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Judges, Course Designer Announced for Alltech National Horse Show

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Chrystine Tauber and Robert Ridland to Judge ASPCA Maclay Finals. Linda Hough and Joe Darby for Hunter Divisions. Homfeld Tabbed as Course Designer.

Chrystine Tauber. Photos ©Kenneth Kraus/PhelpsSports.com

Lexington, Kentucky – February 6, 2013 – The Alltech National Horse Show, scheduled for the Alltech Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, on October 29 through November 3, 2013, today announced the line-up of judges for the Hunter divisions and the ASPCA Maclay National Championship. The Course Designer for this year’s event was also revealed.

Invited to judge the highly competitive hunter divisions for the 2013 edition of the Alltech National Horse Show are Linda Hough, of Wellington, Florida, and Joe Darby of Southern Pines, North Carolina. Both Hough and Darby are inductees in the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame and are two of the most popular and highly-rated hunter judges in the United States.

For more than two decades Hough ran Sutton Place, a highly successful hunter/jumper barn in her native Northern California foothills. Her top hunter Bavaria was named the 1990 Chronicle Horse of the Year and later that same year she was awarded the California Horsewoman of the Year. In 2004 Hough was recognized with the WCHR Lifetime Achievement award, the Daniel P. Lenehan Perpetual Trophy and in 2005 was inducted into the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame.

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HITS Selects Conrad Homfeld to Design AIG Thermal $1 Million Grand Prix Course

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Photo Provided. Conrad Homfeld and Abdullah at the 1986 World Championships in Aachen, Germany.

THERMAL, CA (December 29, 2012) – Two-time Olympic medalist Conrad Homfeld has been selected as course designer for the AIG Thermal $1 Million Grand Prix, presented by Lamborghini Newport Beach. This history-making event is scheduled for March 17 as the closing note to seven weeks of non-stop hunter/jumper action on the 2013 HITS Desert Circuit, Jan. 22 – March 17 at the HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, CA.

Homfeld will design the courses in the Grand Prix Ring during Desert Circuit VII, March 12-17. While every one of them will be special, it is the inaugural AIG Thermal $1 Million Grand Prix on which the eyes of the world will be affixed.

“In planning each detail of the first-ever AIG Thermal $1 Million we have taken great care to ensure that it is in every way a special event ― one that’s memorable for exhibitors and spectators alike,” said HITS President and CEO Tom Struzzieri. “In keeping with that strategy, it’s appropriate to have Conrad design the test. As a show manager, I appreciate working with someone whose plan makes a course challenging and beautiful at the same time.”

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