4 SIDELINES FEBRUARY 2013
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
wonderful stories each month,
and I am thrilled to welcome a
new writer, Linda Parelli, to the
Sidelines stable. While Linda’s
Sidelines column “Horse Behavior
Decoded” may be new, Linda
is anything but new. She and
her husband, Pat Parelli, are
the founders of Parelli Natural
Horsemanship and Linda’s
expertise in natural horsemanship,
coupled with her time studying
classical dressage, makes her an
asset to our magazine. Welcome
Linda!
I hope you enjoy this issue, the
month of February wherever you spend it, and that you have a
lovely Valentine’s Day. Spirit, the Sidelines equine mascot, will
love getting extra treats on February 14
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…and every day during the month. Speaking of Spirit, during
2013 we want you to “Catch the Sidelines Spirit.” Visit our website
and our Facebook page and take part in our Lucky 13 Offer during
2013. You can subscribe to Sidelines for one year for just $13.
You will get the print edition delivered to your mailbox and free
online viewing all for $13. That’s the Spirit!
Here’s hoping you Catch the Sidelines Spirit.
Jan Westmark-Allan
Editor
editor@sidelinesnews.com
Letter From The Editor
If February is cold in your part of the world, then you may want
to head to Florida for the winter show circuit. From HITS Ocala to
Wellington’s FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival, Florida is
a great place to be – and to show – in the winter. Warm weather,
world-class showing and trips to the beach – it doesn’t get much
better than that.
Hunter and jumper shows aren’t the only draw in Florida during
the winter circuit - the best dressage horses and riders in the world
also head to Florida to compete at the Palm Beach Dressage
Derby, the Global Dressage Festival and the World Dressage
Masters in West Palm Beach. In 2012, Steffen Peters and Ravel
made history at the World Dressage Masters, a moment that lives
forever on our cover this month. Check out the look on Ravel’s
face – what a horse!
Ravel competed at the World Dressage Masters in 2012 and
at the London Olympic Games – then offcially retired. He is now
living a great life in California with his owner Akiko Yamazaki. I
think you will enjoy reading Lauren Gianinni’s cover story on
Ravel, a horse with the great nickname of “His Majesty.”
This issue features stories on many great horses, from Ravel to
a Miniature Guide Horse to a farm full of rescued blind horses who
help at-risk teenagers. I hope you enjoy all these stories as well
as our feature section on Ocala. We want you to learn as much as
you can about Ocala, and our newest staff writer, Dani Moritz, has
a wonderful feature called “Things To Do & People To Meet” in
Ocala. Sidelines intern Mindy Coretz shows at HITS Ocala every
year and she gives us a great look at what it’s like to show there.
I am so proud of our staff and contributing writers who turn out
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Thanks for your comments…
Suki, The Horse Burn Survivor
There has been such a lovely response to the article, so thank
you again for publishing it in the magazine and sharing it on the
Sidelines website. Sometimes I fnd it hard to believe that more
than three years has passed since the fre and then there are days
when it seems like just
yesterday. I have met
the most wonderful
and amazing people
on this journey and
fnd peace in the fact
that Suki inspires
people around the
world.
Fran Wade-
Whittaker
Pennsylvania
Suki
Photo by
Jennifer Curry Bandur
Singing Praises for the West Side Story
I would love to tell you how much I enjoyed reading Holly Hugo-
Vidal’s article about Victor Hugo-Vidal. It brought back many
great memories. I am a Saddlebred, saddle seat person and I
teach at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri. In 1999,
I had the honor of judging hunt seat equitation with Victor at the
Morgan Grand National and World Championship Horse Show in
Oklahoma City. Victor was so enthusiastic about seeing all the
classes: reining, park, roadster, saddle seat equitation, etc. He
was a true horseman and appreciated all types of horses and
riders. Thank you so much for allowing me to relive some great
memories of a wonderful man. They don’t make them like that
anymore!
Gayle Lampe
Adjunct Professor of Equestrian Science
William Woods University
Did you know?
Sidelines is the “Offcial Equestrian Lifestyle Magazine” of The
Winter Equestrian and Global Dressage Festivals as well as the
Offcial Media Partner of all Classic Company Horse Shows in:
Pensacola, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; Gulfport, Mississippi;
Atlanta, Georgia; and Charleston, South Carolina. In addition,
Sidelines is a Media Partner of all HITS shows including Ocala,
Thermal and Arizona as well as Blenheim Equisports in California.