Ticket and Hospitality Sales on the Rise

September 2, 2010 – LEXINGTON, KY – 22 Days to Go – Tickets to the Reining Individual Final and Grounds Pass tickets for October 1 are sold out for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

Additionally, on-course hospitality for Eventing Cross Country on October 2 has sold out.  Only a few hospitality passes to the Makers Mark Bourbon Village remain for October 1.  Champions Club tables for Opening Ceremonies, Driving, and Dressage, are nearly sold out.

Sales of competition tickets have seen a marked increase in the past six weeks.  Most notably, tickets for driving, eventing, jumping and vaulting have seen a strong interest from buyers.

Less than 500 tickets now remain for the Vaulting Male and Female Individual Finals on October 9, and also for the Driving Obstacle/Cones competition on October 10.

Grounds Pass tickets are still available for 12 of the 16 days of the Games for $25. Children 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by a paying adult, except on September 26, October 2, and October 9.

While tickets for finals rounds continue to sell most rapidly, tickets are still available for early sessions of competition in all eight disciplines.  Many are available at a 30 percent discount through September 6.  To purchase tickets, visit www.alltechfeigames.com/tickets, www.ticketmaster.com, or call 1-888-934-2010.

About the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are the world championships of eight equestrian disciplines recognized by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The Games are held every four years and this will be the first occurrence in the United States.

The Games will be broadcast on NBC Sports, which marks the largest commitment to network coverage of equestrian sport in U.S. television history. The 2010 Games are expected to have a statewide economic impact of $167 million, and current sponsors include Alltech, Rolex, John Deere, Ariat International, Inc., Meydan, Kentucky Ale, and the University of Kentucky. For more information on the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games please visit, www.alltechfeigames.com.

Media Contact:

Amy Walker

(859) 699-0443

awalker@feigames2010.org

September 2, 2010 – LEXINGTON, KY – 22 Days to Go – Internationally-renowned fashion designer Reem Acra will be a presenting sponsor of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.  The Games will feature world championships in eight equestrian sports at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park September 25 – October 10.

Reem Acra will be the presenting sponsor of the Eventing World Championships, as well as the presenting sponsor of the Champions Club, the most exclusive offering of the event’s hospitality program.  Reem Acra designs will be featured in Champions Club gifts, and in displays at various venues throughout the Games.

Reem Acra has had a love of equestrian sports all her life.  “This is my second chance to finally participate fully in the international equestrian community. My first experience was interrupted when I was a young woman growing up in Beirut. I have a close professional and personal relationship with HRH Princess Haya, and when I saw how passionate she was about the FEI, I felt that it was natural to link my brand to the sport,” Ms. Acra said.  “The people who compete in the Games are a perfect reflection of my customer base and I believe that this is a great way to show how the Reem Acra brand is synonymous with elegance and luxury. I am also excited to have my company serve as a presenting sponsor of the upcoming Games in support of HRH Princess Haya and all she is doing as President of the Games this fall.  I look forward to visiting Kentucky this season to see the competitions for the first time in the United States.”

Celebrated for her ability to match a look to a woman’s personality, Acra has dressed global icons of style for weddings, red carpet appearances and awards ceremonies.  Her following includes Angelina Jolie, Princess Haya, Halle Berry, Beyonce Knowles, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Eva Longoria as well as royal families around the world.

Acra’s ready-to-wear and bridal collections are carried by 150 of the world’s most exclusive retailers.  These stores include Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States as well as Saks Fifth Avenue and Harvey Nichols in the Middle East.  Her designs are also available at top specialty retailers across the world located in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Istanbul, Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Korea.

About the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are the world championships of eight equestrian disciplines recognized by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The Games are held every four years and this will be the first occurrence in the United States. Tickets to the 2010 Games are still available and can be purchased at www.alltechfeigames.com/tickets, at www.ticketmaster.com, through the Ticketmaster hotline at 1-800-745-3000, or at your local Ticketmaster outlet.

The Games will be broadcast on NBC Sports, which marks the largest commitment to network coverage of equestrian sport in U.S. television history.  The 2010 Games are expected to have a statewide economic impact of $167 million, and current sponsors include Alltech, Rolex, John Deere, Ariat International, Inc., Meydan, Kentucky Ale, and UK Healthcare. For more information on the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games please visit, www.alltechfeigames.com.

Media Contacts:

Amy Walker
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
awalker@feigames2010.org
859-255-2010 ext. 235

Lisa Wells
Director of Special Events and Sponsorships
Reem Acra
lisaw@reemacra.com

212-630-9977 ext. 23

Mary King and Apache Sauce have a two-point lead after the first day of Dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. (Photo: Kit Houghton/FEI)

2 September 2010 – Mary King (GBR) showed all her experience to take the lead after an eventful first day of Dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), the fourth leg of the HSBC FEI Classics.

King, 49, has been riding at Burghley for more than 20 years – she won it in 1996 on Star Appeal – but a momentary lapse in concentration which meant she had to correct an error of course will have cost her valuable marks.

Riding the 14-year-old white-faced chestnut Apache Sauce, fourth here in 2008, she missed part of the final canter work and, on arriving at halt, had to be interrupted by Ground Jury member Marilyn Payne (USA).

“I haven’t done that for years,” a smiling King said afterwards, confessing to a “blonde moment”.

She continued: “But when I went back and did the flying changes, they came off much better! You never know how Apache Sauce will go; sometimes he can be a real ‘red-head’, but he was on his best behaviour today.”

King’s long-time team mate William Fox-Pitt (GBR), a five-times winner of Burghley and currently second in the $333,000 HSBC FEI Classics, is in second place on the handsome Argentine Thoroughbred Macchiato – also having suffered a minor aberration.

Fox-Pitt was penalised with an error of course after entering the arena more than 45 seconds after the bell had rung. “I had got myself into a position where I couldn’t see the clock. I’ve never done that one before!” he explained.

“Macchiato has started to really come on in the Dressage,” added Fox-Pitt, who won Luhmühlen in 2008 on the 12-year-old bay gelding. “He’s a sensitive and forward-going horse who always tries to please.”

Despite her contrasting lack of experience, third-placed Laura Collett (GBR), 21, contesting her first Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, managed not to forget any of her test.

She produced a composed performance on Ginger May Killinghurst, a 15-year-old chestnut mare by Dallas, who has previously been ridden at four-star level by Andrew Nicholson (NZL) and M-J Tumbridge (BER). Collett is a former Junior and Young Rider European Champion, but she admitted: “Those courses now look rather small compared to this!”

Describing her first Burghley as “amazing”, she has walked the Cross-Country with British team manager Yogi Breisner and pronounced it: “A lovely course – as big as you would expect. I’ve had some serious braking problems with Ginger May Killinghurst, but I’ve borrowed a new bit from Lucy Wiegersma and hopefully that will do the trick. I’m definitely going to take the long route at the first of the Dairy Mound Corners.”

Enjoying perfect sunny conditions, 38 of the 77 starters have now performed their Dressage tests in front of Martin Plewa (GER), Marilyn Payne (USA) and Les Smith (GBR), seven of them scoring under 50.

Performances of interest included Pippa Funnell (GBR), back at Burghley for the first time since 2004, in fourth place with the French-bred Mirage d’Elle; Marina Köhncke (GER), seventh on the beautiful bay mare Calma Schelly and making her Burghley debut – her first four-star event since the Sydney Olympics 10 years ago; and Kate Walls (GBR), whose horse Alter Ego, in ninth place, has made a remarkable recovery from breaking his back in a fall at Luhmühlen last year.

But it could be all change tomorrow (Friday). Renowned Dressage expert Ruth Edge (GBR) is still to come on her 2007 Luhmühlen winner Two Thyme, who has been carefully prepared for Burghley, and World silver medallist Clayton Fredericks’ (AUS) first CCI4* with new ride Be My Guest will be of interest.

King and Fox-Pitt still have their second horses to come, and strong performances are expected from the defending champion, Oliver Townend (GBR) on Carousel Quest, plus other former winners Mark Todd (NZL) with Major Milestone and Andrew Nicholson (NZL), on Avebury.

Results

1 Mary King/Apache Sauce (GBR) 44.8*

2 William Fox-Pitt/Macchiato (GBR) 46.8*

3 Laura Collett/Ginger May Killinghurst (GBR) 47.0

4 Pippa Funnell/Mirage d’Elle (GBR) 48.2

5 Capt Geoff Curran/The Jump Jet (IRL) 48.8

6 James Robinson/Comanche (GBR) 49.0

7 Marina Köhncke/Calma Schelly (GER) 49.3

8 Anna Warnecke/Twinkle Bee (GER) 50.5

9 Kate Walls/Altar Ego (GBR) 51.7

10= Nici Wilson/Oingy Boingy (GBR) 52.0

10= Michael Pollard/Wonderful Will (USA) 52.0

*error of course

Follow live results and coverage on www.burghley-horse.co.uk.

HSBC FEI Classics Standings (after 3 of 5 events)

1 Andreas Dibowski 22

2 William Fox-Pitt (GBR) 15

3 Paul Tapner (AUS) 15

4 Sharon Hunt (GBR) 15

5 Ingrid Klimke (GER) 12

6 Phillip Dutton (USA) 12

7 Mary King (GBR) 12

8 Becky Holder (USA) 10

9 Daisy Berkeley (GBR) 10

10 Andrew Nicholson (NZL) 8

HSBC FEI Classics Calendar of Events in 2010
1. 21-25 April – Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event (USA)
2. 30 April – 03 May – Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR)
3. 17-20 June – Luhmühlen presented by E.ON Avacon (GER)
4. 2-5 September – Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR)
5. 4-7 November- Les Etoiles de Pau (FRA)

Prize Money
HSBC has contributed US$ 1million to the series over the last three years. Prize-money is awarded, as follows, to the top five riders on the leaderboard after the fifth and final event:

PRIZE WINNERS OF THE 2009 SEASON
1. Oliver Townend (GBR) – US$ 150,000 (Series champion);
2. Dirk Schrade (GER) – US$ 75,000;
3. Andreas Dibowski – (GER) US$ 50,000;
4. William Fox-Pitt (GBR) – US$ 33,000;
5. Sam Griffiths (AUS) – US$ 25,000

HSBC, the world’s local bank, is a platinum partner of FEI and global sponsor of the eventing discipline.

As part of this partnership, HSBC is title sponsor of the HSBC FEI Classics and HSBC FEI World Cup.

At the centre of all HSBC’s sponsorships is a commitment to youth, education and community. The Pony Club and HSBC have teamed up to create the HSBC Pony Club Eventing Training Programme.

September 1, 2010 – At the moment, the news is rife with stories about the level of equine neglect in the United States, with many of the articles blaming the “unintended consequences” of closing the US horse slaughter plants and calling for them to be reopened. But in reality, we are coming up on a once in a lifetime opportunity to get rid of this abominable practice once and for all. To understand this apparent paradox, one needs to get past unsubstantiated myths to the real forces at play in the market.

First, one needs to understand that it is completely impossible to blame the current glut of excess horses on the closing of the slaughter plants because the closings simply sent the horses over the Mexican and Canadian borders for slaughter. In 2006, the year before the closings, 142,740 American horses were slaughtered, and that number only dropped by 14% the year the plants were closed. By 2008, slaughter was back to the second highest level in almost ten years.

Next, it is necessary to understand what really causes neglect, and that is unemployment. After years of studying the relationship between neglect rates and slaughter volumes, I had concluded that there was no relationship whatever. Then I looked at the rates of neglect in Illinois in comparison with unemployment in the state. The correlation was striking.

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September 1, 2010 – TALLAHASSEE — Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today announced the arrest of an Indian River County woman who allegedly tried to conceal from authorities her two horses that were infected with Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA).

Arrested by Bronson’s Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) was Regina Chesser, 56, of Fellsmere.  She was charged with failure to report a dangerous transmissible disease, which is a second-degree felony.

Authorities allege that Chesser brought her horse “Dolly” to a Vero Beach veterinary clinic to be tested for EIA.  When the test results were positive for EIA, authorities with the department’s Division of Animal Industry attempted to contact Chesser only to find that she had given the alias Cheryl Hearndon with a false address and phone number to the clinic and used a an email address registered to a friend.  The false information was given because Chesser believed “Dolly” was infected with the EIA virus.

The case was turned over to Bronson’s Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement to initiate a criminal investigation of the matter.  After an extensive search, Chesser’s true identity and location were discovered.  Authorities then learned that there were two horses on Chesser’s property and subsequent testing showed that both of the horses were carriers of EIA.

Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) is a viral disease of horses that may be characterized by acute and/or chronic recurring clinical signs, including fever, anemia, edema and a general weakness in some animals.  Many horses have very mild symptoms and carry this virus undetected.  All infected horses, including those that are asymptomatic, become carriers and are infectious for life.  Infected animals must either be destroyed or remain permanently isolated from other horses to prevent transmission.

After her arrest for failing to report the disease, she was booked into the Indian River County Jail on $7,500 bond, and her horses were placed in quarantine.

Major Bob Johnson
johnsoar@doacs.state.fl.us
(850) 245-1300

Washington, DC (September 1, 2010) – While the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the recent news that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has asked the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (NAS/NRC) to review its National Wild Horse and Burro Program starting January 1, 2011, we are deeply disappointed with the agency’s blatant disregard for calls to halt wild horse roundups pending completion of the review.  AWI first recommended this outside review along with a moratorium on roundups over a year ago given the widespread problems being reported in the BLM’s management of wild horses.

“While we are grateful that the BLM has finally realized the urgent need for advice from scientific experts, we continue to be disappointed at their stubborn refusal to halt the massive wild horse roundups they are conducting at an alarming rate,” said Chris Heyde, deputy director of government and legal affairs for AWI.

In testimony to the House and Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittees, AWI laid out its reasoning and criteria for an independent study by the NAS, a moratorium on all non-emergency roundups, and the critical importance of maintaining language preventing the BLM from killing tens of thousands of healthy wild horses.  In July, similar concerns were raised with the BLM in a bipartisan letter from House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV), National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and 52 of their colleagues.

Commissioning the NAS/NRC to review their three earlier reports and the current available information and research about wild horses and burros is a first step, according to the BLM. The second step will be for the NAS/NRC to make recommendations about future Wild Horse & Burro Program management and needed research. A third step is to take the NAS/NRC findings and recommendations and make them available to the public in a variety of ways, perhaps through focus groups or science forums.

“A moratorium on non-emergency roundups must be put in place for the duration of the NAS study,” noted Heyde.  “By requesting this independent review, the BLM finally admits the need for obtaining scientific advice; but to continue roundups clearly designed to remove as many horses as possible before any results can be obtained from the two year study is completely irresponsible.”

With the beginning of a review by the NAS, AWI is renewing its call for a moratorium on non-emergency wild horse roundups by the BLM.  The Agency should not be allowed to continue exacerbating a broken system by rounding up horses and warehousing them in expensive holding facilities while the NAS reviews the program.  The responsible action to take is stopping round ups and waiting for recommendations to improve the program.

For More Information:

Chris Heyde, (202) 337-2332

Deputy Director

Government and Legal Affairs

ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE

900 Pennsylvania Ave., SE

Washington, DC 20003

T: (202) 446-2142 ~ F: (202) 446-2131

www.awionline.org ~ www.compassionindex.org

The Animal Welfare Institute has been working to alleviate the suffering inflicted on animals by humans since 1951.

Please join us in our work to protect animals – visit our website to find out more and to sign up for AWI eAlerts: www.awionline.org.

1 September 2010 – The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) has announced detection times for Methylprednisolone Acetate, a frontline treatment for lameness in the equine athlete. The findings from recently completed studies on the use of intra-articular Methylprednisolone Acetate show the detection times as 28 days for the 200mg dose and 14 days for the 100mg dose.

The FEI recognises that any strategy to reduce the level of doping and medication offences must contain an element of guidance and education. With this in mind there has been an increased effort to provide detection times for substances that are in common usage. The detection time is the time taken for an active substance administered to a horse by a specified route and dosage to fall below a level at which the FEI would declare a sample positive.

It is important to note that detection times may vary depending on dose and number of injection sites used. Please note that a detection time is not the same as a withdrawal time. The withdrawal time must be decided by the treating veterinarian and is likely to be based on the detection time plus an appropriate safety margin to allow for individual variation.

The full list of FEI detection times can be found here.

Media Contact:

Graeme Cooke

FEI Director Veterinary Department

Tel: +41 21 310 47 39

Email: Graeme.Cooke@fei.org

Maria Lithander at Dressage by the Bay. Photo © 2009 Diana Hadsall.

Traverse City, MI – August 31, 2010 – Horse Sports by the Bay is pleased to announce that Hampton Green Farm, known nation-wide for their dedication to dressage and to the development of the PRE Horse for Dressage in America, will be hosting a Dressage 4 Kids Fundraiser and exhibitor party during the Great American Insurance Group/Region 2 Dressage Championships on Saturday, September 11.  The Regional Championships are being held from September 9 – 12 at Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, MI, which is home to the prestigious Horse Shows by the Bay Equestrian Festival.

The fundraiser features a silent auction which will include riding helmets donated from English Riding Supply and other retail pieces donated by Sporthorse Saddlery and Equine Source among others.  Funds collected from the auction and from ticket sales to the exhibitor party will go directly back to Dressage 4 Kids’ extensive education campaign.  Donations are still being taken for the Auction; please email here for more information.

Dressage 4 Kids’ mission is to encourage riders under 21 to become true horseman with correct position, competitive skills and knowledge of all aspects of riding and horse care; to offer scholarship to enable competitors to further their education; to have fun and to develop good sportsmanship throughout.

Dressage 4 Kids is the dream of dressage Olympian Lendon Gray, whose passion for the sport of dressage and for teaching youths to ride is limitless.  Dressage 4 Kids hosts a yearly young person festival, pony-only clinics, and weekend seminars.  Lendon Gray will be in attendance on September 11th and will be part of a special demonstration with Hampton Green Farm horses and riders; all of which will immediately precede the Musical Freestyle Championships being held at 5:30 p.m.

The Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 2 Dressage Championships are recognized by the United States Equestrian Federation and are being held in conjunction with the Dressage by the Bay Fall Classic.  The very best dressage riders and horses from the Mid-West region will be in attendance to win prestigious year-end awards and acknowledgements.

The general public is encouraged to attend.  For more information please visit www.horseshowsbythebay.com and www.dressage4kids.com or call 231-267-3700.

Media Contact: Mason Phelps
Phelps Media Group, Inc. International
phone 561.753.3389  fax 561.753.3386
pmginfo@phelpsmediagroup.com

31 August 2010 – Paul Tapner (AUS) and William Fox-Pitt (GBR) are the riders with most to gain from a big result at this weekend’s Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR, September 2-5). It is the fourth leg of the 2010 HSBC FEI Classics, which carries a prize-pot of US$333,000 to be shared by the five most successful riders across five CCI4* events.

The current standings leader, Andreas Dibowski (GER), who has a healthy 7-point lead over this year’s Badminton and Lexington winners, is an absentee from Burghley, and Tapner and Fox-Pitt are poised to pounce.

Tapner, who looks set to make his debut on the Australian squad at the forthcoming Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, has two horses with useful CCI4* form: Kilfinnie, 15th last year, and Stormhill Michael, 10th at Badminton.

Fox-Pitt, bidding for a record sixth victory at Burghley, has the Argentine Thoroughbred Macchiato, a winner at Luhmühlen in 2008 and fifth at Badminton last year, plus the German-bred Seacookie, seventh at Burghley in 2009.

Two more riders handily placed in the top 10 of the HSBC FEI Classics rankings have rides at Burghley: the 1996 winner Mary King (GBR) with the veteran Apache Sauce, fourth here in 2008, and her home-bred mare Kings Temptress, and Andrew Nicholson (NZL), the victor in 1995 and 2000, with the brilliant jumper Armada and a choice of either Nereo or Avebury.

In reality, though, the HSBC FEI Classics is still wide open and any number of riders could make their mark this weekend. None will be more aware of that than the defending champion, Oliver Townend (GBR). If he recaptures the Land Rover trophy at Burghley on Carousel Quest, he will be the first rider in Burghley’s 49-year history to win it back-to-back on the same horse.

More than 80 horses from 13 nations are entered; the field ranges from the vast experience of double Olympic champion Mark Todd, 54, a five-times winner at Burghley who brings a new ride, Major Milestone, to 22-year-old Georgie Strang (GBR), who is lucky enough to have the ride on the wonderful 19-year-old Master Monarch, a CCI4* winner and third here in 2004 with Andrew Hoy.

Other Burghley debuts to watch are that of former Junior and Young Rider European Champion Laura Collett (GBR); Alex Hua Tian, who becomes the first Chinese representative to compete at Burghley, and Aistis Vitkauskas, who will be the first Lithuanian competitor.

Kai Rüder (GER), 10th last year, rides the only stallion in the field, Le Prince des Bois. There are two nine-year-old horses in the field: first-timer Kerry Varley’s (GBR) Bluestone Luke and Pascal Leroy’s (FRA) Minos de Petra; while Jean-Luc Goerens (FRA) and Marychope de Marast represent the senior combination – their combined ages add up to 73 years.

The Cross-Country Course Designer, Mark Phillips (GBR), has made several changes to his track and says that it will be a softer test than last year.

Riders will be delighted to hear that he has altered the line at the Discovery Valley (fence 6), which caused more than 25% of the field to fault last year, there’s a new option at the famous Trout Hatchery (fences 8, 9, 10) and the second corner at the influential Dairy Farm (17) has been re-sited onto flat ground.

However, riders familiar with Captain Phillips’ courses know that Burghley, with its undulating terrain, always offers a true Cross-Country challenge which never fails to produce a worthy winner and a thrilling competition.

Follow live results and coverage on www.burghley-horse.co.uk.

HSBC FEI Classics Standings (after 3 of 5 events)

1 Andreas Dibowski (GER)22

2 William Fox-Pitt (GBR) 15

3 Paul Tapner (AUS) 15

4 Sharon Hunt (GBR) 15

5 Ingrid Klimke (GER) 12
6 Phillip Dutton (USA) 12

7 Mary King (GBR) 12
8 Becky Holder (USA) 10

9 Daisy Berkeley (GBR) 10

10 Andrew Nicholson (NZL) 8
HSBC FEI Classics Calendar of Events in 2010
1. 21-25 April – Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event (USA)
2. 30 April – 03 May – Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR)
3. 17-20 June – Luhmühlen presented by E.ON Avacon (GER)
4. 2-5 September – Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR)
5. 4-7 November- Les Etoiles de Pau (FRA)

Prize Money
HSBC will contribute US$ 1million to the series over the next three years. Prize-money is awarded, as follows, to the top five riders on the leaderboard after the fifth and final event:

WINNERS OF THE 2009 SEASON
1. Oliver Townend (GBR) – US$ 150,000 (Series champion);
2. Dirk Schrade (GER) – US$ 75,000;
3. Andreas Dibowski – (GER) US$ 50,000;
4. William Fox-Pitt (GBR) – US$ 33,000;
5. Sam Griffiths (AUS) – US$ 25,000

HSBC, the world’s local bank, is a platinum partner of FEI and global sponsor of the eventing discipline.
As part of this partnership, HSBC is title sponsor of the HSBC FEI Classics and HSBC FEI World Cup.
At the centre of all HSBC’s sponsorships is a commitment to youth, education and community. The Pony Club and HSBC have teamed up to create the HSBC Pony Club Eventing Training Programme.

August has turned out to be a great month for the WHIA as far as getting new members. As you can tell from the new member listings we have been sending you, we are bringing in some really wonderful people in the horse industry.

Please take a few minutes when we send out the new member listings to contact them and welcome them to our group. I know I harp on this but the WHIA is a business network and if you really want to get your money’s worth out of your membership, you have to do a little work. You have to pick up the phone and say “Hi” and see what you can do for them. And, of course, let them know what you need. I have found over the years that men really know how to network better than women. It’s in their DNA. They coach little league teams so they can make contacts, they go out to various outings so that they can make contacts, and they are not shy in picking up the phone and saying “Hi” to a total stranger. “Networking,” as someone once said, only works if you work at it. Networking builds a “family” around you that can help you in many, many ways.

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