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Friday, December 16 2011
Catching up: What fun! Jim Koford recently launched a blog for news source to help keep everyone abreast of goings on. Link is here: koforddressage.blogspot.com. Check it out.
Certified Master Saddler and Equine Ergonomist Jochen Schleese will be a guest … [Read more]
- Published in 01-2012, Off Centerline
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Friday, November 11 2011
Catching up: We love superstars, and you don’t get much more super than Totilas, soooo if you haven’t seen him, now’s your chance! We are told that this spectacular animal will make a onetime US appearance competing in The … [Read more]
- Published in 12-2011, Off Centerline
Martin, Lyman Produce Clear Rounds to Claim 2011 USEF National Eventing Championships
Monday, October 17 2011
Elkton, MD - Sunday brought an action-packed slate of show jumping at the 2011 Dansko Fair Hill International. With the top riders in both the CCI3* and CCI2* divisions tremendously close, clear rounds were at a premium. Boyd Martin and Kylie Lyman rose to the occasion producing fault-free rounds to win their CCI3* and CCI2* divisions as well as claim 2011 USEF National Eventing Championships.
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
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Friday, October 14 2011
Catching up: The press releases say one thing; the applications with USEF say another and the Village orWellington and residence are all confused as to what is happening. Yes folks – turmoil inWellington over dressage inWellington. Who woulda thought? Stay … [Read more]
- Published in 11-2011, Off Centerline
U.S. Equestrian Delegation Heads to the 2011 Pan American Games – By the Numbers
Sunday, October 09 2011
The United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) delegation packs up and begins to head South of the Border next week – get ready Guadalajara. Dressage lands first on October 11. Eventing follows on the 15th and Jumping comes in on the 21st. Equestrian is represented by 14 athletes who make up 627 athletes heading to Mexico to represent the United States. Of the 79 Olympians represented in the entire U.S.
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
Coudray Leads the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team at Fidelity Blenheim International Horse Trials
Monday, September 12 2011
Lexington, KY - With three riders in the top 10, the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team had everything to play for in the show jumping on the final day of the 2011 Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials in Woodstock, U.K. And Tiana Coudray played the game the best for the U.S. throughout the week, adding nothing to her dressage score of 49.4 to finish second on Jaital, Inc.’s, Ringwood Magister, a 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding. “Today it was pretty much textbook,” said Coudray after the show jumping. Photo ©Stock Image Services The California native has had a rough spring.
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
September 2011 Table of Contents
Friday, August 12 2011
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Polo 76 Five Questions for Peter Brant 78 California Gets the Royal Treatment 82 Beneath Western Skies 84 Catching Up with Ty MacCarty Departments 4 Letter from the Editor 19 Sidelights 44 Side Shots 54 Sport Psychology 85 Equine Law |
- Published in 09-2011, Front Cover
Rodrigo Pessoa Teaches First-Ever U.S. Clinic in Sonoma, California
Wednesday, August 03 2011
Rodrigo Pessoa taught his first-ever jumping clinic in the United States this week, at the Sonoma Horse Park in Northern California. It was a highly anticipated event that fell between two weeks of horse shows at the venue, which is just two years old and thriving. (If you’re a regular Sidelines reader you might remember my profile of show manager Ashley Herman , pub March 2011). The facility is impressive, the scenery gorgeous, and riders in Northern California continue to flock to it for its series of excellent shows held May – September. But back to the clinic. On the Line did spend the weekend in Sonoma, but had to jet back to Florida early, regrettably taking a pass on the clinic. I was curious to know if Rodrigo took an active interest in the riders, how he dealt with the different horses, and how the riders responded to him
- Published in On the Line, Z-Blogs
Dog Days at the NAYRJC
Friday, July 29 2011
The big news coming out of Kentucky should be all about the rounds, the rails and the leaders after day one of the 2011 Adequan FEI/North American Junior and Young Riders Championships. But these are the dog days of summer, and in Lexington, Kentucky, those days are stifling. At 97 degrees and high humidity, the juniors competing this weekend are battling each other, and the heat. Hunt coats were excused yesterday during Round 1 of the show jumping, but the heat didn’t stop Kaitlin Campbell of Zone 3, who led the day in the YR division, or Sydney Schulman, leader of the Junior division. Thanks to MacMillan Photography for sweating it out onsite at NAYRJC this week. They caught the opening ceremonies, the golf cart parade on Wednesday, and they’ll be there until the bitter (and hopefully cooler) end on Sunday
- Published in On the Line, Z-Blogs
Eventers Flock to Shangri-La in Kalispell, MT
Friday, July 22 2011
Welcome back to this corner of the internet! As the summertime heats up, I know I’m not the only one wishing for a little vacation time and a time when temperatures wait until at least 9:30am before cracking the 90 degree mark. If you’re an eventer, mid July is the perfect time to pack up for a little horse-cation to the heart stoppingly gorgeous state of Montana. Over the past 10 years, Rebecca Farm has become synonymous with the Big Sky state, and each year the event held in Kalispell, Montana takes on ever more importance. Last year, it was a critical pre-WEG stop, this year, an equally (if not more) important qualifier for the upcoming Pan American Games this October, which will lead to London in 2012. The competitor list is a whos-who of 4* eventing, and many upper level riders are they with their going and up and coming horses. Captain Mark Phillips has designed the cross country course for the 10th year in a row, and you know that many riders will be thinking about London throughout the weekend
- Published in On the Line, Z-Blogs