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At the recent Welsh Pony Year End Show in Red Deer, Bruce and Linda Christensen of Dragonfly Hill Welsh showed three ponies among 100

At the recent Welsh Pony Year End Show in Red Deer, Bruce and Linda Christensen of Dragonfly Hill Welsh showed three ponies among 100 head shown in all. They were conditioned and prepped by the Christensens and shown by Robyn Andersen of Bluffton.

The Section C (cob) filly Stonecountry Clover won her yearling class and the junior championship under both judges. She went on to be named Supreme Junior Champion by one judge and later in the show competed against the older mares and stallions to win one reserve Grand Champion placing. Pretty good showing considering Clover had gashed her left eyelid on the trip to Red Deer, had a perfect stitch job by Marcos, a vet at Central Vet Services and was declared fit to show. Her eye has healed beautifully.

The second, and the one they are proudest of, is a homebred Section B gelding Dragonfly Hill Folkhero. This lovely gelding went through all of his classes first under one judge and second under the other to win the two and under gelding class, a Champion Sec. B placing and a Supreme Champion Gelding. He also placed reserve under the second judge all the way through. This was their first homebred to go to the shows.

Cherish, a filly the Christensens have owned since she was four months old, a Section A four-year-old, wowed the judges with her awesome trot and her Welsh typiness to win under both judges in the mare class, both senior mare titles, Grand Champion Mare and to add icing to the cake under one judge she was named Best of Breed and then Champion of Champions.

An offer to buy her right there was turned down. She is in foal to an imported stallion, so the Christensens are looking forward to next May.

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