34 SIDELINESMAY 2014
FORHORSEPEOPLE • ABOUTHORSEPEOPLE
Daniela Stransky
welcomed
Victor Bastet
as the newest,
andyoungest,member of
Team
Step by Step
, at the Whip
during a rare moment away
from the ringat thePBIEC. The
11-year-old son of
Stransky’s
Mission Farm’s
trainer
Hector
Florentino
has joined thegroup
of young riders to represent the
charity in competitions around
the world. He kicked off his
career in theChildren’sJumpers
with a bang, winning numerous
blue ribbons on behalf of the
charity at the beginning of
the season. No doubt he will
soon be chomping at the bit
to move up! Daniela has a lot
to celebrate too! The Miami
CountryDaySchool senior,who
is planning on showing abroad
this summer, was accepted to
LynnUniversity
and will begin
classesclose tohome in the fall.
Sidelines
Magazine national sales representative
Joyce
Jones
, left,
and Joanne Barbero
enjoyed an evening
surrounded by
Louise Mellon
’s beautiful art during an
invitation-only reception hosted by friend and collector
Bruce Duchossois
to celebrate a five-day showing of
Louise Mellon’s paintings at the
International Polo Club
PalmBeach
inWellington inMarch. Based in
Aiken, South
Carolina
, Louise traveled to Wellington with a collection of
more than 50 paintings from her incredible body of work,
including a recently finished spectacular 3X7’ painting
featuringwomen’s polo.
Big shout out to the
Keswick Life
newspaper in Keswick,
Virginia, for reprinting the
Sidelines
Magazine story
“JimmyLee
Jumps Into theHall ofFame”
that ran inourMarch issue. Jimmy
Lee iswell loved inVirginia!
Boyd
and
Silva Martin
are keeping the social media world
buzzing with their recent unfortunate accidents. Silva, the
dressage rider professional of this husband and wife duo, was
schooling a young horse in
Wellington, Florida
, when the horse
trippedandshehitherheadon thehorse’sneckandhit theground
unconscious. Thank goodness she was wearing a helmet! Boyd,
theeventer of theduo, kept theequestriancommunityupdatedon
Silva’s progress through his blog. While her accident was quite
serious, she is currently in rehab in Pennsylvania and Boyd is
hoping shewill recover 100%. Boyd, on theother hand, isn’t quite
100%at themoment, ashebrokehis legwhilecompeting
Steady
Eddie
at the
Carolina Invitational
and required surgery. In true
Boyd style he blogged photos of the medics loading him into an
ambulance and even blogged photos of his X-rays and steel rod
that the doctors inserted into his leg. Get better quickly Boyd and
Silva –wewant only goodblogs from now on!
Congratulations!
Converse College Equestrian
ended up the
2013-2014 season third in the region, just one point away from
ReserveChampion. Open rider
CatherineBillings
ended up the
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