Uphoria! A half-arabian tops all
A black two-year-old one-half Arabian wowed the judges in addition to the crowd at the 2012 Young Horse Show Finals inwards Wellington, Florida.
Uphoria, sired past times the KWPN stallion UB40 and out of the Arabian mare BF Luna Fyre, earned the high marking of 8.76 from three internationally renowned judges against mostly warmbloods. His immature breeder/owner, 26 year-old police schoolhouse graduate Samantha Werner was ecstatic.
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Uphoria’s flush begins dorsum inwards the 1990s in Texas, where his grandsire, Fyre One, had a flake of a notorious beginning. Rebecca Pennington of Sonesta Farms inwards Cypress, Texas, had grown upward around Arabians. Her friend, Rebecca Jacobs, had a sweet Arabian pleasance horse, when inwards 1991, Jacobs saw an advertizement inwards a feed shop for a black Arabian stallion. She called Pennington to tell her she was going to acquire encounter the horse and Pennington was understandably skeptical.
What form of a Equus caballus was advertised at feed store? She agreed to acquire along only to run along her friend from buying the horse!
The stallion was living at, of all things, a Tennessee Walker barn. The seller told the ladies that she had bought the stallion from somebody that was disbursing their horses inwards lots of three. The seller had purchased i lot but actually didn’t need a stallion.
The 3 walked into the barn to look at the footling stallion. Pennington recalls: “I fully expected to encounter a stall walker, or see him raking his teeth across the bars.” Instead the seller pulled this beautiful little Arabian from the stall without thus much every bit a Pb shank attached to his halter, only her finger hooked inwards the band nether his chin.
They walked him exterior to acquire a meliorate look, correct adjacent to some mares that were evidently inwards heat, in addition to he never batted an eye, fifty-fifty when she set him olfactory organ to olfactory organ amongst them.
Still trying to discovery something wrong, Pennington asked “Does he ride?”, all the piece thinking “Here nosotros acquire … this volition live good!” The seller responded that they had ridden him a few times. So, despite a fractured knee, Pennington climbed on him after watching him go. He knew nil but tried his best, in addition to thus she decided what the heck, they could perchance accept him in addition to geld him in addition to Jacobs could utilisation him for a pleasance horse.
Just out of curiosity, Pennington asked the seller if the Equus caballus had come upward amongst papers, in addition to the seller handed them over.
When Pennington looked at his pedigree, she was shocked beyond belief. His dam was Fyre-Love, a *Bask miss who sold at the 1981 *Bask Classic auction for $500,000 inwards foal to *Aladdinn, the resulting foal existence this Equus caballus inwards front end of them, Fyre One. (Fyre-Love+ after sold inwards the 1985 *Bask Classic auction for a tape high cost of $1.5 million.)
Realizing what a jewel the stallion was, Pennington took Jacobs aside in addition to said, “Play along amongst me, we’re buying him!”
The seller wanted $2500, Pennington wheeled in addition to dealed her downwards to $1500 in addition to he was theirs!
Fyre One became the foundation of Jacobs’ breeding programme for riding Arabians. He turned out to live homozygous black, in addition to sired many incredibly athletic horses, few smaller than a truthful xv hands, most good over that including a mare named BF Luna Fyre, Uphoria’s dam, who finished correct at 15.2 hands.
Moon Fyre was out of Bold Narkise, Pennington’s dressage horse, who was sired past times Bold Sundancer++, a boy of The Real McCoy. Luna was shown a footling flake every bit a shaver earlier they decided to breed her. She had two purebred foals earlier Uphoria came along.
Samantha Werner got her firstly Arabian every bit a teen, a purebred named EA Aurora. They showed inwards Hunter Pleasure for a while, in addition to then Werner decided to start learning dressage nether the tutelage of Lisa Payne-Hyslop, a good known dressage trainer inwards Wellington, Florida, who used to demonstrate Arabians herself. The duad were enjoying dressage in addition to were successful upward to Third Level, winning ii Regional Championships in addition to numerous Top 5’s.
Werner had e'er wanted to breed her mare to a warmblood, in addition to after checking out many available stallions, she decided on the Hanoverian stallion Akatschi at Iron Spring Farm. When she was create to breed, she contacted Iron Spring in addition to was told that they had only sold Akatschi dorsum to Europe, but they had some other newly imported Dutch stallion, UB40, standing at their farm. She saw him in addition to was immediately sold on the thought of using him, due to his modern type in addition to lightness.
Werner tried for 3 years to breed Aurora but could never acquire her to bear to term. Rather than give up, she decided to create a Google search for “custom breeding for Arabian mares,” in addition to upward popped Sonesta Farms inwards Texas. Werner called Pennington in addition to spoke at length close leasing their Arabian mare BF Luna Fyre to UB40 amongst the resulting foal belonging to Werner.
They came to an agreement, the mare was bred, in addition to they settled inwards for the long wait.
Moon is known for having her foals ii weeks early, thus Werner in addition to her woman parent traveled to Texas during that fourth dimension in addition to stayed the meliorate purpose of a calendar week hoping Luna would foal, which she didn’t. They headed dorsum to Florida resigned to the fact that they would direct maintain to sentinel their foal live born via Internet photographic tv camera – which is just what happened ii weeks after Moon’s due date!
Werner in addition to her identify unit of measurement summation close a one 1000 other Internet viewers looked on every bit the beautiful dark colt was born. He was named “Uphoria”.
Pennington knew early that he was special. “Aside from existence quite striking inwards looks, past times the fourth dimension he was three days quondam it was clear that his motion was extraordinary,” she recalls.
Because Pennington in addition to Jacobs also breed warmbloods, they were familiar amongst diverse warmblood inspections for breeding stock. They had gotten Luna approved RPSI previously, in addition to at nowadays decided to accept her to the High German Oldenburg inspection amongst Uphoria at her side. Sure enough, at his foal inspection the Oldenburg inspectors from Deutschland loved him in addition to gave him the coveted “Foal of Distinction” award.
In belatedly 2011, Werner had heard close a demonstrate serial for immature sport horses, held at dissimilar venues upward in addition to downwards the East Coast. The Young Horse Show Series was founded inwards 2009 every bit a way for sport Equus caballus breeders, owners, trainers in addition to riders of all disciplines to exhibit in addition to evaluate their immature horses. People who had seen Uphoria told Werner she should accept him to i of these shows.
So, inwards Feb 2012, the duad headed to a YHS demonstrate inwards Wellington, non expecting anything but to acquire Uphoria some mileage.
In the Two Year Old In-Hand Division, the horses are shown at the walk in addition to trot inwards a circle, in addition to then at liberty. The professional person handler told Werner that Uphoria was “One of the best horses I direct maintain seen inwards the whole country.”
One of the judges, Jos Sevriens, spoke amongst Werner after the course of didactics in addition to told her how magnificent he thought her Equus caballus was in addition to how much Uphoria reminded him of Apache, the famous stallion inwards Europe.
Other comments included his stellar presence, his beautiful caput in addition to elegant movement.
When Werner told them he was one-half Arabian, they couldn’t believe it. She was told that she must acquire him out inwards the basis – finding the correct trainer was key. Uphoria earned a whopping 8.86 that day. After the
serial was complete, Uphoria was named the 2012 High Score In-Hand Champion of the viii shows of the series, amongst that i marking which he earned at the exclusively demonstrate he attended.
In January, 2013, at the Championship Finals, Werner watched from the stands every bit her immature gelding went into the band ii dissimilar days to strut his stuff. “Each fourth dimension Uphoria came inwards the ring, the people inwards the stands whooped in addition to hollered only similar it was an Arabian show!” said Werner. “It was actually something in addition to Uri definitely turned it on for the audience!” He earned the high marking of the firstly qualifying day, an 8.63.
On the lastly evening, nether the lights, Uphoria was in i lawsuit to a greater extent than the crowd favorite. He had had throngs of visitors to his stall the entire weekend every bit give-and-take spread close the phenomenon. When scores were announced, he had blown away the competition in i lawsuit to a greater extent than amongst an 8.76! His marking was the highest of the demonstrate until a iv twelvemonth quondam earned an 8.77.
The judges, Jos Sevriens in addition to Hilda Gurney, were total of praise. Hilda said Uphoria would live a transcend contender to correspond the USA inwards the FEI Young Horse Dressage division, in addition to couldn’t believe he was half Arabian, although she breeds one-half Arabians herself. Jos remembered him from Feb in addition to said he was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than spectacular.
Hilda offered to accept him herself if Werner couldn’t locate the perfect trainer.
For now, Uphoria is hanging out at home, longeing a few days a calendar week in addition to getting used to wearing tack. Werner’s plans for his time to come volition hold back until her police career is off in addition to running, but you lot tin live certain we will withdraw heed to a greater extent than close them both.
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