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PAGE 18, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1987 Youn g riders. compete in nation ai tetrathion a member of Durham Pony Club' perform after compietii FROM PAGE 14 since that time and bas-been tested previous events. Once returning f Timing and accuracy are at the B-levei. She only bas two nationaîs, Lehman will h letermine the winner. more levels tQ go and has until age th of relaxation before cross country running 21 to compiete them. otoc oe hst coes2,000 meters over Riding is ber first love, par- ~.-Hroae nlnw Iy rougb terrain. it is ticularly three-pas venting, , been accepted at the ied strictly on speed. The wbich was originally initiated by Riding Centre. For 13 în ihte ats ime the militairv vears ago. It consists e4-~ will reiiive instruction of dressage, cross country jumping and stadium jumping using the same horse. Dressage is a higbly discipiined sport teaming the horse and rider. "It proves how w ell the horse can perform - and how weii the rider can -make him do it, " laughs Leh- man. Cross country jumping is a total team effort of horse and rider to manoeuvre over jumps on rough terrain. According to Benson Leh- man, it proves a borse's.boldness and courage as well as that of its rider. Penalties are deducted for refusai of a jump, falling, and time penalties for being slow. If you go. off course, you are immediateiy eiiminated frQm competition. Stadium jumping is probably the tamest of the three, but is designed to see how the horse and rider can wins. Lebman, placed second in the regionai competition, an excellent showing as this was her first year in senior, competingagainst 21-year- olds. Atbougb she bas kept in shape ail year, riding 95 per cent of the time, she has given it ber al during the past three months, swimrning daiiy at Uxbridge pool 'and target shooting in-the basement of her home. The cross country. riding and swimming are done on the Lehman property on Garrard Rd. N. Lehmafl was first placed on the saddle of a horse at the age of four montbs, with mother Fay holding on and dad Benson offerîng en- couragement. By the time she was four years old she bad ber own pony and started comapeting in a minor way when she was six. She bas been BOBBI LEHMAN puts her horse London Mist through her paces. "London" didn't aecompany her to the national tetrathion championships in Red Deer as she has retired as a brood miare. Free Press photo ANOTH ER PRO GRAM FROM ASSURED HOUSNG FOR ONTARIO. MAING YouiR HOME OR RENTAL APARf MENT MORE LWABL FOR DISABLED PERSONS. HEPE ARE 3 WAYS YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR FiNANCIAL ASSISTANCE: 1, oewes Areoudisab1ed ordo yquýv ea disabled relaive iving with you? Foïpivable lbans of/up 1<) $15,000 are available tu help you make inod ificati ons t()youî home l'or yourself or a disahlIed family member. 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I111Il i *Iýj.-llt' 0 i1lr1ý \12\ >KI (416) 225-1211 liai iiIl 211;V10 ing tbe two from the àave a_ mon- ýshe heads Âme it's to iere she bas Yorkshire weeks she from Jane and Christopher Bartie, members of the British riding team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympie Games and gold medal winners at the world championships last year. The trip will be no vacation for Lehman as she wiil be taking inten- sive instruction, lectures, dressage lessons and looking after horses. She will be tested in ail aspects of the course. But it is ail worth it, she says. She has ber sights on the Olympics where she would like to compete in either dressage or three-day even- ting. Altbough she would dearly love to make the Canadian team in tin-ie for the 1992 Olynipics, she rrýcro, realistically feels she has a better shot at those being held in 1996. Lebman was born in Brooklin, recently moving fromn "The Farm" where her parents had lived since 1968, to the Townline area in the north. Sbe is a Grade il student at Anderson Collegiate. At 15, Kelly Kime is spending his final year in the junior division of tetrathion. "I had ridden a bit of western just for pleasure, but it wasn't until we moved to this area and saw everyone riding English that I thought... that looks like fun, he says. He bas accomplisheda great deal in a short time and placed first at the recent divisional tetrathion. Kelly admits his favorite, and therefore, best events in the tetrathion are riding and swim- ming. Equally, he acknowledges his worst to be the swimming event. "It seems as tbough you're swimming forever, even though it's only four minutes," has says shaking his head. Kime also enjoys three-day even- ting and although he says "the Olympics would be nice," he is taking one step at a time and would really like to win a spot to go to the international tetrathion next year, when he is old enough to compete in seniors. He would also like to ap- pear on the national circuit in even- ting. He is a Grade 10 student at An- derson CVI and by his own ad- mission has plenty of time left to make a firm decision on bis future in riding. Neither Lehman nor Kime wiil be taking tbeir own borses to the national competition. Botb agree that it would be an expensive proposition since after horses are transported away from their home base for more than a day or two, it takes them as much as two months to adjust to new surroundings. It is probabiy for the best tbey wiii not be taking their own animais. During the divisional competition, Kime's mare, First Encounter, affectionateiy called Katie, cracked a bone in one of ber legs and is confined to ber staîl for six weeks. Katie is a nine-year-old true thoroughbred owned by Kime for the past two years. used up. used to d The segment extremel determin I19 Southern off 55 sSi Sý (416) 521-7500 0".