OTHF Has Fall Indoors Success!

The Over The Hill Farm team made great memories and earned top ribbons throughout the East Coast Fall Indoor circuit, starting with the Capital Challenge, the Pennsylvania National and the Washington International! Please enjoy some of our favorite moments!

Congratulations Sterling and Prestige earning the “Best Pony Hunter Stake Award” at the Washington International Horse Show! Winning the Large Pony Stake with a score of 88, they had the highest score of all the pony stake classes. Truly a great way to finish our indoor season. Thank you to all involved!

From Nancy Malnik: What a difference a year makes😃 As we finished our indoor season, Sterling brought home the Blue🥇as well as having the best pony stake score, with an 88 on Prestige! Last year she earned a 7th place, and here she is just one year later, earning great ribbons in every class!! Thanks to her hard work and especially to our team at “Over the Hill Farm”, for all you do and helping to make this young lady of ours so happy!💕😁 Bill, you have been so amazing with her, thank you 🙏🏼 #thebest

From Nancy Malnik: Our 2019 Harrisburg has been remarkable. Bill, Steven, Cassie and Kiana, thank you so much for all you do in making these perfect ponies perform so amazing❤️❤️❤️

Sterling had incredible rounds on Prince, earning a first, and second!! She had a beautiful handy round with Casino, earning 5th. Going home with many great ribbons in such a competitive competition😍 looking forward to Washington with the best team ever!! @ Pennsylvania National Horse Show

Sterling Malnik and Prince

Sterling Malnik and Casino

Such a special day for Sterling Malnik receiving the “Stewart Warner Style Award” and finishing Reserve Champion with her new pony Prestige in the Large Pony Hunter division! Sterling had great scores with her other ponies, including an 88 to take a medium pony win on Sterling. #hardworkdedication @ Capital Challenge Horse Show

From Nancy Malnik: We just returned from a memorable beginning to the indoors season. Thank you to @overthehillfarm for all you have done to help Sterling this year and get her to where she is now. Sterling was selected for the “Stewart Warner Style Award” in ponies. 🙌🏼 She was reserve champion with her new pony, Prestige, along with receiving a 1st in mediums, a 1st, 2nd and 3rd in larges, and earned a 1st and 6th in children’s. Looking forward to Harrisburg this weekend!

Sterling Malnik receiving the Stewart Warner Trophy from Don and Erin Stewart.

Sterling Malnik and Prestige

Summer Fun and Success in Kentucky

The Over The Hill Farm team continues to shine in Kentucky! Please enjoy our fun photos and cherished memories as our fantastic summer show season continues!

Big congrats to Olivia Woods’ Channing and Daisy Farish for taking the Championship in the 3’3” Green Hunters at the Kentucky Summer Classic!

It’s so fun to share special moments with your friends! Congrats Sterling and Kat on the Large Pony tricolors. It’s been a great week!

Shenandoah Coral Reef - Champion Medium Green Pony. Thank you Kierstin Antoniadis for the great rides on this young pony at Brandywine.

Welcome back to the ring Sterling! Congratulations on your great successes!

Big shoutout to Cindy Chaconas and Rockaway scoring an 87 and finishing Reserve in the Adult Hunters! So proud of your hard work and determination!

From Cindy Chaconas: Proud of my boy Rocky who was Reserve Champion in the older adults at the Kentucky Summer Horse Show and a big thanks to Over the Hill Farm!

Big shoutout to Olivia Woods and her What A Wonder. They finished eighth of 69 entries in the Junior Hunter 16-17 Handy at the USEF Junior Hunter Finals East!

OTHF Shines at Country Heir

OTHF starred in the USHJA Pony Hunter Derby

The Country Heir Horse Shows, held in June at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, were a blast! Thank you to our amazing customers, and most of all our incredible staff for all your hard work and dedication.

We had many highlights, but one of the best was our girls in the Country Heir USHJA Pony Hunter Derby. Sterling Malnik’s Casino De Luxe took the win with Caroline Nadalin in the irons, earning scores of 86 and 88! Aundrea Hillyard piloted Sterling Malnik’s Sterling to fourth place, and Olivia Murray and her beautiful Small Green Pony Ready To Dance finished 12th. Also, a huge shoutout to Savannah Embly for putting in two very respectable rounds. Thank you Caroline and Aundrea for filling in for Sterling while she’s attending summer camp.

Tory Chaconas and Niko

Caroline also piloted Casino De Luxe to victory in the USEF Pony Medal during Country Heir II and earned great ribbons in the Large Pony Hunter section. Casino De Luxe also captured the Large Pony Hunter championship during week 1 with rider Lilly Anthes in the irons.

Aundrea Hillyard and Fierro

Shenandoah Coral Reef and Aundrea won the Green Pony Hunter Classic week 2 and earned blue ribbons in the Small/Medium Green Pony section. They were also Green Pony Hunter reserve champions during Week 1 with top ribbons in the Medium Ponies as well as third in the Medium Pony Hunter Classic.

During Country Heir II, Aundrea also captured the championship in the Intermediate Children’s Hunters aboard trainer Bill Schaub’s Fierro. The pair won two of the three over fences classes and placed second in the other.

The Over The Hill Farm green and young horses also made their presence known in Kentucky. During Country Heir 2, Daisy Farish guided Cynthia Chaconas’ Benji to championship honors in the 3’3”/3’6” Young Hunter section with blues in four out of the five classes! Daisy also guided Olivia Woods’ Channing to the reserve championship ribbon during week 2 in the 3’3” Green Hunters with blues over fences and under saddle.

Bill Schaub and Cynthia Chaconas’ Benji

What A Wonder and Steven Gregorio earned ribbons in the 3’3” Performance Hunters out of 78 entries and owner Olivia Woods rode to second of 52 in the 2’6” Non Professionals.

Steven also rode Bill Schaub’s Dominik to ribbons in the Baby Green, Green, USHJA and Young Hunter sections for a great two weeks of mileage!

Great job to everyone at OTHF!

Bill Schaub and Olivia Murray

Laura Pfeiffer Murray posted this lovely message on Facebook: “Last, but certainly not least, I'd like to thank William Schaub for helping Olivia Murray with both ponies this past weekend. Your insight, wisdom and input were invaluable. We are grateful for the opportunity for Olivia to learn from "the D. Wayne Lukas of Ponies" (as Scott describes you 😂). A special thanks to everyone at Over The Hill Farm who made Liv feel welcome and gave her support.”

Over The Hill Farm in Kentucky

Over The Hill Farm announces the opening of our new facility in Lexington, Kentucky!

Our horses are so happy and settling in! Special thanks to James Lala for the beautiful hunter walls and rolltop. It’s all coming together so beautifully, and we’re so happy to be here in the Bluegrass State!

Contact us for more information on our service and show schedule for the remainder of 2019, and check back here for future updates and information!

Molly Sewell Repeats One-Two Finish in $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby at Kentucky Summer Classic

Molly Sewell and Acado

Saturday competition in the Stonelea Ring at the Kentucky Summer Classic featured the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, sponsored by the World Equestrian Center and Kentucky Horse Shows, where Molly Sewell rode to the top two spots aboard Acado and Niko, respectively, with her leading scores separated by only one-fourth of a point. Third place was awarded to Lindsay Maxwell and her own Belgravia with a two-round total of 172.

Sewell rode to a similar finish after claiming the first and second place awards just two years ago in the $5,000 Hallway Feeds USHJA National Hunter Derby at the 2016 Kentucky Summer Classic, also leading the field with Sidney Porter’s Acado after just one month of partnership, and capturing the second place award with EL Raymond, owned by Leslie and Stuart Campbell.

This year’s derby class, set by Danny Moore, saw 38 entries test over 11 fences in the classic round, featuring four high options. The top 12 combinations returned for the second round in reverse order, allowing riders to showcase their horse’s handiness with a trot fence and multiple opportunities for tight rollbacks. Sewell returned to the handy round with the third and fourth highest scores of 87 and 85.5 on Acado and Niko, respectively, hoping to best her two leading competitors.

Molly Sewell and Acado

With two mounts in the handy round, Sewell elected to move Cynthia Chaconas’ 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, Niko, up in the order-of-go, returning fourth instead of their slotted spot of ninth. The pair posted an impressive handy round score of 89 to capture and maintain the lead with a total score of 174.5 until she later returned third to last with Acado. The 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding rode to a total score of 174.75 to just edge out Sewell’s other mount for the victory.

Acado is a familiar mount for Sewell with over two years of partnership and multiple derby competitions between the two when the gelding is not competing in the Adult Amateur Hunter division with owner Sidney. However, Niko is a newer ride for Sewell as the pair just partnered last week at the Kentucky Summer Horse Show.

Saturday’s feature class is part of an 11-event USHJA National Hunter Derby series collaboration sponsored by the World Equestrian Center and Kentucky Horse Shows that includes $20,000 in rider bonuses to be awarded at the World Equestrian Invitational in October.

Molly Sewell and Niko

Competition will resume in the Stonelea Ring with the Amateur-Owner Hunter divisions beginning at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 5, for the final day of competition at the Kentucky Summer Classic.

FROM THE WINNER’S CIRCLE

Molly Sewell – $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, sponsored by the World Equestrian Center and Kentucky Horse Shows, winner

On Acado:

“Acado is 14 years old. He’s our client, Sidney Porter’s, horse. He’s a lovely horse. We’ve had him in the barn going on three years. We got him right before we came to this horse show a few years ago. I just know him really well. He’s a lovely horse. He’s brave and he’s just a good horse. He’s fantastic for his owner, too. She does the adult hunters on him. Acado is like an old shoe to me. I’ve ridden him for the past two years and I do a good amount of derbies on him.”

On Niko:
“Niko went really nice in the first round. I don’t know him as well. This is my first show with him, but [Acado] I know very well. With Niko, I was a little conservative in the first round, but then I felt like I could trust him in the second round and he was fantastic.”

On the course:
“It was fairly straightforward but there were a couple of spots where you could show off a little more. I just tried to be smart but show off my horses a little bit. I was a little conservative on both horses in the first round. Then I just went for it in the handy round. That’s my favorite part of derbies — the handy — it’s where my horses typically shine.”

On her plans with Acado:
“We’ll stay and do the Bluegrass Festival. It depends on [Sidney’s] schedule because we don’t like to do too much with him. I just try to keep him going for her.”

On Kentucky:
“I was here last week. This is my favorite horse show of the year and I always like to come here. The footing is always great and my favorite part is being able to take the horses and prepare them out in the field because it’s such a horse friendly place. They are all so happy here.”

Molly Sewell and Acado

RESULTS

$5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, sponsored by World Equestrian Center and Kentucky Horse Shows

Place / Horse / Rider / R1 Score / R2 Score | Total
1. Acado / Molly Sewell / 87 / 87.75 | 174.75
2. Niko / Molly Sewell / 85.5 / 89 | 174.5
3. Belgravia / Lindsay Maxwell / 87.5 / 84.5 | 172
4. Last Call Z / Geoffrey Hesslink / 85 / 85.5 | 170.5
5. Candor / Alyssa Mansfield / 82 / 87 | 169
6. Action Hero / Sophie Transou / 84 / 84 | 168
7. Hobbs Lane / Maria Rasmussen / 88 / 79 | 167
8. Quite Ruffy / Campbell Kahn / 80.75 / 85 | 165.75
9. Gabli / Daniel Bedoya / 79.5 / 86 | 165.5
10. Ziggy Stardust / Lindsay Maxwell / 83 / 77 | 160
11. Welcome / Mary Elizabeth Cordia / 81 / 69 | 150
12. Lavish / David Beisel / 81.5 / 53 | 134.5