Cardi's Performance Highlights

2014 Competitive Highlights: 

• US Dressage Finals Grand Prix Freestyle Championship Open 1st place 71.375%
  
• US Dressage Finals Grand Prix Regular 3rd place 68.50% 
• ODS Grand Prix Champion 68.5%
• ODS FEI Musical Freestyle Champion 75.125%
• USDF Region 6 Grand Prix Champion 68.15%
• USDF Region 6 Grand Prix Freestyle Champion 74.688%
• Golden State Dressage Festival CDI Grand Prix Regular 3rd place 65.16%
• Golden State Dressage Festival CDI Grand Prix Freestyle 2nd place 70.125%
• Festival of the Horse FEI Freestyle Test of Choice Grand Prix Freestyle 1st place 71.5%
• Capistrano Dressage International Grand Prix Regular - Open 1st place 64.5%
• Capistrano Dressage International FEI Freestyle Test of Choice Grand Prix Freestyle 1st place 68.583%

2013 Competitive Highlights: 

• Golden State Festival of the Horse CDI Grand Prix Freestyle 1st place 66.9%
• Festival of the Horse CDI Grand Prix Version B 64.404%
• Festival of the Horse CDI Grand Prix Freestyle 68.725% 4th place.  Cardi competed for the first time at Grand Prix in a CDI at San Juan Capistrano in April and scored a best of 68%
• The next weekend at Rancho Murieta, Golden State Dressage, Cardi WON THE CDI GRAND PRIX FREESTYLE!
  
• 2013 Welsh Cob Horse of the Year.  Read more ...

2012 Competitive Highlights:

• Cardi & Jessica won four Intermediaire II tests during their California tour at Festival of the Horse and the Golden State Dressage Show in April, 2012, with a best score of 67.2%.
• Team Cardi also qualified at the Golden State Dressage Show at Grand Prix with a score of 62%. 

2011 Competitive Highlights:

• November 2011:  During the Oregon Dressage Society's Fall Festival, Cardi was awarded the coveted 'Ambassador of the Year' award. In conjunction with being entered in the ODS Hall of Fame, Jessica and Cardi were accepted to ride in a a clinic with Steffen Peters.

2010 Competitive Highlights:

• International Champion: CDI win, I1 Musical Freestyle, 68.5%, Rancho Murietta, CA
• Two-time FEI Freestyle Champion, best of 72.1% at Dressage at Devonwood
• Two-time FEI I1 Champion, best of 68.9% at Champagne Classic
• Champion & Reserve in I1 and I1 Freestyle at the Oregon Dressage Society Ch. Show
• REGIONAL CHAMPION AT INTERMEDIAIRE 1 AND I1 MUSICAL FREESTYLE!

2009 Competitive Highlights:

• 3-time FEI Freestyle CHAMPION, scores to 70.75%
• 2-time I-1 CHAMPION
• Born in the USA High Point Stallion, Dressage at Devon
• RES. CHAMPION MATURE HORSE, STALLIONS, Dressage at Devon
• GRAND CHAMPION STALLION, GA/USDF East Coast Series Final, Dressage at Devon

• Debbie McDonald Clinic, January 2009 
  "He's fancy! ...Think of your walk...it's an excellent walk... Boy, he is really something... He can compete with the best of them. ... You know, he's going to have an amazing passage and piaffe, he really is! He's really special... We should have a little Brentina baby. Wouldn't that be fun to experiment?"

2004-2008: 

• Cardi has won Multiple Championships in dressage in USDF Region 6, DSHB Stallion, Best Mature Horse, Materiale, and Best of Breed with dressage scores to 73% and DSHB scores to 79%