• Addison Phillips has ridden at Heritage Farm since her prolific pony days, through her junior hunter winnings and now on into the grand prix ranks. She topped the $30,000 Grand Traverse Bay Grand Prix the second week of the show series on her Teirra.

• Another Heritage student, Victoria Press, is starting to make her mark in the pony divisions. 

At the first week of Horse Shows By The Bay, July 8-12, Press rode Blackberry to the small pony hunter tricolor, then took champion and reserve in the medium pony hunters aboard Hands Up and Hillcrest Kilkenny, respectively. She also won the pony hunter classic on Hands Up. In the second week of showing, she was champion and reserve in the medium ponies with Hillcrest Kilkenny and Blu Venture Rainbeau and reserve in the small ponies with Blackberry.
         
“Victoria is one of those kids who has really progressed quickly,” Griffith said. “She’s got a great work ethic and is dedicated. She works hard and now has a great pack of ponies, and she’s really starting to get results, which is great for her.”
         
“I was going to all the horse shows with [my older sister], and we kind of figured I should do something other than sit in the golf cart, so I started riding too,” Press, 11, said. From New York, N.Y., Press also enjoys playing guitar and running track. She’s taking sewing lessons as well and loves to cook.

• Caitlin Ziegler dominated the younger junior hunter divisions the first week of Horse Shows By The Bay. In just her first week of showing Casanova, she won the large junior hunter, 15 and under, title. She also topped the small junior hunter, 15 and under, division on Winterplace.
         
“Casanova does the first years, and we thought we’d just do the junior hunters with him to see how it went, and he was amazing,” Ziegler said.
         
“My hunter had had some time off because I had spent four weeks in Calgary, [Alta., at Spruce Meadows] just showing in the jumpers,” she said.
         
Ziegler, 14, rides with Cookie Beck in the hunters and Eric Lamaze in the jumpers. She lives across the lake from Horse Shows By The Bay in Milwaukee, Wis. Her father, Andy, just took up riding, too.
         
“He just started jumping, and he hasn’t shown yet,” she said. “It’s a lot of fun—usually he’s showing me what to do, and now I get to show him how to do some things.”