The beautiful Grand Prix arena at the HITS-on-the-Hudson show grounds in Saugerties, New York will host 13 Qualifying Grand Prix classes for the Pfizer $1 Million.
Saugerties, New York – January 19, 2010 – As riders gear up for the 2010 Grand Prix season, qualifying for the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix on September 12 in Saugerties, New York is topping the list of priorities. Kent Farrington, Jimmy Torano, and McLain Ward were among those announcing intentions to become one of only forty-six potential riders to vie for a top prize of $350,000 in September.
With a limited number of spots available on the coveted Pfizer Animal Health USPGL Rider Rankings, many of the country’s top riders have already started making plans for getting to Saugerties in September.
John Brennan of North Run Stables in Warren, Vermont offered his insight on the class, citing it as a goal for his students, Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ and Darragh Kenny of Ireland. The Pfizer Million is a “fantastic thing for the sport of show jumping in this country to really raise the bar and have a class that is worth more than any class in Europe. Anyone trying to compete at the highest level will try to qualify, as winning the Pfizer Million will be very prestigious given it is the first $1Million class in the U.S.,” Brennan said. Based in Vermont during the summer, Brennan is a regular HITS Saugerties attendee, but plans to “attend more Saugerties shows than usual to take advantage of the Pfizer qualifiers,” this year. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9894
On Thursday, January 14th, I joined the crew of ABC’s Good Morning America for a tour of the Calico Complex in northern Nevada and observed my first wild horse roundup. On a spectacular day in an area so picturesque it took our breath away. I watched as 51 wild horses were herded by helicopter into corrals and loaded on trucks taken away from the only life and land they have ever known. As I watched, I saw wild horses peering out the back of the trailers looking back at the peaceful and beautiful mountains they would never see again and the feeling was gut-wrenching.
The BLM briefing before the gather was full of stock lines we all have grown accustomed to: “the horses are starving up here in this wonderful country and we are doing them a favor to gather them and take them to holding areas where they will have better conditions.” Most of the wild horses we observed were in good condition and the sight of an undernourished horse was rare, and though the BLM admitted that many were in good condition now, they said they still had to gather them in case something changed later in the year.
The previous day I had a guided tour of the newly constructed wild horse holding facility in Fallon, NV. This is where all the wild horses being gathered in the Calico Complex will be held for an undetermined number of months or years. This facility stands by itself on the outskirts of Fallon with no windbreaks, overhead protection or other means for the wild horses to avoid the harshness of the winter months or the brutal heat of summer, and many of them will certainly be there during both the winter and summer. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9891
Comment Now to Stop Eagle Roundup of 550 Nevada Mustangs
The BLM plans to leave only 100 wild horses on 670,000 acres of public land in Nevada that Congress set-aside principally for their use. They are now proposing to roundup and remove 550 “excess” wild horses in yet another inhumane winter roundup planned to begin February 7th.
Please take time to comment now! Comments are due by January 27th.
In Defense of Animals has set up an easy to use comment form, just be sure to submit your own comments.
Read in-depth reporting on the BLM’s faulty analysis in the Eagle Environmental Assessment on the American Herds Blog.
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