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Video, Photos: Riders Display Skills at Annual Dressage Show at Lord Stirling Stable
The Lord Stirling Stable invites its students and outside riders to 16th annual Betty Cohen Memorial Dressage Schooling Show.
The 16th Annual Betty Cohen Memorial Dressage Schooling Show, as presented on Sunday by Friends of Lord Stirling Stable, provided an opportunity for equestrian students at the stable and also outside riders to test their talents and riding skill at a judged competition.
The Friends of Lord Stirling Stable (FLSS), a support group at the Someret County-owned riding stable, also invited spectators to attend the show that began in the morning at.
The Dressage Show was contested in eleven divisions separated into two sections—one for those riders with privately owned horses and the other for Lord Stirling Stable students on the stable's own horses. Divisions include the USDF Intro Level, Test 1 (walk/trot), Training Level Tests 1 through 4, First Level Tests 1 through 4, and two “Test of Choice” divisions. Quadrille, freestyle, and musical kur entries also were welcomed.
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"This is a great event," said Cynthia Roman of Morristown, president of Friends of Lord Stirling Stable. The show is a good way to introduce the public to the dressage style of riding, she said.
"When we started this, the idea was for our riders to know what it was like to do a real life competition," said Chuck Rosen of Franklin Township, a FLSS member who coordinated Sunday's event.
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For two previous Sundays, students at Lord Stirling had practiced for the competition, he said. About 15 participated, some appearing before the judge for more than one test, he said. Twenty outside riders with private horses also participated, Rosen said.
The judge was Susan Herster of the Millington section of Long Hill Township, he said.
Rosen said the show in recent years was renamed to honor the late Betty Cohen of Warren, long active at the stable. Cohen was both a past rider and instructor at Lord Stirling, he said.
The proceeds raised from entry fees go to "The Betty Fund," which provides scholarships for riding education, he said.
A carriage drive scheduled to be held outdoors at the same event was canceled because of mud.
