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Lauren Sammis And Charles Owen Team Up At The USEF Dressage Festival of Champions To Raise Funds and Helmet Awareness
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| Crystal Gaskell (left) was the lucky winner of a Charles Owen Helmet, during a raffle to support helmet awareness, at the 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions. Gaskell was awarded her helmet (from left to right) by Grand Prix rider and Pan Am Gold Medalist Lauren Sammis, Charles Owen Marketing and Public Relations Manager Danielle Santos and Al Guden, who owns Sammis’s dressage partner Sagacious HF. |
Dressage rider Lauren Sammis, who earned a Gold Medal at the Pan American Games, awarded fellow dressage rider Crystal Gaskell with a brand new Charles Owen helmet during the 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions. Gaskell, of Cazenovia, New York, won the helmet through a Charles Owen Helmet raffle, in support of the Riders4Helmets campaign started by SUCCEED, with all the proceeds from the raffle going to the USET Foundation.
“I always ride in a helmet and I was looking for a new helmet so this works out great,” said Gaskell, adding that she was extremely excited about winning the raffle. “I have a 23-year-old Dutch horse that I ride named Figaro. He did his first grand prix with my daughter when he was 21.”
Aug 29, 2010, 16:28
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He’s Yours, Murray: Jason Mraz Joins The Alltech Fortnight Festival
Jason Mraz will take the stage on September 26 at the Murray State University Regional Special Events Center as part of the Alltech Fortnight Festival™ during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010™. Special guest Christina Perri will open the performance at 7 p.m. CST.
The popularity of Mraz’s latest album “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.” was jump-started by the single “I’m Yours” and has enjoyed international acclaim ever since its release. His pop roots remain but have given way to a more inspired, mature sound in recent recordings. Mraz states that his new album was inspired by “moments of self-realization, self-empowerment and self-improvement.”
Aug 29, 2010, 15:40
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Gary Allan Gears Up to Rock Morehead with the Alltech Fortnight Festival
Gary Allan will perform September 26 in Morehead as part of the Alltech Fortnight Festival™ during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010™. The show will be held in the Ellis T. Johnson Arena at Morehead State University at 7 p.m. and will include special guests Randy Houser and Jerrod Niemann.
The sound on Allan’s new album, “Living Hard," is a hybrid of rock and country with a heavy Rolling Stones influence. Allan has written more songs on this album than any of his past works and states that he plans on “baring his soul for the price of your ticket.” His music finds its roots in his personal experiences, from his childhood in California to the death of his wife in 2004.
Aug 29, 2010, 12:08
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Gary Allan Gears Up to Rock Morehead with the Alltech Fortnight Festival
Gary Allan will perform September 26 in Morehead as part of the Alltech Fortnight Festival™ during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010™. The show will be held in the Ellis T. Johnson Arena at Morehead State University at 7 p.m. and will include special guests Randy Houser and Jerrod Niemann.
The sound on Allan’s new album, “Living Hard," is a hybrid of rock and country with a heavy Rolling Stones influence. Allan has written more songs on this album than any of his past works and states that he plans on “baring his soul for the price of your ticket.” His music finds its roots in his personal experiences, from his childhood in California to the death of his wife in 2004.
Aug 29, 2010, 11:02
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FELICIA BRADLEY TO COMPETE AT RICHLAND PARK HORSE TRIALS
Twenty-year-old Atlanta eventing rider Felicia Bradley is gearing up to compete at the 2010 Richland Park Horse Trials to take place August 25-30 in Richland, MI. Bradley is a consistent Top 5 finisher with appearances at more than 50 shows during her young career.
In preparation for the 2010 American Eventing Championships, held at Chattahoochee Hills in September, Bradley will be riding both of her horses at this year’s Richland Park Horse Trials: an 9-year-old thoroughbred at the Two Star level (Irish Dreams) and a 6-year-old Irish sport horse at the One Star level (Garryndruig Albie).
Aug 29, 2010, 11:01
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Anderson Aims to Carry on Road to the Horse Tradition Started in 2003
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| Anderson standing a top his 2005 colt |
In 2003, a legend was born when Road to the Horse, a revolutionary colt-starting competition, matched up three horse trainers and gave them the challenge of a lifetime. Winning the two day event, Clinton Anderson awed and amazed those in attendance with his flamboyant style. Anderson will once again step into the lime-light when he competes in the 2011 Road to the Horse Legends. Matched up against Pat Parelli and Chris Cox, he aims for a third victory in Murfreesboro, TN on February 25-27, 2011.
Although Road to the Horse has grown into an event of epic proportion with worldwide exposure, the first competition was a very new experience for all those involved as participants and spectators. Held at the Cowtown Coliseum in historic stockyards of Fort Worth, Texas, the competition featured Anderson, Curt Pate and Josh Lyons. Winning on a colt named Hancock Sug, he created a Road to the Horse tradition during his freestyle when he stood up on the back of the horse and cracked a whip.
Aug 26, 2010, 11:29
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FEI President welcomes “long overdue” Congress on NSAIDs
FEI President HRH Princess Haya welcomed the FEI initiative to hold a Congress on Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) Usage and Medication in the Equine Athlete, declaring it as long overdue and the first real opportunity to bring together all the new science on NSAIDs since the FEI’s 1993 ban on their use in competition.
“Knowledge and an understanding of all aspects in the debate on NSAIDs is key to an informed decision”, the FEI President stated in her opening address. “What we all most want from this Congress above all else is to give us, the FEI family, the tools and the confidence to have the wisdom to do what we all so clearly have shown we want to do - that is what is right for our partner, the horse”, she said, emphasising the universal message of the Congress and the paramount principle of the sport, the welfare of the horse.
Aug 25, 2010, 14:27
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GARY PLAYER, A GOLF LEGEND Reveals What it Takes to Achieve Success When the Pressure is On…in Golf and in Life!
DON’T CHOKE: A Champion’s Guide to Winning Under Pressure By Gary Player, Foreword by Dr. Bob Rotella
“Gary, as much as anyone I ever saw, has that thing inside him that champions have.”
—Jack Nicklaus
“Gary is one of the greatest competitors who ever played the game.”
—Arnold Palmer
It doesn’t take thirty-five years of working with the greatest athletes, golfers, and businessmen in the world to learn that everyone feels pressure. It does, however, take a man as seasoned and accomplished as Gary Player to teach us how to succeed under pressure and avoid choking in competitive situations. Gary Player is one of golf’s greatest champions. As one of the “Big Three” of golf’s golden era (with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer), he helped launch golf as a major international sport. Don’t Choke is his look at what it takes to triumph over adversity.
Aug 24, 2010, 12:45
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Feed expert serves up education at Midwest Horse Fair®
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| Juliet M. Getty, Ph.D |
The Midwest Horse Fair® will welcome feed consultant Juliet M. Getty, Ph.D. to the April 15-17, 2011 event. Each year this equine expo, held at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis., brings in an incredible array of top clinicians and exhibitors from all over the country. With the 2011 theme of “StarGrazing,” the Midwest Horse Fair® will be another opportunity to let the stars of the horse industry shine.
Based in beautiful rural Bayfield, Colo., Dr. Getty runs a consulting company, Getty Equine Nutrition, LLC, through which she offers private consultations and designs customized feeding plans to promote horses' health, reverse illness, and optimize performance.
Aug 24, 2010, 11:54
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National Cowgirl Museum to Induct Five
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| Betty Dusek |
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is proud to announce Betty Dusek, Kay Gay, Temple Grandin, Ph.D., Joyce Gibson Roach and Hortense Ward as inductees to the Hall of Fame for 2010. All five women will be honored during the 35th Annual Induction Luncheon Ceremony on October 28, 2010 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring and celebrating women, past and present, whose lives exemplify the courage, resilience, and independence that helped shape the American West, and fosters an appreciation of the ideals and spirit of self-reliance they inspire. It is the legacy of legends.
Aug 23, 2010, 11:14
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MEET BASSE-NORMANDIE, HOST OF 2014 WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES, AT WEG 2010 IN LEXINGTON FROM SEPT. 25 TO OCT. 10
The Basse-Normandie region, located on the shores of the English Channel in northwest France, will send a delegation to the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, from September 25 to October 10, 2010. The group of about 100 people - elected officials, French government representatives, heads of local equine and food companies, top Normandy chefs, tourism professionals, etc. - will be at the France-Normandy Pavilion. The WEG's expected 600,000 visitors will be able to take advantage of a unique opportunity to find out about or rediscover the strong points of the French region hosting the World Equestrian Games from August 17 to 31, 2014.
Aug 23, 2010, 11:05
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Death of Canadian Olympian Walter Pady
The FEI deeply regrets the death this week of 1952 Helsinki Olympian and former Chair of the Canadian Equestrian Team, 77-year-old Walter Pady, following a car accident in Ontario.
Initially identified as an Eventing talent and a member of Canada’s first Olympic equestrian team in the three-day event competition in Helsinki (FIN), Mr Pady switched to Jumping and scored a number of top placings during Canada’s first European show jumping tour in 1954.
Aug 20, 2010, 16:14
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Paul Has Sizzlin’ Summer
Arizona trainer Randy Paul competed in two shows in just two weeks and walked away with one championship title, one reserve championship title, and more than $11,000 in the bank.
At The Reining By The Bay in Woodside, California, Paul piloted Star For The Chicks, owned by Rancho Oso Rio, LLC, of Scottsdale, Arizona, to scorching 230 score to tie for the reserve championship. The finish earned a paycheck worth $5444. Paul also tied for seventh place on Tinker With Diamonds, also owned by Rancho Oso Rio. The pair scored a 224.5 to earn a check worth $1614.
Aug 19, 2010, 13:31
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Dr. Jennifer Feiner VMD of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute Becomes 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ Quarantine Veterinarian
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| Dr. Jennifer Feiner VMD of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute evaluating and treating an equine. Photo © 2010Courtesy of Client. |
As the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ approach, preparation has begun for the arrival of the equine athletes at the Kentucky Horse Park. All elements are being carefully examined, from travel, to the quarantine facility to the well-being of equine athletes. Dr. Jennifer Feiner VMD, of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, will be the veterinarian in charge of the quarantine, which will follow all protocols provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dr. Feiner will utilize her experience with equine quarantine gained from her years as a veterinarian and as a quarantine veterinarian during the Hong Kong Olympics. Dr. Feiner and her team will play an important role in protecting equines from infectious diseases while they are competing at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™.
Aug 18, 2010, 16:13
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“One in 1.3 billion” rider encourages equestrian world to send nominations for FEI Awards
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| Alex Hua Tian, Chinese Olympic Eventing rider and winner of the FEI's 2009 HSBC Rising Star Award (photo: Kit Houghton) |
China’s first Olympic Eventing rider Alex Hua Tian is urging the equestrian community to make its nominations for the five-category 2010 FEI Awards.
Hua Tian, whom the Chinese media dubbed the “one in 1.3 billion” in the run-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics, won the FEI’s HSBC Rising Star Award last year. The award rewards a rider aged between 14 and 21 who demonstrates significant talent and outstanding commitment. The judging panel, chaired by FEI President HRH Princess Haya, selected Hua Tian for his riding skills and the unwavering dedication that enabled him to cope with intense press scrutiny and pressure before and during the 2008 Olympic Games.
Aug 16, 2010, 12:51
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Chris Cox Two-Time Consecutive Road to the Horse Champion
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| Chris Cox |
Looking to become a living legend, two-time Road to the Horse champion, Chris Cox seeks to become the only competitor who will hold three buckles from the world championship of colt-starting. Competing against Pat Parelli and two-time winner Clinton Anderson, Cox hopes to be the “last man standing” at the Road to the Horse Legends in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on February 25-27, 2011.
Entering the Road to the Horse arena for the first time in 2007, Cox had the formidable task of going up against two previous champions. Competing against Stacy Westfall and Clinton Anderson, Cox said he went into the competition hoping to win but also wanting to educate the crowd.
Aug 14, 2010, 19:42
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Television's star horse trainer Julie Goodnight travels to Kentucky for the International Equestrian Festival at WEG
Introducing the International Equestrian Festival™ in 2010
In the heart of city hosting the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, produced by Horse Capital Productions, LLC.
Downtown Lexington, Kentucky
September 25 - October 10, 2010
Join Julie Goodnight for Daily Demonstrations at the International Equestrian Festival During WEG
About Julie Goodnight:
Goodnight is an internationally respected trainer and clinician with experience in many types of training. She grew up riding ponies and horses on an Orlando farm and competed in hunter jumpers throughout her youth. Goodnight counts horses among her earliest friends; she spent many summer days hanging out in the horse pasture and studying how the horses moved and interacted. During her college days in New Mexico, Goodnight earned extra money by warming up Thoroughbreds on the racetrack. The cowgirl felt at home in the west and soon hit the trails and began studying Western disciplines. Always the adventurer, she began leading riders through the Rocky Mountains. As a natural teacher, Goodnight decided to make horses her life's work-and to teach people how to work with horses safely and with kindness. Showing her dedication to teaching and safety, Goodnight earned her Master Instructor and Clinician ranking with the Certified Horsemanship Association (the association she continues to represent as International Spokesperson). She presents clinics and teaches people at horse expos around NorthAmerica. She recently won Equine Affaire's Exceptional Equestrian Educator award-an award only presented three times in the well-known trade show's 15-year history.
Aug 8, 2010, 13:34
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UPSTATE NY FARM A HAVEN FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS; LITTLE BROOK FARM RESCUES HORSES & BUILDS SELF-ESTEEM
Although she stands just five feet two inches tall, Lynn Cross has the ability to take the biggest, most broken down and unwanted horse and nurse him back to health, adding ten to twenty years to the animal’s life. In addition to giving these animals a safe place to live, she also gives them a purpose: she has created an award-winning educational program that matches children and adults of all abilities with the horses. “Many of the horses were abandoned, abused or just not engaged…not unlike some of the children who visit the farm. It’s as if they relate on a higher, more compassionate level, and it’s a win-win for all,” shares Ms. Cross.
Jul 29, 2010, 15:35
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Hollywood star endorses 2010 FEI Awards
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| Robert Duvall, The Road film photocall, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 13 September 2009 (photo: Canadian Press/Rex Features) |
American actor and director Robert Duvall has given his support to the annual awards organised by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the governing body of horse sport. The FEI launched the “Oscars of the equestrian world” last year to reward outstanding dedication to horse sport in five categories. Calls for nominations for the 2010 awards opened on July 16.
Hollywood legend Duvall is best-known for his roles in The Apostle, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and Tender Mercies. His performances have earned him an Academy Award, a BAFTA, two Emmys and four Golden Globe Awards.
Jul 29, 2010, 15:06
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Dean DeLuke Has Taken Up Dick Francis Reins
A divergent cast of unforgettable characters with ambition, deception, and revenge on their minds jockey for high stakes as organized crime confronts the thoroughbred racing society in Dean DeLuke’s debut thriller, Shedrow.
The novel moves from operating rooms in New York City through the lush, rolling pastures of Lexington, Kentucky, to fabulous tracks like Gulfstream and Saratoga, where high society and the racing elite spend fortunes to win at all cost. It also moves from Manhattan’s tony ‘21’ Club into the dark and dirty back alleys of Newark, New Jersey. Everyone we meet along the way—Kentucky hill folk, dedicated veterinarians, gamblers and grifters, trainers and killers—all make Shedrow a cleverly drawn twist on the popular medical thriller genre.
Jul 29, 2010, 12:26
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The "Man Who Listens to Horses" to Present at the International Equestrian Festival
World-renowned horseman Monty Roberts will demonstrate his revolutionary horse training techniques at the International Equestrian Festival on September 25 and 26 from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Roberts is one of many celebrities scheduled to appear at the Festival, which takes place September 25 - October 10 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Monty Roberts is author of three New York Times best-sellers, including "The Man Who Listens to Horses," which catapulted the trainer and Hollywood stunt man to fame, and shared his Join~Up® training method to horse lovers across the globe. Roberts transformed traditional training techniques, which often relied on inflicting force and demands upon the horse, by developing a more humane, non-violent approach. His method utilizes the body language horses use to communicate with one another, to encourage a bond of partnership between horse and human. Unique to his presentation at the International Equestrian Festival - and the first time it's been presented in the United States - is Roberts' use of a heart-rate monitor on each horse to illustrate the effectiveness of his methods. The audience will be able to listen and watch as Roberts taps into the heart of the horse to gauge his success.
Jul 29, 2010, 12:14
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SHEDROW: A Novel by Dean DeLuke
Publisher: Grey Swan Press, August 2010
256 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-9800377-6-0
Price: $28.95
A divergent cast of unforgettable characters with ambition, deception, and revenge on their minds jockey for high stakes as organized crime confronts the thoroughbred racing society in Dean DeLuke’s debut thriller, Shedrow.
The novel moves from operating rooms in New York City through the lush, rolling pastures of Lexington, Kentucky, to fabulous tracks like Gulfstream and Saratoga, where high society and the racing elite spend fortunes to win at all cost. It also moves from Manhattan’s tony ‘21’ Club into the dark and dirty back alleys of Newark, New Jersey. Everyone we meet along the way—Kentucky hill folk, dedicated veterinarians, gamblers and grifters, trainers and killers—all make Shedrow a cleverly drawn twist on the popular medical thriller genre.
Jul 28, 2010, 16:29
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Horse Shows by the Bay Supports Charity Fundraising Efforts
Horse Shows by the Bay kicked off their second week of competition today. Although there was plenty of jumping action to see, there was also a lot of charity fundraising being done outside the arena. Last night, the horse show hosted a kickball tournament and cookout to benefit the USHJA Horsemen's Assistance Fund. Carrie Gunst of Personalized Products has been organizing the event since its start.
"When we were still at the old facility, a bunch of people started playing kickball and soccer for fun so I came up with the idea to play for a charity and sell t-shirts. We sell t-shirts for $20 apiece and we have a cook out and it is just for fun but we raise money for the USHJA Horsemen's Assistance Fund," said Gunst.
Jul 27, 2010, 11:38
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“Diana — The People’s Princess” Makes Royal Debut at the New Branson Exhibition Center
The Branson Exhibition Center announced today the grand opening of its first world-class exhibition, Diana — The People’s Princess, for a special limited engagement. Already experienced by adoring audiences around the world, this blockbuster exhibition opened Thursday, July 1, 2010 – just in time to commemorate Diana’s 49th birthday.
Centrally located at the former Roy Rogers Museum on Green Mountain Drive, Diana — The People’s Princess is a fascinating, full-scale exhibition which gives an intimate glimpse at the life of Princess Diana— as told through her own personal objects and stories from every day life.
A Royal Treat Comes to Branson
Displayed in a stunning 26,000-sq. ft. setting, this exhibition showcases an impressive collection of Diana’s own dresses-- which she auctioned for charity weeks before her untimely death-- as well as hundreds of artifacts and historic mementos relating to her life in a world-class, museum-quality, interactive experience.
Jul 17, 2010, 10:16
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Tami Hoag Donates Westfalen Gelding- Fhilospher to Become a Professor at University of Findlay’s Equestrian Studies Program
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| Tami Hoag aboard Fhilosopher who will soon be at the head of the class at the University of Findlay Equestrian Studies Program in Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Tami Hoag) |
Fifteen-time New York Times bestselling mystery writer and professional Grand Prix dressage rider, Tami Hoag has donated Fhilosopher, her 11-year-old Westfalian gelding by Fidermark to take midterm tests instead of dressage tests at the University of Findlay in Ohio. Hoag describes him as a “wonderful horse with an incredible character and a lot of quality.”
While Fhilosopher will be an asset to the college, Hoag explained he has limitations that will not allow him to be a top FEI horse. Therefore, her loss will be the gain of Findlay students. In fact, instead of the judge’s bell Fhil will start his day to the school bell. Hoag said, “with Fhilosopher the students will learn what it feels like to ride a truly world class mover, and how to maintain a soft consistent contact with the bridle with a horse that sometimes like to play hide-and-seek with the bit! He will make any student who mounts him a better rider with a greater awareness for quality of gaits.”
Jul 16, 2010, 15:08
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