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Moncton teen captures title at dressage event!!
2008-10-11
Dunnett, 14, was selected as Canada's representative in the Massachusetts event and captured the Division B championship after two first place finishes in her riding test and musical freestyle events, with her pony Mocha Chocalata.
"We were pretty excited because (Mocha Chocalata) also beat most of the scores which we've gotten down here, which is pretty exciting," Alexie said.
Dressage is a competitive sport where horse and rider are judged on a number of various techniques and graded for how well they perform them and how well the horse responds to its rider.
Close to 20 riders representing 11 countries attended the event. Jonathan Daniel Cherem of Mexico won the division A title, which was for those who competed on borrowed horses.
Overall, Alexie and her horse finished third out of the entire field.
"The scores were higher than anything we've gotten this summer and the individual tests, most were higher than what we've ever gotten," she said.
As one of the division champions, Alexie also got to ride in a freestyle charity event on Sunday along with former Olympic and World cup riders.
Although she was crowned as one of the event's grand champions, the Bernice MacNaughton student who rides out of Double Diamond Stables on Scotch Settlement Road said the event was also a great learning experience.
"I noticed just the way the other competitors would look after their horses and how they would get their horse ready and stuff and how they braided them and just how they were around them. It was different than how we do it down here," she said. "It was an amazing experience to go down there and meet everybody and we met some good friends down there, which is pretty cool."
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