Vermont Morgan Heritage Days

06/18/2026

📣 We are excited to announce the return of Vermont Morgan Heritage Days!

Join us in celebrating Vermont’s state horse with a weekend full of competition, community, and tradition.

📅 September 25-27, 2026
Addison County Fairgrounds 1790 Field Days Rd Vergennes, VT 05491

👥 Spectators welcome!

For more information, prize list, and details visit:

https://vtmorganhorse.org/vermont-morgan-heritage-days/

04/19/2026

Join us Sunday, April 26th at the Green Mountain Horse Association in Woodstock, Vermont to meet the 2025 Vermont Morgan Horse Association Open Competition winners and enjoy a potluck lunch.

🐴 VMHA Members Meeting begins at 11:00 AM
🏆 Awards presentation & potluck
lunch to follow at 12:00 PM

🍲Bring a dish to share and help us celebrate our amazing community—we can’t wait to see you there!

📍 Directions: https://gmhainc.org
📅 VMHA Events Calendar: https://www.vtmorgan.org/events

Congratulations winners!

2025 VMHA OPEN COMPETITION WINNERS

🏆CARRIAGE DRIVING
Champion: Meadowmere Storm Watch, Barbara Estey, driver/owner

🏆COMPETITIVE TRAIL
Champion: Baymount’s Lorenzo, Jenny Kimberly, rider/owner
Reserve Champion: Crackerjack Alley Kat, Rhonda Batchelder rider/owner
Third: UVM Prancelot, Sara Lareau, rider/owner

🏆DRESSAGE
Champion: Moriah Matisse, Sara Eastman, rider/owner
Reserve Champion: Century Oak Fandango, Olivia Nesbit, rider, Amanda Ryan, Trevor Nesbit, owners

🏆DRESSAGE - JR. EXHIBITOR
Champion: Century Oak Fandango, Olivia Nesbit, rider, Amanda Ryan, Trevor Nesbit, owners

🏆ENDURANCE
Champion: Baymount’s Lorenzo, Jenny Kimberly, rider/owner
Reserve Champion: Krackerjack Alley Kat, Rhonda Batchelder, rider/owner
Third: UVM Prancelot, Sara Lareau, rider/owner

🏆OPEN SHOW – ADULT WALK/TROT
Champion: JDS Bedazzled, Erin Howrigan, rider/owner
Reserve Chanpion: Amberfields Golden Courage, Mary Newton, rider/owner
Third: Going Platinum, Katie Comerford-Joyce, rider, Angie Maple, owner
Fourth; UVM Karma, Anne-Marie Newton, rider, Dawn Severance, owner
Fifth: Little Acre Lorenzo, Jaclyn Tobi, rider/owner

🏆OPEN SHOW – ADULT W/T EQUITATION
Champion: Mary Newton rider/owner, Amberfields Golden Courage
Reserve Champion: Erin Howrigan, rider/owner, JDS Bedazzled
Third: Anne-Marie Newton, riding UVM Karma, Dawn Severance, owner
Fourth: Kaatie Comerford-Joyce, riding Going Platinum, Angie Maple, owner
Fifth: Jaclyn Tobi, rider/owner, Little Acre Lorenzo

🏆OPEN SHOW – ADULT WALK/TROT/CANTER
Champion: Double W Ginseng, Tucker Murdough, rider/owner
Reserve Champion: Lightning’s Glittering Ice, Julia Cluss, rider/owner

🏆OPEN SHOW ADULT W/T/C EQUITATION
Chanpion: Tucker Murdough, rider/0wner, Double W Ginseng
Reserve Champion: Julia Cluss, rider/owner, Lightning’s Glittering Ice

🏆OPEN SHOW - GREEN HORSE
Champion: Townshend Mark the Journey, Tucker Murdough, rider, Sue Carp, owner
Res. Champ:: BKRS Bad Moon Rising, Tucker Murdough, rider, Chelsea Clark, owner
Third: EAM Crazy Horse, Tucker Murdough, rider, Angie Maple, owner

🏆OPEN SHOW - JUNIOR EXHIBITOR WALK/TROT
Chanpion: UVM Nebula, Rachel Wheelock, rider, Ann Donna, owner
Reserve Champion: TRE I’ll Never Tell, Reese Murphy, rider, Angie Maple, owner
Third: Going Platinum, Lylla-Ann Covey, rider, Angie Maple, owner

🏆OPEN SHOW – JUNIOR EXHIBITOR W/T EQUITATION
Champion: Rachel Wheelock riding UVM Nebula, Ann Donna, owner
Reserve Champion: Lylla-Ann Covey riding Going Platinum, Angie Maple, owner
Third: Reese Murphy riding TRE I’ll Never Tell, Angie Maple owner

🏆OPEN SHOW – JUNIOR EXHIBITOR W/T/C
Champion: Equinox Dress Blues, Elsa Armstrong, rider, Angie Maple, owner

🏆OPEN SHOW - JUNIOR EXHIBITOR W/T/C EQUITATION
Champion: Elsa Armstrong riding Equinox Dress Blues, Angie Maple, owner

🏆OPEN SHOW - LEADLINE
Chanpion: Ava Fenton riding Equinox Dress Blues, Angie Maple, owner

🏆OPEN SHOW - P*E WEE/BEGINNER
Chanpion: Kinsley LaBelle riding Equinox Dress Blues, Angie Maple, owner
Reserve Chanpion: Noelle Newton riding UVM Karma, Dawn Severance, owner

🏆OPEN SHOW – PLEASURE DRIVING
Champion: EF Illumination in Motion, Kelli Tylenda, driver, Angie Maple, owner

03/14/2026

10/14/2025

Congratulations Rosie!!!

Blackrose alum Madeline “Rosie” Tylenda travelled to OKC to compete in the World Youth of the Year contest. She has been apprenticing at the UVM Morgan Horse Farm for the last year. There, she has been immersed in morgan history and has found herself having more time to study the areas she has been lower in her scores. All her hard work really showed! She finished 3rd overall!!!!

Rosie had a lot of personal wins, as well. She was very confident and well prepared for the speech portion. She drove a beautiful pattern, first try, with a horse she had not driven before. And her test scores were the best she has ever had!

Youth of the Year is such an important part of the AMHA. It really teaches the kids life lessons and skills they just aren’t learning in school these days! Rosie and her success are true ambassadors for the program and how important it is! She is champion in our eyes!!

09/30/2025

2025 Vermont Morgan Heritage Days Dressage Show results.

09/30/2025

Results from the 2025 Vermont Morgan Heritage Days Open Horse Show. Dressage results will be posted separately.

09/29/2025

As the sun set this past Saturday afternoon this was the scene at Vermont Morgan Heritage Days Horse Show. Our family of exhibitors, volunteers, and sponsors sat down for a meal together at the exhibitor’s party. Over the coming week we have many more pictures to post, results to share, sponsors to thank, and show supporters to celebrate. Thank you to all our exhibitors, volunteers, and sponsors, who made the 2025 Vermont Morgan Heritage Days Horse Show a great success!
As the show edges closer to 45 years old we all have a lot to be proud of. The show in the most important ways has stayed true to its roots. Its founding mothers, Clara Hendin, Gladys Severance, and Polly Quinn envisioned a show that brought together the different disciplines Morgans pursue under one big event so that we could all appreciate their versatility and exhibitor’s ranging talents. Over the years this vision has thrived at the same time it has modernized. Now you will see many different breeds of horses participate and this year, special thanks to Show Secretary Ellen Turnbull, we now can accept online entries! As the show continues to evolve it is images like this of the exhibitor’s party that remain so meaningful to the show. We are still coming together under the auspices of celebrating the great American Morgan Horse despite what discipline we ride, or drive, the breed of horses we own, from backyards to big stables, enjoying and sharing in each other’s camaraderie and as always showing off the versatility and beauty of the Morgan Horse.
There is a village behind this show and we’d like to thank as many of those people as we can. Please don’t hesitate to call out special people in the comments too!
Deb Alperstien, from decor, to driving organizer and cheerleader, hospitality booth opener and supplier, do-it-all, and one of the first to arrive and last leave, thank you!
Brittany Collins, thank you for bringing the fun and games, supporting the kids, and shepherding in the details that make a show special.
Shelia Corbette, Ann Brown, and Jenn Russell for supporting our fundraising and keeping us looking sharp in the carefully curated VMHA shop!
Katie Linton, for all the invisible things, keeping us fed, and putting your heart and soul into this show!
Marshall Linton, photographer extraordinaire, we can’t wait for folks to see your photos. Thanks for capturing so many special moments!
Paulette and Dan Demingware for your critical support.
Steve and Josie Davis for helping make our Dressage Day a success.
Mary Fay, show announcer and as Steve Davis so aptly put, acting as the golden voice of Addison County, and lending us your expertise and experience.
Jamie McGuire, clerk of the works, thank you for acting as our fearless leader!
Emily Malinowski, show manager, thank you for setting up one great, fantastic show!
Nancy Mangum for the brains behind our Dressage day and helping train the next generation of organizers.
Pelletier’s Maple, simply delicious, thanks for feeding us, it takes a lot of fuel to get us through a show and you delivered that and then some. Thank you for a wonderful exhibitor’s party!
Sam Stanley, it simply isn’t a show without you. Appreciation for your levity and hard work, your dedication to this show is unmatched.
Luci Stephens and Friends, scribing, gates, and all the things before, thank you!
Ellen Turnbull, the finest show secretary, with your steady and organized hand you make it great for all of us.
Maureen Quackenbush, open show judge, a consummate professional. Thank you for piloting us through a delightful show! Let’s do it again soon.
Bill and Marcia Ryan, for cleaning up after your daughter and being the best gate managers a show could ask for!
Catie Waterman, dressage judge, an absolute pleasure to work with. If star ratings were a thing, five out of five!
Karen Malzac, trail judge, your kindness, enthusiasm, and encouragement makes you not only an asset to the show, but the discipline, thank you!
There were so many great classes at the show, please be sure to call out your favorite, but the Morgan Pleasure Driving class was a treat. Thank you to Blackrose Morgan Farm, Steve Davis, and the UVM Morgan Horse Farm for that crowd pleaser!

09/25/2025

Our Judge Maureen Quackenbush shared the patterns for fitting and show as well as the open reinsmanship class. See below!
Please note leadline fitting and show will use the P*e Wee pattern.

09/25/2025

Please see ride times for the Vermont Morgan Heritage Days Dressage Show Sunday, September 28th. Tap on photo to enlarge and view rides times. Please note we are STARTING at 9:00 AM.

All tests in the AM are in a SMALL ring. We will change to a LARGE ring for Training 3 and the 1st level tests.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

09/24/2025

We regret to inform you that the Carriage Driving event scheduled for Friday, September 26th has been cancelled. All other show events will proceed as scheduled and the weather is looking good for our Open Show and Dressage Show!