New Grand Prix Winners Emerge, 50 Show in the Devoucoux Derby, While the Social Scene Is Buzzing in Ocala
OCALA, FL (February 24, 2010) — The second week of show jumping at HITS Ocala wrapped on Sunday with warm weather and exciting action, proving that the ‘Horse Capital of the World’ is also the ‘Land of Opportunity,’ as the Grand Prix Arena saw some new faces emerge in the winner’s circle.
In Thursday’s $25,000 HITS Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, Lacy Morrone-Cramer from Pittstown, New Jersey earned her first Grand Prix win of the season riding Ulysses Van De Krekebeke, owned by Equi Sport, LLC. The duo bested 36 pairs and, according to Morrone-Cramer, it was all thanks to a last second decision. “From the triple bar to the triple combination everyone was jumping the line in the eight,” explained Morrone-Cramer. “When I was out there it was a last second decision, but I decided to jump it in the seven and it worked!”
Sunday’s $50,000 Charles Owen Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, marked the first-time victory for Grand Prix newcomer Full A’s, shown by Matthais Hollberg of Apex, North Carolina. Owned by APEX Equestrian Center, it was only the fifth Grand Prix the horse has ever competed in. “He’s won a few ribbons but this was the first time he’s ever jumped clean in a Grand Prix, let alone win,” exclaimed a very happy Hollberg after the class.
Finishing alongside Hollberg in the top three were Hugh Graham on Executive Privilege 3E and Kristen VanderVeen on Bull Run’s La Bamba.
Wellington, FL – February 23, 2010 – Kelsey Thatcher had an exciting week in Wellington as she rode several of her top horses in the Winter Equestrian Festival’s World Champion Hunter Rider (WCHR) week. Thatcher earned the opportunity to compete in the WCHR Hunter Spectacular on Saturday night after earning the Small Junior Hunter 16-17 championship with Sublime. The pair received scores of 90 and 88 in the division’s final two classes over fences.
Sublime is a handsome bay gelding owned by Jessica Springsteen and her family’s Stone Hill Farm of Colts Neck, NJ. Thatcher is leasing Sublime for the WEF circuit and has already had great success. The pair earned a respectable fifth place ribbon on the first day this week with a score of 84, and then on day two they blew away the competition. Thatcher received her first ever score of 90 in the first class over fences and another high score of 88 in the stake class. They were presented with the championship tricolor for the division and Sublime was dressed in the special WCHR championship cooler.
Thatcher described Sublime as a “been there, done that kind of guy” and was very excited to receive her first score of 90. “They were normal hunter courses but they had their tricks because the course designer definitely had some handier hunter jumps in there and the lines were very forward, so that got a lot of people,” she said. “He is pretty point and shoot and he gives you a great jump, so he did really well out there.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10357
United States rider Arlene ‘Tuny’ Page and Wild One won the Grand Prix Musical Freestyle during the 2009 Palm Beach Dressage Derby. (Photo courtesy of SusanJStickle.com)
Loxahatchee, FL (February 23, 2010) – The best dressage riders in the world will soon descend on Loxahatchee, Florida, all with the goal of becoming a winner at one of the country’s most prestigious dressage competitions – the 27th Annual Palm Beach Dressage Derby. This year’s Palm Beach Dressage Derby, March 4-7, has an added bonus for attracting top riders as it is a qualifier for the Selection Trials for the 2010 Alltech/FEI World Equestrian Games Dressage Team.
With more than $12,000 in prize money and awards, the Palm Beach Dressage Derby attracts the best riders in the world and also draws thousands of spectators to the Horse Park Equestrian Estates in Loxahatchee. Admission and parking are free and visitors can enjoy watching classes of all levels including the always popular musical freestyles, which will be held Sunday, March 7.
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Ginger Kathrens – Executive Director, The Cloud Foundation
Ginger Kathrens is an Emmy Award-winning producer, cinematographer, writer and editor as well as an award-winning author. Her documentary filmmaking trips have taken her to Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America and all over the U.S. She filmed and produced the acclaimed Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies and Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns for WNET’s Nature series on PBS. Cloud will return to PBS in November with Cloud: Challenge of The Stallions. Five years in the making, it is Kathrens’ next chapter in the life of the charismatic wild stallion she has documented since his birth in May of 1995. Ginger’s revealing journey with wild horses has been compared to Jane Goodall’s experiences with Chimpanzees. Her documentation of Cloud represents the only continuing chronicle of a wild animal from birth in our hemisphere. Kathrens was the co-producer and cinematographer of the two-hour Discovery Channel special, Spirits of the Rainforest, which won two Emmy Awards including one for Best Documentary. Additional projects for Discovery included The Ultimate Guide: Horses and The Ultimate Guide: Dogs. Kathrens also wrote, edited, and produced over two dozen segments of the Wild America series for PBS, and has filmed for National Geographic, Animal Planet and the BBC. In 2008, Kathrens completed the cinema verité one-hour program, They Crossed the Mountains, The History of the Western States Trail for the Western States Trail Foundation in Auburn, California. For twenty years, she was a political media consultant and producer, working with Presidents Reagan, Ford, and George H. Walker Bush. Her highly regarded political productions include the award-winning short subject, Steady under Fire, the story of former Colorado U.S. Senator Hank Brown. Ginger is the founder and Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on our public lands with special attention on isolated, historically significant and genetically unique herds like Cloud’s. She is an informed, impassioned and entertaining speaker on behalf of wild horses from coast to coast. She is an expert on Spanish wild horses and has served as a consultant for the television documentary, Horses of the Conquistadors. You can find GINGER under NON PROFITS.
pucciManuli animals waiting to be adopted at the Fete Cheval Carnivale. Photo courtesy of The EQUUS Foundation.
WELLINGTON, FL – February 23, 2010 – For anyone who has ever competed in an equestrian event and may have wondered how judges select the winners, the opportunity will be yours at the February 26, 2010 Fete Cheval Carnivale to benefit The EQUUS Foundation, Inc., at the International Polo Club in Wellington, Florida. The evening event, hosted by Title Sponsor, Spy Coast Farm, will be great fun for both adults and children.
One member of the audience will join Ralph Caristo and Susie Schoelkopf to “judge” the competitors in a round of Musical Stalls and a “Power & Speed Relay, concluding with a Surprise Ride-Off among the game winners.
Top Jumper and Hunter riders, Hillary Dobbs, Kent Farrington, Sandy Ferrell, Brianne Goutal, Patricia Griffith, Todd Minikus, Bert Mutch, Rodrigo Pessoa, Peter Pletcher, Havens Schatt, Louise Serio, Shane Sweetnam, and Jimmy Torano, will vie for top honors in fun and games on the polo field while guests enjoy a carnival-themed reception and dinner.
Wellington, FL – February 23, 2010 – Varsity Equestrian is pleased to announce the inaugural Collegiate Equitation Challenge to be held at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL on Friday, February 26, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the International Arena.
The tournament will be run in the Varsity Equestrian head to head format. Equitation and Sale horses will be on loan from local professionals. Sixteen riders, 14 from NCAA schools and two from Florida schools, were invited to compete with selections based upon individual national rankings from the Fall 2009 season. The event will consist of eight head to head brackets with single elimination leading to an exciting head to head final. The course will be set at 3’6″ with the riders competing on unfamiliar horses. Riders will have four minutes to school, two on the flat and two over fences with a maximum of four warm up jumps. The 16 riders will compete on eight horses with the highest score of each match up proceeding to the next round. Tournament will be single elimination.
This tournament will lead to some exciting match ups. Last year, the University of Georgia had both the leading Individual Over Fences Rider and won the Overall Varsity Equestrian National Championships. However, Maggie McAlary who will be competing on behalf of Auburn again, was determined by the judges to be the Most Valuable Rider of the Competition in April of 2009. Many riders, some new to their teams and some seasoned veterans, will be making their way to south Florida for this exciting tournament, each looking for a chance to be crowned as the first WEF Collegiate Invitational Equitation Challenge Champion. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10355
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