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Diamante Farms Named Official USEF Elite Training Center

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Photo courtesy of James Wooster.

Wellington, FL (November 18, 2016) – Diamante Farms, the home base of USDF Gold Medalist Devon Kane, has been designated as an official USEF Elite Training Center. This designation is given to first-class equestrian facilities that are instrumental in providing USEF high performance training sessions, which enable the top equestrian athletes in the United States to train in preparation of representing their country on the world stage.

Diamante Farms, owned by Devon Kane and her mother Terri Kane, was named a USEF Elite Training Center because of the Kane’s continuing efforts to host USEF training sessions, their focus on building high-performance dressage in the U.S., and their support of the sport of dressage in general.

“We started hosting Junior and Young Rider training sessions at Diamante Farms because it’s very important to our family and our facility to back the different youth programs that USEF offers. We enjoy welcoming the coaches and the kids to our facility,” Devon Kane said from her Wellington, Florida farm. “From there, we grew to hosting a couple of the Young Horse training sessions, as well.”

Kane herself started riding dressage as a junior rider, and in 2007, she became an NAJYRC Individual Gold Medalist and Team Bronze Medalist. She has been unstoppable in the show ring ever since and is now a talented international competitor, clinician, and the head trainer at Diamante Farms. The facility is set on 10 pristine acres located just minutes from the Adequan Global Dressage Festival and the Winter Equestrian Festival show grounds. The beautiful estate boasts more than 20 stalls constructed in courtyard style, with grass paddocks and large covered and outdoor arenas outfitted with world-class footing.

“Diamante Farms has been very gracious in opening their gates to USEF for both Youth Dressage and Young Horse Dressage Training Sessions,” said the USEF Managing Director of Dressage, Hallye Griffin. “The facility is beautifully maintained and continues to the meet the standards expected for our training sessions. These training sessions are essential to developing future team riders and horses and, through the designation of USEF Elite Training Center, we hope to recognize Diamante Farms’ contribution to our programs.”

The Kane family is dedicated to providing opportunities for youth riders and young horses as well as to supporting the equestrian community as a whole. Diamante Farms proudly acts as the annual presenting sponsor of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival’s CDI 5* during the winter show season. Diamante also supports the Florida International Youth Dressage Championships, the Challenge of the Americas fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center. Devon Kane has been the Young Professionals Committee Chairperson for the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center’s annual auction and dinner for the past six years to help raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to benefit riders with disabilities.

As a USEF Elite Training Center, Diamante Farms will continue enriching its community and providing opportunities for top-quality dressage training, coaching, clinics, boarding, and sales. To read more about USEF Elite Training Centers, go to www.usef.org/_IFrames/EliteTraining/default.aspx. To learn more about Diamante Farms, go to www.diamantefarms.com and like them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/diamantefarms/.

Contact: Devon Kane
Diamante Farms
diamantefarms@icloud.com
561-307-2831

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February Finds Diamante Farms Making Big Strides

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Diamante Farms’ beautiful South Florida facility hosted the USEF Dressage Outreach ‘Strategic Test Riding’ Clinic this past weekend (Photo courtesy of JRPR)

Wellington, FL (February 11, 2016) – Good works and great horsemanship are keeping Diamante Farms of Wellington, Florida delightfully busy this month. As the Adequan Global Dressage Festival’s CDI5* week – sponsored by Diamante Farms – is in full swing, Diamante Farms’ owners Terri and Devon Kane still find time to make generous contributions to the dressage community and local charities.

Diamante Farms hosted the USEF Dressage Outreach ‘Strategic Test Riding’ Clinic this past weekend, led by the USEF Dressage Assistant Youth Coach and FEI Dressage 4* Judge Charlotte Bredahl-Baker. “I really enjoyed working with this very talented group of riders. Diamante Farms is an amazing place and I really appreciated Terri and Devon Kane’s hospitality,” said Bredahl-Baker after a tremendously successful clinic.

“It’s very important to us to show our support for the up-and-coming in our sport,” Terri Kane said of their busy and benevolent equestrian lifestyle. “Devon and I love to help.”

“We were very grateful to Diamante Farms for hosting a wonderful event,” said Hannah Niebielski, USEF Director of Dressage and National Programs like the USEF Youth Dressage Program Strategic Test Riding Clinic at Diamante Farms, which targeted Pony, Junior, and Young Riders.

While hosting the clinic on February 6-7, the Kanes and Diamante Farms were also Corporate Sponsors of the seventh annual Great Charity Challenge, presented by Fidelity Investments® at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. The much-anticipated show jumping team relay race – complete with elaborate costumes in the theme of Fairy Tales for horses and riders – awarded over $1.65 million in 2016, with 100% of proceeds distributed in full to 50 Palm Beach County charities. Friends of Foster Children’s young beneficiaries were teamed with Diamante Farms and ‘Team Aladdin’ riders Andre Mershad, Andy Kocher, and Sheer Levitan during this year’s competition.

While serving as title sponsors of the CDI5* at Wellington’s Adequan Global Dressage Festival, the Kanes and Diamante Farms are again simultaneously preparing for another event near and dear to their hearts – the upcoming Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center Auction and Dinner. Anyone spending time in the Global Pavilion at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival this week can learn more about the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center by stopping by the educational display Diamante Farms set up to promote the benefits of therapeutic riding and hippotherapy.

The CDI5* week will also feature the second annual Salute to the Olympians, a tribute to dressage’s past international Olympians presented by Diamante Farms. Everyone is welcome to attend the Salute at 6:15 pm on Friday, February 12, right before the Friday Night Lights Freestyle competition.

Also during the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, Diamante Farms is the title sponsor of the Under 25 division throughout the 12-week show series. Devon Kane herself will also be competing in the prestigious show rings with the promising horses she has coming up the ranks, including Sir Galanto, a Hanoverian stallion (by Stedinger out of a De Niro mare), and Winchester, an Oldenburg gelding (by World of Dreams out of a Fürst Heinrich mare).

Diamante Farms offers top-quality training, clinics, boarding, and sales in dressage. The lush estate offers more than 20 courtyard-style stalls, grass paddocks, and large covered and outdoor arenas with world-class footing. Learn more about Diamante Farms at DiamanteFarms.com or call 561-307-2831.

Contact: Devon Kane
Diamante Farms
diamantefarms@icloud.com
561-307-2831

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Diamante Farms to Host Olympian Salute at CDI 5* at the 2015 Adequan Global Dressage Festival

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Head trainer Devon Kane, along with her team at Diamante Farms, will host an Olympian Salute before the CDI5* Grand Prix Freestyle Friday Night under the Lights (Photo courtesy of Jack Mancini)

Wellington, FL (February 4, 2015) — Diamante Farms, a founding sponsor of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, has been an integral part of the show series’ success since its inception. Diamante Farms is excited to once again act as presenting sponsor for the CDI5* competition, held during week five of the festival. To kick off this year’s CDI5* events, Diamante Farms will host an Olympian Salute honoring each past Olympic competitor who is present.

The Olympian Salute, which is set to take place at 6:45 PM on February 6, will open the $200,000 CDI5* Grand Prix Freestyle Friday Night under the Lights. Young flag bearers from the non-profit organization Dressage4Kids will lead Olympian riders from each nation into The Stadium, and mother-daughter team Terri and Devon Kane of Diamante Farms will present the Olympians with flowers. More than twenty-five Olympians from at least eight nations will be present and invited to participate, including Olympian Team Gold Medalist Carl Hester of the UK; legendary dressage rider Robert Dover, who competed in six consecutive Olympic Games with the United States Equestrian Team; six-time Olympian Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfvén of Sweden; and Canada’s Christilot Boylen, who has also competed in six Games. Germany’s Olympic Gold Medalist Hubertus Schmidt, Devon Kane’s trainer, will also take part in the salute.

At the end of the exciting Friday night of dressage, Terri Kane and Kevin Kohmann — co-trainer at Diamante Farms — will present the highest-scoring competitors from the CDI Grand Prix Freestyle with their awards.

Having settled permanently in Wellington with the intent of helping to grow the United States’ dressage community, the owners of Diamante Farms — USDF Gold Medalist and Grand Prix trainer Devon Kane, along with her parents — are proud to be some of the longest supporting sponsors of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival.

“We feel it is very important to our sport to have a first-class facility in order to bring top competitors from all over the world,” says Terri Kane. “The only way we will be able to be truly competitive is to compete against the best. At one time, the only way our competitors could do that was to go to Europe. Now, with this facility we are seeing the Europeans come here. Diamante Farms is extremely proud to have been an inaugural part of the Global Dressage Festival, and plans to be a part of it for many years to come.”

The Kanes’ dedication to their dressage community is impressive. In addition to sponsoring the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, they also actively support the Florida International Youth Dressage Championships, the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center, and the Challenge of the Americas fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Their beautiful ten-acre, twenty-stall estate — complete with one indoor and several outdoor arenas — currently houses twenty-seven horses, half of which are currently competing. Devon Kane, head trainer at Diamante Farms, is dedicated to achieving the best performance possible in her horses, often working up to twelve horses a day.

The ambitious, goal-driven Devon Kane has worked with some of the top professionals in the industry. She spends her summers training in Europe with Germany’s Olympic Gold Medalist Hubertus Schmidt, and has also trained with Olympic Bronze medalist and USEF Developing Coach Debbie McDonald. Her hard work has paid off with an impressive record of victories. Last November, Kane and her Danish Warmblood gelding Destiny took first place in the U.S. Dressage Finals Grand Prix Championship Open in Lexington, Kentucky. “Devon will be competing her self-trained Destiny in the Grand Prix ring and during the Friday Night Lights at the 2015 Adequan Global Dressage Festival,” shares Terri Kane. “We will also be showing several of our younger horses this year. This is very exciting for us — especially since it is basically in our backyard!”

For more information about Diamante Farms, visit DiamanteFarms.com or call 561-307-2831.

Contact: Devon Kane
Diamante Farms
diamantefarms@icloud.com
561-307-2831

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Diamante Farms Presents Exciting Final Week of Competition at 2014 Adequan Global Dressage Festival

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Devon Kane and Destiny. (Photo courtesy of SusanJStickle.com)

Wellington, FL (April 16, 2014) – For the third consecutive year, Week 12 of the 2014 Adequan Global Dressage Festival was presented by Diamante Farms of Wellington, Florida. The prestigious CDI5*/3* and National Show of Week 12 featured outstanding riders and horses, including Diamante Farms’ own Devon Kane and her horse Destiny.

The GDF 12 CDI5*/3* and National Show took place on Thursday, March 27 – Sunday, March 30 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Diamante Farms, a dressage facility owned by Terri Kane and her daughter Devon, was happy to sponsor an event that is so central to their beloved sport of dressage. The week’s CDI 5* had the status of being the highest possible rating in international level competition. While Devon Kane competes with the best equestrians in the sport, she and Diamante Farms find equal importance in supporting all levels of riders.  The Adequan Global Dressage Festival — which hosts a range of classes from pony and junior to USEF-rated National classes — helps them do just that.

Besides serving as one of the presenting sponsors of GDF 12, Devon Kane was a competitor in the CDI 3*. She and her self-trained Danish Warmblood, Destiny, earned a 68.100% in the Open division of the FEI Grand Prix on March 27. Kane spent nearly seven years training the 16.2-hand gelding, refining him from the barely-broke animal she affectionately referred to as her “dragon” to the Grand Prix champion he currently is today.  After the FEI Grand Prix 3*, Kane said, “I’m so in love with my dragon! Desi was fantastic today – 68 for 6th in the 3* CDI Grand Prix. So proud and excited! We are getting better and better every time. Lots of 8s and plenty room to improve!”

On March 30, Kane and Destiny came in fifth in the Open division of the FEI Grand Prix Special 3* with a score of 66.490%.

Between Kane’s two days of competition, she further participated in the AGDF by assisting with the exciting liberty demonstration with an Arabian stallion from Al-Marah Arabians.  The stallion and his handler from Al-Marah Arabians gave a spectacular performance complete with rears, bows, galloping at liberty through the arena, and traditional Arabian attire.

Devon Kane and all of Diamante Farms’ continued support and sponsorship is part of their dedication to nurture the sport and the equestrian community. Diamante Farms offers dressage training, showing, and boarding services on 10 beautiful acres in Wellington.

To learn more about Diamante Farms and Devon Kane, visit DiamanteFarms.com or call 210-240-1614.

Contact: Devon Kane
Diamante Farms
devkane@mac.com
210-240-1614