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Rhein River Farm is a small training facility dedicated to training and preparing horses at all levels, from young stock to Grand Prix, for successful showing careers.  Farm owner and trainer, Angela Hecker-Jackson, personally handles and trains all horses with her husband, Keene Jackson.

 

 

                                                         ABOUT ANGELA HECKER-JACKSON

 

SHOW JUMPING

 

A successful show jumper in her native Germany, Angela won the Gold Medal Riding Award in Jumping, the silver medal at the German Young Rider Championships, and Equitation over Fences held at the Volvo World Cup Qualifier in Dortmund.  She has also competed at many international shows throughout Europe, from CSIs to CSIOs, with a second place win at the CSI Aachen Indoor Show, jumping 6’6” ( 2.10 m.) in the puissance. 

 

DRESSAGE

 

After immigrating to the United States, Angela focused on dressage, showing at FEI level at international dressage competitions, including CDIs.  Among other wins, she claimed top honors at the $25,000 Dressage/Jumper Spectacular in Wellington, Florida.

BREEDING

 

Angela has been training young horses out of the family breeding operation for over 20 years.  Their breeding program has produced numerous Grand Prix horses in both dressage and jumping.  Horses of all ages are available for purchase. 

 

Currently accepting horses into training, Angela is also available for clinics, coaching, and lessons.

 

It has been a beautiful fall and I am still able to work the horses at home. Hopefully the weather will hold for just a little while longer so I do not have to move the horses to the indoor until January. Leaving for the H/J Show in Lake St. Louis for the two weeks in Dec. and than the year is pretty much over. It has been a good year and I hope everybody can look back and say that they made it thru the tough times alright.

 

We arrived in Chicago and it rained and rained. The rings are wet and the footing soupy. Rolex settle in and we worked just for a little while in the rain. With the nice cool weather and not gotten out the day of the trailering he was very fresh. It cleared for the jog and I got the first ride in the Prix St. Georg at 8am. The ring was soupy but not slippery. We ended up in 8th place and I was very happy with that since we did have mistakes in the tempis. We came into the Championships in 14th place so I felt like there was a chance to move up a little. On Sunday I had a better ride and we placed 11th and since the Sunday class counted for 60% we ended up in 11th place overall in the championship. Rolex did very well and I was very proud of him.

The following weekend I went to the MSEDA Dressage Show at the Horse Park in Lexington Kentucky with a young horse of my Father Rocco. He won his training level and got high score of of the show with a 76.75%. Rolex had been working so hard to get qualified for the Developing Horse Championship and did so well the weekend before that I took him and just let him have some fun at the Robert Murphy Fall Jumping show. He had a good time winning 3 out of his 4 classes.He really is a jumper by heart. Him and I had so much fun I decided to come back the second week of the jumping show and we won the level 6 (4'3") and placed 5th in the $ 3000,- Rood and Riddle Mini Prix.

The Inspection went well.I am pround to announce that Rolex got approved and put in Stud Book I.

Keene and I left the morning after the Inspection to go with Rolex to the USEF/Markel Young Horse and Developing Horse Championship at Lamplight Chicago ILL.

Just a short update. On Tuesday August 18th 2009 we will have the Rheinland Pfalz-Saar Internaional Foal Inspection at Rhein River Farm. And we had the Michael Poulin clinic at Blue Moon Stable and Rolex got his last tune up before leaving for the USEF Developing Horse Championship  at Lamplight Chicago 20th - 24th of August 2009. Rolex and I have worked very hard to qualify for it and I am very excided.

Summer has arrived with its blistering heat. After the Kentucky Show all the horses had a little bit of the snots. Something they picked up. So we had to take it easy for a few days with the young once. But they all felt better soon and off we went to SLADS.
Saint Louis Annual Dressage Show. Rolex had another super ride in the PSG and a 65% in the  Developing horse class.
Fuerst had some bad luck. As we are riding in the ring it started raining outside(I was indoors) lots of lightening and thunder.
But when the rain hit the roof he bolted pretty bad and was very scared. So needless to say we did not get a score to send us to the championship. Rolexa got a 70% again and we were very happy with that. Aqua JP won her training level classes with 74+% and her owner Carolyn and Harold Bean came to watch her go and were impressed with her progress.

After SLADS we went to Hamilton GA to show at Poplar Place Farm. I had never been there and I was not looking forward to it since it is an 8 1/2 hr drive and it was 100dg out there. But the Farm is worth the drive. All interstate and easy acess. I will go there again for sure. They had the last qualifier class for the USEF Young Horse Championships and I needed a very good score for Fuerst or we are out. We had a super ride and it was easy for him. He was rewarded with and 8 on the trot, 7.8 on the walk, 7.9 for the canter, 8.5 for submission and an 8.5 for General Impression. His overall score being an 81% shooting him into 10th place in the country and ensuring him to go to the Championships. Dani also showed him and he was a perfect Gentleman. She won her 1st level 4 qualifying class and was 2nd in her Training 4 qualifing class. In his second ride Fuerst was very tiered since it was so increadable hot.
Rolex placed second in the Prix Saint George and won his Developing Horse Class with an 68% puting him in 12th place in the country for the Championship and I am pretty sure he is also going to be invited to the Championships held August 21.-23.  2009 at Lamplight Illionoi.

It has been a while that I have updated the news section. It was a long winter and since I still do not have an indoor I got started a little late. Fuerst River H returned to me for training after the lucky new owner Dani Brown worked him all winter with her trainer Bonna McCuisten in Indianapolis. We are trying out for the USEF/Markel young horse championship again this year he will compete in the 5 year old division and he won his class at the KDA Memorial weekend show at the Kentucky Horse Park with a near76% score. Her owner Dani showed him in the 4+5 year old Material class in the breed show and Fuerst was both days Grand Champion. Dani did a super job with him.
I also had the 4 year old Dutch mare Aqua JP come to me the middle to end of March to continue her training and she won quite a few ribbons herself at her first show.
I sold Rolexa H and she was ridden on and off all winter since Paul Summer was in Collage and could not take her with him this year. She also returned to me in training for the summer to get her started over fences and hopefully qualified for the Young horse Dressage championship. She was very scared at ther first show at KDA winning ribbons with Paul in the Breed show and getting a 70% qualifying score in her 4 year old test. I was very impressed.

Rolex did his first Prix St. Georg and I was a little nervous about it. He got very exited when I brought the mare and foal home and we had a rough week just prior to the show. But with Michael Poulins advise and guidance how to handel the stallion issue I got him focused again just in time and he won his class with a very nice ride and a 65.26% ride. We still have to polish the ride but he was easy to ride thru out the test and felt great. He finished 2nd in the Developing horse division with a 61.23%.
We had small mistakes but we are on the right track. I just really do not like the way this Developing test rides. It is to backward thinking for the young horses. I wish they would change it to something more inviting for the upcoming FEI horses.