USA-Based Hope Beerling of Australia Selected to Compete American-Bred Vianne at World Breeding Championships
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July 10, 2023
Hope Beerling, an Australian based in the United States, has been selected by the U.S. to compete the American-bred Vianne in the World Young Horse Championships for seven-year-old horses Aug. 3-6.
Vianne is a seven-year-old Hanoverian mare (Vitalis x Ramiro’s Bube) bred by Catherine Haddad Staller who spends summers in Califon, New Jersey and winters in Wellington, Florida.
Hope, 23, who has been an assistant trainer to Catherine since December, 2019 will represent the U.S.at the championships to be staged in Ermelo, Netherlands. The duo’s average qualifying score was 77.406% with results as high as 82%.
No Australian seven-year-old met the minimum requirement of 70% by the specified deadline of June 22, but Australia extended the deadline to include a competition in Poland June 22-25 in which an Australian-bred horse, Merricks Sonique ridden by Alicia Ryan of Australia achieved a mark of 70.257% and thus was selected for the championships.
In addition to Vianne, Hope competes other horses. She rode Alpha HM at Small Tour on the Australian team in the Nations Cup in Wellington in the winter of 2021 and Uno Elando on the 2023 Nations Cup team.
