EVENT: The Ninth Annual Challenge of the Americas Competition and Gala
WHAT: A Grand Prix international musical freestyle and team quadrille dressage challenge featuring a special polo sweepstakes and four-bar show jumping challenge. The Challenge Gala, an elegant evening of dinner and dancing, will get underway immediately following the “The Challenge of the Americas” competition. An awards presentation will be featured and guests will have the chance to meet and socialize with riders and judges.
WHERE: The International Polo Club Palm Beach
3667 120th Avenue South
Wellington, FL 33414
Harrodsburg, KY — January 7, 2010 — Organizers of The Queen City Classic announced several big changes for the new season, beginning with the event’s move to the South Carolina Equine Park in the horse friendly town of Camden.
The Queen City Classic will present the Camden Spring Fling April 7th through the 11th at the newly renovated horse park. The grounds include two 250 x 150 outdoor arenas with new all weather footing, one covered ring with a sand-clay mix footing and expanded schooling rings that measure 250 x 300 plus another schooling area to be completed prior to the spring event. Show manager Lewis Pack shared there will be on going improvements to the grounds and stables, which currently offers 290 permanent stalls – all upgraded to rubber matted flooring in preparation of the town’s first USEF AA rated event. The facilities manager, Larry Westfall was quoted to say, “We are delighted to have the Queen City Classic bring such an event to Camden. This is great for our area.”
The AA list of judges attending the Camden Spring Fling’s inaugural event will include Scott Hoffstetter, Rob Bielfield, Diann Langer, Mike Lowry, and Steve Sarafin. “Showcasing the hunters is very important to us. We were quite successful at illustrating that point in years past and wish to continue building the recognition given to them so we’re bringing in some of the industry’s best judges,” Queen City Chairman Robert Hunt said. To further spotlight the talent of the hunters the Spring Fling will play host to a $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, sponsored by The Tack Room of Camden, SC, on Saturday evening April 10th. Exhibitors and spectators are invited to come relax and enjoy the action at a ringside Derby Dinner. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9700
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Marcia A. Thibeault, DVM
Dr. Thibeault graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, magna cum laude, and she earned her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University. Her veterinary practice treated all breed of horses, from miniatures to draft horses, and all disciplines, from trail to dressage. Her main goal was to keep horses healthy so they could fulfill their owner’s wishes, promoting long-term horse ownership. Dr. Thibeault wrote columns for horse periodicals and local newspapers, and conducted regular client education seminars at her practice and on behalf of rescue organizations in her area. After nearly 20 years in private practice, she brought her skills into the classroom, teaching Equine Studies as a tenure track professor at Midway College in Kentucky. In her first year of teaching she was voted Outstanding Educator of Midway College, and later was recognized by the University of Kentucky as one of America’s Teachers Who Made a Difference. Her first book, I Make Horse Calls, a collection of humorous stories from her practice experiences, also gives reader’s an insider’s look into the process of becoming a veterinarian, detailing the journey from show horse groom to college student striving to get into vet school, though graduation and into private practice. The book was nominated by a member of the American Library Association for their Amelia Bloomer Project because it provides a positive role model for women of all ages. A story from her second book, More Horse Calls, was a finalist in the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning’s Legacies Writing Contest in Lexington, KY.A lifelong horsewoman and certified riding instructor, Dr. Thibeault lives on a farm in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9698
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