Celebration Wins Best Young Horse At Hunter Breeding Championship

Celebration (Our Diplomat - Pardon Me Mister, by Mr. Inspector) a 3-year-old Thoroughbred gelding, owned by Cismont Manor Farm and handled by Kenneth Wheeler, received the Dave Kelly Perpetual Trophy donated by Nokomis Farm and Diana Dodge for the second consecutive year as the Overall Grand Hunter Breeding Champion at the 2003 Sallie B. Wheeler/USAE National Hunter Breeding Championship held Saturday, August 30, at the Warrenton Horse Show in Warrenton, VA.

Lita “Squeaky” Wangensteen received the J. Arthur Reynolds Memorial Trophy as the breeder of the Overall Grand Hunter Breeding Champion. Oliver Brown of Reva, VA, was awarded the Belcort Farm Perpetual Trophy as leading handler.

A panel of two judges, Thom Brede of Stamping Ground, KY and Arthur Hawkins of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, adjudicated the classes offered for yearling colts and fillies, two-year-old colts and fillies and three-year-old colts and fillies.

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