The Hamburg Derby
Friday, May 18 2012
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Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying your day wherever this blog finds you. Today I had the chance to visit annual Hamburg Derby just outside the city center. The field was full of super stars form all over the world including Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Richard Spooner, and Nick Skelton. The grass derby field was immaculate with freshly painted jumps, beautiful flowers, and trees that created a very “European” ambiance. Horse shows in Germany have a certain feel to them, one that is inviting and casual yet always organized
- Published in An American in Germany, General, Z-Blogs
Emanuel Andrade Claims Championship Title in Kentucky
Friday, May 18 2012
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Lexington, Kentucky – 15-year-old Emanuel Andrade of Venezuela rode a winning streak into Kentucky, scoring four victories and a championship title at the CSI3* Kentucky Spring Classic held May 9 to 13 in Lexington, Kentucky. 15-year-old Emanuel Andrade of Venezuela jumped clear with La Fe Forli in every High Junior Jumper class at the CSI3* Kentucky Spring Classic in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Rebecca Walton, Phelps Media Group) Following an incredible season at the 12-week FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival inWellington,Florida, Andrade continued his winning ways at theKentuckyHorsePark, site of the 2010 World Equestrian Games. On his way to claiming the Low Junior Championship title with Mikos, Andrade jumped nine clear rounds out of 10 in the $2,500 Low Junior Jumper Classic held Sunday, May 13. With a total of five horses entered, Andrade jumped clear on all five to qualify for the jump-off where he again went clear with four of his mounts. His winning horse was Mikos while Casanova Junior placed fifth,Oxfordtook seventh and Luky des Rocquelines finished eighth. Having won Saturday’s class as well as the Low Junior Jumper Classic, Mikos earned the championship title for Andrade. Formerly his mount in the children’s jumper divisions inVenezuelawhere Andrade is also an active competitor, Mikos has now joined Andrade’s string of top mounts in theUnited States. “He’s a horse that needs to be properly balanced, but he is a very good jumper,” said Andrade, who topped a starting field of 32 entries to win the $2,500 Low Junior Jumper Classic. “It was great to jump clear with all five of my horses, and then have four of them again go clear in the jump-off. I couldn’t have asked for a better day!” On Friday, Andrade won the first Low Junior Jumper class of the week, taking victory with Luky des Rocquelines, a 13-year-old selle francais gelding, while Casanova Junior placed second. In the High Junior Jumper division, Andrade posted clear jumping rounds on all three days of competition with La Fe Forli, a 10-year-old gelding bred by SillaArgentina. The pair placed third in Sunday’s $10,000 High Junior Jumper Classic while Andrade also took fourth on Costa. Andrade extended his success beyond the Junior Jumper divisions by winning Thursday’s Six-Year-Old Young Jumper competition with Black Pearl. The pair had claimed victory inWellingtonduring the final week of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in the highly-competitive Six-Year-Old Young Horse division.
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
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Flesh and Blood
Thursday, May 17 2012
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I’ve trained short stirrup kids, small pony riders, tons of big equitation finalists and Grand Prix students.
- Published in General, In the Irons, Z-Blogs
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Reed Kessler and Ligist Earn 1.45m Open Jumper Blue at Kentucky Spring Classic
Thursday, May 17 2012
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Lexington , KY – May 16, 2012 - Sunny skies greeted the exhibitors as they kicked-off the Kentucky Spring Classic in the Rolex Stadium of the Kentucky Horse Park. Once again it was Reed Kessler at the top of the leader board as she piloted Ligist to the only double clear effort in today’s 1.45m Open Jumper class to earn the blue ribbon prize. Earlier in the day, Andre Rodriguez and Remonta Eden sped to victory in the 1.40m Open Jumpers, just topping Kessler and Onisha, who placed second during the speed class. Reed Kessler and Ligist won the 1.45m Open Jumper class at the Kentucky Spring Classic.
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
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Bromont Three Day Event Welcomes VOLVO as Title Sponsor
Thursday, May 17 2012
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Bromont, Quebec – The Bromont CCI*** Three Day Event, The Todd Sandler Challenge, will welcome VOLVO as its title sponsor for the international equestrian event taking place June 7 to 10, 2012, in Bromont, Quebec. The 26th edition of the Volvo Bromont CCI*** Three Day Event, The Todd Sandler Challenge, will be used as a final preparatory event for both U.S. and Canadian Olympic Eventing Team hopefuls, and will attract the biggest names in the sport from around the world. An established leader in Scandinavian design, luxury and safety, Volvo has a long association with the Bromont Three Day Event. Volvo has stepped to the forefront with its title sponsorship for this year’s competition, which will play a vital role in determining who will represent their nation at the 2012 London Olympic Games in July
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
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Rebecca Cohen Continues Winning Streak at Jacksonville Dressage Show with Help from Mom and Two Cyber Coaches
Wednesday, May 16 2012
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Wellington, FL (May 15, 2012) – Dressage rider Rebecca Cohen may be a 16-year-old teen, but she can still find time to enjoy a mother-daughter bonding experience while executing a winning round in the dressage ring. Cohen, who lives in Wellington, recently competed at the Jacksonville Dressage On The First Coast, riding away with the win in the Young Riders Team test on her horse Downtown.
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
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Congratulations!
Tuesday, May 15 2012
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Congratulations to the winner of the first ever TTW Giveaway. One of our facebook fans (now at 125 and counting!), Beth Stelzleni, of S-Squared Eventing at Wishing Tree Farm , is the big winner of a Sidelines Magazine subscription! Congrats Beth, and thank you for liking the blog! Beth says she never wins anything (though her show record speaks to the contrary), so I’m very happy she won our giveaway! Beth is originally from Florida, and is now an eventing and dressage trainer based out of Athens, Georgia. Beth has been riding for over twenty years. She says this makes her sound old, but I’ve been riding even longer, and I still think of myself as a kid (with a law degree. . . how did that happen?) so I don’t think twenty years of riding amounts to old age at all. She started out in hunter world (I knew I liked her) and now competes in eventing, dressage, and even ventures back over to H/J land to compete in the jumper ring as well. She enjoys teaching students in all of these disciplines. . . so if you’re in the Georgia area and in need of a good coach, maybe you can look Beth up! Beth, incidentally, has also put in a specific request for an Equestrian Heartthrob of the Robert Redford variety, and I must say that man has classic good looks that never go out of style, so I am more than happy to oblige
- Published in Tucker The Wunderkind, Z-Blogs
Kentucky Spring Horse Show Wrap Up, May 9-13, 2012
Tuesday, May 15 2012
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Lexington , KY – May 14, 2012 - Rain plagued the Kentucky Horse Park throughout the day on Sunday at the Kentucky Spring Classic, but it did not stop the country’s top competitors as they entered the Rolex Stadium for the $75,000 Commonwealth Grand Prix.
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
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Cassidy Zimmerman and Portafina Take Top Honors In NAL/WIHS Children’s Hunter Classic At Kentucky Spring Horse Show
Tuesday, May 15 2012
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Lexington, KY – May 13, 2012- The NAL/WIHS Children’s Classic welcomed the final day of the Kentucky Spring Horse show today.
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
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Bonus Point
Tuesday, May 15 2012
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Bonus Point is a 2005 Thoroughbred Gelding that was adopted by Victoria Bennett and Heidi Rockhold in December, 2010. Bonus Point had a total of 18 lifetime starts, earning $8,912 and last raced on 10/3/09 at Turfway Park. Bonus Point Victoria reports: “We adopted Bonus Point “BP” from New Vocations in December 2010 as my Christmas present. Since we have had him, BP has found his new niche and is progressing nicely into a Jumper. In the 2011 show season, I showed him in hunter divisions at local shows and he did very well. This year we decided to chance things up and he is now being trained as a Jumper
- Published in Tails & Trails, Z-Blogs
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