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Harwood woman is training for eventing - the equestrian triathlon

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 01/12/08
Photos by Colleen Dugan -- The Capital In the horse barn she helped design for her training business, Blue Clover Eventing, Trick nudges his partner for a carrot treat. Valerie Vizcarrondo knows some horse owners who make fruit salad or buy gourmet cookies for their horses. “That’s not happening,” she said. “He’s a 1,200-pound horse not a lapdog.”
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Valerie Vizcarrondo first sat in a saddle when she was 6 weeks old.

She won her first competition when she was 2: Basically all she had to do was sit in the saddle, stay there and look good.

 

"I'm told when I got the blue ribbon I was crying, looking at the purple one I liked better," the now accomplished professional horsewoman said. "They said you'll learn to like the blue ones."

And so she has. Blue ribbons, silver cups, and medals of several tints are but some of her collected trophies.

But her ultimate dream is multi-hued.

She wants to compete for gold wearing red, white...

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