Highlights from the 2008 show season:

AMHR Nationals (Tulsa, OK, Sept. 4-13): Ten National Championships. Ten Reserve National Titles. Forty Eight Top Fives. Eighty two Top Tens. It was a fun and productive show for Enchanted Hollow Miniatures and the Sansevere family. Classique's Phantom Gold (above photo) and Mary Sansevere, in particular, had a wonderful show. Mary guided Phantom to four of his six National championships and was the winner of the Amateur High-Point Performance award. Besides winning with Phantom in Open Park Harness, Amateur Park Harness, Amateur Roadster and Open Liberty, Mary also claimed four Reserve National titles. She and Mini Bucks Little Sabrina won Reserve Nationals titles in Amateur Hunter and Amateur Ladies Pleasure Driving Under. Mary also was the Reserve National champion with D&S Double Dutch Chocolate in Amateur Roadster. Phantom's other two National titles came in Amateur Jumper and Adult Jumper; Bob was the handler both times. Phantom and Bob have won three National Jumper titles since 2006 and, since 2005, Bob has collected nine AMHR National and Reserve National titles in Jumper and Hunter classes. Phantom's three top five finishes in Youth, Amateur and Open Versatility classes helped him become the first AMHR Miniature horse ever to achieve nine Hall of Fames. Phantom needed 15 Hall of Fame points in Versatility and came away with 16 points to achieve HOF status in his ninth class. Meantime, Sabrina, D&S Excuse My French, Quail Creek's Rumorhasit (photo left, winning Youth Jumper with Samantha) and Mini Bucks Pure Nitro also won National titles for Enchanted Hollow. Whispering Hill Farm Magician picked up Reserve National titles in Youth Roadster and Amateur Jumper Over. And, in his first return to AMHR Nationals since he won five National titles in 2003, Brewers Replica Royale (photo right, with Sawyer in Youth Country Pleasure) had eight top 10 finishes in Jumper, Driving and Versatility classes. Sawyer Sansevere was the Reserve High-Point boy in the 8-12 division after winning a National title in Country Pleasure Driving Over with Frenchy (photo left, winning with Sawyer) and claiming Reserve National titles with Magic in Youth Roadster and with Phantom in Fancy Turnout. Every member of the Sansevere family to compete at AMHR Nationals -- Mary, Bob, Samantha, Sawyer and Spencer -- won at least one National championship. For the second year in a row, Samantha won Youth Jumper Over in the 8-12 division with Rumor and Spencer defended his titles in Youth Pleasure Driving Over and Under in the 7-Under division.


Shetland Congress (Cloverdale, IN, July 30-August 2): D&S Double Dutch Chocolate, in his first-ever competition as a Pony after years of excelling in the Miniature Horse world, was the High-Point Pony with 277 points at the prestigious event. Competing in the Foundation and Classic divisions, Dutch took the top spot over nearly 500 other Foundation, Classic, Modern and ASPR Ponies. Dutch claimed three National championships, three Reserve National titles, 13 top fives and 14 top 10s. Dutch won National titles in Classic Open Jumper, Classic Amateur Hunter and Classic Foundation Youth Country Pleasure. Dutch also took Reserve National honors in Classic Amateur Jumper, Foundation Youth Halter and Classic Solid Color. Samantha Sanseveres, 13, won Classic Youth Country Pleasure Driving while 10-year-old Sawyer Sansevere guided Dutch to Reserve National titles in Foundation Youth Hunter and Classic Solid color. Samantha’s and Sawyer’s dad, Bob, won Classic Open Jumper, Classic Amateur Hunter and was Reserve National champion in Classic Amateur Jumper. Since 2006, Dutch has won a total of 13 National championships and seven Reserve National titles at AMHR Nationals and Shetland Congress. Meantime, BHR JC's Primetime, in just his first season of showing, won the Reserve National Grand Championship in Classic Pleasure Driving for 42-Under Ponies. ... While he didn't win a National or Reserve National title, D&S Excuse My French excelled in Roadster classes against much bigger, higher-stepping Ponies. Frenchy passed several of the high-steppers in the class.

MMHC Show (Winona, MN, July 25-26): Enchanted Hollow minis once again were dominant in jumping events, with Olive Branchs Black Tie Affair, Mini Bucks Little Sabrina and Classique's Phantom Gold claiming the top three placings in Adult Jumper Under. Whispering Hill Farm Magician won his Adult Jumper Over class, while Quail Creek's Rumorhasit won Youth Jumper Over. Several Enchanted Hollow horses also excelled in Under Hunter. Phantom was dominant in Pleasure Driving Under, winning nine of a possible 12 first-place ribbons.

Area IV National Show ( Columbia, MO, July 4-6): All seven Enchanted Hollow horses that made the 500-mile trip won first-place ribbons at the Area IV show highlighted by Brewers Replica Royale sweeping to Country Pleasure Under wins in Open, Amateur, Youth and Stakes. Roy also placed in Jumper classes behind Classique’s Phantom Gold, who won in Adult, Amateur and both Youth Jumper classes, as well as in Liberty. Phantom also was the Reserve Stakes champion in Roadster Under. … Ten-year-old Sawyer Sansevere won the Youth High-Point award and his mom, Mary, won the Amateur High-Point award. … Sawyer had wins in Hunter, Jumper, Roadster, Pleasure Driving, Country Pleasure Driving and Halter. … D&S Double Dutch Chocolate was the Senior Grand Halter Over winner, and he also picked up wins in Amateur and Youth Pleasure Driving. D&S Excuse My French won his Amateur Country Pleasure Over class and, with 13-year-old Samantha Sansevere driving, was the Reserve champion in a Stakes class of 14. … Mini Bucks Little Sabrina won with Sawyer in Youth Roadster Under and Youth Hunter, while Sawyer won Youth Jumper with Whispering Hill Farm Magician. Quail Creek’s Rumorhasit picked up wins in Hunter classes.
 
New Images Show (Des Moines, Iowa, June 28-29): D&S Double Dutch Chocolate had a marvelous show, winning 32 blue ribbons in Halter and Model Gelding Over classes. Dutch won every class under all four judges, and that includes Senior Grand and Grand championships. Dutch also was outstanding in his first-ever show in Jumper and Hunter classes. He also won in Liberty and Pleasure Driving. … Classique’s Phantom Gold won in Pleasure Driving and Youth Roadster Under classes, and swept first place ribbons in Adult, Amateur and Youth Jumper classes. … Quail Creek’s Rumorhasit also swept first place ribbons in all three Jumper Over classes and also won in Hunter. … Brewers Replica Royale continues to knock off the rust from a five-year show layoff, winning in Country Pleasure Driving Under and finishing second to Phantom in Adult Jumper. … Mini Bucks Little Sabrina kicked butt in Hunter Under classes, Youth Pleasure driving and Youth Roadster. … Defending AMHR Open Roadster Over champion Whispering Farm Magician had Roadster a nd Hunter wins. … D&S Excuse My French had a strong showing County Pleasure Over driving, picking up wins. … In his first-ever show, Nightwind’s Zorro was impressive with wins in Youth Country Pleasure Under driving and Hunter. … BHR JC’s Primetime and Running Brooks Royal Stetson also were impressive – Primetime in Country Pleasure driving Over and Roadster and Stetson in Hunter and Jumper Under classes.

 MCSBA Spotlight Show ( Waterloo, Iowa, May 24-25) : While inclement weather caused the cancellation of jumping classes, where he has excelled throughout his career, Classique's Phantom Gold was outstanding in Roadster Under, sweeping first place finishes in Open, Amateur and Stakes. … Brewers Replica Royale continued to shake off the rust from a five-year absence in the show ring, winning Amateur Halter Under and finishing as the Reserve Stakes champion in a Country Pleasure class with about a dozen minis. … D&S Excuse My French had a strong showing in Country Pleasure Over, claiming Reserve Stakes ribbons while BHR JC’s Primetime made his show debut in the same division and captured ribbons. … D&S Double Dutch Chocolate once again had impressive results in Pleasure Driving, Roadster and Halter.

SDMHCA Show ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota. May 16-17) : Showing in Pleasure Driving Over for the first time, D&S Double Dutch Chocolate won the Stakes class under all three judges. … Whispering Hill Farm Magician won Adult Jumper Over, took two of three Stakes wins in Roadster Over and had a first- and second-place finish in Liberty. … Quail Creek’s Rumorhasit won Youth Jumper Over and took two blue ribbons in Youth Hunter Over. Magic took the other blue in Youth Hunter. … Returning to Pleasure Driving Under after spending 2007 in Park Harness, Classique's Phantom Gold had one victory and two seconds in the Stakes class. He did the same thing in Roadster Stakes. … And after a five-year hiatus from the show ring, Brewers Replica Royale took firsts and seconds in Open and Amateur Country Pleasure Driving, and reached the championship round for Senior Stallions. He also showed great promise in Adult Jumper.

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Six Enchanted Hollow horses accounted for 18 AMHR National All-Star championships and 14 Reserve National All-Star titles for the 2007 show season.

Whispering Hills Farm Magician and Classique's Phantom Gold each won five and D&S Double Dutch Chocolate won four National All-Star championships and all three were multiple Reserve National All-Star winners.

Mini Bucks Little Sabrina and Quail Creek's Rumorhasit also won National and Reserve National All-Star championships, while Mini Bucks Pure Nitro won a Reserve National driving title. (Enchanted Hollow's complete AMHR National All-Star results for the 2007 show season are on the website's All-Stars page.)

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Six Enchanted Hollow Miniature horses received nine Hall of Fame awards at the AMHR Convention in Buffalo, NY, in November 2007.

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Enchanted Hollow horses claimed four of the top seven Hall of Fame rankings for the 2007 AMHR show season, including the first, third and fourth spots. Overall, Enchanted Hollow had seven horses in the top 34 of those Hall of Fame rankings, which include Under and Over minis.

Classique's Phantom Gold led the nation with 494 Hall of Fame points in 2007. His point total was the highest among both Under and Over horses. It highlighted an historic season for Phantom, who reached Hall of Fame status in Park Harness in 2007 to become the first AMHR horse ever to enter the Hall of Fame in eight classes. He will continue to compete in Versatility in 2008, a class in which he needs just 15 points to attain HOF status in a ninth class. It would leave just one class in which he does not have Hall of Fame status -- obstacle. (Phantom, in the photo at left, is shown winning Park Harness Stakes at the 2007 AMHR Area VI National Show with Samantha.)

D&S Double Dutch Chocolate clinched Hall of Fame status in both Country Pleasure Driving and Roadster, an event he had not competed in until the '07 show season. Dutch ranked third in the nation in HOF points in 2007 with 373.

Mini Bucks Little Sabrina earned entry into the Hall of Fame in Pleasure Driving and Hunter and is just one point shy of the HOF in Jumper. She had not competed in Hunter or Jumper events until the '07 show season. She ranked seventh in the nation in 2007 with 299 Hall of Fame points.

Whispering Hill Farm Magician, already in the HOF for Hunter and Jumper, made the Hall of Fame in Roadster in 2007. He capped an outstanding show season by winning Open Roadster Over at the AMHR Nationals. And he ranked fourth in the nation in 2007 with 369 Hall of Fame points.

Olive Branches Black Tie Affair went into the Hall of Fame in Hunter and Jumper in 2007, and ranked 34th in the nation  in overall HOF points with 142.

Mini Bucks Pure Nitro attained Hall of Fame status in Country Pleasure Driving. Nitro, who had not competed in Country Pleasure before the '07 show season, had eight Stakes wins and accumulated 169 HOF points. He already was in the HOF in Halter and Pleasure Driving. He ranked 11th in the nation in 2007 with 230 HOF points. Quail Creek's Rumorhasit, already in the Hall of Fame for Halter, Jumper and Hunter, ranked 21st in overall HOF points with 170 in 2007.

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The 2007 AMHR Nationals started great for our family -- sort of.

Samantha was announced as the winner of the 12-Under Youth Hunter class with Rumor. She had her picture taken with Rumor and received a huge trophy, a medal, a commemorative horse head and the blue ribbon.

A few minutes later, an announcement was made saying that, oops, the wrong Sansevere kid was awarded the win in Youth Hunter. Sawyer actually won the class with Magic, and Sami had to hand over all her winnings. She and Rumor finished seventh in the class. That evening, Sami and Rumor won Youth Jumper and this time her national championship wasn't taken away. 

It was the start of a great show. Everyone in the family who showed at the 2007 AMHR Nationals won a national championship. 

Samantha led the way with three national titles -- 12-Under Youth Jumper with Rumor, and Youth Roadster and Youth Country Pleasure with Dutch. Spencer won both 7-Under Pleasure classes -- the Under division with Sabrina and the Over division with Frenchy.

Magic was a star, winning three national championships and two Reserve National titles. Besides his win with Sawyer, Magic also won Amateur Park Harness with Mary driving and Open Roadster with Bob. In that highly competitive Roadster class, Frenchy finished third with Don Maas driving and Dutch was eighth with Mary. 

Phantom won the Amateur Park Harness national title and claimed a Reserve National title in Youth Roadster. He also finished fifth in every adult Roadster class he entered -- Amateur, Open, Ladies and Stakes. 

In all, we won nine AMHR National titles and four Reserve National titles, and had nine top threes, 40 top fives and 65 top tens. Six of our horses won national titles.

We eclipsed our 2006 AMHR Nationals totals, when we won three national championships, four reserve national titles, 22 top fives and 45 top 10s. At the 2005 AMHR Nationals, we won two national championships, five reserve national titles, 19 top fives and 39 top 10s. Since 2005, Enchanted Hollow horses have won 14 AMHR national championships, 13 reserve national titles, 81 top fives and 149 top tens.
 

The three national championships in 2006 came in Hunter and Jumper events. Mary won Open Hunter Over with Rumor, and Bob won Amateur Jumper Over with Magic and Open Jumper Under with Phantom. Bob had the fastest time of both Open Jumper classes, winning his class by more than three seconds. 

Samantha also had success jumping in 2006, finishing with a reserve national title in 12-Under Hunter Over with Rumor. She also finished sixth with Magic in the event. In Jumper classes, Samantha had a fourth with Tie (Under) and a third with Rumor (Over). Katie Kugel had a ninth with Magic in the 13-17 Jumper class. No other farm had as much overall success in the jumping classes. 

Samantha also had a reserve national championship in the Roadster Under class with Phantom, and was third in Roadster Over with Magic. Sawyer had an outstanding show, too. He had top five and top 10 finishes in Roadster and Country Pleasure classes, and finished eighth in a tough costume class. He received one of the three first-place votes in the class. 

In his AMHR Nationals debut, Spencer, then 4, had reserve national championships in 7-Under Pleasure Driving with Magic and Country Pleasure Driving with Sugar. 

In 2005, Phantom's 16 top 10s made him the third most ribboned horse at that AMHR nationals. Phantom's 2006 Adult Jumping championship followed up his 2005 national championship in the Amateur Hunter Jumping Under division with Bob. 

In 2005, Phantom also won reserve national titles with Bob in Open Jumping and with Samantha in Youth 12 and Under Roadster and Pleasure Driving. He also was third with Sawyer in Youth 7 and Under Pleasure Driving in 2005.Magic won the 2005 Amateur Hunter Jumping Over division, also with Bob. 

Rumor's 2006 national championship was his first. In 2005, he picked up a national reserve title in Amateur Hunter Jumping Over, and was fifth in Amateur Jumping. He finished third in Youth Jumping with Samantha, missing a national reserve title by one-fourth of a second and a national title by less than one second. 

Rumor has had three great jumping seasons in a row. He got his Hall of Fame in Hunter in 2006. In 2005, he won a world championship at the Pinto World competition also held at Expo Square in Tulsa.