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Archive for January, 2010Yvonne Losos de Muniz and Optimus Prime Win Grand Prix Special Sponsored by Classic Equine at Gold Coast Opener CDI International Grand Prix rider Yvonne Losos de Muniz and Optimus Prime won the Grand Prix Special, sponsored by Classic Equine Equipment, at the Gold Coast Dressage Opener at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center. West Palm Beach, FL (January 27, 2010) – International Grand Prix rider Yvonne Losos de Muniz’s first experience in the ring with her new Austrian Grand Prix partner turned out to be a winning one, as Losos de Muniz and the 16-year-old Optimus Prime won the Grand Prix Special at the Gold Coast Dressage Opener. Losos de Muniz’s win earned her a beautiful polar fleece vest from Classic Equine Equipment, a nationally recognized leader in quality horse stall systems and stable accessories, and the sponsor of the class. “I just bought Optimus Prime about a month ago and we are still figuring each other out in the ring, but he is a lovely horse,” Losos de Muniz said. “During the class I didn’t go for the impulsion or anything fancy. I went for a nice steady test and he gave me exactly what I asked for so I was super happy.” The Dominican Republic rider has a long list of accomplishments to her name, including earning Bronze Individual medals in the 2003 and 2007 Pan American Games. Losos de Muniz is in South Florida for the winter show season and said she was very appreciative that Classic Equine sponsored her class. “It was a great first trip into the show ring for Yvonne and Optimus Prime and we were quite happy to see her wearing our Classic Equine vest after she won the class,” said Adam Busse, owner of the award-winning stall systems and stable accessories company. “We are really enjoying sponsoring classes during the winter show circuit. It is a pleasure to meet so many talented riders.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10000 Gallop in the Glen Partners with Mercy Health – $50,000 Prix Returns The Gallop in the Glen ©Flashpoint Photography Harrodsburg, KY — January 28, 2010 — The Gallop in the Glen today announced their partnership with Mercy Health Partners of Knoxville, Tennessee, as sponsor of the 2010 $50,000 Grand Prix, one of the capstone events of the two week Smoky Mountain Fall Gathering Hunter-Jumper Show held at River Glen Equestrian Park in New Market, TN. Dates for 2010 are September 30th – October 3rd and October 7th – 10th. Co-chair of the event Kim Burnette Mitchell said, “We are so delighted to have Mercy as part of the Gallop family. From the beginning this event’s primary goal has been to provide good works for the community here and Mercy is the perfect fit for achieving the success we all want.” Bonnie Strider, Mercy Health Partners Chairperson for the $50,000 Prix, echoed the sentiment of working with the Gallop in the Glen event. “The proceeds from this event will go to help support the many important healthcare services provided by Mercy facilities across East Tennessee,” Strider said. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9998 McLain Ward and Miss Liberty 7 Take Top Spot in $8,000 Sentient Jet 1.45m Jumpers at 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival McLain Ward and Miss Liberty 7 won the opening $8,000 Sentient Jet 1.45m Jumper class during week three at the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Photo © 2010 Randi Muster Wellington, FL – January 27, 2010 – McLain Ward and Miss Liberty 7, owned by Overlook Farm, Inc., took the top prize today in the $8,000 Sentient Jet 1.45m Jumpers. They were the fastest in the speed round over second place finishers Pablo Barrios on G&C Quick Star and Maggie Jayne with Pony Lane Farm’s Esquilino Bay. Today’s class opened up competition for the third week of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), and the week three title sponsor is Nespresso. The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of competition that conclude on April 4, 2010, and the circuit will be awarding almost $6 million in prize money through the circuit. Olaf Petersen Jr. joins the FTI WEF this week as course designer in the International Arena. He designed a course to welcome jumper riders in the third week. Out of 27 entries, there were 14 clean rounds over the Time First Round format. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9994 AQHA: A Celebration of the Western Saddle See this saddle and many more on display at the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum. Enjoy a celebration of the design, style and grace of the western saddle at the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum. The western saddle is one of the great executions of form and function merging into a third greater thing — art. Its design is built around use, lightness, durability and fit to give the rider the ability to stay on board while at the same time not getting in the way of the horse, all the while being able to hold an 800-pound steer by only a rope wound around the saddle horn. But more than a tool, western saddles are iconic representations of the work of an indigenous culture in America. As much a part of the cowboy way as a hat and a pair of boots, saddles spoke of work in a unique vocation. Work performed by man and animal together, a task that remains remarkably unchanged due to the nature of the work itself — the moving and caring of livestock. Like any tool, the saddle became an extension of those who used it and because of that became subject to personalization. That unique personalization and embellishment — call it character — is the basis for a new exhibition opening at the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum this month. The Art of the Western Saddle will feature 16 glorious examples of the saddlemaker’s art. Curated by western historian and author William C. Reynolds, the exhibit will feature silver-mounted saddles from important private collections and museums across the country. The collection will display the saddles’ unique design, craftsmanship and graceful merging of silver, gold and leather. Many of the saddles have never been exhibited in public, and the exhibition will be a unique opportunity to see the pinnacle of craftsmanship, embellishing the primary tool of the American cowboy. The exhibit opens January 22, 2010, and will continue through July 31, 2010, at the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, Texas. Get more information, or call (806) 376-5181. The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum is open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Sundays. American Quarter Horse Association DRESSAGE RIDERS! National Dressage Championship Qualifying Is UnderwayApplications of Intent Are Now Available on www.usef.org The 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions will return to Gladstone, New Jersey, August 6 – 8 and August 13 – 15. This Festival of Champions will once again feature the National Championships for the Grand Prix, Intermediaire I, Young Adult “Brentina Cup”, Young Rider, and Junior divisions, in addition to the USEF Selection Trials for the U.S. Dressage Team for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG). Junior, Young Rider, and “Brentina Cup” applications and selection procedures are available at this link: http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/breedsDisciplines/discipline/allDressage/natdressage.aspx. Please note USEF/NAJYRC-qualifying competition lists have been updated for each region and are posted at the above link, in addition to national ranking lists for the Junior, Young Rider, and “Brentina Cup” divisions (now updated weekly). The USEF National Developing Horse Dressage Championship (sponsored by the Dutta Corporation & Performance Sales International) and the Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships will be held July 22 – 25, 2010 at the Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Illinois. Applications, selection procedures, ranking lists, and updated qualifying competition lists are now available at this link: http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/breedsDisciplines/discipline/allDressage/natdressage.aspx. For more information, contact Jennifer Keeler, National Director of Dressage, at jkeeler@usef.org. United States Equestrian Federation, Inc. 4047 Iron Works Pkwy Lexington, KY 40515 859-258-2472 Stadium Jumping, Inc. Hosts 2010 Tampa Equestrian Festival March 24 – April 10, 2010 Chris Kappler won his third Budweiser American Invitational title in 2009 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL with VDL Oranta. Photo by: Kenneth Kraus/PhelpsSports.com. Tampa, FL – January 26, 2010 – Stadium Jumping, Inc., one of the nation’s leading horse show production companies, is pleased to announce the official dates of the 2010 Tampa Equestrian Festival and 38th Annual $200,000 Gene Mische American Invitational. The world’s top equestrians will come together for three weeks of competition, held from March 24 – April 10, 2010 at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, FL. The Tampa Equestrian Festival will kick off its three weeks of competition with the Suncoast Internationale that is scheduled for March 24-28, 2010. It will be followed by the Tampa Bay Classic CSI 2*-W, which begins on March 31 and runs thru April 4. The final week of the festival is the Tournament of Champions CSI, which will be held March 31 thru April 4. The 38th Annual $200,000 Gene Mische American Invitational will be the highlight event on the final day of competition, April 10, at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Thirty of the world’s top horses and riders will gather to compete under the lights during one of the premier show jumping events in the United States. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9982 The $20,500 Marshall & Sterling Child/Adult Jumper Championship Takes the Reins at HITS Ocala Pre-Circuit © ESI Photography. Molly Gasparini and Salsa jump their way to a blue ribbon in Sunday's $4,000 M&S Children's/Adult Jumper Championship at HITS Ocala. OCALA, FL (January 26, 2010) — The first half of the four-legged, annual $20,500 Marshall & Sterling Child/Adult Jumper Championship wrapped up on Sunday, with Hayley Waters and Molly Gasparini winning the respective first and second legs of the popular event. On Friday afternoon in the first leg for $2,500, it was Hayley Waters from Sparr, Florida on Rocky taking home the win for the early lead. Waters also showed her green horse, Jordy, who took fourth. “The course was hard, but pretty fair,” said Waters, who looks forward to competing in the last two legs, which take place this weekend at HITS Ocala. “I thought I was in the lead with Jordy when I was going in with Rocky, so I just went as fast as I could.” The plan worked, as her fastest trip and clean round earned her the top spot. Taking second and third place in the first leg of the event were perennial contenders Mallory Vale from Morriston, Florida on Mi Phone and Isaac Leftkowitz on Alpha Pappa Tango. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9978 Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping 2009/2010 – Round 8 in Leipzig The winner of the Leipzig leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup, Ireland's Jessica Kürten, is presented with a Rolex watch by Anthony Schaub from Rolex. Photo: Dirk Caremans. IT’S LADIES DAY AT LEIPZIG – AND A THREE-TIMER FOR JESSICA Leipzig (Ger), 24 January 2010 – The ladies dominated the line-up at the eighth leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup series in Leipzig, Germany today where Ireland’s Jessica Kuerten produced a devastating burst of speed to pip runner-up Edwina Alexander from Australia and third-placed Frenchwoman Penelope Leprevost in a 16-way jump-off. The girls simply out-galloped the boys against the clock, and this was a particularly notable victory for Kuerten who also won this leg of the series in both 2008 and 2009 and so made it a Leipzig hat-trick today. Frank Rothenberger’s first-round track produced plenty of clear rounds but the big questions were all posed in the jump-off. Riders had some tough decisions to make as the snaking second-round course asked for some super-tight turns. As it emerged however, it was simply the exceptional speed of Kuerten’s Castle Forbes Libertina that would win the day. BIG IMPRESSION Dying by InchesShocking Rise in Large Scale Equine Starvation Cases Highlights Urgent Need for Social Change and Legal Action By CuChullaine O’Reilly FRGS What do Virginia, Oregon, Nebraska, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, Florida, New York, South Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma and British Columbia all have in common? Large numbers of starving horses were recently rescued from negligent owners in each of these areas. Because of its constant access to international equestrian developments, and thanks to a network of allied equestrian editors and journalists, the Long Riders’ Guild Academic Foundation has been monitoring the alarming rise of large-scale equine neglect in the United States and Canada. Thanks to the excellent on-line resources offered by the New Zealand based equestrian news service, Horse Talk, a survey of headlines revealed that the LRG’s misgivings about the rise of equine neglect were not only confirmed, they were in fact far worse than we suspected. This is not to say that other countries are not also facing similar challenges. For example in May, 2008 what was described as a “horror farm” was discovered in England. Astonished authorities seized 111 horses and ponies, then successfully brought charges in court against the owners. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9971 Combined Driver Chester Weber Featured in World-Renowned Equestrian Photographer Gabriele Boiselle Calendar Weber enjoying a quiet moment with his dog Steffi and equine partner Jamaica. (Photo courtesy of Archiv Boiselle/ Gabriele Boiselle) Ocala, FL (January 22, 2010) – World-renowned equestrian photographer Gabriele Boiselle has captured the bond between Combined Driver Chester Weber and his animals, and the tender moment is being preserved in one of Boiselle’s 2010 calendars. The photo captures Chester Weber holding his wife’s Miniature Schnauzer, Steffi, standing with his equine partner Jamaica. The expressive photo appears in Boiselle’s 2010 Combined Driving (or Fahren, German for ‘four-in-hand’) calendar. Boiselle has spent almost three decades traveling and photographing horses around the globe, sharing her images with her fans through calendars, books, DVDs, an online photo archive and live photoseminars. Her company, Edition Boiselle, is based in Speyer, Germany, near Frankfurt. For 2010, Boiselle has created 24 different wall calendars, including the calendar featuring Weber and other combined drivers. “For many years I have personally been so fascinated by carriage driving and in particular by the four-in-hands that I actually traveled to the USA to take photographs at the special Live Oak competition,” Boiselle said, adding that each of the breathtaking pictures tells an individual story. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9969 |
