May 2015
Spring is here! We are finally out of hibernation from the winter and have so much to share! We at Twin Lakes Farm are rang in 2015 with lots of great new beginnings!
We welcome Kirsten Cowan to our staff of riding instructors! She will be taking over Amanda’s lessons at the north campus and running the riding academy.
Amanda Ek is now the Manager of our sister barn, Riverdale Stables in Van Cortlandt Park. Feel free to drive on down to say hello and see some familiar faces, as well as the new construction projects Scott has pioneered!
The Twin Lakes Farm IEA Teams have had their most successful season to date! Both the middle school and upper school teams qualified. We would like to congratulate the following TLF IEA riders who qualified for Regionals as individuals!
• Barbara Banchik in JV Novice Flat & Fences
• Mallory Bates in JV Novice Flat
• Katie Clevenger in Varsity Intermediate Flat & Fences
• Amelia Dempsey in JV Novice Flat
• Lily Dempsey in JV Novice Fences
• Anna Eligulashvili in Varsity Intermediate Flat & Fences
• Annalisa Ferrotta in Varsity Intermediate Flat
• Fiona Hinds in JV Beginner WTC
• Sydney Jasper in JV Novice Fences
• Lily Kalish in Future Novice Flat
• Emma Kuhn in JV Novice Fences
• Clara Louvet in JV Novice Flat & Fences
• Kyle Mandell in Future Beginner WTC
• Isabel Massart in Future Novice Flat
• Elise McCarthy in Future Beginner WTC
• Isabella Mylonas in Future Novice Flat
• Olivia Nolan in Varsity Open Flat
• Ava Ramachandran in Future Novice Fences
• Annie Raymond in JV Beginner WTC
• Julia Robinson in Varsity Open Flat
• Sophie Robinson in Varsity Intermediate Fences
• Hannah Smith in Future Novice Flat & Fences
• Alice Wong in Future Beginner WTC
IEA Regionals were held at Jamaica Bay Riding Academy on February 21st and 22nd. In one of the most competitive regions across the country, only the top three riders of each individual class moved on. Congratulations to the following Twin Lakes Farm IEA riders, who qualified to compete at Zone Qualifiers:
• Barbara Banchik in JV Novice Fences
• Katie Clevenger in Varsity Intermediate Flat
• Anna Eligulashvili in Varsity Intermediate Fences
• Kyle Mandell in Future Beginner WTC
• Sophie Robinson in Varsity Intermediate Fences
IEA Zone Qualifiers were held at Alfred University in mid-March. Congratulations to Anna Eligulashvili, Kyle Mandell and Sophie Robinson, who finished in the top of their respective classes and advanced to Zone Finals!
IEA Zone 2 Finals were held at Delaware Valley College in Pennsylvania two weeks later! Congratulations to Anna Eligulashvili, who placed 7th, and Sophie Robinson, who placed 4th at Zone Finals! Sophie’s fourth place ribbon earned her a trip to Florida to compete at 2014-2015 IEA Nationals!
We wrapped up our schooling show series the first weekend in May with our Luau themed show! Thank you to Chris Dwyer for judging! We hope to see all Twin Lakes riders on Sunday, June 14th for our Year End BBQ with Kristina’s drill team performing!
At the south campus, Twin Lakes would like to congratulate several of our show team riders on their new leases.
• Mia Cohen & Hannah Smith – Red October (aka “Bentley”)
• Miles Grossman - Constantine (aka “Tiny”)
• Emma Kuhn – Chantal (aka “Chantal”)
• Maya Larroche – Bedazzled (aka “Dazzy”)
• Margaux Plaumann - Tank (aka “Tank”)
• Chris Trizano – Portafina (aka “Lilly”)
• Laura Turano – Paloma (aka “Paloma”)
Through this year’s snowy and cold winter, the Twin Lakes Farm Show Team competed in the Old Salem Farm Winter Series. Congratulations to our following riders who earned the title of Winter Series Champion in their divisions!
• Julia Cohen and Be Brilliant in the Children’s Hunter Horse division
• Madyson Diaz and Yoko in the Children’s Hunter Pony Small/Medium division
Though it was a long and cold winter, we bursted into spring at our April 12th home USEF show at Twin Lakes Farm! Dani Markey and Carino stole the show with a clean sweep of the Junior Equitation making them champions of the division and first in the Sore No More and THIS 3’ medals! Fellow three-foot rider, Julia Cohen was reserve champion of the Children’s Hunter Horse division, riding Be Brilliant. Sophia Kosman and her horse, Cast Away, had a successful first show of the season, winning the Bit O’Straw Hunter Classic and completing the Low Hunter 2’6” division as champions with two firsts and a second over fences! Congratulations to Lily Kalish for winning the M&S 2’6” Medal on Moonlighter! Sophia Kofsky had a successful show day, coming out on top of the Children’s Equitation division with the champion ribbon! Barn-mate, Willa DuBois was right on her heels, claiming the reserve champion ribbon. Congratulations to Alison Mann for winning blue over fences in the Schooling Hunter on her horse show debut with True Blue! Congratulations to Maya Larroche on her first horse show with Bedazzled, with whom she swept the Pre-Children’s Equitation over fences classes to take home the champion ribbon! Both of our pony riders took home champion ribbons. Well done to Kyle Mandell and Cruisin in my Bentley in the Children’s Hunter Pony large division and Madyson Diaz and Yoko in the Children’s Hunter Pony Small/Medium division!
May is shaping up to be a busy month for Twin Lakes Farm with the show season picking up steam! We will be hosting our Inaugural Scrimmage. The scrimmage will be formatted in the same manner as an IEA horse show, but is open to non-IEA member junior and even adult riders local to the area! The show team will be packing up soon to kick off the show season with HITS Week 1 in Saugerties! All in a day’s work at Twin Lakes Farm! See you next month!
Twin Lakes Farm Staff