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2 thru 6, 2011. This event will host a full compliment of hunter and jumpers and host the fnals for the ASPCA Alfred B. Maclay. This horse show will be managed jointly by Hugh Kincannon and Leo Conroy .

Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum made a splash competing at HITS Thermal this year, where she traveled all the way from her home base in Germany with a group of young horses, husband Markus and daughter Brianne in tow. Now we hear that “someone” has offered her a pretty sweet deal to base herself from California for one to two years. Nothing is decided, but with Meredith’s mother still living in Southern CA, we think anything’s possible.

Horse Sports by the Bay is expanding to fve contiguous weeks this year. Events will be starting on June 30 with two back-to-back USDF Level 3 rated dressage shows and then will be followed by four weeks of USEF AA Hunter - Level 4 Jumper competition starting July 6 - July 31. Over $550,000 is being allocated to prize money and awards. All new footing is being installed in the main competition arena.

Lusitano breeders Haras Dos Cavaleiros , who made a splash at the World Equestrian Games with their Lusitano Lounge, will break new ground once again at The Pin Oak Charity Horse Show as an Offcial Presenting Sponsor this year. Owners Rafael Chávez Monzón and Carmina Zamorano González will be Pin Oak’s frst International Hospitality Sponsors in 2011, bringing their Lusitano Lounge and at least six horses to show at Pin Oak Week One March 23 – 27 at Great Southwest Equestrian Center in Katy, TX. Haras Dos Cavaleiros is a major supporter of Working Equitation competition in both Mexico and the United States, and has expressed interest in bringing Working Equitation to Pin Oak

Six-time Olympian Nick Skelton will be the new coach for the G&C Farm’s riders, including Pablo Barrios

We hear the talented rider Garrett Warner , from California, has moved East to work for Aaron Vale . . .

The 2011 HITS Culpeper Show Series , that takes place in the heart of Virginia horse country, will host a total of six $40,000 Grand Prix, fve of which will qualify for this year’s Pfzer $1 Million Grand Prix. Inaddition,HITSCulpeperwill alsohost fve$5,000Devoucoux Hunter Prix, all of which will qualify for the all-new Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix Final. That’s some pretty big bucks!

Nick Skelton recently signed on as coach to Pablo Barrios and the team at G&C Farm . At press time Pablo was holding the 26th standing in the FEI world ranking of show jumping, and wants to