Happy Holidays to All! 2007 was a great show year for Statesman's Signature. Today we received our certificate from the USDF: Stateman's Signature and I achieved a Fourth Place Training Level/All-Breed Adult Amateur Award for 2007 from the American Morgan Horse Association. We also placed 13th in the Open Catagory All-Breed Final Awards in the AMHA; and 9th in our region, Region 8, for Adult Amateur (not limited to Morgans, this is an Open Breed catagory!). Sigi and I won Champion Adult Amateur Training Level at the Mid-A Morgan Show in Virginia this summer, and Reserve World Champion Adult Amateur Training Level at the Grand National Morgan Show in Oklahoma City in October!

Sig is doing clear flying changes under the expert supervision of our trainer Louisa Eadie, Head Trainer at Roseview Dressage LLC (www.roseviewdressage.com) and we've been seen doing a bit of piaffe in the indoor school! Many thanks to Louisa Eadie and Judy Sloan of Roseview Dressage. We are making our plans for 2008: First Level and a First Level Freestyle are on the horizon!

All three of our mares for 2007 are in foal; many thanks to our clients Laurel Gross and Lori's Strongside; Donna Carlson and CAUM Cameos Ellusive; and Ann Schmidt and Hoppels Little Genie. We look forward to seeing Sigi's next generation in 2008!

Sigi and I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday; we look forward to producing more wonderful Sporthorse babies in 2008 and beyond, in between cleaning up at the shows. Best wishes to All. Let us know what your Morgans are doing!

Well, here is some good news to really finish out 2007: STATESMAN'S SIGNATURE is the Farnam/Platform - USEF Horse of the Year REGION 2 CHAMPION: Morgan Dressage Training Level with a total of 111 points! Congrats to Sigi! What a fantastic year... Happy 2008 to you All.