40 SIDELINES JANUARY 2012
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
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Day. Aiken Hounds celebrated their 97th opening meet
this year, making it one of the older hunts in the nation.
Wedding bells: Keri Kampsen and Will Meierfeld
were married
November 18, 2011. Finally! They met when Keri was 14 and
Will 16, while riding in the Juniors.
Jack Robson
, the long time FEI & USEF Jumper Judge and
Course Designer, and his long time girlfriend
Charlotte Skinner
,
also an FEI and USEF Jumper Judge, both fnally got over their
fear of commitment and were married during the recent Las Vegas
National Horse Show. It was about time, since they have been a
couple for centuries (or so it seems).
New baby department:
On November 3
, Jane and Cameron
Macleod
were blessed with the birth of their son,
Ruairi (Rory)
George Macleod.
He weighed 7lbs. 14 oz. and mother, son and
dad are all doing well, but probably not sleeping much.
Horse Show News: Equestrian Sport Productions
sent
in their formal Expression of Interest to host the
2018 World
Equestrian Games
at the Palm Beach International Equestrian
Center in Wellington, Florida. The Expression of Interest
documents are the frst step towards submitting a bid to host the
FEI World Equestrian Games. The FEI reports that at press time,
a total of 8 national federations have fled Expressions of Interest.
Wow is all we can say about the
Alltech National Horse Show
this year – it was truly the rebirth of the National! We don’t go to
many shows where everyone is happy and full of praise!
Hugh
Kincannon
and his staff really stepped up to the plate to make
this event special. Those who speculated that Hugh couldn’t pull
it off were wrong! We hear next year will really be over the top so
put this event (Oct. 31st to Nov 4th) on your calendar now.
Congratulations to
Jessica Springsteen
who was awarded the
Martha Jolicoeur Leading Lady Rider
title at this year’s Alltech
National Horse Show in Lexington, Kentucky. Jessica is one of
this nation’s rising stars for sure.
We hear from
Eurospy
that the show jumpers are still not
happy with the surface to be used at the 2012 Olympics after a
second round of tests suggested the
going was still “too heavy”
.
Olympic organizer LOCOG confrmed work will be done before
Preliminary fndings from the post mortem on Hickstead,
Eric Lamaze’s 2008 Olympic gold medal horse that died
during the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping qualifer at
Verona (ITA) on 6 November, have confrmed an aortic
rupture, resulting in heart failure. The 15 year old stallion
collapsed and died after completing his round of jumping
with just four faults. Eric Lamaze (CAN) was uninjured in the
incident
Photo by Lauren R. Giannini