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Home Welcome to Warmblood News Warmblood News is the place to find out what's happening in the world of the American Warmblood and the NorthAmerican Sportpony! Check back frequently for updates and recent happenings. Young Breeders Training Seminar April 2-3, 2011 Canterbury Farm Winston-Salem, North Carolina Hosted by Will & McKay Crowley, Canterbury Farm Make Your Reservation Today by Contacting the Crowleys at 336-775-7940 or 864-221-1330 or the AWR/NASPR office at 406-734-5499 Information presented at this workshop will be beneficial to anyone interested in showing sporthorses and/or sportponies and the methodology of the AWR/NASPR Breed Protocol whether or not they plan to join the Young Breeders Team for the competition in France in July. Click here for a complete synopsis of the seminar. file:///C|/Users/Jody/Desktop/WEBSITE%20STUFF/Warmblood%20News/index.html (1 of 9) [2/17/2011 10:37:06 AM] Home International Young Breeders July 22-24, 2011 Chazey sur Ain, France Are you 16-25 years of age and a member of the American Warmblood Registry? Would you love to travel to France to compete with hundreds of other sporthorse-minded young people? Then you belong on the AWR International Young Breeders team! Teams of three contenders from around the world will compete in four disciplines: theory, judging of conformation, judging of free jumping and presenting a horse in-hand. The AWR will hold three training seminars to prepare team members for the 2011 International Young Breeders Competition to be held in Chazey sur Ain, France on July 22-24. The first seminar will be held in North Carolina on April 2-3. Click here for information on registering for this seminar. The primary goal of the WBFSH International Young Breeders Competitions is to bring young breeders together across breeding associations, countries, and languages. They will compete, of course, but above all, the aim is to make new friends and create new contacts. Contact the AWR office for more information at 406-734-5499. AWR Young Breeders team who competed in Denmark in 2005. file:///C|/Users/Jody/Desktop/WEBSITE%20STUFF/Warmblood%20News/index.html (2 of 9) [2/17/2011 10:37:06 AM] Home 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 November 12 - 27, 2010 The little big show nobody has heard of outside Asia in the Southern part of China was a huge success and all the world citizens calling themselves Asians were at hand. It was a fabulous spectacle with a huge opening ceremony in the garden city of Guangzhou. The pearl among Asian cities was dressed in its festive flowery finest and sparkled at all of us visiting from faraway lands to participate in watching the Asian athletes. Participants and spectators easily mingled with the locals in beautiful parks, museums and the many remarkable eateries and entertainment venues. The equestrians, whom I came to watch, had been sent to a brand new facility not far from Guanghzou in the city of Conghua along the Liuxi River. The area is known for its many hot spring spas and beautiful mountain ranges. file:///C|/Users/Jody/Desktop/WEBSITE%20STUFF/Warmblood%20News/index.html (3 of 9) [2/17/2011 10:37:06 AM] Home The newly completed equestrian facilities sparkled in the sunshine inviting us to experience the biggest facility in China to host international equestrian events. Much of the layout was quite adequate. The spectators, however, had to endure a long march uphill before reaching the actual stadium. I suspect that due to its newness and lack of previous influx of international visitors nobody thought of the necessity to feed the visitors. There were no food vendors anywhere to be found. However, it was possible to buy water. My Chinese fellow spectators came prepared with food. Luckily, I had come from Guanghzou with a private car and driver who waited for me the 2 miles away downhill in the parking lot and scouted out a restaurant some 10 miles away. The equestrian events were in order of execution, dressage, eventing and jumping. I came to watch the jumping competition. Previously the eventing phase ended quite tragically with the death of a horse resulting in the withdrawal of the entire Iranian national team. The first part of the jumping competition consisted of the team competition where eight teams (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Quatar, China, Taipei, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong) with four riders each battled it out with the team from Saudi Arabia winning the gold. United Arab Emirate coached by Stanny van Peschen (an old friend of mine and former member of the Belgian Equestrian Team) winning silver and Quatar the bronze. The performances of the individual riders were quite interesting. All riders were mounted on Warmblood Sporthorses. All the horses were listed with origin (Studbook), age, sex and pedigree in the program lists issued to registered journalists. We also received a diagram of the beautiful jump course reflecting an Asian theme with particular reference to Guangzhou landmarks, designed by John Vallance of Australia. The highest fence was set at 1.40 m with the biggest width at the water ditch of 3.5 m, and the biggest spread was a triple bar at 2 meters. All in all the course was big and open and rather than presenting difficult questions, it required stamina from the horses. file:///C|/Users/Jody/Desktop/WEBSITE%20STUFF/Warmblood%20News/index.html (4 of 9) [2/17/2011 10:37:06 AM] Home All riders of Team Saudi Arabia, headed by the star of the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, Khaled Abdulaziz AL EID on Presley Boy, came in clear followed by Team United Arab Emirate riders (the very best of whom was SH Latifa Almaktom on the chestnut SF stallion Kalaska de Semily who came in clear) with a total of 8 faults. Team Quatar finished with 8 jumping faults and one time fault in third place. The host country Team China was not lucky with the elimination of Nulahemaiti Abai plus an additional 18 faults of his team members. The qualifiers of the Individual Championship two days later numbered 18 rider/horse combinations. The countries represented were two each rider/horse combos from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Quatar, plus Nasir Naafar from Brunei and Catherine Chew from Singapore. Three riders finished with a total of 8 faults in the two round competition. Chew from Singapore is a very good rider but was exceedingly unlucky on the day. The same applies to Shao Man Chen from Taipei mounted on a Holsteiner gelding as well as Ahmad Saber Hamcho from Syria on Wonderboy. After two rounds the riders in contention were Al Eid (KSA) on Presley Boy, Al Duhami (KSA) on Bayard V, and Latifa Almaktom (UAE) on Kalaska de Semily who all went clear. The first in the jump-off was Al Eid the experienced rider and horse who rode in confident and calm. I was sitting in the stands wondering at the grueling long course for the jump- off, clearly a challenge for the riders, not in difficulty again but in stamina. All the horses had been tackling this long course for many rounds and they were tired. Needless to say, at a simple vertical jump, Presley Boy hit the rail, obviously exhausted. His rider, surprised, looked back in disbelief and oops, the next rail fell. He finished the jump-off round with 8 faults. Second to go was Al Duhami on Bayard V, a very smooth and experienced team often seen on the European circuit. The team sails over the jumps confidently but OH NO he was a bit too confident and they too saw a rail tumble. However he finished with 4 faults ahead of Al Eid. The final competitor enters the ring, her horse the quick and light- file:///C|/Users/Jody/Desktop/WEBSITE%20STUFF/Warmblood%20News/index.html (5 of 9) [2/17/2011 10:37:06 AM] Home footed Kalaska de Semily, catlike and efficient, jumps ears forward. Then after jump 4 hesitates and they struggle together. Oh what luck, they cleared the rail. The team easily sailed over the final jump leaving all rails standing. A CLEAR round! The Gold Medal was well deserved for the cool and elegant team of Latifa Almaktom and her SF stallion Kalaska de Semily. The party can begin! I start my march back down the 2 miles to meet with my driver and the ride ‘back home’ to Guangzhou who’s dressed for the fireworks and festivities of Closing Ceremonies, a spectacular event long to be remembered in Asia. See you at the next Asian Games. Sonja K Lowenfish Editor www.warmbloodnews.com Equestrian Medal Winners at the 16th Asian Games Gold Medals Dressage Team: Korea Dressage Individual: Hwang Young Shik, Korea Eventing Team: Japan Eventing Individual: Sato Kenki, Japan Jumping Team: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Jumping Individual: Latifah Almaktom, United Arab Emirates Silver Medals Dressage Team: China Dressage Individual: Quzandria Nur Mahamad, Malaysia Eventing Team: Thailand Eventing Individual: Equestrian Cheon Jai Sik, Korea Jumping Team: United Arab Emirates Jumping Individual:Al Duhami, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia file:///C|/Users/Jody/Desktop/WEBSITE%20STUFF/Warmblood%20News/index.html (6 of 9) [2/17/2011 10:37:06 AM] Home Bronze Medals Dressage Team: Malaysia Dressage Individual: Mahamad Fathil MD Qabil, Malaysia Eventing Team: China Eventing Individual: Oiwa Yoshiaki, Japan Jumping Team: Hong Kong Jumping Individual: Al Eid Khaled Abdul Aziz, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia McLain Ward and Sapphire Win Richest Grand Prix in Show Jumping History The day of the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix finally arrived on September 12, 2010.