Veteran handler Kenny Wheeler must have been feeling a sense of déjà vu as he stood under the Oaks at the Upperville Colt & Horse Show on June 7 in Upperville, Va. He held a championship ribbon in one hand and the 2-year-old Thoroughbred gelding Holden in the other.

The pair was fresh off of their best young horse victory at the Devon Horse Show (Pa.) on May 28 (June 12, p. 44), and they’d earned their first best young horse title at Keswick (Va.) earlier in May.

A special young horse brought Mary Jane Hunt back to her roots.

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More often than not, a foal has some degree of angular limb deformity at birth. But will the issue resolve itself naturally, or does it require assistance? Evaluating the degree of severity of the deformity within the first few weeks of the foal’s life helps an owner develop a plan for treating the afflicted limb.
   

Diane Dodge of Nokomis Farm has been breeding horses for more than 30 years, but things have certainly changed since she first started her program.

Her experimentation with technology paid off during the Upperville Colt & Horse Show, where her embryo-transfer twins earned blue ribbons on June 12 in Upperville, Va.

Nokomis Farm's handsome chestnut, Winston, took home the best young horse title, and his twin sister, Jenufa, won the other than Thoroughbred 2-year-old fillies class.

Ray Francis has dreamed for decades of holding the best young horse at Devon, and on June 2 in the Dixon Oval in Devon, Pa., that dream came true.

Spanish Spear may have been listed under the ownership of Kenny Wheeler's Cismont Manor Farm, the perennial powerhouse in the breeding divisions at Devon, but it was Francis who bred and raised the flashy chestnut yearling. And it was Francis with the reins in his hand when the judges--Leo Conroy and Brian Lenehan--declared Spanish Spear the top pick.