Samantha brings us a complete report and interviews of the quagmire that was the Kentucky Cup Endurance Test event last week at the Kentucky Horse Park. Plus, listen in to all the latest news of the Alltech 2010 World Equestrian Games…
Guest: Thank you to Nancy Diedrichs for joining us to talk about her great new WEG related website called www.getreadyky.com. Check it out!
News: Ticket sales to next year’s World Games continue to be strong, with over 123,000 sold since September 25th. According to World Games Foundation CEO, Jamie Link, this means that about a third of the ticket budget has been met already. The Foundation had set a goal of $30 million for ticket sales. Marketing Director Terry Johnson also reported that 80% of the sponsorship budget has been reached, and 60% of the spots in the trade show have been sold. Read more…
News: We still have three test events to look forward to in April, and you can buy tickets for the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event starting November 1st, 2009. Buy your Rolex tickets at www.rk3de.org.
News: Our sister show, The Eventing Radio Show, has exclusive coverage of the Fair Hill CCI** and CCI*** Event last week in Maryland. The winner Boyd Martin Co-Hosts his first Eventing Radio Show.
News: We have some good news from our Spotlight Eventer Jessie Phoenix. Her advanced horse, Exponential, has just been named the Omega Alpha Canadian Event Horse of the Month, after completing the Blenheim CCI*** in England as the top placed Canadian Horse. Congrats Jessica!
Boyd Martin joins us as guest and host of this week’s show after a successful weekend at the Fairhill CCI3* when he won his first CCI in this country since taking up citizenship. Listen in as Boyd talks about the rides at the rain soaked Dansko Fair Hill International Horse Trials…
Eventing Radio Episode 46 – Boyd Martin Co-Hosts & Wins Fair Hill Too:
Race Car Driver/Eventer Liz Halliday and California Highway Patrol/Endurance Rider Kassandra DiMaggio return to give us an update on their Extreme Horsewomen lives. Listen in as we speak again with these amazing women….
Guest: Thanks to California Highway Patrol Officer and Endurance Rider Kassandra DiMaggio for returning to the show. Kassandra is an avid endurance rider and is doing very well as proven by her second place showing at Tevis. She also is the organizer of the Patriots Day Ride in Northern California.
Guest: We were thrilled to have eventer and race car driver Liz Halliday back with us from England. Liz has competed up to the 4 star level in eventing and she has had a rapid and impressive ascent up the motor racing ladder. In just two full seasons of international racing, Liz became the most successful female driver ever in the history of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), America’s most prestigious sportscar racing series.
SCHRADE EMERGES BRILLIANT WINNER OF LES ETOILES DE PAU
Pau (FRA), 25 October 2009 – Dirk Schrade (GER) jumped a beautiful clear round on King Arthus to score the first 4* win of his career in the most sensational style at Les Etoiles de Pau (FRA).
The overnight Cross-Country leader Oliver Townend (GBR) suffered the kind of misfortune which is the stuff of riders’ nightmares. Townend had already secured the HSBC FEI Classics in emphatic style and had a Jumping fence in hand to win Pau, but his mount, the 14-year-old Carousel Quest, who had given his all across country the day before, hit 7 fences and incurred time faults, collecting a cricket score of 31 which dropped him to 8th place.
The Jumping course seemed fairly straightforward, with only two related distances, but there were only four clear rounds. Two of those came from Germany, back at the head of affairs after a disastrous European Championship, and Andreas Dibowski (GER) made it a German one-two when going clear also, on Euroridings Butts Leon. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8638
Boyd Exell (AUS), winner of the FEI World Cup Driving competition in Hannover (GER). (c) Rinaldo de Craen.
EXELL CLASS OF ITS OWN IN HANNOVER
Hannover (GER), 25 October – FEI World Cup Driving title defender Boyd Exell from Australia was a class of its own at the first leg of the 2009/2010 season. Exell drove an impeccable fast round and stayed 10 seconds ahead of Koos de Ronde from the Netherlands and Tomas Eriksson from Sweden.
With four out of the six 2008/2009 World Cup finalists present, the drivers considered the first World Cup competition in Hannover as the leg with the strongest field of competitors. World Cup winner Boyd Exell, Dutch drivers IJsbrand Chardon and Koos de Ronde, Jozsef Dobrovitz from Hungary, Tomas Eriksson and wild card driver Rainer Duen performed two days at in the Messehalle in Hannover where they were cheered by many enthusiastic visitors of the German Classics horse show.
Exell had some bad luck on the first day when his spare horse Pascal was declared not fit to compete by the veterinarians. After his fourth place in the warm up competition, Exell did some fine-tuning on his horses and this resulted in two very fast rounds in the World Cup competition. Unlike his fellow competitors who all drove the same horses as last season, Exell used a new leader horse in his team in Hannover. Spitfire, a 16-year-old gelding who was formerly owned by the German four-in-hand-driver Max Dangel, moved to Exell’s stables several weeks ago and the 2008 bronze medallist at the World Championships in Beesd is very pleased with this new horse. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8636
Samantha Schaefer Leads through Three Rounds for Win in WIHS Equitation Classic Finals
Washington, D.C. – October 24, 2009 – In an exciting three horse jump-off, Todd Minikus (USA) and Alaska were the fastest clear round to win the $100,000 President’s Cup Grand Prix World Cup qualifier presented by The Boeing Company. Kate Levy (USA) and Lirving du Volsin finished second, while Mario Deslauriers (USA) and Vicomte D were third. Earlier in the evening, Samantha Schaefer was victorious in the WIHS Equitation Classic Finals.
Tonight’s courses were designed by Guilherme Jorge of Brazil, and out of the 29 entries in the class, only three could find the path to the jump-off. Ken Berkley (USA) and Carlos Boy, owned by Alexa and Krista Weisman, just missed the jump-off by accumulating one time fault in 78.84 seconds to finish fourth. Rodrigo Pessoa (BRA) kicked up his speed after having a rail down to finish as the fastest four-faulter in 67.17 seconds on Night Train, owned by Double H Farm.
The first to return in the jump-off was Levy and Lirving du Volsin, owned by LA Horsepower and Kate Levy. She went for the safe clear round, but was very efficient with her speed. She finished clear in 36.32 seconds and would have to wait and see how the riders chased her time. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8627
2. Continue writing, calling and demanding a stop to these roundups (click here for your government & media contacts). An immediate moratorium is needed if we are to protect wild horses & burros into the future. Already less than a quarter of herds are genetically viable & 20+ million acres have been taken away from them since 1971. The BLM is acting illegally and clearly not following the Wild Horse & Burro Act- they must be stopped- these massive roundups are a cruel waste of these horses’ lives on the taxpayers’ dime. In Defense of Animals has an easy to use mailing form and great sample letter, click here.
6. Please share this with friends and family– wild horses were saved from destruction before, we have to do it again. Check the Cloud Foundation site soon for our new Kid’s page. Wild Horse Annie and thousands of children saved these horses before… let’s do it again, now!
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Thank you for all of your incredible support and action. We hope you enjoy this next documentary and please let it inspire you to continued action on behalf of all our wild horses & burros.
Cloud turns to face helicopter in last month’s roundup- Ann Evans photo. Middle photo by Tony Wengert, Cloud & Morning Star’s bands race across the Pryors, Summer 2008.
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