FREE & newsworthy HHoorrssee RReevviieeww VOL. 29 • NO. 2 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 OCTOBER 2018 2. October 2018 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview.com ON THE C OvER : team usa’s youngest rider, 18-year-old Cade mc - Horse Review Cutcheon, laid down an impressive performance aboard october 2018 Custom made Gun, a 7-year-old stallion, in reining Equus Charta, LLC competition at the fEi World Equestrian Games™ Copyright 2018 ContEnts • v ol . 29 • n o. 2 tryon. usa won the Gold! ( Photo FEI / Liz Gregg ) 6220 Greenlee #4 p.o. Box 594 arlington, tn 38002-0594 901-867-1755 PUBLiSHER & E DiTOR : Tom & Dr. Nancy Brannon STAFF : Andrea Gilbert WEBSiTE : www.midsouthhorsereview.com E- MAiLS : midsouthhorsereview@ yahoo.com [email protected] Devin Ryan of the USA Gold Medal Show Jumping team on Eddie Blue at WEG. Monarch butterflies fascinated chil - (see p. 18) (Photo FEI / Martin Dokoupil ) dren at the Hummingbird Festival. 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Beck and steeplechasing to barrel racing, the book ready on a split-second to move in re - three companions, who called themselves reveals how horse and rider work as one sponse to the cow’s moves. the overland Westerners, did complete the to achieve sporting excellence. Horses are the remainder of the chapter on agility trip in 37 months. But pinto was the only simply amazing athletes! naturally fleet of contains langrish’s fabulous photos of horse to complete the whole distance, as foot, they have strength, stamina and in - dressage horses, driving, reining, and bar - the others were traded for fresh horses. telligence to match. We ask a great deal of rel racing horses. Endurance didn’t become a competitive these amazing creatures when we ride key elements of “athleticism” are en - sport until the 1950s, when Wendell robie them in competition, and the horses al - ergy and impulsion, as exemplified by rode the rugged 100-mile trail from lake ways deliver. show jumping. one stunning photo of the tahoe to auburn in less than 24 hours. He this is a book you’ll first want to turn horse jumping is taken from below look - subsequently founded the tevis Cup. through from start to finish, soaking in all ing up. “at the point when it is in the air foxhunters will enjoy the part of this the lovely photos that make up a substan - over a jump, the athletic horse stretches chapter on foxhunting, as well as appreci - tial part of the book. the foreword is by every sinew and brings its hind legs up and ating the wont for hunt storytelling. eventer Jane Holderness-roddam, who underneath its body,” reads the caption. “Huntsmen will tell tales of horses that has won both Badminton and Burghley, next in the chapter is polo. “polo is a knew where the fox was before they did, The Sporting represented Great Britain as the first fast game – the little horses reach speeds that will jump five-bar gates with barely woman to ride at an olympic three-day of 50kpf (30 mph) – and its players, taking a breath, and gallop all day.” i once Horse event, and won team gold medal in mex - human and equine, must have quick re - hunted a horse who knew where the ditch ico in 1968. she writes, “my own career flexes,” swinney writes. crossings were, even if i forgot. Review by Nancy Brannon has been built upon the synergy between the remainder of the chapter showcases the remainder of the Endurance chap - myself and my talented equine partners, photos of jumpers (my favorites are the ter includes thrilling cross-country photos s the fEi World Equestrian and this collection is a beautiful testimony head and front legs shot, page 93, and the (my favorite is alex Bragg obviously en - Games™ tryon 2018 were hap - a that relationship. the horse is our stalwart jumper Chivas Z receiving a treat from his joying the ride on Zagreb at the British pening, with sport horses in eight eques - companion, our most loyal friend, and our rider richard spooner, page 105) and open Championships, page 161), en - trian disciplines, it seemed appropriate to devoted colleague.” polo, with a great close-up of the horse durance horses, and foxhunting photos. review the beautiful coffee-table book The in the first chapter, “agility,” swinney galloping with all four legs off the ground perhaps the most impressive photo of Sporting Horse: In Pursuit of Equine Ex - examines poise and control, as exempli - as the rider is about to hit the ball (page the book is the two-page spread of race - cellence , by nicola Jane swinney and Bob fied by the exquisite movements of the 113). horses at the beginning of the chapter on langrish, mBE. swinney is a former dressage horse. i love the photo of ex - the chapter on “Endurance” features “speed,” featuring pace and acceleration. newspaper journalist who was hunting ed - tended trot with Charlotte dujardin and the elements stamina and power, begin - “there is little more exhilarating than itor and chief subeditor for Horse & valegro! What a star! ning with the three-day eventing horses. watching a racing field stretch across the Hound . langrish is one of the world’s from the ridden dressage horse, she “peak fitness is vital for the cross-country course…” swinney describes. another is leading equestrian photographers – as is moves to the driven dressage test that is phase of a three-day event,” writes swin - on page 183, with two horses running obvious by his stunning photos through - the first element of the four-in-hand driv - ney. the culmination of an eventing cham - side-by-side, their front legs in perfect out the book. ing trial. these horses show such great pion is the “rolex Grand slam,” most synchrony. the book is a celebration of the athletic agility at negotiating marathon obstacles, recently won by michael Jung: the ken - swinney describes the history of race - abilities of horses, and the unique rela - as shown in the photo of four-times World tucky three-day Event, Burghley, and horses in art (George stubbs) and photog - tionship between horse and rider that is Champion four-in-hand driver Boyd Exell Badminton. raphy (Eadweard muybridge), as well as most evident in the sporting arena. devel - splashing through the water obstacle. [He “of all the equestrian disciplines, the the origins of the modern racehorse with oping four key characteristics – athleti - won individual gold at this year’s WEG] sport of endurance is arguably the one that Byerley turk (1690), the darley arabian cism, speed, agility and endurance – each swinney writes, “as with dressage, demands the greatest knowledge of the in - (1704), and the Godolphin arabian, im - with its own chapter, journalist nicola Western riding should look effort - dividual horse’s abilities and limitation,” ported from france in 1729 by Edward swinney explores how hundreds of years less…Western riding comes in many writes swinney. she tells the interesting Coke.