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30 SIDELINES MAY 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE I N G A T E

Catching up: Mary Ross really outdid herself at the

Challenge of the Americas! Drag queens were part of the show and they “rocked the house!” And, might we add, lifted a few eyebrows!

Jennifer Alfano and the SBS crew always keep coming up with winners. They have dominated the hunter divisions at HITS Ocala. This is becoming a tradition for the Buffalo-based trainer.

Congratulations to Reed Kessler, Charlotte Jacobs, DavidArcand, Cayla Richards and Jessica Springsteen , who were on their way to Europe in late March to represent the US in the EY Cup in Lepzieg, Germany.

Congratulations also to Charlie Jacobs who was named the Show Jumping Hall of Fame Rider of the Month for February. Charlie competes in the East Conference Amateur-Owner division of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series aboard Leap of Joy.

What was that we heard about a very prominent horse show photographer who didn’t pay her vender fee at one of these big winter circuits and was barred from the show grounds – lock, stock and barrel? Now that was a serious oopsie if ever there was one!

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Georgina Bloomberg is one busy gal, and her latest project is a series of teen novels set within the equestrian world she knows so well. The frst in the series, The A Circuit (Bloomsbury, original paperback, $9.99), co-written with Cathy Hapka, lands on shelves May 24, 2011; the second novel is scheduled to be released in March 2012.