We are proud to announce Absolut IV ridden and owned by Sally Buffington is the recipient of the Area V Walter Strauss Perpetual Trophy as the Preliminary Horse Of The Year for Area V. He also finished as High Point Horse for Central Texas.
Sally is the Preliminary Senior Rider Champion for Area V. She also is the High Point Professional for Central Texas as well as the Preliminary Rider Champion for Central Texas.
2007 AWARDS
Absolut has been honored by the North American Thoroughbred Society for his performance at the 2007 Wellpride American Eventing Championships!
In 2007 Absolut only competed in the fall season. Even so he finished Reserve Champion in the North Texas Eventing Association and fifth in Area V at Preliminary Level with only four shows for the year. He was Reserve Champion in the Area V Preliminary Championships, he finished in second at Wayne DuPage Horse Trials in Chicago and second at Holly Hills Horse Trials in Shreveport missing wiining both by less than two tenths of a point.
Marisa Myers and For The Record completed their first Training Level 3 Day Event in the ribbons! They finished upthird in Area V at Senior Training and in the USEA Top Ten for training!
Parham Wallin and Dorsola's Happy Liam took Beginner Novice by storm! 'Aiden' is the NTEA Grand Champion Horse for 2007 winning th emost points of any horse at any level! They also finished in the USEA Top Ten for 2007! She is Reserve Champion in Area V and Beginner Novice Junior Champion in North Texas!
Amy Miller and Irish Whiskey had a banner year as well. They are first in North Texas Eventing Association at Senior Novice and third for Senior Novice in Area V!
Becky Rickly finished 3rd in North Texas at Senior Beginner Novice with only two shows!
Irish Riverstone, our homebred Irish Sporthorse finished in a tie for fifth in Area V even though he only went to one show! It was a great year for us all. Not to mention the fun we had!
Leslie Elise Buffington
Our daughter has been honored by the United States Veterinary Society of Equine Practitioners with a rare scholarship. She is a fourth year Vet student at Texas A&M. Each year all of the veterinary schools in the United States nominate their top pick for one of only eight scholarships to be awarded. At the Equine Practitioners Convention in Orlando December 2, 2007 the eight were announced and Leslie was one of the eight! We are so proud of her! She is a talented rider as well as a dedicated medical student. This was quite an honor and a reception followed Saturday evening with the previous winners from 2006 present. 
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Absolut competed in the Preliminary Horse Championships against talented horses from around the country. The two and a half day haul from San Antonio to Chicago was well worth it as he finished with clear jumping in both cross country and ever so challenging stadium. His dressage was marred by peaking early in the long warm up so some movements, while obedient, were not as fluid and flowing as I would have liked. The competiton was difficult with Darren Chiacha and Clark Montgomery scoring in the twenty's. Absolut was in the mid forties.
At the completion of the open and galloping, then sprinkled with compression questions cross country we were clear moving up to 28th with 3.9 time penalties as a result from an over eager rear in the start box which botched the start at ' Go!'. However, he will have a handler next horse trial to settle and hold him. He loves cross country! 
He was spot on for every question and brilliant in his open gallops. I could not be more pleased.
Stadium was maxed out and challenging and changed the placings fairly dramatically on Sunday. Absolut was strong, yet he went double clear and we moved up to finish in 25th place.
The atmosphere was riveting and the crowds were huge. The USEA has done a remarkable job of building the AEC's into a national event not to be missed. The cross country course was adequately roped off and the crowd's were bulging against the ropes.
I heard from friends across the country who listened to our stadium round in the live feed streaming in real time. What an awesome addition to a fabulous, difficult and exciting experience!
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'For The Record' is a proven long format event horse. She has been in the top ten in the nation with the USEA, Area V Champion or Reserve Champion. She was double clear at the Wellpride AEC's and featured by Jo Whitehouse on camera crossing the finish line. She was in the ribbons at the training Level Three Day Event at Meadowcreek Park against preliminary horses.'Chanel' is beautiful, forward, brave and technical in cross country. She is honest and talented in stadium and scored a 26 on one of her USEA horse trial dressage tests. Her bloodlines include My Babu making her valuable as a broodmare once her career is over. She has the talent, heart and mind to go all the way. A young riders dream. Her half brother is my upper level horse, Absolut, also featured on the website. We bought them as un-broken two year olds. We will qualify all buyers and request serious inquiries only, please. $35,000.00 More information can be found on www.dreamhorse.com .
Our Stone Creek Farm is developing so nicely and will be the setting for the reception. We will post pictures soon!]]>