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for herself, and Jan Westmark introduces us to this teen phenom. She also visited with Kayla Patregnani and the mother daughter team of Angela and Megan Millon… and then interviewed dressage rider Sean Cunningham. Our Jan does get around!

There’s more to read, of course: Equine Law, Sport Psychology, My Line, Juniorside columns, and some fun stories I didn’t mention, just so you can fnd them for yourselves.

In many ways, our April issue takes us back to our roots: polo! As our loyal (read older ) readers know, Sidelines began as a polo tabloid, gradually evolving toward the other disciplines, and then discovering the majority of our readers were hunter/jumper or dressage folk. Who woulda guessed?

But once a year, around Open time (that’s the USPA Open to you non poloistas) we get to revisit the sport in a bit more depth. Our new polo writer, Danika Rice introduces us to the family affair that is polo. There are several combos of brothers playing in this year’s Open: Pieres, Mannix, Novillo Astradas are all felding brothers, with a cousin thrown in here or there for good measure. Polo dynasties have long been a part of the game, and it’s fun to see the tradition continuing.

Danika caught up with Jason Crowder, whose father Steve is quite the character out there on the other Coast, and Jason is defnitely following in his footsteps – at least as far as talent on the feld is concerned.

Erin Gilmore interviewed Weston Gracida, whose father Ruben and cousins Julio, Memo and Carlos make up another polo dynasty, and learned he’s a young man very comfortable in his own right. Then, Erin wrote about one of polo’s fnest ponies, La Fortuna, a gelding “sold” for a penny and a kiss.

And on the subject of horses, don’t miss Lauren Giannini’s second part of her For the Love of Horses series. This time, the topic is recycling and training. OTTBs have always been my frst choice, and I am personally delighted that there seems to be a movement toward repurposing these amazing horses for second careers.

Lauren also caught up with Sarah Cousins and memorialized Clementine, one of Northern Virginia’s more famous foxhunters. Samantha Schaefer is a junior who has been making a name