Steel the Moment owned and ridden by Linda Beltz were second. Again, it was Miller who earned the blue ribbon driving the beautiful chestnut, Castle Dream, owned by Hillcroft Farm in Paris, KY. Next, the $1,000 Fine Harness Amateur Stake Class, sponsored by Cecile and Kenny Wheeler, demonstrated their flashy park trot and show trot, engaging the audience with their brilliance. Fishers’s Battlefield earned second place. Peter Palmer from Prospect, KY and Carl, T. But it was Misdee Wrigley Miller, from Paris, KY and her own, Grande Gil that took home the first place prize. Music played and vocal spectators showed their appreciation for the expressive, high-stepping horses. The first class to kick off their return was the $1,500 Three Gaited Open Stake. Today many of the finest trainers in the country are in Simpsonville and the surrounding areas.” Kentucky has been the center for some of the finest American Saddlebred horses in theĪccording to Andrea Walton, an American Saddlebred enthusiast and former winner of the prestigious Good Hands Saddlebred Equitation Class at the National Horse Show, “When the notable trainer, Helen Crabtree moved her farm to Simpsonville, KY, everyone thought she had moved to the middle of nowhere. It is only natural that the American Saddlebred return to the Alltech National Horse Show in its new home in Kentucky. The breed, known as “the horse that America made,” had been a fixture at the National Horse Show since the late 1800’s but after the 1999 the Saddlebred performance classes had disappeared from the show. Lexington, KY – October 31, 2012 – The audience cheered as the first American Saddlebreds, since 1999 competed at the 129th Edition of the Alltech National Horse Show at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY.
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