Diane Dodge of Nokomis Farm has been breeding horses for more than 30 years, but things have certainly changed since she first started her program.

Her experimentation with technology paid off during the Upperville Colt & Horse Show, where her embryo-transfer twins earned blue ribbons on June 12 in Upperville, Va.

Nokomis Farm's handsome chestnut, Winston, took home the best young horse title, and his twin sister, Jenufa, won the other than Thoroughbred 2-year-old fillies class.

Ray Francis has dreamed for decades of holding the best young horse at Devon, and on June 2 in the Dixon Oval in Devon, Pa., that dream came true.

Spanish Spear may have been listed under the ownership of Kenny Wheeler's Cismont Manor Farm, the perennial powerhouse in the breeding divisions at Devon, but it was Francis who bred and raised the flashy chestnut yearling. And it was Francis with the reins in his hand when the judges--Leo Conroy and Brian Lenehan--declared Spanish Spear the top pick.

Drew Taylor has come a long way since getting run away with in the walk-trot class at the Upperville Colt & Horse Show (Va.) as a child. "They stapled something to the announcer's stand as the ponies went by the first time and that one was anti-noise!" Taylor fondly recalled.

Billie Steffee compares watching the offspring of her stallion, All The Gold, perform to "watching your grandchildren. And they come in all shapes, sizes and colors," she said.

Steffee's prodigies outdid themselves at the International Hunter Futurity Finals, in Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 22-23. Two full siblings, Gold Digger and Gold's Gone Fishin' (All The Gold--Silver Surf, The Silver Prince) claimed the 3-year-old grand championship and the 4-year-old reserve grand championship, respectively.

Robert J. Burke's decision to give By Appointment Only last year off to mature paid dividends at this year's Upperville Colt & Horse Show, Upperville, Va., where the classy bay took home the best young horse title.