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move up into the top ten. G&C owner Gustavo Mirabel hired Nick to facilitate more success from this already outstanding farm. . . do we hear London calling?

The Tryon Riding & Hunt Club is offering fve weeks of A rated shows this summer and will also be working with JP Godard on his June date at FENCE. Visit www.trhcevents.org for more

information. The managers of the FENCE facility have been had at work renovating the barns in anticipation of the new events.

Kyle King celebrated his birthday with a bang when he rode Corrine Super’s Capone I to a triumph in the $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix on February 13, presented by Pfzer Animal Health, at the HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California. Have you heard the story behind this incredible stallion? It’s a juicy one, and worth the time to Google it!

By the way, winning that Sunday’s feature class was extra remarkable for the birthday boy, who won the Grand Prix with the largest starting feld to date at the 2011 HITS Desert Circuit . They were the top horse-and-rider combination out of 49 horses!

The Colorado Horse Park will be highlighted with nearly $1,000,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs during the inaugural edition of the expanded Colorado Summer Circuit, June 8-July 24, 2011. For 20 years this circuit has attracted some of the continent’s best hunter and jumper competitors, and this year it expands to six weeks. Pat Boyle and Showplace Productions will offer exhibitors their trademarked fve-star hospitality, while CHP is busy creating an exciting slate of new amenities. The Grand Prix ring is currently under construction and brand new footing is being installed. New jumps, new gardens, a competitor’s lounge and other facility improvements are just a few of the items receiving a makeover.

Passing: It is with great sadness that our horse community acknowledges the passing of Debby Malloy Winkler . The German based American show jumping rider died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall while cooling out her horse following a training session in February. She was wife to fve-time German Olympian Hans Günter Winkler and only 51 years old.

Will Simpson and Candice King, participants in the 2011 Sidelines Tetrathlon presented by FarmVet, continued their reining ways in Florida when they took a reining lesson from USEF Horseman of the Year Tom McCutcheon on February 21.