Olympic Sidelines – First tour of the jumps
Tuesday, August 07 2012
I am sure you have all seen the fabulous jumps that the competitors have been negotiating. However, since most of the photos are cropped to highlight the action, you may have missed the full scale of these obstacles. They are no surprisingly a tribute to the history and culture of the area
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Olympic Sidelines – Show Jumping Day Two – First Team Round
Tuesday, August 07 2012
August 5, 2012 pictures uploading now – please stand by By Kim MacMillan – Photo Captions by Allen MacMillan All Photos by Kim & Allen/MacMillan Photography/Copyright 2012 Rain threatened (Are you starting to see a theme here? If you are in England, rain is almost always in the forecast.) as I walked over to Greenwich Park this morning it was inevitable, I was going to get wet. I just hoped it didn’t last long and I was better prepared after acquiring a new rain slicker (my other one had started to disintegrate) and learning to bring a trash bag to cover my backpack so the contents didn’t get soaked and the pack would not be covered in ring sand
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Blythe Marano and Urban Lead $50,000 Rood & Riddle Grand Prix Victory Gallop at Kentucky Summer Classic
Tuesday, August 07 2012
Lexington KY – August 4, 2012 - The applause and excitement could be heard resounding throughout the Kentucky Horse Park tonight as the $50,000 Rood & Riddle Grand Prix got underway in the Rolex Stadium. It was the fifth day of the Kentucky Summer Classic, and the nation’s top riders gathered to show under the bright lights of the stadium for a share in the prize money, and the desired $8,000 SSG ‘Go Clean for the Green’ Digital Riding Glove promotion bonus.
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Laura Chapot Finds a Winning Formula with another $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix Victory at HITS-on-the-Hudson
Tuesday, August 07 2012
SAUGERTIES, NY (August 4, 2012) – Laura Chapot just extended her impressive mid-summer winning streak with another victory in the $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health , at HITS-on-the-Hudson. Friday’s triumph marked the fourth consecutive win for Chapot in the last two weeks and the second victory aboard Quointreau Un Prince , an 8-year-old mount she bought three years ago from McLain Ward
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Paul O’Shea and Instant Karma Capture $30,000 Manchester & the Mountains
Monday, August 06 2012
East Dorset, Vermont – Ireland’s Paul O’Shea and Instant Karma were the winners in the $30,000 Manchester & the Mountains Grand Prix, sponsored by Purina Horse Feed, on Saturday, August 4, at the 2012 Vermont Summer Festival. In a three-horse jump-off, O’Shea and Instant Karma beat out Luis Larrazabal and G&C Sacramento and Bryn Sadler and Bon Giorno for the win. Now in its fifth week of competition, the six-week Vermont Summer Festival will continue through August 12 at Harold Beebe Farm in East Dorset, VT
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Olympic Show Jumping- Team USA
Monday, August 06 2012
Reed Kessler on Cylana Photo DDeRosa Beezie Madden on Via Volo Photo DDeRosa McLain Ward on Antares. Photo DDeRosa Rich Fellers on Flexible Photo DDeRosa
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Statement Regarding Tiffany’s Foster Olympic Disqualification
Monday, August 06 2012
Canadian Olympic Team member for Show Jumping Tiffany Foster. Photo Credit – Cealy Tetley, www.tetleyphotos.com London,England– In a controversial decision, Canada’s Tiffany Foster, 28, of Schomberg, ON, was disqualified from Olympic show jumping competition on Sunday, August 5, at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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Olympic Sidelines – Show Jumpers From 26 Countries Compete on Day 1
Monday, August 06 2012
August 4,2012 By Kim MacMillan – Photo Captions by Allen MacMillan All Photos by Kim & Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography/Copyright 2012 The discipline of show jumping is the most popular of the three equestrian sports in terms of entries, and with the public as well, as the grandstands were nearly full today – FINALLY! It is maddening, however, that there are still a number of open seats several places in the stands and yet no one can find tickets available for purchase. What I call the “Royal Box” (where Princess Anne and her nephews William and Harry and Williams’ wife Kate sat during eventing and also some members of the Swedish Royal family during dressage) is a section of roughly 200 seats in the center of the west side of the stadium and it is never full
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Olympic Sidelines – Grand Prix Dressage Continues
Sunday, August 05 2012
August 3, 2012 By Kim MacMillan – Photo Captions by Allen MacMillan All Photos by Allen and Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography, Copyright 2012 I walked briskly to Greenwich Park this morning eager to see the next few riders for each team on day 2 of the Grand Prix dressage competition. It was sunny to start with, but rain was promised again mid-day and the weather man wasn’t wrong. Although the rain started just as Edward Gal of the Netherlands was finishing his test on Undercover and it rained only during the 15-minute arena maintenance break.
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Olympic Sidelines – Dressage Invades the Stadium!
Sunday, August 05 2012
August 2, 2012 by Kim MacMillan – Photo Captions by Allen MacMillan All photos by Kim & Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography, Copyright 2012 As the eventers left center stage the dressage horses moved forward to take up the torch (Olympic pun intended). The day dawned sunny, with a threat of rain (and it did indeed rain fairly hard on and off for about an hour) in the middle of the day, which sadly may have contributed to an eliminated horse and rider from Canada – more later
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