What a WEEKEND for Allison Springer Eventing! In one weekend we were spread out over the Middleburg Horse Trials, Upperville Colt & Horse Show, and Essex Horse Trials! Not only did Business Ben come out after a hiatus, but HSH Golden Boy (who is for sale!) ate up the Open Training course and brought home a blue ribbon! Devon also had a fabulous weekend with Nancy Winter’s Dazzling Nocturne- scroll down for some adorable photos- and brought home two championships and multiple blues.

Cuteness overload! Nancy Winter’s Dazzling Nocturne, beautifully ridden by Devon Sutherland, was the big winner at the Upperville Colt & Horse Show in the Purebred Connemara classes!

I am so excited that our momentum from the past weeks has carried us through another fantastic weekend. We are excited to keep our positive energy going!
5/20-21: Hunt Club Farms Horse Trials (Berryville, VA)
Allison with …
Dazzling Nocturne (owned by Nancy Winter): 3rd in Open Novice-B
HSH Golden Boy (owned by Louise Whittet): 1st in Open Training-A
Pip’s Thunderbolt (owned by Julia Luce): 4th in Open Novice-A
Head Groom Hailey Gahan with Painted Sky: 6th in Open Modified
Olivia Devening and Maximum: 4th in Modified Rider
Katie Tyler and Excel Star Beholden: 7th in Open Novice-A
Kendall Adams and Hint of Gold 6th: in Training Rider-B
Katie Lichten and Tullibards Excellence: 2nd in Open Novice-A
Natalie Epstein and Fanta: 14th in Open Novice-A

We have really been rocking and rolling the past couple weeks! We have had such a fantastic start to the season- I cannot wait to see what the rest of it holds.

5/10-14: Tryon International Equestrian Center & Resort Spring International (Tryon, NC)
Allison Springer with …
Monbeg Zebedee (The Zebedee Group): 23rd in CCI2*-S
No May Moon (owned by Nancy Winter): 4th in CCI3*-L
Vandyke (owned by The Rico Syndicate): 17th in CCI4*-S

4/29-30: Loudoun Hunt Pony Club Horse Trials (Leesburg, VA)
Allison with …
Pip’s Thunderbolt (owned by Julia Luce): 12th in Open Beginner Novice
Head Groom Hailey Gahan with Painted Sky: 13th in Open Training
Sarah Greenway with LF Helios: 4th in Open Beginner Novice

We did some heavy lifting at @Fair Hill International this past weekend! A huge shout out to my support team, my sponsors, the show staff, and of course the volunteers. On to the next one!

4/21-23: Fair Hill International CCI & Horse Trials (Elkton, MD)

• Allison with …
• Castle Howard Romeo (owned by Frances Robinson): 4th in CCI3*-S
• Monbeg Zebedee (owned by The Zebedee Group): 3rd in Preliminary-B
• No May Moon (owned by Nancy Winter): 6th in CCI3*-S
• Vandyke (owned by The Rico Syndicate): 11th in Advanced
• Katie Lichten and Romans Red Code: 2nd in Prelim-A
• Katie Lichten and Yarrow: 3rd in Prelim-A
• Katie Lichten and HTS Jensen R: 7th in Prelim-B

What a fun weekend at the CDCTA Spring Horse Trials. Lots of good rides, and good learning. Huge thank you to all the volunteers and staff who keep the horse trials running, our support team who keeps us running, and all my fantastic sponsors!  

4/9: CDCTA Spring Horse Trials (Berryville, VA)  

• Allison with …

  

• Castle Howard Romeo (owned by Frances Robinson): 2nd in Open Preliminary  

  

• Dazzling Nocturne (owned by Nancy Winter: 3rd in Open Novice-2

  

• Monbeg Zebedee (owned by The Zebedee Group): 3rd in Open Preliminary  

  

• Hailey Gahan with Excel Star Beholden (owned by Kristin Wojcik): 6th in Open Training-1   

  

• Kendall Adams with Touch of Gold: 3rd in Novice Rider  

  

Photo by Angie Souza Leihy 

What a great weekend at Morven Park! It is always impressive to watch a rider take on three separate rides and have fantastic results to show for it. Huge thank you to our support teams, and the horse show staff and volunteers!
4/1-2: Morven Park Horse Trials (Leesburg, VA)
Martha Wunder with Cooper: 15th in Open Beginner Novice
Martha Wunder with I’ll Have Another: 1st in Novice Horse
Martha Wunder with Newmarket Auto: 7th in Open Training

And just like that Aiken is a wrap! I have the most amazing group of girls that I am so incredibly thankful to have in my life (and my horses…. and dogs)! I cannot thank you all enough! Also so incredibly grateful to our winter hosts Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henkels for having at us their beautiful Fox Frolic Farm! Here are some pictures of our last Thursday Barn Lunch and our Team Springer Dinger season ending party!

First Quarter Results Catch Up!! (OK it’s a results dump – we’ve got them all here!) Congratulations to the entire team on a great winter/early spring season I’m so pleased with how all our horses and riders are doing and so thankful for our entire support team as well. Thank you to our owners and sponsors for helping make it all happen!

Carolina International
Allison with …

• Monbeg Zebedee (owned by The Zebedee Goup) 13th in Open Preliminary (his first one!!)
• No May Moon (owned by Nancy Winter) 4th in CCI3*-S
• Vandyke (owned by The Rico Syndicate) 7th in Advanced
• Katie Lichten/Roman’s Code Red 17th in Open Preliminary
• Katie Lichten/HTS Jensen 9th in OP
• Olivia Devening/Maximus 16th in Mod

Pine Top International
Allison with…

• Vandyke 4th in AI
• No May Moon 3rd in OI -B
• Castle Howard Romeo 3rd in OP-A
• Monbeg Zebedee 1st in Mod B
• Katie Lichten/HTS Jensen R 4th in Mod B
• Olivia Devening/Maximus 2nd in Mod Rider

Pine Top Advanced
Allison with…

• Vandyke 16th in Advanced
• No May Moon 1st in Int horse
• Monbeg Zebedee 1st in Mod B
• Katie Lichten/Romans Code Red 1st Mod A
• Katie Lichten/HTS Jensen R 4th Mod B
• Olivia Devening/Maximus 11th Mod Rider

Jumping Branch Farm HT

• Allison with Midnight Flight 2nd in OT B
• Allison with Dazzling Nocturne 1st in ON B
• Grace Glennie/Kodachrome 1st Jr Trn
• Grace Glennie/Sipping Cider 1st JR Nov
• Jennifer Rodgers/AC Graphite De Vains 12 in ON A

Stableview Eventing Academy March

• Devon Sutherland /I Just Did It 5th in Nov A
• Hailey Gahan /Excel Star Beholden 4th in Nov C
• Sara Kilguss/ Fernhill Valentino 8th in Nov C
• Monbeg Zebedee winning the Modified at Pine Top Adv HT; No May Moon winning the Intermediate at both Pine Top; Vandyke’s first ADV at Pine Top Adv HT! All Liz Crawley.