Horse and rider win championship
Caroline Cadorette and Ellie after their first win in the show, days before they became world champs and Cadorette became the youngest winner the show has ever had in that class. Courtesy of Meagan Cadorette.
Caroline Cadorette and Ellie, representing Sea-Vu Farm in Boothbay, just pulled off a national division title. They are seen here at the barn in Boothbay August 24. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Caroline Cadorette and Ellie after their first win in the show, days before they became world champs and Cadorette became the youngest winner the show has ever had in that class. Courtesy of Meagan Cadorette.
Caroline Cadorette and Ellie, representing Sea-Vu Farm in Boothbay, just pulled off a national division title. They are seen here at the barn in Boothbay August 24. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
A horse-and-rider duo from Sea-Vu Farm in Boothbay pulled off a record-breaking win October 9, at the Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show. Caroline Cadorette, 8, became the 40-year-old show’s youngest-ever world champion in the ages 11 and under, walk-trot-hunter-pleasure class, her mother reported from Oklahoma.
“She rode the ride of a lifetime,” Meagan Cadorette wrote of her daughter’s performance with the mare the girl owns, Pondview Pure Elegance, or Ellie. “(A)s you can all imagine we are overjoyed for this kid from Maine who at 4 years old asked when she could do a horse show with ribbons. Who’d have thought she would accomplish what she did today?”
En route to the win, Cadorette, of Portland, and Ellie survived a ride-off that whittled a field of 27 down to 16. Competitors qualified for the Oklahoma show via regional events.
The world championship was the second title the duo snagged in this year’s show. They were named 2012 Grand National Champions in the age 8 and under division of Walk Trot Hunter Pleasure.
“I’m very, very happy, for Ellie and myself. We worked so hard for it,” Cadorette said in a telephone interview after the earlier win.
While competing in the earlier event, Cadorette felt the ride was going well, although she thought Ellie might have been going a little fast due to enjoying the moment in the spotlight. “You could tell Ellie really liked that ring, because it was kind of like she was showing off,” Cadorette said, laughing. The horse is known for enjoying the attention of a crowd.
The two had two more events to go in the show, which concludes October 13. Cadorette is the granddaughter of Boothbay Region High School teacher Penny McLaughlin and Vinnie McLaughlin of Boothbay.
In other results so far for the Sea-Vu Farm contingent, Boothbay Region High School freshman Skyler Davis, 14, of Boothbay, with Lucy, also known as “Sensational Touch,” finished fifth in the 13-and-under division of Saddleseat Classic Equitation; the duo came in tenth in Grand National Classic Pleasure Saddle Junior Exhibitor, 13 and under.
Joanne Lewis, driving AMZ Tiger Lilly or “Patty,” as she’s called around the barn, came in fourth in Grand National Classic Pleasure Driving, Ladies-Mares and eighth in Grand National Classic Pleasure Driving Masters.
And Christin Bailey, 18, of Boothbay, with Sea-Vu Noble Aire, or “Nicki,” finished eighth in Grand National Hunter Seat On The Flat Equitation, 17-year-olds division.
Susan Johns can be reached at 844-4633 or sjohns@wiscassetnewspaper.com.
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