather than the horse, is judged.
Many of the young national
champions go on to represent
the U.S. in international and
Olympic Grand Prix competi
tion of the type featured at the
PNHS nightly Tuesday, Oct. 17
through closing Saturday, Oct.
21. Spectators thrill to Ameri
ca’s best Grand Prix jumper
riders, including Olympic com
petitors, striving to win more
than $115,000 in prize money by
clearing jumps up to five feet
high and six feet wide.
A week of varied equestrian
competition begins Monday,
Oct. 16, with Hunt Night, an
evening of friendly rivalry for
the mid-Atlantic’s top foxhunt
ing clubs. For about 150 years,
foxhunting has remained a
strong tradition in Pennsylva
nia, home to more hunts than
any other state except Virginia.
Teams and individuals test their
hunting skills over fences, in
North American fox hunting
horn blowing championships,
and in races over fences for Jack
Russell terriers. Author Rita
Mae Brown, a foxhunting en
thusiast, is expected to make an
appearance during Hunt Night.
Spectators will be treated to
an amazing variety of equestrian
athleticism. High-flying Grand
Prix jumpers, fiery, high
stepping American Saddlebreds
and their tiny Hackney pony
cousins, thundering draft horses
in hitches of one to six, easy
going western pleasure horses,
and roadster horses and ponies
grand champion Alpine doe,
Muffin, for best in show honors.
Veronica Bates received the re
serve award with her Nubian
doe, Midnight.
In the fitting and showing
competition, Erin Whitesel was
the junior champion showman
and fitter for members less than
14-years-old. In the senior com
petition, Veronica Bates re
ceived both champion showman
and champion litter. In the first
year division, Daniel Smith
earned both champion showman
who race around the ring at top
speed take turns delighting and
entertaining the audience. The
$50,000 Budweiser Grand Prix
de Penn National, the show’s
richest and most prestigious
event Saturday night, Oct. 21,
will be taped for broadcast on
ESPN (the broadcast is sched
uled for Sunday, Nov. 12 at 6
p.m.).
The Royal Canadian
Mounted Police will present
their Musical Ride at the Penn
sylvania National Thursday
through Sunday nights, Oct. 19-
21, their first appearance at the
sow since 1982. The troupe of 32
horses and riders, with the sup
port of founding sponsor Cana
dian Pacific, will perform a
variety of cavalry drills and In
tricate formations at the trot
and canter, all choreographed to
music.
“The Sport of Kings” will
thrill spectators as teams from
Harrisburg and Lancaster play a
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Chester County Dairy Goat Roundup Alpines, from left,
Joe Batchelder, reserve, and Erin Whitesel, champion.
Chester County Dairy Goat Roundup best in show, from
left, Erin Whitesel, champion, and Veronica Bates, re
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