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August 29/2010

Augustin's 70th Birthday Celebration

Easter 2010

Augustin's grandchildren are enjoying their ponies

         Gloria and Cassie                                                                                         Gloria and Katy

  Louisa and Vienna                                                      Natasha and Rio's Rexie                                   Katy and Sky is the Limit

                                                                 watch video

some of our 2010 foals

filly - Esmeralda x Viva Voltaire       colt  Retina (aka Raissa)  x Viva Voltaire      colt Viva's Carina x Cabardino     

     all pictures taken by Nadia Walch

Results  from Florida

Viva's Salieri and Tom Dvorak enjoy great success in Wellington CDIs

      waiting for photo from Florida ....                                   

CDI - W    West Palm Beach Gold Coast Opener

     Inter I - 10th with 65.706%

      Prix St. George - 3rd with 68.86%

CDI-W  Wellington Classic

     Inter I - 3rd with 69.298%

       Prix St. George - 2nd with 68.947%

We are excited that this 9 year old Hanoverian stallion by Viva Voltaire is so successful in Florida where the competition is tough and classes have around 30 entries.

Michelle Vanda and many of our sales horses were victorious and placed well in many classes duringthe  first week of HITS  in Ocala, Florida

   Young Horse Jumper Classes

    - 7 & 8 Year olds - 1.30 m - Futi's Calypso and Michelle Vandal - 5th

    - 6  Year olds - 1.20 m - Futi's Barillo and Michelle Vandal - 1st

                                       - Viva's Romeo and Michelle Vandal - 4th

    - 5 Year olds - 1.30 m - El Paso and Michelle Vandal - 3rd

    1,20 m Farm Vet Jumpers

     First  - Lacard and Michelle Vandal

Our less experienced horses Futi's Elisa, For Sandro and Viva's Don Juan placed well in some of the lower jumper classes.

Let's Help the People of Haiti

We will be donating five doses of Rio Grande  frozen semen to help the People of Haiti

We will accept any offer over $ 750 per straw (one straw is a full insemination dose)

We will execute our standard frozen semen contract for Rio Grande

You will mail your certified cheque or money order made payable to the Charity of your choice

to us along with the executed contract and we will forward the payment to the Charity-

Donation receipt will be issued to you by the Charity

Please contact us if you are interested

Feb 15/2010: we will be offering semen of ALL of our stallions with portion of proceeds

going to the People of Haiti - visit us soon for further details

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Cabardino foals performed extremely well on the line in 2009

2009  Canadian Sport Horse Year End Awards

Coconut Bay & Cabaletta

Congratulations to owners Leigh Bartel, Cheryl Hickman & Linsell Farm and 

Owner and breeder Michelle Johnson for these achievements!

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Most of our four year old and older sales horses are now in  Ocala, Florida

Please visit us in barn 13 ( not tent 13) at the south east corner of the Hits property

Cabardino

7th in 1,40 m Jumpers - Ocala 2010

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We have now added pictures of our 2009 foals to the website

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 For the sixth consecutive year, Augustin Walch has been named the

USEF Hunter Breeder of the Year

All of our 2007 colts are now in the main barn and we have started to add some video clips

of the 2007 "boys". Free jumping clips will be added over the next few weeks,

please visit us again shortly and check out the following page:

Horses born in 2007

We will be posting video clips and pictures of our 2009 foals starting  December 12

Royal Winter Fair, Toronto

For the very first time, offspring by Cabardino was competing at the Royal Winter Fair. 

Three yearlings by Cabardino were shown and they performed brilliantly, winning both the

Yearling filly and Yearling colt class as well as the Junior Reserve Championship

for Fillies and the Junior Championships in the Colt division.

In addition, Cabaletta and Coconut Bay, both born here in Stratford, 

came second in the "Get of Sire" class.

We would like to congratulate the owners and handlers who all had a spectacular season

this summer and thank them very much for showing  their Cabardino offspring in line classes. 

Congratulations to

Cabaletta

2008 filly by Cabardino out of Viva's Paradise

Pia Thomas / Linsell Farms & Cheryl Hickman

First - 2008 Fillies

Reserve Junior Champion

Coconut Bay

2008 filly by Cabardino out of Rio's Raida

and Leigh Bartels

Third - 2008 Fillies

Putting On The Ritz

2008 colt by Cabardino out of Wynden

bred by Michelle & Karen Johnson, Pause a While Farm

First - 2008 Colts

 Junior Champion

Congratulations to

Mylene Benoit-Bousquest and Viva's Rainbow

Champion

Children's Hunter - Quebec

2nd - Children's Hunter Stake at Royal Winter Fair

Mylene Benoit-Bousquest and Viva's Rainbow

 Reserve Champion

Pre Green  Hunter - Second Year - Quebec

Congratulations to

Erynn Ballard and Otherwise

Champion - Ultimate Hunter Challenge

Otherwise, aka Vanguard is by Viva Voltaire out of

a mare by Rio Grande and was bred by Tammy & Randy Peacock of Orillia.

Anne- Sophie Montpas & Viva's Athletico

Gold Medal

Equitation Junior B

Quebec Equestrian Games

Bromont, Quebec

Alejandra Lopez & Viva's Passion

Bronze Medal

Children's Hunter

Quebec Equestrian Games

Bromont, Quebec

Cabardino & Michelle Vandal

1.35 Modified Grand Prix - Halton Place

Eastern Ontario Breeders Show

Congratulations to

Cabaletta

2008 filly by Cabardino out of Viva's Paradise

and Pia Thomas / Linsell Farms

Champion CSHA Yearling,

Champion Open Horse Yearling,

CSH Junior Champion,

Open Horse Junior Champion,

CSH Reserve Champion,

Open Reserve Champion, and

Eastern Onario Breeders Show Reserve Grand Champion.

Cornerstone Dressage Show

Congratulations to

Viva's Veroveraar

2001 gelding by Viva Voltaire

First - FEI Test of Choice

Rider - Esther Mortimer

Breeder & Owner - Hilary Chambers

Vallee Des Bois

  Congratulations to

Alejandra Lopez and Viva's Passion

Reserve Champion

Combined Hunters

Palgrave H/J  Show

  Congratulations to

Kevin Maxie and Viva's Victory

First - Jumper Development class for 4 year olds

with score of 90 points

Viva's Victory and Kevin Maxie

Kevin Maxie and Viva's Destiny

Second - Jumper Development class for 4 year olds

with score of 88 points

both horses, Viva's Victory and Viva's Destiny are offered for sale

by W. Charlot Farms

 Congratulations to

Mylene Benoit-Bousquest and Viva's Rainbow

Champion

Children's Hunter

out of 55 entries

Viva's Rainbow is a 6 year old chestnut mare by Viva Voltaire out of Retina by Rio Grande

Congratulations to

Melissandre Lincourt and Viva's Rainbow

Champion

 Pre Green High Hunter

Blainville Dressage Show

Intermediaire I

4th - Tom Dvorak & Viva's Salieri

Cornerstone Dressage Show

Showing at the FEI level for the very first time

Tom Dvorak and the Hanoverian stallion Viva's Salieri

won the FEI Test of choice with a score of 69% !

Tom Dvorak and Viva's Salieri  (by Viva Voltaire) during warm up

   Congratulations to

Erynn Ballard and Otherwise

Champion - 2nd May show in Palgrave

 Pre Green Low Hunter

Otherwise, aka Vanguard is by Viva Voltaire out of

a mare by Rio Grande and was bred by Tammy & Randy Peacock of Orillia.

Spring has finally arrived

the horses are out on the  pasture and we would like to share some of our foal pictures with you

all foals shown are by Cabardino

more foal pictures to be posted shortly

KLDA Spring Fling

          Congratulations to

Viva's Salieri W and Tom Dvorak

Champion - Fourth Level

This past weekend, the Hanoverian stallion  Viva's Salieri W by Viva Voltaire showed

for the very first time

at Fourth Level under Tom Dvorak and they achieved scores of 66 % and 69% respectively.

          Congratulations to

Esprit De la Danse

Champion - Five year old FEI Tests

by Esprit D'Amour

with scores above 70% in all four tests !

rider - Anneliese Farber

owner and breeder - Susan Laverty

We are happy that our stallions don't just produce nice hunters and jumpers but also

excellent horses for the dressage ring !

Girls, Girls, Girls

20 foals have arrived to date and 14 of them are fillies!

We hope that the mares and foals can go out on the pasture soon

so we can take some pictures and

share them with you

We are now offering for sale

Frozen Semen of

For Pleasure

our first filly by For Sandro - out of Etoile by Esprit D' Amour

Filly by Viva Voltaire out of Retina by Rio Grande

Our first foal arrived on Sunday, February 22

very flashy filly by Viva Voltaire out of Esmeralda by Esprit D'Amour

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Congratulations to

Jodi Czaplick and

Pretty Woman W

by Futurist out of Dauphine 2nd

Champion - Modified Adult Hunter

during

Week II and Week III of the Ocala Circuit

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Young Jumper Championships

Futurist is currently ranked 7th on the Leading Sires List

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Congratulations to

Erin McCabe and

Viva's Romina W

by Viva Voltaire out of Romina

Winner - Six year old class - Hits Ocala week III

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Congratulations to

Alex Granato and

Vasco Da Gama

2001 stallion by Voltaire - Raphael

Second - $ 25,000  Grand Prix

Gulfport, MS, Week two

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 Viva's Salieri

2001 stallion by Viva Voltaire

and Tom Dvorak

video of Viva's Salieri & Tom Dvorak

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IHF Nominations

for the 2009 breeding season, we have nominated the following stallions to

the International Hunter Futurity:

Rio Grande

Viva Voltaire

Cabardino

2008 USEF Awards

For the fifth consecutive year, Augustin has won the USEF Hunter Breeder of the Year Award with 17,635 points, more than double

the  points accumulated by the second placed breeder;

We would like to thank the owners, riders and trainers of

Viva's Primus  - 2831 points

Rio's Jolicoeur -  2711 points

Rio Renoir - 2450 points

Rio's Echo - 2350 points

Vivaldi - 1787 points

Rio's Splash (aka Rio's Magic) - 1724 points

Allegiance

Rio's Reflection

Eye Remember Rio

Rio's Tasha

Rio Bronco

Rave

Rio Rojo

Charlie's Angel

and wish them a successful 2009 show season !

Rio Grande is once again in the top five of the USEF Hunter Sire rankings, this time he places fourth and

Viva Voltaire made the rankings for the very first time, thanks to Viva's Primus and Vivaldi

Congratulations to                                                                   

Fabiana W

2002 Hanoverian filly by Futurist out of Rio's Rendezvous by Rio Grande

her owner and rider Dana Foremsky,  rider & trainer Alex Granato & trainer Teri Knowlton

2008 USEF Horse of the Year for  Zone 7

in the 6 year old young jumper championship division

Fabiana & Dana Foremsky

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We have started shipping horses to Ocala and are located in barn # 13 at the south east corner of the HITS showground in Ocala once again.

Please stop by - we would love to show the horses to you at your convenience.

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All of our 2006 "boys" have now been brought into the main barn. We hope to be able to have some video clips

available on our website by the middle of January.

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In light of the challenging economic environment, we have decided to

REDUCE most of our breeding fees for the 2009 breeding season

Please visit our breeding page  for detailed information about our 2009 fees;

November

2008

Royal Winter

Fair

Toronto, ON

        We are excited to report that our breeding stallion Cabardino  achieved excellent results at the 

                         Royal Agricultural Winter Fair once again:

                         Congratulations to

Erynn Ballard & Cabardino

Reserve Champion - Combined Hunter Division

Jennifer O'Neill & Cabardino

Champion - A/A over 36 Hunter Division

J. Elliott Cottrelle Royal Grand Champion Amateur Trophy

November

2008

Stratford, ON

All of our 2008 foals were weaned and we had a few of them in the arena to see how they free jump and move

We would like to share some of our pictures with you:

three Cabardino colts

three fillies by Cabardino

foals by Viva Voltaire

foals by Futurist

We are delighted that two of our foals by Rio's Filius were purchased by a very prominent jumper barn !