2011 Year End Awards

The 2011 show season has officially wrapped up and year end awards have been distributed. Nile Roze+ faired well in the USEF Horse of the Year program, earning a Region 16 Championship in the Second Level Amateur division. She also placed second in the Region 16 Second Level Open division and Fifth in First Level Open. In Region 15 she placed third in both the Second Level Open and Second Level Amateur divisions.

Nile Roze+ earned a Top Ten (3rd) in the Drinker's of the Wind Performance Horse progam.

Nile Roze+ to be Bred to Masada Mazal

It is with great excitement that we annouce our choice of Masada Mazal to sire our first foal. We spent a fair amount of time researching and looking at potential sires, with a recommendation from Arlene Magid, we are confident that we have made the right decision. Nile Roze+ will be bred in the spring of 2012 with hopes for a 2013 foal.

Masada Mazal just earned a Top Ten Placing at the 2011 Sport Horse Nationals in Sport Horse Show Hack and also has Class A wins in Hunter Pleasure and English Show Hack. Masada Mazal has three excellent gaits and shows that he has the potential to be a competitive sport horse.

You can learn more about Masada Mazal by visiting Brook Hill Farm.

Arlene Magid's complete mating consult can be viewed HERE.

Dancing with Horses Clinic

Roze Arabians Ltd. is sponsoring a clinic with Michael Matson on December 10th in Grantville, PA. Michael Matson is the co-founder of The Dressage Foundation’s Dancing with Horses Fund which supports Freestyle activities. Michael is an adult amateur rider who has competed in freestyles at First Level and Pas De Deux. He is also the creator of EquiMusic.com, a free online resource for those interested in riding to music.

Michael will work with each rider to select music that specifically matches their horse’s gaits and their style of movement. Each horse will be evaluated at the walk, trot and canter with a metronome to establish their beats per minute. Each rider will then ride to various songs until the horse/rider find music that “fits” the horse that it appears to be dancing. Music of a similar genre is selected for the three gaits so that all of the music flows together.

Each rider will receive a CD of their horse’s special music for them to use as a training tool (keeping regular tempo), just to have fun riding to “perfect music”, or to use to create a musical dressage freestyle. Audience participation is highly encouraged to help the horse and riders select their music. Having participated in this clinic before, it is highly enjoyable and having found the “perfect music” for my horse it has greatly assisted some of our training sessions.

Auditors and riders welcome. Full clinic details and registration form can be found HERE.

Nile Roze Earns Legion of Honor

It is with great pride that we are able to announce that Nile Roze has earned her Legion of Honor from the Arabian Horse Association. The Arabian Horse Achievement Awards recognize horses that compete and achieve a certain level of success with symbols that become a permanent part of the horse’s registered name.

To earn the 75 points needed to receive a Legion of Honor, Roze competed in Dressage, Hunter Pleasure and Sport Horse Show Hack. Roze achieved the needed number of points in three show seasons.

Roze now joins the rank of the few Straight Egyptian horses who have achieved this and one of rare Straight Egyptian mares that have received this honor. We were able to find only 12 other Straight Egyptian mares on Data Source that had earned their Legion of Honor or better. 

Stay tuned as we will be announcing a date and time for Roze’s Legion of Honor party, to be held in the spring of 2012.