Dodson wins Pony Jumper title at Devon
Thirteen-year-old Cara Dodson of Christiana, Tenn., won all three Pony Jumper classes on her bay gelding The Waterboy to win the Pony Jumper High Score Championship last evening at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair.
Having won the Pony Jumper class Friday and the Saturday afternoon class, Dodson made a terrific, very tight turn to the second-to-last fence in the timed jump-off last evening to take the $2,500 NAL Pony Jumper class by four-tenths of a second over Madie Denis on Farmore Royal T.
This is Dodson's second year showing The Waterboy. Earlier yesterday, she won the Time First Jump-off class and its Upland Farm Perpetual Trophy for the second year in a row.
"The Waterboy is very excited, but he's easy to control," Dodson said. "He's a lot of fun. I show him and then give him a couple of weeks off."
Brianne Link, 10 of East Islip, N.Y., placed second Friday and in yesterday's afternoon class on Tallyman to take the Reserve Championship.
Misdee Wrigley Miller won the championship Drive-Off of the Pleasure Carriage Drive for the second year in a row. Wrigley, of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., drove a unicorn put to a shooting brake. A unicorn is one horse in front guided just by reins, followed by a pair of horses that pull the carriage.
This method of driving was first used to get a horse to the meet of the fox hunt without tiring him out by riding him or having him pull a carriage.




