The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, December 23, 2009 – The stakes-tested fastest qualifier Sing A New Song meets the elegantly bred second-fastest qualifier Seaside in the $100,000-added Lassie Stakes for juvenile fillies Sunday afternoon at Hialeah Park.
Jose Angel’s Sing A New Song (Make It Anywhere-Kasmania by Chicks Beduino) returned from a more than two-month layoff to set the :19.677 fastest qualifying time to the Lassie over 400 yards, the top time by the equivalent of about three lengths.
That impressive trial win and her stakes resume established before her layoff should set her up as the Lassie favorite. The Manuel Mata-trained miss was second in the Heritage Place Juvenile and qualified for the Speedhorse Gold and Silver Cup Futurity (RG1). Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9429
Nancy Koch, 2010 Recipient of The EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award,
WESTPORT, CT – December 23, 2009 – Nancy Koch, Executive Director of CANTER National, will be honored as the first recipient of The EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award presented by The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF). The inaugural presentation will take place on January 16, 2010, at the USEF Pegasus Awards Dinner during the Federation’s Annual Meeting.
The EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award (presented by the United States Equestrian Federation) is a celebration of the humanitarian achievements made by a member of the equestrian world. Specifically, the goal of this humanitarian honor is to spotlight and exalt the selfless dedication one individual or a group of individuals has made, whether on a regional or national scale. From improving the health and welfare of the horse to promoting and expanding the general public’s appreciation and respect of the diverse role of horses, the recipient of this award will be someone who has devoted considerable personal time to make the lives and quality of life of our equine partners paramount.
Nancy Koch has devoted countless hours to improving the health and welfare of young Thoroughbred racehorses who no longer able to race competitively. Koch started The Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses (CANTER) to find new careers for these horses. The web-based program “caught on” and now, there are all-volunteer CANTER affiliates across the country. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9427
Lucy Davis Takes on the Europeans Singlehandedly and Wins!
December 21, 2009 – Lucy Davis, the individual silver medalist at the 2009 North American Junior Young Rider Championships, took on the best Europe had to offer and showed them that she was better. The top three individual finalists from the United States hosted NAJYRC received invitations to compete at the European Younger Cup at CSI Frankfurt (Dec. 17-20) in Germany.
Although Davis was the only U.S. rider to accept the invitation, clearly she was the best representative. Aboard True Love she competed against the best 26 riders under 25 from throughout Europe. In the first round Davis posted a clear round and finished eighth. Despite a rail in the next round, Davis qualified for the Final, which consisted of 16 riders. She assured herself of victory when she jumped the only clear round of the day.
Davis resides in California, trains with Meadowgrove Farm, and showed as a junior (17 and under) this past year.
Monday, December 7th. The day of the BLM National Advisory Board in Reno was bitterly cold with temperatures below zero. Snows blanketed the frozen landscape for as far as I could see. No planes were flying in or out of town. Inside our heated, comfortable, but windowless Casino meeting room, the BLM presented Secretary Salazar’s plan to take our mustangs from their native West to ‘greener pastures’ in the East.
The Board, which is stacked against the horses, largely nodded in approval at plans to decrease herds, reach the magic (but pathetically low) “appropriate management level” (AML) numbers, skew the sex ratios, and give every adult mare lucky enough to return back out on the range infertility drugs. Genetic viability never passed their lips, not that I heard anyway. The words preservation and protection were not spoken, not when I was in the room at least.
As over 20 advocates for the mustangs sat and listened attentively, no mention was made of the six wild horses found dead on Saturday in the Sierras northwest of Reno, five with obvious gun shot wounds in their scavenged bodies. Nor was any mention made that an unscheduled roundup of over 200 horses was going on in the Buckhorn herd management area near where the dead horses were found — a roundup that was scheduled to take place in August of 2010. We only learned about this clandestine operation the day the last horses were being run into traps, despite BLM Chief Don Glenn’s statement at the meeting that the public is welcome to watch the “gathers” — difficult when changes to the schedule are not announced. Imagine the horror of this roundup — being driven by a helicopter in the bitter cold, losing your family and, in the case of one mare, losing your life. Then being hauled out of the only home you have ever known to the Palomino Valley holding facility where there is no cover, not even a tarp on the fences to hide behind and escape the biting wind. The cruelty of winter roundups must end. An immediate moratorium must be placed on all roundups until the mess BLM has made of the Wild Horse and Burro Program is sorted out! (Updated roundup schedule here.)
Syria's Mohamed Jabri accepts his trophy after claiming the gold medal at the 2009 FEI Children's International Jumping Final in Abu Dhabi.
SYRIAN RIDERS DOMINATE AT FEI CHILDREN’S FINAL
Syrian athletes dominated the podium when Mohamed Jabri took gold and Hadi Nizam claimed bronze at the FEI Children’s International Jumping Final in Abu Dhabi last week but the host country finished prominently when the United Arab Emirates’ Ayesha Al-Shamsi slotted into silver medal position.
Abu Dhabi also hosted the 1999 Final which, now in its 14th year, held high hopes for 28 young riders aged from 12 to 14 years. Various qualifying competitions had taken place throughout the year in the run up to the big event. From these qualifying rounds 16 talented young riders earned their place in Abu Dhabi to compete alongside 12 young riders from the Gulf Region. The home country had four representatives with other Gulf riders coming from Syria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The Gulf riders were to come to the competition with 2 horses each, and then a draw would take place for all the horses and riders together. Other countries represented at the four-day fixture included Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia and the United States of America.
The ground held up well despite torrential rain and floods in the run up to the start of the competition. HRH Prince Faisal Ibn Abdullah Ibn Mohammed Al Saud was in attendance to see his kindly donated trophy presented to another aspiring youngster. HRH Princess Haya was also in attendance at the event and commented that “As the President of the FEI, I am fully confident that these tournaments will continue to evolve and progress over the course of the years, ensuring further development of the sport through successive generations of well-trained riders.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9417
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