124 SIDELINES JANUARY 2013
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
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Congratulations to Olympic rider
Adrienne Lyle
and her star
mount Wizard. Adrienne was the only American rider ranked in the
Dressage FEI World Individual Dressage Rankings released at
the end of October.
Adelinde Cornelissen
, of The Netherlands,
topped the list followed by British rider
Charlotte Dujardin
.
Adrienne cracked the top 50 with a ranking of #43 – go Adrienne
and Wizard. Go USA!
Catherine Chamberlain
, 17, of Chandler, Arizona,
is one busy
teenager! The United States Dressage Federation named her the
2012 USDF Youth Volunteer of the Year. The prestigious award
honors one outstanding youth volunteer who has contributed on a
national and local basis to USDF and dressage. Catherine serves
as the Chair of the Arizona Dressage Association’s (ADA) Junior/
Young Rider Committee and as a Director of their Board. Keep
up the good work Catherine, the future of dressage is brighter
because of volunteers like you.
The dates for the fourth annual 2012-2013
Ocala Horse
Properties International Events
at the Florida Horse Park are
January 5-6, February 8-10, and April 11-14, 2013.
Here comes the Pres…
George Williams
wowed the crowd
at ShopTalk at ShowChic in Wellington, Florida. Sort of a sneak
preview before the USDF Convention! The evening’s hottest topic:
the inaugural
US Dressage Finals
(yes they are fnally going to
have a nationwide dressage championship). It won’t confict with
the USET National Championships for high performance either,
hence the name Dressage Finals! So plan ahead DQ’s for Nov
7-10th 2013 at the Kentucky Horse Park!
She’s Just a Materiale Girl…dressage trainer
Heidi Degele
of Loxahatchee, Florida, said she had high hopes for
Jessica
Beier’s
Don Fredo in their frst show at the Gold Coast Dressage
Association Fall Fling. And Heidi delivered -- winning the Materiale
class on Don Fredo with a whopping score of 78.5%.
Congratulations to
Caroline Roffman
who piaffed to a great
start at the Fall Fling with
Al Guden’s
Sagacious. The pair won
their frst grand prix test with a 72.444% and lots of 8’s on their
piaffes! It seems that life in Florida is agreeing with Sagacious and
we expect to see more of him in the future. Owner
Al Guden
is
engaged to Caroline’s mother
Andrea Nason
-- so good matches
seem to abound for this gang!
Dr. Cesar Parra
struck
gold in Colombia
during a
very exciting and successful
trip in which he coached the
dressage team from Liga de
Bogota (the Bogota Region)
to win the team gold in the
Colombian National Games
at Country Club Guaymaral
in Bogota. Cesar, who
is based in Whitehouse
Station, New Jersey and
Jupiter, Florida, was one of
Colombia’s top international
riders before becoming a
US citizen in 2008. Left to
right:
Mariana England,
Dr. Cesar Parra, Carolina
Barraquer, Diana Rey
and
Mauricio Sanchez.
Lord of the Lusitanos
,
Peter von Borst,
has
relocated from South
Florida to Aiken, South
Carolina with his brood
of Jacks. From left to
right, Taffy and Toby
and their two pups, who
all say living in Aiken is
doggone nice!
We just got the insiders scoop
on the 2013 dressage event of the
season…
The Dressage Summit
!
Scheduled for early February in
Wellington at the Global Dressage
Festival, it is a cornucopia of the
equestrian innovator. Imagine
Klaus Balenhol, Walter Zettl,
Christopher Hess
and
Pat and
Linda Parelli
all together and
you’ve got the gist of the Dressage
Summit …classic approaches,
competitive savvy and common
sense horsemanship. Pictured:
Walter Zettl and Linda Parelli
making plans for The Dressage
Summit.