Nina Bonnie: Pillar & Advocate of the Kentucky Horse Park
Tuesday, September 12 2017
By Britney Grover Horses are part of every aspect of Nina’s life — including her family. Her mother, Theodora Randolph, was Master of Piedmont Fox Hounds in Upperville, Virginia, for many years and received the USEF Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 just before she passed away. Bonnie and her husband, Ned, who has long been
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September 2017 – Table of Contents
Sunday, August 13 2017
88 Ingate (Full Article) Subscribe for just $9.95 or Order Individual Issues Here! FEATURES 12 Nina Bonnie: Advocate of the Kentucky Horse Park 20 Jill Treece: Eventer and US Equestrian Ambassador 24 Everything Eventing with Boyd Martin 26 Charity: JustWorld International 32 Louise Smith: Adventures in Business
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My Ride with the Law (at Rolex!)
Tuesday, June 30 2015
By Susan Friedland-Smith Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I’d ever have the chance to ride the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event cross-country course during the “Best Weekend All Year” in April! Especially since I’ve had my horse for less than a year and I’m not an eventer. (Details, details!) Thanks to the
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Preparing For Pony Finals 2015
Tuesday, June 30 2015
Every pony rider’s dream — Sydney Flashman and barn mate, Mara Chemerinsky, the afternoon before Pony Finals 2014 began.
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Competitors Gather at Kentucky Horse Park for This Week”s US Dressage Finals Presented By Adequan®
Wednesday, November 05 2014
Sunny skies, rolling green fields, and the iconic four-board fences of the Kentucky Horse Park welcome the droves of horse vans arriving in Lexington, Ky. for this week’s US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan ® , a unique national head-to-head competition showcasing riders and horses competing for top honors at all dressage levels from Training to Grand Prix as well as musical freestyles. This year’s competitor roster includes over 400 entries for the US Dressage Finals and USDF Dressage in the Bluegrass open show, reflecting an increase of more than 100 entries from last year’s inaugural event. Over four exciting days of competition to be held November 6 – 9, 2014, riders representing all nine United States Dressage Federation (USDF) regions and from 38 states across the country (and the District of Columbia) will gather in the Horse Capital of the World, including from the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California, as well as up and down the eastern seaboard from Maine to south Florida.
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Scott Stewart Dominates Day One of the 131st National Horse Show
Wednesday, October 29 2014
Scott Stewart and A Million Reasons Photo By Phelps Media Group Lexington, KY – October 28, 2014 – At the end of the year-long horse show circuit, there is one final destination where the nation’s top hunter and jumper riders all flock: the National Horse Show at the Kentucky Horse Park. The prestigious six-day culminating final kicked off today with five full professional hunter divisions. In the Second Year Green Hunter division, sponsored by Ernie and Betty Oare and Patricia Adikes-Hill, it was Scott Stewart who dominated the day aboard Dr
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Second Year in a Row – Pablo Barrios Wins 2014 Hagyard Challenge Series $50,000 Leading Rider Award
Monday, October 20 2014
Pablo Barrios and Antares Photo By Rebecca Walton/Phelps Media Group Lexington, KY – October 20, 2014 - After dominating the Hagyard Challenge Series for the second year in a row, Venezuelan rider Pablo Barrios has captured the $50,000 Hagyard Leading Rider Award. He and his talented mounts earned the winning honors in four of the seven Hagyard Lexington Classic events, which coupled with other top placings, gave Barrios an early lead in the standings that he never relinquished
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Thoroughbred Champion Cigar Dies Following Surgery
Wednesday, October 08 2014
Famed Thoroughbred Cigar at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions (Kentucky Horse Park Photo By James Shambhu) NEWS RELEASE Lisa Jackson 859-259-4224 Lisa.Jackson@ky.gov Kentucky Horse Park Mourns Loss of Incomparable, Invincible, ‘Unbeatable’ Horse LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct
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Born & Bred in the USA
Monday, December 02 2013
By Lauren R. Giannini Christine Vanneck lives by lessons she learned from her polo-playing grandfather, John Vanneck. “He always said don’t push the envelope, because the envelope will break,” she recalled. “We don’t push our horses, but they learn everything important by the time they are yearlings: to stand quietly for grooming, the farrier,
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The Doolittle Sisters: Doing Great Things
Monday, October 21 2013
By Sheryl Kursar You could hear a pin drop when 15-year-old Nicole Doolittle rode her horse, Tops, into the show jumping ring this past summer at the North American Junior and Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC). She was in first place after a great cross-country ride the day before, but she needed to put in
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