Anky van Grunsven, Steffen Peters and Isabell Werth at the World Cup Final in Las Vegas.
WELLINGTON, Florida, Jan. 17 – Steffen Peters on Ravel, Isabell Werth on Satchmo and Anky van Grunsven on Salinero will head up an all-star cast at the Exquis World Dressage Masters in Palm Beach next month that kicks off a second year of the globe’s richest lineup of dressage events.
The CDI5* event on Feb. 4-6 will be the first meeting of the three top combinations since the German and Dutch women — now both mothers — were runners-up to Steffen and Ravel at the World Cup in Las Vegas last April.
Other top combinations are:
* Canada — Ashley Holzer, three-time Olympian, and Pop Art, and Cheryl Meisner and Paganini;
* Germany — Ulla Salzgeber, Olympic gold medalist and two-time World Cup champion, and Wakana, and Anja Plöntzke and Le Mont d’Or, winners of the Cannes WDM Grand Prix Special;
* The Netherlands — Stephanie Peters and Christa Laarakkers and Ovation;
* Denmark — Mikala Munter Gundersen and Leonberg and Lars Petersen, Olympian and World Cup competitor, and Success, and
* USA — Leslie Morse, WDM Hickstead Grand Prix Special winner, World Equestrian Games and World Cup competitor, and Tip Top, Lauren Sammis and Sagacious HF, 2007 Pan American Games team gold and individual silver medal winners, Tina Konyot and Calecto V, Reese Koffler Stanfield and Goughberg’s Kaspar and Michael Barisone and Neruda, winner of the Palm Beach WDM Grand Prix Special and reserve for the 2008 Olympic team.
WHAT: As riders gear up for the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games, the Road to Kentucky gives the USET Foundation and its supporters the opportunity to highlight the American equestrian athletes’ past accomplishments and encourage their future endeavors. While there are countless social events to attend throughout the 2010 Winter Equestrian Festival, the USET Foundation’s Road to Kentucky benefit dinner on February 5 tops the list of places to be this season!
WHERE: International Polo Club 3667 120th Avenue South, Wellington, Florida, 33414 (561) 204-5687
WHEN: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:30 Cocktails, 7:30 Dinner, Live Auction
TICKETS: Tables: Gold Medal Table/Ten: $15,000; Silver Medal Table/Ten: $10,000; Bronze Medal Table/Ten: $5,000; Gold Medal Single Ticket: $500; Patron Single Ticket: $350
CONTACT: Nancy Little at USET Foundation via nlittle@uset.org or (908) 234-1251
The United States Equestrian Team Foundation (www.uset.org) is the non-profit organization that supports the competition, training, coaching, travel and educational needs of America’s elite and developing international, high-performance horses and athletes in partnership with the United States Equestrian Federation. For more information on the USET Foundation, please call (908) 234-1251, or visit USET ONLINE at www.uset.org.
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Malmö (SWE), 17 January 2010 – A new worldwide Eventing Risk Management Policy and Action Plan aimed at reducing cross-country horse falls was launched at the third annual FEI Safety meeting in Malmö, Sweden, today. Based on a six-year statistical study of the sport, the Action Plan will be a functional and reliable system that will be used to monitor risk factors in Eventing, and to streamline international data and ideas to further understand the root causes of falls.
The FEI Eventing Committee has set the target to reduce horse falls by 10% (and by 20% at 4-star level) over the next three years. Already, data for the period from 2004-2009 shows that, despite a significant increase in the popularity of the sport – a 35% increase in the number of competitions and a 22.5% increase in the total number of starters – the percentage of horse falls has decreased from 2.02% to 1.73%. This is the first time that a statistical database has monitored the sport on a global basis.
Dear Friends of Cloud and his family and all our wild horses;
After Christmas, Ann Evans (owner of Cloud’s sisters, Smokey and Mahogany, and my dear friend), Connor (my Irish Terrier), and I traveled north to Montana. First we visited our Freedom Fund horses on the ranch just north of the Pryor Mountains.
Only with your help and immediate action were we able to adopt and purchase these 15 after the disastrous roundup in September 2009. BLM removed every horse from Commissary Ridge in the Custer National Forest at the request of the Forest Service. In their defense, I do not believe that the Forest Service managers knew that BLM was permanently removing all of them, but were under the impression at least some would be allowed to go free in the designated range. But, BLM surprised all of us and did not let one horse go free — not even the 19-year-old band stallion Conquistador or the 21-year-old mare Grumpy Grulla.
It is my great pleasure to report to you that all 15 in four bands look fabulous! They have settled in to a pasture in the shadow of the Pryors, an expansive, scenic area bisected by a willow-lined creek below colorful red rock cliffs.
Read the rest of the article and see many more photos here.
Green Cove Springs, FL – Irish born Darragh Kenny, now based in Rexford, NY, partnered with Obelix, bested 27 of the top names in the show jumping world and won the $100,000 Green Cove Springs CSI2* Grand Prix, a World Cup Qualifier, sponsored by Glen Kernan Golf & Country Club.
Awed spectators were treated to an International All Star event with riders representing the Olympics, World Equestrian Games, Pan Am Games, Samsung Super League and of course World Cup Championships. All at the mercy course designer Dave Ballard’s very technical 14 fence [17 effort] layout that serpentine from one end of the arena to the other and all riders hoping to move one step closer to the FEI World Cup Finals in Switzerland.
Ballard, whose home base is Ontario, Canada, is known globally for creating some of the most technical and unique layouts in the sport of show jumping including the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Canada, and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Tonight’s first round demonstrated why the O Class designer is so highly regarded, and often feared. Despite two big combinations, a triple at 5ABC and double at 11AB, the real test of talent and control began at the #6 oxer with a sharp right turn over the #7 vertical, hard left over #8 oxer and immediate hard right to the #9 oxer. Success meant passing the test clear in under 88 seconds, a task only 7 would accomplish. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9827
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