EN’s Got Talent: Accolade Poised for a Promising Future.
Kim Keeton and Accolade "Bear" (SWB born 2005 by Amiral out of Her Elegancy xx by His Majesty-Roberto, breeder Kim Keeton) competed in England during his 5- and 6-year-old seasons, concluding 2011 with a successful run in the Aldon International CCI*, his first one-star.
"After Bear had adjusted to the different tracks in England, Kim found it challenging to bring him back to preliminary level in the U.S. for the 2012 season. “I struggled with his age and how talented he was, because I didn’t want to push him to intermediate too soon," Kim said. "I did find that some of the preliminary tracks didn’t hold him, just because he’d been in such a different environment. In England, questions come up very quickly because you don’t have the long galloping tracks. Here we have a lot more gallop, jump, gallop, jump, with a little bit of a gallop to get them back. Even moving up to intermediate, I struggled to grasp how to gallop so that he was prepared for the questions.”
Bear won his preliminary division at Poplar Place in May before making his intermediate debut at Chattahoochie Hills later that month, where he placed 11th. The pair finished fifth at the American Eventing Championships in their preliminary division before finishing out the season with a 10th place finish in intermediate at Poplar Place." Read more on Eventing Nation >>
Kim and Accolade at the Aldon International CCI* in England 2011:
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