Oration

Oration • 2013 Arabian Sport Horse of the Year • © Don Stine

Oration, a 2004 Bay Arabian by Dormane out of Ortie, is the only stallion in breed history to win multiple National Championships in halter and performance at an Arabian National Show in the same year.

Setting a record for winning the most National Championships at a single Arabian National show, Oration is the talk of the Arabian sport horse world. Imported as a weanling by his breeder Dianne Waldron, Oration was destined for a career on the racetrack. Sired by the French leading racing sire Dormane, this bay stallion didn't have the speed his other siblings have demonstrated.

So, Dianne contacted well-known Arabian trainer Ricci Desiderio to have Oration trained as a sport horse and Oration found his calling. At his very first horse show in 2009, Oration won 16 of his 21 classes. That same year, Oration was undefeated at the Arabian Regional Championships in all seven of his classes and earned the title of Supreme Sport Horse Under Saddle (SHUS).

Oration's next outing that year was the Sport Horse National Championships, where he won National Championships in 6 classes (Working Hunter Green and Amateur to Ride (ATR), SHUS Junior Horse and ATR, Sport Horse In Hand Stallions Open, and Hunter Hack ATR) plus Reserve in SHIH Stallions Amateur to Handle (ATH) and a Top Ten in Hunter Hack Open. Oration was also named Supreme Reserve Champion Sport Horse with his rider/handler Michael Desiderio, who earned top rider honors.

In 2010, Oration added to his National Titles, winning seven National Championships along with the title of Supreme Sport Horse Champion at the Sport Horse National Championships. He earned the Arabian Horse Association's highest achievement award, the Legion of Masters combined with the Legion of Excellence. He will proudly be known from now on as Oration ++++// and earned this honor in just six horse shows.

In 2011 at the Arabian National Championships, Oration competed in just four Working Hunter classes, winning National Championships in all of them. Then in 2013, after sitting out the 2012 Sport Horse National show, Oration competed at the Arabian Youth Nationals with junior rider Alexandria Desiderio earning National Championships in Working Hunter and Hunter Hack, plus Reserve National SHUS Champion. That same year at the National Sport Horse Championships, he won another four National Championships and was named High Point Hunter/Jumper of the show.

During 2014, Oration maintained his winning streak when he earned two Youth National Championships and two Sport Horse National Championships over fences.

With the Desiderio family guiding his career, this striking Arabian remains undefeated in Arabian Working Hunters at the National level.

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