Gin & Juice
Gin & Juice (“Ginny”), a 2000 mare out of Qtrapastree x Audio, has taken the Eventing world by storm since she began her international career. A full sister to the gelding “Five O’Clock Somewhere”, this amazing, athletic and quirky mare has wowed fans and judges alike on two continents. Among her many career highlights includes being a member of the World Equestrian Games, Canadian Silver medal winning team.
Ginny loves her eventing job, and would be happiest if she could jump a 4 star cross country course every day! The reason for the dressage portion of Eventing has Ginny stumped, but when she can focus properly, she is a force to be reckoned with.
2012 was a very busy year for Ginny and her rider Hawley Bennett. In addition to flying across the pond for the Olympic Games, her first foal was born via surrogate, on Rolex Cross Country day. Hawley and Ginny kicked things off in 2013 winning three shows in a row, including the CIC3* at Galway Downs before heading to Rolex where they finished in 7th place!
Catch A Star
Catch A Star (“Hoku” star in Japanese) a 2000 Holsteiner mare (Star of History x Caro) bred by Kingsway Farm, has captured the hearts of both the young ladies who have owned her. Purchased in 2005 by Rachel Dwyer, she & Rachel catapulted to the upper levels. Their meteoric climb culminated at 2009 at the North American Young Riders Championships where the Area VI team won the Gold medal. Says Rachel, “Hoku is by far the best horse I have ever owned.”
In 2010, Hoku caught the eye of Caitlin Silliman, who was looking for “the” horse that might take help her to achieve her eventing goals. It was “love at first sight” according to Caitlin, a talented young equestrian with an eye for an extremely talented horse.
Hoku was in a tragic barn fire in the summer of 2011, that almost took her life and left her with career threatening burns. However, this tough mare pulled through with love and care from Caitlin. Much to the delight of the entire Eventing world, the pair placed second at the Jersey Fresh CCI ** in 2012 (where the KingsWay Farm bred Five O’Clock Somewhere placed fourth, both horses were pasture mates as babies!), then 4th at the Bromont CCI*** the following June. In 2013 the pair were named to the Developing Riders list and completed their first CCI**** at Rolex.
Five O’Clock Somewhere
Five O’Clock Somewhere a 2000 gelding (Qtrapastree x Audio), has been surprising everyone who has been in his life for a very long time. Purchased by Sue Church to be one of her Adult Amateur event horses, Chunky proved that he could do that job and then he started proving he could do more. Sue decided to give Chunky the opportunity to try his hoof at the upper levels with Hawley Bennett in the irons. He won the Galway CCI* in November 2010, and hasn’t looked back since. In October 2011 he was part of the Canadian Silver medal winning team at the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara Mexico. The next spring he went East and successfully competed at the CIC*** at the Fork and CCI*** at Jersey Fresh. He has continued to wow people across the country since, and has an exciting future ahead.
Cheers
Woodside, CA, Oct. 1, 2015—Cheers, a Thoroughbred/Holsteiner- cross owned and bred by Linda and Terry Paine of Temecula, CA, won the West Coast Grand Championship in the USEA Future Event Horse Series Presented by Priefert at the Woodside International Horse Trials. Cheers is by the Holsteiner stallion Blau Vogel and out of the Thoroughbred mare Qtrpastre. Chloe Smyth handled him to victory. Cheers is a half-brother to Gin ‘N Juice, the two-time Olympic mount owned by Linda and Terry Paine and ridden by Canadian Hawley Bennett. Gin ‘N Juice completed more than half a dozen CCI4* events in her international career that has lasted a decade. Cheers was the winner of the 2-year-old division at last year’s West Coast Future Event Horse Series.
Swiss Detail
Swiss Detail (“Swiss”) the 1997 mare bred by KingsWay Farm, (Al’s Playmate x Starfields (IRE) has been a fixture on the California Eventing scene for the past 13 years. Swiss learned about running Cross Country as a youngster when she hunted with the Santa Fe Hunt, as the Field Masters mount. From there she had a successful career running preliminary and at the FEI One star level. Always a favorite of Linda Paine’s, Swiss became Linda’s show horse, together they have been a force to recon with. Linda and Swiss have been nationally rated and twice they competed in the US Eventing Championships, each time placing top ten. Always a crowd favorite, Linda has generously allowed two young ladies to borrow Swiss to earn their “A” level Pony Club rating.
Nonsensical
Nonsensical is a 2003 thoroughbred gelding sired by Eclipse Horse of the year, Point Given. “Nonny” had a very successful racing career before beginning his eventing career with the Paine’s at KingsWay Farm in 2009. Purchased by 4 star rider Emilee Libby in 2011, Nonny and Emilee have been a pair to watch and are one to look for in future winner circles. . In 2012, Emilee and Nonny won the CCI** at the prestigious Event at Rebecca Farm in Montana.
Tiger
Foaled in June of 1998, Tiger is the last in the line of incredible hunt horses from a Clydesdale-cross mare known as Tankerbelle and sired by a thoroughbred, Starfields. Known for their strength, athleticism, beauty and level-headed nature, each horse in the line was named after a military tank: Sherman, Bradley, Christie, HumVee and the last in the line – Tiger.
Started as a hunt horse and ridden by Master Paine with the Santa Fe hunt club, Gail Brackett purchased her as a 4-year old. Together, they embarked on a successful amateur career in three-day eventing. From her first novice competition in 2003 Tiger has been a consistently performing eventing horse up through the intermediate level. Gail has competed her through the CIC/CCI1* level while her trainer Erin Kellerhouse had several blue-ribbon perfomances at both the Open Preliminary and Open Intermediate levels, including the Area VI Preliminary Championships in 2007.
Tiger continues to compete at the Preliminary and 1-star levels.
First Field
First Field (Phil) a foal of 1998, is a full brother to Swiss Detail. He too learned about running Cross Country while hunting as a youngster with the Santa Fe Hunt. He started his successful Eventing with Robert and Erin Kellerhouse going Intermediate and a FEI **. For the past 5 years he has been the trusted mount of master amateur, Karen Bristing. He helped Karen return to competition after the birth of her youngest son and together they proudly completed the Training 3-Day just 5 months into their partnership. Says Karen. “I love my throughbred gelding. He’s safe and honest, but he always makes me ride well! I have achieved my goal of being competitive at the Preliminary level.”
