Grand Prix jumper rider Michael Tokaruk recently found success with his Holsteiner Roger Rabbit at the Winter Equestrian Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tokaruk Show Stables)
Wellington, FL (February 19, 2010) – Canadian rider Michael Tokaruk, a Draper Equine Therapy Advisory Board member, was only seconds off the win in the 1.45m class at the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, riding his nine-year-old Holsteiner gelding Roger Rabbit to a second place victory at the world-class winter show. Tokaruk’s success comes as no surprise, as he began his own sales and training barn at age 25, has won the AHJF Legacy Cup, multiple Grand Prix titles, and has appeared on the cover of the Dover Catalog twice and the cover of Practical Horseman magazine.
Tokaruk, who runs Tokaruk Show Stables in Aiken, South Carolina with his brother Luke, was pleased with Roger Rabbit’s success at WEF. “It was the first big class I have shown him in this year and it was a warm-up for the upcoming Derby,” Tokaruk said. “Roger Rabbit is a wonderful horse and we are excited about his future.”
Tokaruk said some of Roger Rabbit’s success in the 1.45m class came from using Draper Equine Therapy’s cooler. “We use the Draper cooler before and after each class. The cooler warms up the horse’s muscles and gets their blood flowing,” Tokaruk said. “We have been using Draper products for over a year and I really do notice a difference in our horses. Draper has research behind their products, and from personal experience I can really say they work.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10320
Wellington, FL – February 18, 2010 – Hunters are on the center stage this week in the Bainbridge AHJF/WCHR Hunter Spectacular week of the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. The professional hunter divisions competed in the E. R. Mische Grand Hunter Ring and the International Arena over the past two days to find their champions.
In the Regular Working Hunters, Liza Towell Boyd of Camden, SC, won the championship on Brunello, a 12-year-old gelding owned by Caroline Clark Morrison. The pair was second over fences in the second class yesterday and finished with two blue ribbons over fences today to capture the top prize over Castle Rock and Louise Serio, who rode for Bryan Baldwin.
“It was a bit of a rider error in the first class, and we had a rail behind,” Boyd explained of yesterday’s class. “Since we do not get a hack ribbon, every jumping class needs to count. I knew today we had to win both classes. We were just going to go for it. He walked in there and I asked him, and he was right there for me. He got two scores of 88.”
The American Quarter Horse Journal, February 18, 2010 – College equestrian programs depend on reliable horses, and no horses fit the bill like the American Quarter Horse.
That’s certainly the case for the University of Georgia, which recently reclaimed its top spot in the bimonthly poll of Varsity Equestrian coaches, just months before the National Championships that will be held April 15-17, 2010, in Waco, Texas.
Of the Georgia Bulldog horse herd, many are American Quarter Horses, said Georgia equestrian coach Meghan Boenig.
Georgia athletes practice their riding skills on the horses, many of which have been donated to the university for equestrian competition.
Wellington, FL – February 18, 2010 – The unstoppable Pablo Barrios (VEN) and Gustavo and Carolina Mirabal’s G&C Blanchee Z bested a field of 38 entries today in the $30,000 WEF Challenge Cup Round Six. Taking home the red ribbon for second place today was Carlos Lopez riding his own Penny Lane. Kent Farrington (USA) claimed both the third and fourth places with RCG Farm’s United, and Up Chiqui, owned by William Dobbs, Alex Boone, and Kent Farrington.
The sixth week of the FTI WEF is sponsored by Bainbridge and runs through Sunday, February 21. The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of competition that conclude on April 4, 2010, and they will be awarding almost $6 million in prize money through the circuit.
Olympic course designer Steve Stephens built today’s course in the DeNemethy Ring. The course featured 12 numbered obstacles, including three double combinations, in lieu of a triple combination. The most problematic obstacle of the day was 6b, which was an oxer out of a pressing one-stride combination off of a short approach, causing the back rail to come down many times throughout the class. Ten horse/rider combinations went clear in the first round to advance to the jump-off.
Wellington, FL – February 18, 2010 – The Ninth Annual Challenge of the Americas is excited to announce a very unique new dressage and figure skating performance to the Challenge lineup. Held in Wellington, FL on Saturday, March 13, 2010, the evening will get underway at 5:30 p.m. with musical grand prix team quadrilles, four bar jumping and a figure skating dressage exhibition. The event is presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC) and will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).
The new performance, sponsored by Platinum Seamless, will feature a combination of dressage and figure skating unlike anything seen before. Four figure skaters will perform their graceful moves on ice set on the Polo Club’s main field, with horses and riders performing around them. Featured riders will include Mary Ann Grant and Dr. Michael Kohl on their horses, along with figure skaters Julie Mulvey, Curtis Chornopysky, Jenna Dviervamowsky, and Vinny Dispenda from ‘Incredible ICE’ in Coral Springs, FL. The display will feature two four-minute numbers including a tango and a Latin number performed to Enrique Iglesias. The horses and skaters will dance to the beats of the music in what skating director Nancy Mariano calls, “an absolutely beautiful and elegant dressage and figure skating spectacular.”
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