HEADLINE: Fundraising Event for Darren Chiacchia - Event to take place April 2, 2008 in Tallahassee - everyone welcome to attend
March 27, 2008 - Tallahassee , FL - Olympian Darren Chiacchia was critically injured from a fall while competing at Red Hills Horse Trials in Tallahassee on March 15th. A fundraising event is being hosted in his honor in Tallahassee, Wednesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm in order to raise money to assist with his escalating medical bills. Read more at HorsesintheSouth.com, get the invitation and directions to the event>
Your donation in Darren's name to the Equestrian Aid Foundation will be greatly appreciated to help pay his ever-increasing medical expenses. If you are unable to attend this event but still want to help support this medical fund for Darren, please visit www.equestrianaidfoundation.org to make contribution in Darren's name. Be sure to indicate Darren's name on your check or donation in order to direct it properly. Read more>
HORSE CARE:
A Long-awaited Event - Indy Finally Had Her Foal in the Paddock in Broad Daylight!
March 10, 2008 - Finally! The long awaited event arrived. This is my last baby - I am not breeding any more. Mom and baby girl are doing great. Born at 11:30 am, baby nursed at 1 pm - text book birth. Look at those long legs.... All I could see was legs - legs- legs...
Gen's Independent Delight (Indy) DNA color is: (EE) (aa) Sire is Goldust's Royal Chance DNA color is:(e/e), (A/a) (Cr/Cr) I assume with the DNA calculations I have, Indy has given me a gorgeous Smoky Black girl. Read more>
Both Indy and her baby are for sale. Triple K Bar C is having a herd reduction - horses and foals for sale!
SPOTLIGHTS: BARBAROTM Jewelry by Jane Heart
March 7, 2008, Arizona - Jane Heart announces the introduction of her original, licensed jewelry designs of the charismatic race horse Barbaro. Through his valiant fight to recover from a broken leg and then laminitis, he touched our hearts with his courage and incredible spirit. In cooperation with Gretchen Jackson, Jane has adapted a favoritepicture of Barbaro, looking out of his stall the morning of the Preakness, to an inspirational heart design. Read more>
All Jane Heart designs are made and hand finished in Arizona. Each piece has the Barbaro trademark stamp on the back above the JaneHeart logo stamp and arrives in a gift box with a commemorative card with the message."With his heart.he inspires ours." The designs are available to order on line at http://www.janeheart.com/ with delivery by April 10, 2008. Retail locations will be announced at a later date.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each piece will go to the Fund for Laminitis Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Read more in our business Resource Guide>
The trademark Barbaro is used under license.
SPECIAL EVENT: SPECTATORS WELCOME - FREE ADMISSION! The Northeast Florida Dressage Association’s recognized show, Dressage on the First Coast 
, presented by Title sponsor Deep Creek Plantation is on April 5-6, 2008. This show is an Official Region 3 USDF Qualifying Competition for the 2008 North American FEI Junior and Young Riders’ Championships with Judges: Axel Steiner FEI “O” (CA), Hilda Gurney FEI “I” (CA) and is also being held at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center. Sponsors and vendors are welcome and encouraged. The NFDA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Read more at DressageontheFirstCoast.com>
PREMIUM DIRECTORY PORTAL & RESOURCE GUIDE: We have made a ton of additions to our Equine Directory Portal to include a whole new section for Events & Shows so that all of you vendors and show management can list your websites or business information. Remember, if you don’t see a category available for your equine-related business, just ask us to add one. It’s easy with our custom Content Management System. Feel free to add your listing in multiple places, too.
A Premium Directory listing gives you a corresponding listing in the business Resource Guide where you can have your press releases or articles about your businesslisted in the top level category. As a SPRING SPECIAL , if we see that you have paid for a Premium Directory Listing, we will go into our admin and assign your listing to multiple subcategories!
As of today, March 27, 2008, we already have gotten over 667,000 views. Talk about exceeding expectations! New viewers are coming from all over the world now. Our articles are being indexed by the search engines at an amazing rate, so we have really become a 'sticky' site. We have installed Google analytics so we can see where our visitors are coming from and all kinds of associated data.
We at HorsesintheSouth.com want to share our expansion with you and let us help you take your business to the next level. If you send us an email request for a banner ad to mktg@horsesinthesouth.com and mention code MAR08BANNER, you will get ½ off of a 3 month banner display AND we will give you a FREE Premium Directory Listing for all categories that your business is associated under.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Keep adding your 2008 events into our FREE Calendar of Events! Our calendar is for all types of horse-related events. It is available for vewing, adding and updating events 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! 
EMAIL MARKETING: How can your business be a part of our email blasts? Send an email request with EMAILBLAST as the subject to MKTG@HorsesintheSouth.com. for advertising information see our 2008 Media Guide>
$100,000 could be yours… if you know someone who might be interested in this spectacular equestrian property.
