Spotlight on Demo Horse: Sportsfield's Zebadee

Sportsfield’s Zebadee (aka: "Zeb") is a nine year old Irish Sport Horse/Holsteiner cross. Zeb was brought over from Ireland in 2006 when Ashley and her Dad made a horse-shopping trip. Zeb and Ashley’s first cross-country experience was in Ireland in the cold, misty darkness. Ashley said she could not even see the water jump as they were cantering up to it, but Zeb, being a typical brave Irish horse, cantered straight through it. Ashley knew right then he was one they needed to buy.
Zeb has since been learning the ropes as an upper level event horse. Heather Morris rode Zeb for the majority of 2009, while Ashley finished up her Bachelors degree. Most recently Ashley and Zeb won the Open Preliminary division at Holly Hill Horse Trials in October 2009. After that, Zeb has had a little well-deserved time off and has been brushing up on his dressage moves. Bre Dorset, a FEI dressage trainer, has been helping me put him through his paces. She feels his movement is good enough to be an international dressage horse.

Zeb had a blast competing at Meadow Creek Park in October 2009, even though they had to run in the mud. The stall wall was short enough in front for him to reach his head over and get into Ashley's tack trunk and scatter all of her stuff. He thought it was great! Ashley couldn’t keep anything out or it would have either been confiscated and taken into his stall or thrown into a neighbor’s stall for sharing.
Watch for Ashley and Zeb performing Demonstrations in Dressage, Eventing, and Show Jumping in conjunction with the Irish Village at the World Equestrian Games.