Trinity-Lael is a Holsteiner mare out of our mare Danube by Riverman.  This extraordinary large-gaited movement and her feminine, balanced conformation have won her many local and national awards.  She was a premium foal and site champion as a weanling at the AHHA keuring.  As a yearling, she was the filly champion at the Cosequin/USDF Breeder’s Championships for Region V with a score of 81.250 percent.  Under Judge Hilda Gurney, Trinity also captured the reserve championship in the Arizona Dressage Association’s Breeder’s Choice class and the championship ribbon in the ADA Grand Champion class at the series finals in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

In October of 2006, again Trinity-Lael was dubbed not only the AHHA approvals site champion but a premium mare select with 51 points, one of the top 12 mares in the U.S.  The following week, we put her through the Oldenburg approvals.  There, German judge Christian Schacht announced her scores totaling 110 to the crowd and stated that only two mares scored higher in the U.S.  He said he had just come from Holstein, Germany, and thinks this mare is better than those he just judged in Holstein, Germany, quite an accolade for a small breeding farm here in the states.

As a three-year old, she has been started and is improving with each ride at training level dressage.  Trinity-Lael possesses correct movement, athletic conformation, pizzazz, a quiet disposition, sensibility, and large “clockwork gaits,” as Hilda Gurney described.