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Women Earn Fifth Consecutive Victory in $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes

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McLain Ward and Zhum CW Top $25,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic; Parkland and Lillie Keenan Victorious in Small Junior Hunter 16-17 Division

Charlie Jayne and Aclette Z. Photo © Sportfot

Wellington, FL – January 12, 2013 – Over 3,500 fans packed the stands at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) on the opening Saturday night to watch the women beat the men for the fifth year in a row in the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes at the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) in Wellington. It was the closest race yet in the three-phase competition between the male and female teams, but the ladies pulled out another victory in the end.

Week one of FTI WEF runs January 9-13, sponsored by The Mar-a-Lago Club. The week will conclude on Sunday with the $30,000 Mar-a-Lago Club Grand Prix in the International Arena at PBIEC. The 2013 FTI WEF runs through March 31 featuring 12 weeks of world-class competition.

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Georgina Bloomberg Wins Adequan 7-Year-Old Young Jumper Championship Qualifier

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Lansing and Jeanine Cash Sweep Adult Amateur 36-50 Division

Georgina Bloomberg and South Street. Photo © Sportfot

Wellington, FL – January 11, 2013 – The 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) continued with its first week of competition on Friday at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) with a win for New York’s Georgina Bloomberg and South Street in the $1,500 Adequan 7-Year-Old Young Jumper Championship Qualifier and a championship win for Lansing and Jeanine Cash in the Adult Amateur Hunter 36-50 division.

Week one of FTI WEF runs January 9-13, sponsored by The Mar-a-Lago Club. The week will feature a full schedule of exciting hunter/jumper competition, including the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes exhibition class as the start of the “Saturday Night Lights” series and fun events like the Jump for HomeSafe fundraiser. Highlights of week one include the $25,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic on Saturday afternoon and the $30,000 Mar-a-Lago Club Grand Prix on Sunday in the International Arena at PBIEC. The 2013 FTI WEF runs through March 31 featuring 12 weeks of world-class competition.

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USEF Network Coverage of the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival Starts Tomorrow

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Lexington, KY – USEF Network coverage of the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival begins tomorrow night with the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes. This event is the first in the “Saturday Night Lights” series of events and features Charlie Jayne and Georgina Bloomberg captaining a team of all male jumpers and all female jumpers, respectively. The team of women will be defending their title for a sixth straight year. The men’s team has never won the Nespresso Battle of the Sexes.

USEF Network live coverage continues on Sunday with the $30,000 Mar-a-Lago Grand Prix.

Over the course of the winter USEF Network is scheduled to broadcast 16 classes live from the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival. A full broadcast schedule is available here.

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Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Let’s Fly Win $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 1

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Holly Orlando and Quotable Top Green Conformations Hunters

Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Let's Fly. Photo © Sportfot

Wellington, FL – January 10, 2013 – Brazil’s Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Let’s Fly galloped to victory in the $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 1 on the second day of competition at the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) on Thursday. After kicking the year off with a second place finish in last weekend’s inaugural $100,000 Trump Invitational Grand Prix, the duo is off to the races with a win to start their winter circuit.

Week one of FTI WEF runs January 9-13, sponsored by The Mar-a-Lago Club. The week will feature a full schedule of exciting hunter/jumper competition, including the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes exhibition class as the start of the “Saturday Night Lights” series and fun events like the Jump for HomeSafe fundraiser. Highlights of week one include the $25,000 Suncast 1.50M Championship Jumper Classic on Saturday afternoon and the $30,000 Mar-a-Lago Club Grand Prix on Sunday. The 2013 FTI WEF runs through March 31 featuring 12 weeks of world-class competition.

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Shane Sweetnam Wins First Two Classes of the 2013 WEF

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Opening Press Conference Held for 2013 FTI WEF, Highlights of Winter Circuit Discussed

Shane Sweetnam and Solerina. Photo © Sportfot

Wellington, FL – January 9, 2013 – The 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) hosted its opening day of competition on Wednesday, January 9, at the beautiful Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL, with big wins for Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam. Sweetnam kicked things off with a bang in back to back victories in the first two classes of the circuit in the International Arena.

Sweetnam won the $8,000 G&C Farm 1.45m speed class aboard Sweet Oak Farm’s Solerina and then went on to take top honors in the $6,000 Spy Coast Farm 1.40m jump-off class aboard Spy Coast Farm, LLC’s Eregast Van’t Kiezelhof. Laura Chapot also had a win on day one riding Mary Chapot’s Zealous in the $6,000 Spy Coast Farm 1.40m Speed Challenge.

Week one of FTI WEF runs January 9-13, sponsored by The Mar-a-Lago Club. The week will feature a full schedule of exciting hunter/jumper competition, including the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes exhibition class as the start of the “Saturday Night Lights” series and fun events like the Jump for HomeSafe fundraiser. Highlights of week one include the $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 1 on Thursday, the $25,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic on Saturday afternoon, and the $30,000 Mar-a-Lago Club Grand Prix on Sunday. The 2013 FTI WEF runs through March 31 featuring 12 weeks of world-class competition.

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$55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes Kicks Off 2013 “Saturday Night Lights” on January 12

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Wellington, FL – January 7, 2013 – Equestrian Sport Productions (ESP) looks forward to kicking off the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) season with its first week of competition coming up on January 9-13, 2013, sponsored by The Mar-a-Lago Club. The week will feature a full schedule of exciting hunter/jumper competition, including the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes exhibition class as the start of the “Saturday Night Lights” series and fun events like the Jump for HomeSafe fundraiser.

The 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) will host an opening circuit press conference held on Tuesday, January 8, at 1 p.m. at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. The press conference will include Equestrian Sport Productions CEO Mark Bellissimo, FTI Consulting Chairman Dennis Shaughnessy, and rider representatives.

Food and drinks will be served at the press conference, which will be open to all media who would like to hear about schedule highlights and news for this year. Media planning to attend can also pick up their credentials at the press conference.

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SSG Riding Gloves Promotion Returns to Winter Equestrian Festival

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SSG Riding Gloves will offer $60,000 in bonus money at the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival.

Wellington, Florida – The unique SSG Riding Gloves ‘Go Clean for the Green’ promotion returns to the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival, offering $60,000 in bonus money to riders throughout the 12-week competition running January 9 through March 31 in Wellington, FL.

Based on the overwhelming success of the innovative sponsorship promotion, SSG Riding Gloves will once again offer bonus money in the weekly WEF Challenge Cup Series, the Amateur-Owner Jumper High Classic and the Junior Jumper High Classic competitions.  If the winning rider in any of these three competitions is wearing SSG ‘Digital’ style gloves with the SSG horse head logo clearly visible on the wrist, they will be presented with a cash bonus during the awards presentation.

For the weekly WEF Challenge Cup Series held each Thursday, a $3,000 cash bonus will be awarded to the winning rider if they compete wearing SSG ‘Digital’ style riding gloves in the first round of competition and subsequent jump-off.  If the winning rider is not wearing SSG ‘Digitals’, the money will be added to the following week’s bonus, bringing the total bonus to $6,000, $9,000, etc.

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Laura Kraut and Cedric Return from Olympia Ready for the Winter Equestrian Festival

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Laura Kraut and Cedric finished sixth in the Earls Court Olympia Christmas Cracker at the London International Horse Show Olympia. Photo By: Erin Cowgill

London, England – December 28, 2012 – Olympian Laura Kraut has continued to impress across international waters with her talented line-up of mounts. From Wednesday, December 19 until December 23, 2012, Kraut guided several of her mounts to top placings at the London International Horse Show Olympia. The 14-year-old grey gelding Cedric, owned by Cherry Knoll Farm, found his rightful place among the best, competing in an intense jump-off that tested both horse and rider alike.

Louis Konickx designed the 1.55m course for The Earls Court Olympia Christmas Cracker. The course consisted of 12 obstacles, and a challenging jump-off. The short track started over a standalone vertical and continued to another vertical with a left bending line. Upon landing, the pair had to take a triple bar and then complete a hard left rollback to the oxer-vertical double-combination. The riders continued over an oxer near the in gate, and a hard left turn took them to the standalone vertical, reversed from the first round. They had to keep the timer in mind as they landed from the vertical and raced over the final oxer to break the beam and seal their fate.

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Spend Christmas with Show Jumping on CBS Sports Network

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CBS Sports Network Offers Special Encore of Top Show Jumping Competition from the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival on Christmas Day

Wellington, FL – December 24, 2012 – Equestrian enthusiasts have been given a special gift by the CBS Sports Network this holiday season with another chance to watch top show jumpers in action at the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. CBS Sports Spectacular will offer encore viewing of their US Equestrian Festival Nations Cup 2012 and US Equestrian Festival Championships programs on Christmas day from 3:00-5:00pm ET.

In the first hour of the two hour equestrian block, viewers can marvel at top combinations from throughout the world as teams go head-to-head in the $75,000 FEI Nations Cup presented by G&C Farm. Ten nations lined up to stake their claim on coveted honors in one of the most prestigious classes held on U.S. soil. This is also a unique opportunity to see many of the best competitors in the game including the American team of Lauren Hough, Mario Deslauriers, Margie Engle and Beezie Madden, as well as international stars such as Canada’s Eric Lamaze, Germany’s Johannes Ehning, Great Britain’s Nick Skeleton, Ireland’s Cian O’Connor and many more. The US Equestrian Festival Nations Cup 2012 program will air at 3:00pm ET.

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CBS Sports Network Offers Special Encore of Top Show Jumping from Wellington on Christmas Day

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Lexington, KY – Equestrian enthusiasts have been given a special gift by the CBS Sports Network this holiday season with another chance to watch top show jumpers in action at the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. CBS Sports Spectacular will offer encore viewing of their US Equestrian Festival Nations Cup 2012 and US Equestrian Festival Championships programs on Christmas day from 3:00-5:00pm ET.

In the first hour of the two hour equestrian block, viewers can marvel at top combinations from throughout the world as teams go head-to-head in the $75,000 FEI Nations Cup presented by G&C Farm. Ten nations lined up to stake their claim on coveted honors in one of the most prestigious classes held on U.S. soil. This is also a unique opportunity to see many of the best competitors in the game including the American team of Lauren Hough, Mario Deslauriers, Margie Engle and Beezie Madden, as well as international stars such as Canada’s Eric Lamaze, Germany’s Johannes Ehning, Great Britain’s Nick Skeleton, Ireland’s Cian O’Connor and many more. The US Equestrian Festival Nations Cup 2012 program will air at 3:00pm ET.

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