Gin N Juice

[LadyB]

Found this posted on her Website, awesome!

This was Sara’s 1st outing with Gin & Juice. While both are quite experienced campaigners, this is a very new partnership, and the preliminary level was a low pressure way to start to get to know each other.
We couldn’t be happier with how the weekend went. Ginny was very relaxed and rideable in the dressage phase, and seemed quite happy to be back in front of a crowd.
Cross country is definitely her happy place. Again, it was a learning experience of getting to know how she gallops to the fences, how well she comes back and sets up for the technical lines, and just getting a feel for each other. Again, she was incredibly relaxed and obedient of everything asked of her.
The show jumping was a constant change of direction, with lots of related distances. She jumped very well, and was much more rideable than was anticipated, hence the 3 time penalties.
A final score of 26.7 for 1st place.

[flyingchange]

I LOVE that mare. Who doesn’t? She thinks she owns any arena/course she walks into/onto. I was pretty sad for Hawley when she lost the ride. But she must feel better about it watching and knowing that Ginny is in the very hot-TB-experienced&
capable hands of Sara M. Great partnership. Will be exciting to watch.

[LadyB]

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/ringside-chat-sara-mittleider-getting-know-gin-juice

Other than a few errors its an interesting read. She didn’t win on her dressage score, but she did do well with her.

I’m interested to see these two continue on.

Although I do hope she does more than just play around with Gin, she’s a 4* horse that still has lots of gas in the tank, don’t waste it.

[CatchMeIfUCan]

[QUOTE=LadyB;8308354]
http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/ringside-chat-sara-mittleider-getting-know-gin-juice

Other than a few errors its an interesting read. She didn’t win on her dressage score, but she did do well with her.

I’m interested to see these two continue on.

Although I do hope she does more than just play around with Gin, she’s a 4* horse that still has lots of gas in the tank, don’t waste it.[/QUOTE]

I don’t understand this at all. Why does she need to win on her dressage score at Prelim? I would much rather see time penalties at events that don’t matter on a horse’s record than see one that makes time every time it goes out. Talk about pounding on the legs. The yard where I worked in NZ, every horse pretty much got time penalties every time they went out unless it was an FEI event. We didn’t have a single injury to 20+ competing horses all season.

I am pretty sure they are planning on seeing where the relationship goes, and considering the mare has been out of competition for quite a while, I applaud them for getting to know each other at a lower level. It seems they are doing everything in the best interest of the horse and the rider and making it a low pressure environment so no one gets too big for their britches and makes a bad choice. Kudos to them.

[LadyB]

You don’t want her winning on her dressage score, was pointing out COTH’s error stating she won on her dressage, she did incur time penalties in show jump AND cross country.

You’re also asking a 4* horse to go Prelim, who is known to be a rocket, so I’m sure it wasn’t easy keeping her slow.

I also agree about her staying at the lower levels getting to know each other, but it would be nice to see her contend her at a 3* in the future. Maybe that is in the works, but she made it sound like she was just playing with her and was just a fun ride, with no plans to take her anywhere.

[subk]

The mare is 15 and has nothing to prove to anyone. I can’t imagine anything better for her well being than bringing her back out with a stress free attitude of just seeing what’s what and building a partnership before making any public decisions about her future. But then this type of quality horsemanship is right in line with what I’ve observed from afar of Sara M–so no surprise there.

[vineyridge]

As she said in the article: “Never say never.”

I also think it’s good for one of our good young riders to be reminded in a close, personal way that TBs still can excel at the “new” eventing.

[LadyB]

Uh Oh

Gerry Bennett - Ginny’s FEI passport clearly shows Hawley Bennett-Awad as co-owner and has for many years. This matter is in litigation and I don’t feel the horse should be competed at all until this ownership dispute is settled.

[CatchMeIfUCan]

Where is that from?

[subk]

USEF/USEA are clear that their records have no legal bearing on ownership. I’d be surprised if the FEI is different, especially since you don’t need any proof of ownership to get an FEI passport. (At least you didn’t the last ime I got one.)

[LadyB]

Was posted on FB, I believe on the COTH article posting.

[vineyridge]

This is just another example of how people do things to comply with FEI rules. Ginny couldn’t compete for Canada until and unless she was at least partially owned by a Canadian citizen. No telling what percentage of ownership under what conditions HBA possessed until litigation is complete. By then the horse probably would be past competition.

If I owned more than a majority interest in a horse, seems to me that I’d have the power to decide what happened to it.

[SlamDunk]

[QUOTE=subk;8309146]
USEF/USEA are clear that their records have no legal bearing on ownership. I’d be surprised if the FEI is different, especially since you don’t need any proof of ownership to get an FEI passport. (At least you didn’t the last ime I got one.)[/QUOTE]

Don’t quote me but I feel like it isn’t as simple FEI. I know that was what caused some of the ownership kerfuffle with Capone. Although I mean Spink’s ownership claims became moot after the abuse.

[WW_Queen]

Nothing to add. Just wanted to bump
this thread bc I missed Ginny and HB-A together. I hope the mare is enjoying an immense grassy field somewhere.

[Jealoushe]

I think she just had a baby, or possibly through embreyo transfer? I thought it was Jessica Pheonix who has the foal but I could be wrong.

[tuppysmom]

Ginny is in SoCal with her owner, Linda Paine. She has produced several foals by ET. We have a coming 2yr old from her.