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Title: "Celebrate Victoria Day at the Stratford Film Festival: Screening of ‘The Cowboy and the Queen’"

The Stratford Film Festival is back for their next screening on May 17 with the award-winning documentary The Cowboy and the Queen.

The movie tells the true story of the bond between Queen Elizabeth II, a lifelong equestrian, and Monty Roberts, a California cowboy whose revolutionary gentle horse-training methods transformed an ancient tradition of “breaking” them.

Claire Bickley, a documentary producer and journalist with the film festival, invites everyone to come out and celebrate the Victoria Day long weekend.

12:15 “If someone says to you ‘should I skip this?’, I would say ‘neigh!’”

The film also explores the therapeutic benefits of working with horses.

The festival wants to bring the film’s message home, so they have announced trainer Mallory Phillips and her miniature therapy horse, Angus, will join audiences at the screenings.

Post-screening Q&As will take place following the films, where movie-goers can ask Phillips questions and get up close with Angus.

The movie is suitable for ages 10 and up and will be screened at City Hall Auditorium at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

For tickets, visit the Stratford Film Festival’s website.

The Stratford Film Festival is set to screen the award-winning documentary The Cowboy and the Queen on May 17, celebrating the bond between Queen Elizabeth II and California cowboy Monty Roberts. The film highlights Roberts’ gentle horse-training methods, which revolutionized traditional practices, and also delves into the therapeutic benefits of interacting with horses.

To enhance the experience, trainer Mallory Phillips and her miniature therapy horse, Angus, will be present at the screenings, allowing audiences to engage directly with the horse. Post-screening Q&A sessions will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and learn more about the film’s themes.

The documentary is suitable for viewers aged 10 and up and will be shown at City Hall Auditorium at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the Stratford Film Festival’s website.

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Title: "Danish Warmblood Mare Delizia Sold to Jeanette Larsen for Continued Competitive Career"

Anne Troensegaard’s 2018 WCYH participant Delizia has been sold to Sweden. Ridehesten reported that the 12-year-old mare will continue her sport career with Jeanette Larsen.

Delizia is a Danish warmblood mare by Furstenball out of Duchesse Petit (by De Noir x Schwadroneur). She is bred by Lotte Liv Kulle.

The beautiful black mare went to the Danish elite mare show, and when she was four, a half share of the ownership was sold to Danish Grand Prix rider Anne Rosleff Troensegaard.

Troensegaard trained and competed the mare up to MB-level. They made their show debut in Denmark in the 4-year-old young horse classes in June 2017. They competed at the 2017 Danish Young Horse Championships and were 35th in the preliminary round with 75.8 points. In 2018, they represented Denmark at the World Young Horse Championships in Ermelo, where they finished 22nd in the 5-year-old consolation finals with 72.600 points. Two months later, they were 11th in the finals of the 2018 Danish Young Horse Championships.

At the 2018 World Young Horse Championships, Troensegaard showed the mare once in 2018, once in 2020, and then had a 2.5-year break from competition. During this period, she was bred by Iron and produced the now yearling "Isn’t it Ironic." Delizia returned to the national arena with her in January 2023 at MB-level, winning two classes.

In the early summer of 2023, breeder Lotte Liv Kulle wanted to sell her share, and Delizia moved into the training of Anne-Mette Strandby Hansen to be sold, first at Helgstrand Dressage and then at Stutteri EVO, where Strandby is now based.

Anne-Mette debuted the mare at national level in October 2023 at M-level and did their first Prix St Georges test in March 2024. They did their first and only CDI in Aalborg in May 2024, placing second in the PSG (70.196%) and fourth in the Inter I (68.294%).

Strandby rode her in a first Inter II test in January 2025, scoring 70.307%. On 30 March 2025, they did their last show, their first Grand Prix test, earning 69.367%.

Delizia has now been sold to Danish Grand Prix rider Jeanette Larsen.

Larsen, 48, was based with Daniel and Doris Ramseier in Switzerland in the mid-2000s when she made her international show debut on Laser III, a 1995-born Holsteiner. She first competed him internationally at small tour level in 2005 and at Grand Prix level in 2007. They ranked 10th at the 2007 Swiss Dressage Championships. Larsen then sold Laser III to Swiss young rider Sophie Aiko Müller, who rode him at the 2009 and 2010 European Junior/Young Riders Championships.

For Larsen, an 11-year break from international showing followed between 2007 and 2018 as she moved back to Denmark in 2015. She returned to the CDI stage in May 2018 at the CDI-AM Uggerhalne, riding two horses: Sheila N and Skjoldsgaard Rubial-VO. Since then, Larsen has only competed nationally in Denmark. Both Rubial-VO and Sheila N sold into American ownership. Jeanette is now competing Don Delias at national Grand Prix level.

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