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By Kim J. Harmon

When it comes to dogs, the biggest story of the year was the Newfoundland Ch Darbydale’s All Rise Pouchcove capturing Best In Show at the 128th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City back in February.

When it comes to horses, perhaps the biggest story – at least locally – was Windtrot Farm in Newtown being honored as a Horse Farm of Environmental Distinction by the Horse Environmental Awareness Program.

Let’s take a look back at some of the things that happened this past year in the world of horses and dogs …

HORSES

eFunny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods – and Won, written by Sally Jenkins and chronicling the meteoric rise and Kentucky Derby championship of the horse Funny Cide is released.

eThe Fairfield County 4-H holds an open house on March 28.

eDianne Ciano of the Connecticut Horse Council is the featured speaker at the annual Newtown Bridle Lands Association spring dinner at the Newtown Meeting House.

eThe Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard welcomes a new recruit class – Bill Alletzhauser, Christine Johnson, Frank Markut, Kim Hedges, Kim Fitzgerald, Pam Berlekovic and Lisa Plucinski.

eLaurel Speed of Newtown, riding her pony Cheese Nips, finishes second in the Elementary Novice Division at the third annual Honey Hollow Pony Club Horse Trials at Tymor Equestrian Center in Union Vale, New York.

eThe Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard salutes its honorary second lieutenant, Dan Reilly of Norwalk.

eThe Newtown Bridle Lands Association holds its annual Spring Into Summer Hunter Pace and nearly 50 riders take to the course on the Fairfield Hills grounds of the Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard.

eTeikyo Post University in Waterbury offers a seminar on Infrared Thermography (IRT) and a Stable Management course.

eThe Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard hosts its annual benefit horse show, which serves as a fundraiser for its many community projects. Katie Krawitz of Cheshire received the Quarterhorse Hunter Perpetual Trophy award while Jen Noel of Applegate Farm wins the Amateur Morgan English Pleasure Perpetual Trophy award.

eLyndsey Burns, a seventh grader at the Newtown Middle School, had a great summer on the show circuit, finishing the season with a sixth-place ribbon in the Children’s Equitation division at Old Salem Farm in New York.

eWindtrot Farm in Newtown – owned by Christine Kennedy – is honored as Horse Farm of Environmental Distinction, a program sponsored by the Horse Environmental Awareness Program (HEAP).

eAbigail Lee, 11, of Newtown helps lead the Lonetown Pony Club of Redding to a seventh-place finish in the Quiz competition at the United State Pony Clubs, Inc., 200 National Championships in Lexington, Kentucky.

eLogan Allison of Newtown riders her horse Giorgio Armani to the Grand Champion trophy in the Children’s Hunter Division at the Shallowbrook Charity Horse Show in Somers.

eThe annual Frost on the Pumpkin Hunter Pace, sponsored by the Newtown Bridle Lands Association, is won by Laurie Wertalik and Nicole Wertalik (Pleasure), Anthony Zumpano and Kristin Salvatore (Western), Arden Wildasin and Jen Benoit (Junior), and Patricia Connolly and Barbara DiPalma (Hunt).

eThe Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard holds its annual Ride-A-Thon for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

eThe Woodbury FFA raises $7,600 at its annual Hunter Pace.

DOGS

eThree new dogs – the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, the German Pinscher and the Toy Fox Terrier – make their first appearance in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in February.

eCanine Advocates of Newtown introduces E-Greetings to benefit canines.

eCh Darbydale’s All Rise Pouchcove, a Newfoundland, grabs Best In Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

eThe Berkshire Veterinary Hospital unveils its new expansion at its Toddy Hill Road facility.

ePups Without Partners holds the first Greyhound Meet-and-Greet in March, trying to match up prospective owners with greyhounds recently retired from racing.

eMarianne and Michael Brown of Sandy Hook welcome a new Brittany into their home – a Brittany they had flown in from the Plainview Humane Society in Plainview, Texas.

eNewtown Middle Gate School fifth-graders Emma Kingsley and Elizabeth Poeltl collect a vast array of goodies for dogs and puppies and distribute them to local animal shelters, including the Newtown Pound and the Danbury Animal Welfare Society.

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