Stars of the show:

This was their holiday pic which I just found on FB.  So creative!

Mackenzie is 19, graduated from PA Cyber School and has worked at local horse farms since the summer of her Sophomore year.  She has been riding since she was 7, originally studying dressage and hunter jumper disciplines. When they discovered Eventing, through her activities with the United States Pony Club, she was hooked.

She and her Welsh Pony Harry Houdini learned together from the time they kids (they were the same age) and went went to the top of the charts nationally in USEA and were featured in a 4-page story in Chronicle of the Horse in July of 2010.  They rode as part of Lendon Gray's pony demo team at Dressage at Devon and won the Prix Caprilli class at Lendon's Youth Dressage Festival at least three years on a row... (I loose track!)

Harry retired in 2011, having brought home blue ribbons at every show until his last at the Dalton Fire Company Hunter Show in 2011.  She put him down in January of this year do to a health issue.

More on Mackenzie and Stella's first couple years and their next adventure in future posts.