Big Money = Big Sport: An Exciting Day at the Pfizer Million
Monday, September 12 2011
The scene by the ingate was tense. The crowd lining the hill grew with riders and their connections as the class went on and rider after rider came away with one rail, two rails, six rails. When Duncan McFarlane, 21st to go, finally notched the first clear round, the crowd was overjoyed. As Duncan is based in Northern California, On the Line was especially overjoyed to see a hometown rider shine on the other side of the country in this incredibly difficult class
- Published in On the Line, Z-Blogs
Weltino’s Magic Sweeps USEF National Intermediaire I Dressage Championships
Monday, September 12 2011
Gladstone, NJ - The top three placings in the Intermediaire I National Dressage Championship never changed throughout the week at the 2011 Collecting Gaits Farm Dressage Festival of Championship and Steffen Peters dominated with Weltino’s Magic finishing on a three day average of 78.661%. Riding for Jen Hlavacek, Peters owned the Dick and Jane Brown Arena this morning, and to music by Seven and Five, he showed off the 9-year-old Westphalian gelding’s strengths and was rewarded with a freestyle score of 81.250%
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
Coudray Leads the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team at Fidelity Blenheim International Horse Trials
Monday, September 12 2011
Lexington, KY - With three riders in the top 10, the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team had everything to play for in the show jumping on the final day of the 2011 Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials in Woodstock, U.K. And Tiana Coudray played the game the best for the U.S. throughout the week, adding nothing to her dressage score of 49.4 to finish second on Jaital, Inc.’s, Ringwood Magister, a 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding. “Today it was pretty much textbook,” said Coudray after the show jumping. Photo ©Stock Image Services The California native has had a rough spring.
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
No Raining on This Parade: The First-Ever HITS Hunter Prix Final
Sunday, September 11 2011
Proving Tom Struzzieri’s idiom that the Hunter Prix levels the playing field, a junior rider edged out a pro to win the first-ever half-million dollar hunter prix final this afternoon at HITS on the Hudson. Rounds three and Four were held under dark, and then rainy skies this morning, also proving that hunter riders don’t melt when the going gets tough
- Published in On the Line, Z-Blogs
Peters Maintains His Lead in the Intermediaire I National Dressage Championship; Leibler Cruises to National Young Rider Dressage Championship; and…
Sunday, September 11 2011
Gladstone, NJ - The third day of the 2011 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions meant the second day of the USEF Intermediaire I National Dressage Championship. The results remained unchanged as Steffen Peters won his third class in a row taking the top spot in the Intermediaire I test on Weltino’s Magic with a score of 76.421%. He fought back from a couple of mistakes early on and overcame a couple of misunderstandings to duplicate his win in yesterday’s Prix St. Georges. “It wasn’t quite as easy,” said Peters. “There were a couple of misunderstandings. When I asked for the left half-pass he thought extended trot
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
Escape from Florida – Hunter Prix style
Sunday, September 11 2011
Late summer in Florida has been lovely (no, really), but this weekend, On the Line is enjoying an escape north, to a little 75-degree sunshine sans the humidity. Naturally, I’m at a horse show to watch a grand prix. It’s Pfizer Million weekend! The United States’ only $1,000,000 grand prix show jumping class made big waves when it debuted last year.
- Published in On the Line, Z-Blogs
Burghley Comments
Saturday, September 10 2011
What an exciting weekend at Burghley! I must say after watching the course walk preview with Alice Fox-Pitt and Mark Phillips a few weeks ago I was slightly concerned about some of the horse and rider combinations attempting to tackle the course.
- Published in Onward, Upward, Z-Blogs
Training Races: Part 2
Friday, September 09 2011
Not long after arriving in Louisiana, it became clear that Bobby was the only one who could get along with our best mare, who had been a stakes winner. Perhaps it was because he was too polluted for fear, but Bobby was the only one who could get in the stall with her. So naturally, he was put in charge of her. It wasn’t long before he started calling her Alice, after his ex-wife. She would pin her ears and swing her butt to the door as he tried to duck under the webbing
- Published in Injecting Perspective, Z-Blogs
Five Questions for Maxance McManamy
Friday, September 09 2011
By Lauren R. Giannini
Max McManamy, 19, is a rising star in three-day eventing. At the 2008 North American Junior & Young Rider Championships, Beacon Hill and Max finished fourth individually and earned team gold in the CCI** with Jennifer … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
Andrea Kent Paints in the Style of … (Fill in the Blank)
Friday, September 09 2011
By Lauren R. Giannini
“My father put a paintbrush in my hand when I was two,” recalls Andrea Kent. “He was a landscape and wildlife painter, a classically trained European artist. He nurtured me the way that European apprentices were … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature