38 SIDELINES AUGUST 2012
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
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Congratulations to show jumper
Daniel
Bluman
, who rides for Colombia, and lives in
Wellington. Daniel is on a roll – on opening day at
Spruce Meadows he and Sancha la Silla won the
$32,000 Enbridge Cup. The bigger news is that
Daniel and Sancha are headed to the London
Olympics, where they will compete for their
country. Good luck to this amazing duo.
Sidelines is heading to Colorado
! We
are excited to announce that the combination
of Sidelines and Colorado is growing, expanding
and booming! Sidelines is a proud sponsor of the
Colorado Horse Park
and you can fnd monthly
issues of Sidelines and Sidelines banners
throughout the Horse Park. More great news:
You can also fnd Sidelines at many of the local
tack stores throughout the Colorado equestrian
communities: Dover Saddlery, A Bit of Tack and
Vetlink in Parker; Foxcreek in Boulder; Happy
Horse in Fort Collins; Once Upon a Horse in
Castlerook; and Frank’s Feed and Supply in
Elizabeth. Here we come Colorado! Be sure and
LOOK for Sidelines in your favorite Colorado
tack store!
Congrats to
Chloe Reid
of Washington, DC
on being named to the 2012 Show Jumping
European Junior Rider Tour by the USEF. She
will be traveling with three qualifed horses: King
of Hearts, Quebon and Toulon.
Holly Hugo-Vidal
, Sidelines’ West Side Story
columnist has teamed up with
Alicia Saxton
at Oceancrest Farms in Rancho Santa Fe,
California. Holly will continue to judge and give
clinics.
Liliane Stransky
, an avid poker player and
owner of Stransky’s Mission Farm and her team
of riders are at it again helping children in need
and jumping behind a new cause called Aces For
Kids. Funds raised by Step by Step supporters will
go to provide “Step Ahead” backpacks to abused
and abandoned children and poker players like
Paulo Santana, Angel Karolyi, Jimmy Torano
and
Margie Engle
are helping the cause.
SmartPak and Alli-
son Springer: On The
Road To London -
Three-day eventer
Alli-
son Springer
, who placed
second at the 2012 Ken-
tucky Rolex, has always
had an unshakeable faith
in her horse Arthur. On the
heels of their remarkable
Rolex run, the duo continued
to live their dream when they
were added to the short-list
for the 2012 Olympic Games
in London. Allison credits
the daily customized supple-
ments from
SmartPak
, one
of her sponsors, on helping
to unlock Arthur’s potential.
The 17 hand Irish Sport-
horse gelding, who looks
like a million bucks, is four-
ishing with:
SmartFlex®
IV Ultimate
, one-of-a-kind
formula designed to support
elite performance horses in
intense work, by providing
advanced care for joints,
tendons and ligaments;
SmartDigest® Ultra
, an in-
novative combination of pro-
biotics, prebiotics, enzymes,
oat beta glucan and other in-
gredients specially designed
to support a healthy, bal-
anced digestive tract; and
SmartLytes®,
a sugar-free,
cherry favored electrolyte
formula carefully designed
to replenish sodium chloride
and other minerals lost in
equine sweat.
Allison Springer and Arthur
triumph at Rolex
Photo by Lauren R. Giannini