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New Year's Blog (February 2024); The Lion, The Lamb and a Horse of a Different Color
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Press release April 2023; Hunter Holloway and Covert Coach Amy Hunter win the only U.S. medal (bronze) in the Show Jumping World Cup Finals Championship

... Go to the Ace Blog page and scroll down to see ‘Hunter Holloway and the United State’s only Bronze Medal in the April 2023 Omaha, Nebraska Show Jumping World Cup Finals from a Covert Coach’s Perspective’ ... for the full detailed story!

hunter holloway and momma ace
MY GOALS
My name is Amy Hunter.  I am the creator and owner-head trainer of Ace Sport Horses. My goal as a professional of four decades has been to promote integrity, quality, and natural, thoughtful horsemanship with in the United States Sport Horse Industry. I specialize in hunter/jumper with a rare (in the US) focus on functional dressage as a needed foundation for advanced jumping work.  Ace Sport Horses began as a father (retired and now passed Major Ronald Logan Hunter)/daughter based business centered in Southwestern Wisconsin for over 30 years (although until recent years I was the typical professional horse trainer transient for much of this time). 

I am a Prix level horseman who has successfully competed professionally Nationally on the 3 major U.S. circuits in the 1.50m and 1.60m Grand Prix jumper ring (for the first time ever in California on an off the track thoroughbred named Sweet Baby James and years later) consistently on the retired Irish Draught stallion Cradilo, and most recently on his daughter Deluca,
now Momma ACE.

I am currently working towards
achieving consistent competitive status at the National and International Grand Prix level with yet another fully self created and developed ACE American Irish sport horse offspring (and there have been several heading strongly in that direction until politically thwarted, horses like Quinlan's Ace not on the front page of this website).





 

Press release 2021: Kalua's Ace (aka Junior) and Amy are back at the rated shows doing the biggish courses (and not looking too bad) after 4 years away! We were beginning to wonder if it was ever going to happen ... Update, Amy and Jn. make it around a rail free indoor 1.30m in 2022 ... it takes forever when you are barely showing but we are slowly but surely getting there!:)

OUR BREEDING​

I've also been working to breed, train, promote and sell top U.S. based Grand Prix jumping potentials ... focusing on the philosophy of quality verses quantity in producing equine athletes.  My father and I spent several decades carefully collecting and breeding a group of primarily American Thoroughbred (and International Thoroughbred type via rare Akhal-Teke blood) mares, several of which were prized jumpers, and all of which possess exceptional pedigrees, athletic ability, temperament and soundness. 

The rare imported Irish Draught foundation stallion Cradilo, with the help of these excellent mares, is statistically proving (via the rate of the number produced, to the rate of those succeeding in the Young Jumper Championships and successfully completing 1.50m courses) to be a top, international focused producer.
 
In other words, through this program Cradilo is producing offspring with the scope and heart to jump at up to 1.60m in strange rings in front of a crowd. And we are, as most of the educated top breeders and horseman of U.S. show jumpers agree we SHOULD be, MORE than thrilled with our current Irish Sport Horse offspring.

It is also worth noting the quality of our horses has consistently drawn the attention and interest  of some of the great horseman within the industry (including but not limited to USHJA Hall of Famers, Olympic team gold medal winning coaches and riders, top rolex ranked gp riders and several other iconic trainers within the industry).


In 2021 Ace of Spades (aka Lionel), the ONLY Cradilo stallion in existence (legally, that we know of at least), a full sibling member to our top nationally proven line (Chanel, Quinlan's Ace), finally makes it to his first rated horse show with Amy!  Update, in 2022 Lionel goes to his second rated show and ribbons in his first ever Hunter-Derby (and his first week of showing in the Hunter ring).  Also, thanks to Daddy Cradilo & Lionel, Ace Sport Horses gets it's first International breeding ever (to Canada) in 2023!:)



Fatima Ace and Amy kick off a roll of top placings that leads to our US breeding program dominating the 5-6 year old Midwest Young Jumper Championships (with the help of winning Grand Prix rider extraordinaire Richard Rinehart and Chanel Ace for year two and three) for 3 years in a row. They are then clean and 3rd in their first 1.40m Grand Prix and 9th in their first 1.50m Grand Prix



History repeats itself ... Deluca Ace (later Momma Ace) and Amy win the same Grand Prix as her sire Cradilo (and Amy) won 6 years earlier ... win $25K in prize $ their first six months in the 1.50m Grand Prix ring, make it all the way to the 1.60m Grand Prix ring, and then are sold to a top young professional, Hunter Holloway.



And of course, the King ... Daddy Cradilo. 
Amy teaches him to jump as a four year old and they immediately win RID (Registered Irish Draught) US Horse of the year their first time out the gate jumping up to 1.10m at Cradilo's first ever horse show.   
Almost ten years later, after he's retired due to a serious injury, she rehabs him against all odds and brings him from
'zero to sixty mph in 1 sec,
(that is from no rated showing to 1.60m Grand Prix in a year)! 
They then go on, beginning as co-rookies, to have the longest consistent run of any RID stallion in the US in the Grand Prix ring.  
Who remembers the 1.60m Grand Prix ride and video that FIRST made Cradilo Nationally famous?!
(this round carried by ESPN and his story later receiving coverage by the Associated Press).

INDUSTRY CORRUPTION
Unfortunately, in recent years, I've come up against some fairly extreme dirty politics within the industry.  As a result there has been a period of both taking a stand against and financially (and for the sake of basic physical safety) needing to withdraw from competition. 
 
While these politics have always been there (in a negative fashion, due in part to a falling out with George Morris while riding under him in my 20s) as I continued to bring out self bred and developed prospect after prospect and gaining the attention of and sales to top riders (this year in particular after the bronze coaching, as a corrupt bribed US Justice system repeatedly illegally inserts itself into my and my animal's lives), the intensity of this blackballing escalated. 
 
This led to me in 2017 being the first Grand Prix level professional trainer/rider to publicly tell my story against George (see Dropping the Bomb on George, under 'Writings') and caused me to be the initial catalyst for and actively assist in, via the raising of awareness and testifying in person before a USEF committee, to the eventual and overdue permanent suspension of George Morris.   

While I'm now looking forward to returning to what will hopefully be a smarter and kinder US Hunter Jumper industry, there is still work to be done to ensure poor sportsmanship and horsemanship for the purpose of ensuring popularity, competitiveness and power are eliminated (or at the very least brought well into check) from all ranks of the sport.   


 
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