26 SIDELINES NOVEMBER 2012
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
Our condolences to Sidelines contributing writer
Sydney
Masters
, who lost her mother,
Carol B. Brown
, age 76,
after a long illness. Carol wrote the book “My Kingdom for a
Horse” - a guide to help parents of horse-obsessed children.
The book was about Sydney and her friends and features
a classic photo of
Greg Best
with the pony
Snow Goose
.
Greg’s mom Maxine was Sydney’s trainer. After Carol’s
husband passed away in 2001, she started her own antiques
business in her barn called “The Dog & Pony Show.”
Carol rode with the Radnor Hunt, was a whipper in at the
Tomaquag Valley Hounds and more recently rode with the
Guilford Hounds. She also drove her pair, Rennie (pictured)
and Dancer, in New Hampshire.
the blue ribbon at the Area 9 eventing championships in Gillette,
Wyoming, at the Powder Basin Horse Trials. Job well done!
Saving the animals!
Barbara Nelson
, Joint Master of the Fox
Hounds for
Whiskey Road Fox Hounds
in Aiken, South Carolina,
has been on an animal shelter mission and what a huge mission
it has been. The brand new state-of-the-art animal shelter has
opened and is beautiful. The
SPCA Albrecht Center for Animal
Welfare
includes a Regional Spay and Neuter Clinic where the
most expensive surgery is only $70 and an Education and Training
Center for dog training, pet therapy and student education.
We’ve heard that
Colin Dangaard
has a new historical novel
that is causing some excitement in the horse world and beyond.
Check out Barnes and Nobles for early reviews of “Talking with
Horses.”
The equestrian world lost two great women recently.
Toni
DelFiandra
, the President of the South Florida Hunter Jumper
Association and mother of
Michael DelFiandra
, of Sweet Oak
Farm, lost her battle with ovarian cancer.
Rebecca “Becca”
L’Heureux
, of Alexandria, Virginia, lost her battle with brain
cancer. Becca, 24, was the daughter of
Mary Crane
of Dover,
Massachusetts. A life-long equestrian, Becca competed and
foxhunted in the United States and abroad.
SvenHarmsen
, of The Netherlands, the Royal Dutch Equestrian
Federation’s Chef d’Equipe, national coach and trainer for Ponies,
Juniors and Young Riders in Jumping, passed away at the age of
51. He attended the 2012 Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ in Calgary
as Chef d’Equipe with the senior Dutch team of
Jur Vrieling, Leon
Thijssen, Harrie Smolders
and
Jeroen Dubbeldam
, and shared
their bronze medal win in the BMO Nations’ Cup on 8 September.
Later that evening at the gala dinner he suffered a severe heart
attack, from which he was unable to recover.
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