After completing our final week of the Two Rivers Summer Festival, we are tired and happy to call the last three weeks a huge success. During week two, we had the most stalls and horses to date; we are very excited about the progress we have made. The ability to host the Zone 6 Championships for the third year in a row has been a spectacular opportunity and we would like to congratulate and recognize our participants: 

 Zone 6 Performance Hunter 

Champion: Weston and Emma Gage 

Reserve Champions: Dark Chocolate and Dr. Sharon Golden tied with Killernan Romeo and Marissa Creviston 

Zone 6 Green Hunter 

Champion: Roscoe Z and Eleanor Egan-Hennen 

Zone 6 Low Pre-Green 

Champion: Sweet Dreams and Nick Novak 

Zone 6 High Pre-Green  

Champion: Cyril and Cynthia Bulwicz 

Reserve Champion: Horton Who and Kyle Muckler 

Zone 6 AO Hunter at 3' 6''

Champion: Ausone and Kelsey Donahoe 

Zone 6 Child Adult Hunter 

Champion: Copper Canyon and Paige Junker 

Reserve Champion: Ontario and Katherine Kemp 

Zone 6 Large Junior Hunter 

Champion: Killernan Romeo and Marissa Creviston 

Reserve Champion: Pistachio and Caroline Thorndyke 

Zone 6 Adult Hunter

Champion: Braeburn and Lesley Smith 

Reserve Champion: Dark Chocolate and Dr. Sharon Golden 

Zone 6 12-14 Equitation 

Champion: Cathildo's Boy and Mikayla Schmidt and A Black Tie Affair and Molly Laughlin 

Reserve Champion: Copper Canyon and Paige Junker 

Zone 6 15-17 Equitation

Champion: Weston and Emma Gage 

Reserve Champion: Quantico and Marissa Damone 

Zone 6 Adult Equitation 

Champion: Phantom and Libby Collins 

Reserve Champion: Dark Chocolate and Dr. Sharon Golden 

Zone 6 Low Child Jumper 

Champion: Firefly and Nicole Bangasser 

Reserve Champion: Maggie Mae and Johanna Balas 

Zone 6 Medium Child Jumper 

Champion: Victurus Te Salutat and Patrick Gage 

Reserve Champion: Kid Rock and Quinn Leslie 

Zone 6 Medium Adult Jumper

Champion: Classicalana and Emily Halder 

Reserve Champion: Inside Information and Gretchen Syburg 

Derby winner Cyril with owner Cynthia Bulwicz and rider, Kim Barone

Kim Barone and Cyril continued with their blue ribbon streak in the $5,000 USHJA Hunter Derby on Friday night! Together, Kim and Dark Chocolate placed 2nd for the second week in a row! Kim attributes her consistency to the full training program that customers like Cynthia Bulwicz, Cyril's owner, and Jenna Golden, Dark Chocolate's owner, allow their horses to be enrolled in. That way Kim understands the horse better and the trainer and the owner can better gauge their expectations. These efforts are compounded by Kim's love for derbies. Kim finds handy rounds exciting and challenging because not only will you have to go around a more intricate and tough course, but you must do it beautifully. There's also a certain camaraderie among all the trainers that's refreshing - everyone knows each other and wants the others to do well, too! Congratulations, Kim, on such a successful final week!