Time To Talk About Hot Polo Players! (It’s About Time, Too!)
Tuesday, February 26 2013
By Jan Westmark-Allan Nic standing against the wall during his photo shoot. Notice his hair is messy on top of his head – someone had to fix it! While in Wellington recently I had the opportunity to enjoy some polo. Of course the ponies were nice, the atmosphere electric but it was the oh-so-handsome polo players that attracted my attention
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Victoria Colvin Secures USHJA/WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular Title for Second Year in a Row
Sunday, February 24 2013
Wellington, FL – February 23, 2013 – Week seven of the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF), sponsored by Hermès , continued on Saturday with the $50,000 USHJA World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular. Fifteen-year-old Victoria Colvin of Loxahatchee, FL, took home her second win in a row in the prestigious class, this year riding Dr
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Kirsten Coe and Baronez Beat the Field in $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 7
Friday, February 22 2013
Wellington, FL – February 21, 2013 – Week seven of the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival, sponsored by Hermès , continued on Thursday in Wellington, FL, with the $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 7 featured on the grass derby field at The Stadium at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). American duo Kirsten Coe and Ilan Ferder’s Baronez were the winners of the class with the only double clear round in a jump-off of five starters. Darragh Kenny (IRL) and Hays Investment Corporation’s Any Given Sunday finished second; Meagan Nusz (USA) and Amalaya Investments’ Dynamo were third.
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Retired Racehorse Grabs National Attention as an Artist & Ambassador
Wednesday, February 20 2013
Hunters, Jumpers, Dressage, Foxhunting, Trails, Therapy, or Mounted Patrol, most retired racehorses fill the role of personal mount in one way or another. Though a few of racing’s stars have smeared paper with a painted nose to benefit charities, Metro Meteor may be the first retired racehorse to become a professional artist! Metro had a long successful career at the track. He was stakes placed at two and again at five winning nearly $300,000
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Win A Course Walk At Gulfport with a Grand Prix Rider
Tuesday, February 19 2013
By Jan Westmark-Allan Win a course walk at Gulfport – send in a photo of you and your horse on the sidelines to enter! It’s easy! Would you like to walk the course with a Grand Prix rider before the $50,000 Budweiser Grand Prix on March 10, in Gulfport, Mississippi during the Gulf Coast Winter Classics series? The excitement, the plan of how many strides to the next jump, the lights, rubbing shoulders with the best rider’s in the world! You could win the walk – and have the experience of a lifetime! The Sidelines Magazine – Gulf Coast Classic Course Walk is March 10 in Gulfport, Mississippi. To enter the contest, you simply need to take a photo of you and your horse on the sidelines (get it, Sidelines Magazine!!) – you can be standing next to your horse, sitting on your horse, grooming, tacking up, walking, warming up – anything that happens on the sidelines at a horse show
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Making the Cut
Monday, February 18 2013
Recently, Augusta, Georgia hosted the first leg of the Mercuria NCHA (National Cutting Horse Association) World Series of Cutting. The competive event will then move through Texas, Canada, Idaho, California, Ohio and Lyon, France before the end of 2013. TheNCHA, with 16,000 members nationwide, falls somewhere between eventing (USEA) with 12,000 members and dressage (USDA) with 30,000 members so it represents a significant number of competitors nationwide although membership tends to be clustered in regions where the sport first sprang up.
Know When to Retire a Horse
Monday, February 18 2013
The time to retire a racehorse can be a life or death matter. More often, however, it is a quality of life decision that can affect the horse forever. Obviously, it’s a topic that needs serious consideration.
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Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven and Don Auriello Secure Win in FEI Grand Prix Special at the Florida Dressage Classic CDI-W Presented by USPRE Association
Sunday, February 17 2013
Wellington, FL – February 16, 2013 – With the sun making its first appearance since competition started, the Florida Dressage Classic CDI-W presented by USPRE Association began to wind down today at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF). In the Small Tour, Christilot Boylen (CAN) was triumphant, taking the top two spots in the $5,000 FEI Intermediare I sponsored by Havensafe Farm. In the Large Tour, Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven (SWE) clinched the win in the $10,000 FEI Grand Prix Special sponsored by USPRE Association
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Equestrian Philosophy Part 1
Sunday, February 17 2013
Horse-Human relaxing together Lets start at the beginning.
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Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven First and Third in $6,000 FEI Grand Prix in Florida Dressage Classic CDI-W Presented by USPRE Association at the Adequan…
Saturday, February 16 2013
Wellington, FL – February 14, 2013 -The Florida Dressage Classic CDI-W, presented by the USPRE Association , started today at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF). Competition at the Florida Dressage Classic CDI-W runs through February 17. With 18 entries in the $6,000 FEI Grand Prix, victory went to Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven (SWE) and Don Auriello, owned by Lövsta Stuteri and Antonia Ax:son Johnson.
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