Pictured at the Draw Press Conference for the seventh leg of the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup at Hickstead today were: (top) John Roche, FEI Director Jumping; Claire Walker, Sponsorship and Site Services Manager for Meydan, John Youngs, President International Ground Jury and (below) the Chef d'Equipes. Photo: Trevor Meeks.
FEI TV – You can watch all the action live on FEI TV tomorrow afternoon, Friday 30 July, beginning at 13.45 local time – go to www.feitv.org.
FRENCH FIRST INTO THE RING AT HICKSTEAD
Hickstead (GBR), 29 July 2010 – The French, 2009 series champions and leaders throughout the 2010 season, will be pathfinders when the seventh leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup series gets underway at Hickstead, Great Britain tomorrow afternoon.
The draw took place this afternoon, and the order-of-go for the penultimate leg of the 2010 series is as follows: 1, France: 2, USA; 3, Sweden; 4, Ireland; 5, Switzerland; 6, Great Britain; 7, Germany; 8, The Netherlands; 9, Spain.
John Roche, FEI Director Jumping, explained why the Polish team will not participate in the last two legs of the series. “I’d like to pay tribute to the great effort the Polish team have put into their campaign in the Meydan FEI Nations Cup this season. They have enjoyed participating in the series and we have enjoyed watching them compete. However unfortunately they cannot put a team together for the last two legs, here at Hickstead and again in Dublin next week, because they don’t have a sufficient number of horses. We are sorry to lose them – I believe we have all been filled with admiration for their sportsmanship and courage throughout this summer,” he pointed out.
We have heard you voice your complaints about the roundups.
We have listened to you share so many of your personal stories about your own adopted mustangs.
We have all sent thousands of letters via fax, email, and USPS to our Government officials, even to the point of their phone lines being unplugged and emails shut down due to the high volume of wild horse supporters on this issue.
We are doing all of these things daily, but there still has been NO change.
It’s time for the PONY EXPRESS!
I will personally hand deliver each and every letter that you write, via the Pony Express (one of our beautiful mustangs), to Washington DC. I am setting a goal of 20,000 individual letters to take with me. Americans, international supporters, animal activists, anyone who would like to tell President Obama, Secretary Salazar, and Bob Abbey that we aren’t going to sit by waiting until these roundups are over is encouraged to write. This is a very important issue to hundreds of thousands of people that have pleaded with our government to stop gathering our wild horses. This way they cannot unplug their phones, make their website impossible to send a comment to, or delete emails. These are GOING to get to Washington. I promise you that!
Hillary Dobbs
Hillary Dobbs hit the million dollar mark in winnings during the 41st annual Lake Placid Horse Shows. The 22 year old Harvard graduate placed second aboard Marengo in the $30,000 Intercat, Inc. Open Jumper Classic CSI 2* pushed jumped her past the million dollar mark. Her victory in the $30,000 Battenkill Grand Prix, the 2nd year she has won it, also on Marengo at the Vermont Summer Festival WEEK 2 put her total earnings to date at $1,023,785.75.
Liliane Stransky/Stransky Mission Farms/Step by Step Foundation
Photo by Kathy Anderson
The tornado that slammed into the Olympic stadium may have delayed the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, but it didn’t dampen the competition or spectators’ spirits. “You can plan for almost anything,” stated Liliane Stransky, the owner of Stransky’s Mission Farm and founder of the Step by Step charity. “I have learned the hard way, there is no plan with nature. Every day is unexpected, and thank God no people, or horses, were seriously hurt.” Stransky celebrated the finishing of the Step by Step Foundation’s new Tipa Tipa Elementary School in Haiti with her 14 year old daughter Daniela by cheering on both Hector Florentino (Dominican Republic) riding their bay Ultimo, and Diego Muyshodndt (El Salvador) on their jumper Ikarus, in the CAC show jumping competitions. 31 nations were scheduled to participate.
Photo Courtesy of Roger Young Stables
Congratulations to rider, trainer, and judge Gary Young of Roger Young Stables and his lovely wife Michaela on the opening of Camden Equine Rehabilitation & Conditioning Center in South Carolina. Soon their two year old daughter Stella will be able to take the reins in the family business!
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