Harpur wrote a poem on peace for a school project and was chosen along with 9 of her classmates to perform her Peace poem in a concert called “Grant Us Peace” at the Yale Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT on Saturday night, May 2, 2009. Performing was the New Haven Chorale, Hartt School of Music Choruses, and the Hartt Symphony Orchestra. As you can see from the photo above it was a packed house and the Chorus was huge.  Below is the video of Harpur’s recital of her poem.

090502 Grant Us Peace – Harpur Schwartz from SRO Stables on Vimeo.

Grant Us Peace
May 2, 2009 – Woolsey Hall, New Haven
Harpur Schwartz reads her Peace Poem
The New Haven Chorale, The Hartt School Choruses and the Hartt Symphony Orchestra perform.

Peace
by Harpur Schwartz

What is peace?
Is it
The border between
Good and evil?

The world keeps spinning
Bur are we really winning?
We are not supernatual
That is factual

Another visit
From door to door
The carcass filled bags
Should be no more

Welcome 2010
Hopefully when
Our world changes
And we achieve peace

We won’t give in
Don’t flee
Show your
Individuality

With our noble heads
Fighting must be put to rest
Soldiers should sleep in their own beds
America could be at its best

Peace is in our prayers
It’s in our dreams
Just don’t let it slip
Thorugh our nation’s fingertips

copyright 2009 Harpur Schwartz, All Rights Reserved.

Sun! No Rain! Everyone showed today except for Shea and Hannah.  We compressed Thursday and Friday’s show schedule into one day.

Kudos to Robin who started training at 7am and finished with the last rider at 7pm!

Special thanks to Christen who stayed up late and got up early to braid our horses.

We scored some ribbons today a follows:

Harpur riding Roderrick in Modified Children’s Hunter was 2nd, 1st, 2nd over fences and she did not do the flat, but was Reserve Champion, missing Champion by 1 point.

Colleen in Adult Maiden Eq was 1st and 2nd!

Christen rode in the Adult Equitation 18-35 and placed 5th and 7th over fences.

In Hunter Ring 3 – Paige did the Maiden Eq, Harpur rode in the Novice Eq and Megan rode in the Intermediate Eq and the all received the same ribbon – 5th place.

Paige did Pre-Children’s Hunter and took a 6th and 2nd over fences and an 8th place in the flat.

Emma rode in Equitation 14 and Under Division and she pinned a 4th and 8th over fences.

Megan rode in the the Open Equitation 15-17 and was 6th and 8th over fences and 6th on the flat.

Tomorrow Shea, Hannah make their debut and everyone else shows in various divisions.  Pictures and Video to come.

Mother Nature teased us all morning…it would rain, then clear and some of us would head out to school and then it would pour all over again.

Finally around 2pm, the sun came out and we were able to actually do a ticketed warm-up.

Shea/Schnip walking Harpur/Huey to the warm-up ring.

Monster puddles were in all the rings – But Huey is a mudder!

Cody arrived with his dirt bike….

Tomorrow, Friday, we all have a busy day – Classes from Thursday and Friday are being run together, but the weather is suppose to be perfect!
How did we end the day that started awful – by riding a cow of course!

Did I mention the rain?

We ended the day at the El Rancho Mexican Restaurant for a team Dinner – all 19 of us! I forgot my camera, but I’m sure there are plenty of photos on facebook.

You’ll never see it this clean again!  This is going to be a small show as Tents 1,2, and 3 are empty.  We’ve never seen those tents empty before.

The horses were unloaded, fed and bedded and we went riding!

We came back to the barn and it began to rain….at first we thought how nice some rain and then the puddles started to grow..

We all scrambled to find our rain gear – below is Paige with her rain gear on and

and Emma drying off with Connor looking on.

and then it started to really rain and the wind started to blow the tent and for a moment we thought the whole tent might blow over…

Video of Paige in Pre-Children’s Equitation.  Paige was Reserve-Champion

Video of Emma in Junior Equitation. Emma was Reserve-Champion.

Amanda, Briana and Harpur waiting to start Children’s Equitation at 5:00 pm!

Amanda riding Concerto in the M&S Bit of Straw Round One score of 79.  Amanda place 3rd in the M&S Bit of Straw.

Harpur riding Roderrick in the M&S Bit of Straw Round one score of 83.  Harpur’s second round score was 81 and she took first place.

Briana in the Children’s Equitation – she placed 6th in this class.

Harpur in the Children’s Equitation – Harpur placed 1st in this class and was Reserve Champion.

Congratulations Averi for winning the 2008 Hamden Hall Tennis Coaches Award.

We all had a scare when Megan fell off her horse during the Open Equitation and was taken away by ambulance.

A few hours later Megan returned, feeling much better (having met a few cute Doctors) and returning the back board to Ed.

The day was very long, so I was able to take some random shots while in “Hurry up and Wait” mode at the horse show -

Paige Vinson had a great day – she was Champion in Pre-Children’s Equitation and won a ton of assorted other ribbons. Below are the video of her rounds including the CHSA Pre-Children’s Equitation Medal.

080525 Mystic Valley Horse Show – Paige Vinson from SRO Stables on Vimeo.

We arrived at the show at 10am and finally around 6pm Harpur began to ride in her Children’s Equitation Classes. She finished with a 5th place over fences in the first fence class, in the CHSA Children’s Equitation Medal she finished 2nd and in the Marsahll & Sterling Bit of Straw she placed 1st. Below is a video of Harpur and Rodderick’s Bit of Straw final round.

080525 – MVHC Horse Show from SRO Stables on Vimeo.