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For People About Horse People April 2011

Polo’s Bands of Brothers For the Love of Nick Haness is Riding High

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF N The Social Scene Cornelia Bernard Henderson 120 Robert Orthwein Named 2011 [email protected] 561-309-6636 Equestrian Idol Winner Contributing Editor S Erin Gilmore STAFF WRITERs 26 Five Questions for Dick Feldman Lauren Giannini, Jan Westmark, I 28 My Line Danika Rice 42 Nick Haness is Riding High CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 46 Houston’s 66th Annual Pin Oak Johnny Robb, Fred McWane, Sydney Masters - Durieux, Charity Horse Show Sarah Ward D 50 On Course with Sarah Oberson Taylor PHOTOGRAPHERS 52 Angela and Megan Millon Quite the David Lominska, Jack Mancini , Flashpoint, Alan Fabricant, Susan Stickle Mother-Daughter Team Lauren R. Giannini, Shawn McMillen E 54 Vermont Summer Festival Returns Kim & Allen MacMillan 58 Horse Show Roundup SIDELINES COLUMNISTS 26 Dr. Bev Gordon - Horse in Motion Lisa Hollister, Esq - Equine Law Dressage Ann Reilly - Psychology 100 98 A Few Minutes with Sean Cunningham Sarah Ward My Line 100 Melanie Pai and Canaan Ranch JUNIORWRITERS Catie Staszak, Lauren Corey, Rachel Horowitz S Eventing ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER 22 A Few Minutes with Sarah Cousins Melissa Burns [email protected] 561-951-4225 Special Features I ADVERTISING SALES 78 For the Love of Horses Part II Joyce Jones 84 Second Chances [email protected] 954-796-1809 86 Side Shots CLASSIFIEDS D Sis Hotujec [email protected] 74 Sidelines JR 561-798-4828 70 On Course with Junior Rider Samantha Schaefer CIRCULATION E 72 Juniorside Bill Tatgenhorst [email protected] 74 A Few Minutes with Junior Rider SUBSCRIPTIONS Kayla Patregnani Also for change of address 76 Brooke Coleman is Champ at Second Annual Gigi Harris L Toll Free 1-877-966-2289 Collegiate Challenge Outside US 1-803-685-5247 [email protected]

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for herself, and Jan Westmark Letter from the Editor introduces us to this teen phenom. She also visited with Kayla In many ways, our April issue takes us to our roots: polo! Patregnani and the mother daughter As our loyal (read older) readers know, Sidelines began as a polo team of Angela and Megan Millon… tabloid, gradually evolving toward the other disciplines, and then and then interviewed dressage rider discovering the majority of our readers were hunter/jumper or Sean Cunningham. Our Jan does dressage folk. Who woulda guessed? get around! But once a year, around Open time (that’s the USPA Open to There’s more to read, of course: you non poloistas) we get to revisit the in a more depth. Equine Law, Sport Psychology, My Our new polo writer, Danika Rice introduces us to the family affair Line, Juniorside columns, and some that is polo. There are several combos of brothers playing in this fun stories I didn’t mention, just so year’s Open: Pieres, , Novillo Astradas are all fielding you can find them for yourselves. brothers, with a cousin thrown in here or there for good measure. Polo dynasties have long been a part of the game, and it’s fun to So till next time… enjoy. see the tradition continuing. Danika caught up with Jason Crowder, whose father Steve is Cornelia Henderson quite the character out there on the other Coast, and Jason is definitely following in his footsteps – at least as far as talent on the field is concerned. Erin Gilmore interviewed Weston Gracida, whose father Ruben Sidelines Contributing Photographers and cousins Julio, Memo and Carlos make up another polo Robbi Meisel - www.flashpointphotography.com dynasty, and learned he’s a young man very comfortable in his own right. Then, Erin wrote about one of polo’s finest , La Jordan Koepke - www.jordankoepke.com Fortuna, a gelding “sold” for a penny and a kiss. Elisabeth Harpham - www.equidigital.com And on the subject of horses, don’t miss Lauren Giannini’s second part of her For the Love of Horses series. This time, the Laura Cotterman - www.learntotakephotos.com topic is recycling and training. OTTBs have always been my first choice, and I am personally delighted that there seems to be a Annelise Reinhart - springtreephotography.com movement toward repurposing these amazing horses for second Selena Frederick - www.chevalphotos.com careers. Lauren also caught up with Sarah Cousins and memorialized Bruce Jones - www.bruceunit.com Clementine, one of Northern Virginia’s more famous foxhunters. Samantha Schaefer is a junior who has been making a name Alan Fabricant www.alfabphoto.com FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 5 6 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

shouldn’t have a horse to begin with. What would I do if my horse Letters to the Editor broke its leg? Let it suffer; die on its own because it couldn’t get up? Correction I’ve got news for you. Someone who would do that is also Dear Ms Henderson, the same person that would starve “Twiggy”. Her condition was I write to correct an error in the March 18th edition of your not about money, it was about her owner’s lack of empathy for magazine. It is in Lauren Giannini’s article written about my joint the suffering of an animal. And that kind of a person doesn’t Master, Nigel Peel. In it she mentions my husband, Brad Hooker, miraculously appear because of the economy. Presenting “Twiggy” and me. Unfortunately it shows my name as Janie Hooker. This is as an example of a horse who was saved from starvation due to incorrect, I am “Jamie” Hooker. the economy, as one of the “lucky ones”, was in my opinion an A similar mistake was made recently in Horse & Hound attempt to mislead. magazine, for which they have apologised profusely. I guess I’m part of the problem according to your article. I All public records, eg: Baily’s Hunting Directory and the UK am not willing to accept the reopening of any slaughterhouse’s MFHA directory of Hunts shows my name correctly, perhaps a for horses in this country. Not in my country. If people in other quick check in either of these places would have prevented the countries would like to eat horse meat let them eat their horses, error. Thank you for taking note should an article about the North raised in their back yards, not mine. Cotswold Hounds or an article about the interesting connection But like many responsible horse owners I could be part of a between the North Cotswold Hounds and the Hillsboro Hounds solution, just ask. I would pay higher fees to register my horses appear again in your magazine. and belong to horse organizations if that money could be used Yours Sincerely, Jamie Hooker for Humane Euthanasia for horse owners genuinely in need. And for sure I will continue to care for every horse I own until the day it dies. For the Love of Horses I guess that makes me a “horse owner” instead of a “livestock owner”. Who is Sidelines writing this magazine for? Maybe it’s not Dear Cornelia, for people like me anymore. I want to highly praise Ms. Giannini on her article “For the Love Sincerely, of Horses” in the February issue of Sidelines. It was extremely Laura Aust-Olkin well researched and written, and was also thoughtful and realistic. Editor’s note: Ms Aust-Olkin’s letter was edited for length. She was compassionate but avoided all the emotional hyperbole that so often taints such articles (Like the one that followed on the Slaughter of horses is a fact of life. It isn’t something to be taken so-called PMU horses). I am making it mandatory reading for my lightly, and it has many ugly truths around it. Horses are being students. I wish there were more such articles written like this one- shipped daily to and Canada where they are slaughtered, maybe then we would really get some headway made on reducing and the meat sent to various other countries where it is consumed. the unwanted horse issues! For many of us, this is about as appealing as eating dogs or house cats, but there you are. Sincerely, I personally believe it is better to have local slaughter houses Sarah Ralston, VMD, PhD, DACVN that will process horses here under USDA supervision, than have Associate Professor the untold thousands of horses shipped out of this country in Department of Animal Science appalling conditions to meet their fates after days or weeks on SEBS, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey the road. Better to France on the hook than Mexico on the hoof. The “not in my backyard” sentiment is causing suffering for untold Dear Ms. Henderson: thousands of unlucky horses who make that horrible, one-way trip I read “For The Love of Horses” in your February issue and tried to Mexico or Canada. to put emotion aside as you suggested, but unfortunately I can’t. To say it is responsible to take care of our own horses’ end of To me a more appropriate title for the article would have been life is a given. To recognize not every horse owner shares these “For The Love of Money”. At what point did Sidelines become pro- feelings of responsibility is also a given. All we are trying to do slaughter? I have been reading your magazine for years, ever is present the story about what IS happening without humane since it was free with my USPA membership and this article was slaughter houses in this country. Playing ostrich and moving a shock. slaughter houses outside of the has only made the Presenting an opinion is one thing but presenting this article suffering all the greater for the unfortunate horses that are on this as a “Special Feature” was offensive to me. And I am very path. disappointed in Sidelines for printing pro-slaughter material from So is Sidelines pro-slaughter for having published this story? the United Horsemen. I encourage you to do some research about I prefer to say we are pro-horse, and would like to see as much this group, its members and motivations before presenting their suffering as possible mitigated for the horses whose sad destiny solutions as viable alternatives for Unwanted Horses. Presenting has put them on that path. them as part of an article entitled “For the Love of Horses” along As a reader, I am sure you are aware of our Second Chances side a “Needy Nags” column with an ad for a horse rescue on the series, and our Needy Nags. We actively promote re-cycling, same page was wrong in so many ways. re-training and re-homing horses whose first careers have Ms. Giannini stated that “To an already struggling horse owner, ended. Lauren Giannini’s second part to the Unwanted Horses even calling in the vet to do the deed is expensive.” Describing series appears in this issue. We are very much in favor of providing Humane Euthanasia by a vet as “doing the deed” was a clear a venue for rescues to advertise available horses through our indication to me of where her article was going. Why use language Needy Nags column, and in fact have had many horses placed in that trivializes an extremely painful event for any horse owner? forever homes as a result of appearing in Sidelines. This article was blatantly pro-slaughter. If I didn’t have $150 saved for a horse emergency, then I Cornelia Henderson, Editor FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 7 8 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 9 10 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 11 12 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 13 14 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 15 16 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE F O X H U N T I N G Clementine was the Quintessential Field Hunter

Clementine and Tracey en route to winning the 2006 Orange County Hunt Team Chase Championship: “Clementine was wonderful to photograph. She was beautiful and a flawless performer with lots of personality. She was like a willing model always posing and engaging the camera. She was a big sweetheart always checking my pockets for horse treats. I will miss her very much.” Accolade & Photo Courtesy of Laura Cotterman

By Lauren R. Giannini correct leads, she wasn’t schooled or trained, but she was always agreeable and she had a fabulous demeanor from day one. That, ew people ever watched Clementine in action and she was stunning.” without coveting that something fierce. Finding the horse of her dreams took place under the stately FRegarded by her “fan club” as the horse of a oaks at Upperville Horse Show when Tracey ran into Elise and lifetime for any rider, Clementine hunted and competed on said: “This is what I need – a horse that will hunt superbly for me, the flat and over fences, equally at home astride and aside, a horse that my husband can ride – who is a non-rider, who is a with her primary partner, Tracey Cover. surgeon, who can not break his hands. And I would like to have Partnership is a buzzword around horses, but foxhunting my hunt horse be able to show at Upperville. Elise told requires a very special horse to handle the exhilaration of me, ‘come tomorrow, I’ve got a horse for you to ride.’ ” many horses galloping together when hounds are in full cry. Watch a small herd frolic and play: this would be life- Sold! threatening to riders during a chase. Field hunters go from The minute Tracey sat on the big (1600-pound) dark steel gray, standing like statues to flat-out gallop and back to a “hold , she knew that this was the right horse for hard” – the great hunters, like Clementine, carve a niche of many reasons. She handed Elise a deposit and said, “don’t let their own in the hearts of enthusiasts. anybody else sit on this horse!” The next day Tracey’s trainer Kim While turned out with her usual pasture mate on February Keppick rode Clementine. Sold! Tracey had her hunt horse and a 8th, Clementine (1997-2011) suffered a catastrophic injury safe and reliable ride for her husband, Alan Speir: from the start, that ended her short, but brilliant life. they enjoyed a partnership made in horse heaven. “Clementine took care of me out hunting, she took care of One In A Gazillion my husband the one time he rode to hounds, she took care of “We got Clemmy when she was seven, in June 2004 everyone who ever rode her,” said Tracey, who started before she from Elise Daniel,” recalls Tracey. “She didn’t pick up her was four and showed hunters in central and eastern Pennsylvania. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 17

Clementine and Tracey, along with Jeff MFH, Penny Denegre MFH, and Anne Sittman, participated in Devon and George’s nuptials on horseback; then, following the romantic and atmospheric exchange of vows and rings, Tracey exchanged top hat for safety helmet, and rode Clemmy aside in the first flight for a glorious November day of sport Photo by Jordan Koepke

Because of college and earning a master’s degree, Tracey got out of horses for about nine years. When she started law school, however, one of Alan’s nurses suggested a Christmas present of riding lessons for his wife. “I met Alan at Fairfax Hospital where I was working as a nurse practitioner. He wasn’t at all horsey,” recalls Tracey. “So it was all quite a shock. He noticed that I would ride in my lesson and the trainer would ask me if I could ride one of his. But my husband caught on quickly and decided the best way to spend time with me was to buy a horse and learn to ride.”

An Introduction to Foxhunting The lessons changed the course of their marriage, because Clementine and Tracey harvested rosettes in the Ladies that’s where Tracey met George Kuk, who introduced her to sidesaddle at Upperville (shown) and Warrenton. They won foxhunting. or placed in hunt night classes at Warrenton, to boot. In 2009 “George let me ride one of his gray ,” explains Tracey. Clemmy and Tracey, representing Middleburg Hunt with George “I hunted one time and was completely addicted. Immediately Kuk and Devon Zebrovious won the Hunt Teams of Three at thereafter, I sought a foxhunter and got Clementine.” Warrenton’s Hunt Night Photo by Lauren R Giannini Hunting with Middleburg initiated an abiding friendship with George and his then fiancé, Devon Zebrovious, who has a passion no matter how tricky the footing or trappy the approach to a hunt for sidesaddle. jump. “Devon said, ‘Tracey, I want you to be in the wedding – will you “It never mattered to Clem,” states Tracey. “She gave so please learn how to ride sidesaddle?’ She brought over a many other horses confidence in the hunt field – young and old one day and put it on Clem and said, ‘get on,’ ” recounts Tracey. horses alike, new riders – everyone knew that Clementine would “She had me walk, , canter and jump an X rail the first time I go. There was absolutely no question, ever. She went over every ever sat on Clemmy on a sidesaddle.” fence without hesitation, confidently and very kindly.” Tracey is still riding to hounds, thanks to Devon and George. Riding Aside She’s dealing with her grief and doesn’t feel in any hurry to start When Tracey and Alan returned from a ski vacation, Devon had looking for a replacement. a sidesaddle for Clementine and a habit she had purchased many “Clementine has protected me and kept me safe the entire years ago. Everything fit horse and rider perfectly. Clementine, time I’ve hunted. She’ll be a tough act to follow,” says Tracey. “She of course, never batted an eyelash about making the transition has always taken care of me and watched over me – she is truly to hunting and aside. In fact, she had no problems ever, an angel.” 18 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 19 20 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE F Five Questions for Huntsman O Claire Buchy-Anderson and X Kennel Huntsman Chip Anderson H U N

T Santa Ynez Valley hounds and huntsman Claire Buchy-Anderson take the pause that refreshes I during a day of sport Photo Courtesy of Eric Canton

By Lauren R. Giannini hunting hounds. I read as many books as I could find. The first N season, I had no clue what I was doing, really. Chip helped me by How Claire Buchy-Anderson became the professional being on the quad and talking on the radio, and everybody was huntsman for Santa Ynez Valley Hounds in Central California very supportive. The first season was not great, but it worked. The G is the stuff of contemporary fiction. French woman comes second season was even better, the third season - this season - to the USA, meets Chip Anderson, huntsman at Tryon has been breaking records on the game. We hunt wild boar and for 15 years. They fall in love, do some globetrotting, get coyote. married. Chip takes a job offer to hunt hounds in California, but old injuries force a life-changing surgery to fuse several Sidelines: What has been your biggest challenge? vertebrae. Claire steps up to the plate and contacts the CB-A: When I first came here the hounds were not working for senior master at Santa Ynez Valley Hounds. Three years me. It was very frustrating to have hounds that would not hunt. So later, Claire is knocking the ball out of the park, sport-wise. I had to build the team and that’s a challenge. My pack is still not It’s win-win all the way for this husband-wife team. perfect, but it’s so much better.

Sidelines: When did you get hooked on hunting? Sidelines: Do you two ever disagree about hunting? CB-A: When I started hunting hounds three years ago – I CA: Well, I’m always right (laughs). In September last year, was thrown in as huntsman! To be very honest, I met my we were on this big ridge and a coyote had crossed the road. I husband five years ago and I had never hunted anything was trying to assess things, and I saw Claire come out with the before we met. I knew nothing. My husband had been a hounds. I said to myself, she’s making a big mistake here: the hunter for a long time and he taught me. When I understood coyote would definitely have gone right, it would not have crossed the way hunting works and how beautiful it is, I started to this road. But I don’t interfere: we let her learn her own lessons. I love it. He was hired to be the huntsman here at Santa watched Claire go over the hill and the hounds blasted across the Ynez Valley, but then he had surgery and couldn’t do it. So hill and here comes the coyote, with hounds almost right on its . I spoke to Steve Lyons and said, ‘I never hunted hounds, You know, I hate when my wife is right! but Chip can teach me. If you want to give me the chance, we can try one year and see how it works.’ Sidelines: Is this a marriage made in hound and horse heaven? It’s like everything falls together into place. I’ve been with CB-A: Absolutely! Chip has an incredible knowledge of foxhunting, horses the first part of my life, breeding dogs the second hounds and hunting, so I am taking what I like from his knowledge. part, and now it’s like I’m in the third part and I have I never bred hounds, but I bred dogs for almost 20 years, so I have combined the horses and dogs, and I have always loved a strong background. He’s the kindest man on earth and has that nature. I just love hunting hounds. pure soul. We have so many things in . CA: They [hounds and humans] love Claire and she’s CA: It’s the second for Claire, my first. I couldn’t picture a better really good. Claire’s ability with the hounds and the way deal than being married to Claire, a woman who rides a horse, she handles them is interesting, so different. who knows about hounds, and hunts wild boar. We work together in terms of the breeding program. Claire bred show Sidelines: How did Chip help you to learn? dogs. How many times could I ever find a woman I like and go CB-A: By talking a lot for sure. I asked as many questions out to lunch and spend three hours discussing hound breeding? I as I could think about, because I have never seen him mean, come on: how could it be any better? FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 21 22 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE E A Few Minutes With Sarah Cousins V By Lauren R. Giannini Sally (neé Hoey) Cousins has earned three consecutive leading lady rider titles (2008, 2009, 2010) with finishes E in the top 10 overall on the US Eventing Association’s leaderboard throughout most of this decade. She harks back to a great childhood spent on ponies with her two N sisters and brother: they rode bareback, hunted with Pickering, and participated in the Pickering Hunt Club in Pennsylvania. She remembers going out with Mrs. T Streeter’s bassets and still has a basset that came from that pack. I Sally got hooked on eventing in Pony Club and moved up through the levels: at 20 she spent two years in England, buying a horse called Strike A Light in order to prepare for N and compete in the where she “got around and learned a lot but didn’t win anything.” After her return to the US in 1986, she worked at Merrill G Lynch as a stockbroker simultaneous to pursuing her three- day ambitions. Five years later, Sally rode Castle Clay to victory at the Essex 3-Day Event and, on a competition- free weekend in July, married Nat Cousins who enjoys competing at the lower levels. After 16 years with Merrill Lynch, Sally quit her day job to devote herself full time as a professional. In 2005, the Cousins bought a farm in Aiken so that Sally can train, teach and compete year-round when winter arrives in Pennsylvania.

Sidelines: Of your horses, who seems the best candidate Sally Cousins and Tsunami III placed 9th in Open Intermediate to go four-star? I at Pine Top Winter II Horse Trials in Thomson, GA in February, SC: I’d like to ride Tsunami at Rolex this spring. She’s and 12th with Westerly in the same division. Sally made it pretty hot, but she can and will jump anything. She’s very three for three by harvesting another 9th with Cavendish in fast and a careful jumper. Dressage can be a challenge for Intermediate Horse her. She’s a full off the track. The Robber Photo by Elisabeth Harpham Baron (OTTB) injured his hock and he’s doing well. We’re going back to Bromont if all goes well. their horse, I find that upsetting.

Sidelines: How do you feel about the changes in the Sidelines: Are the 2012 Olympics pie-in-the-sky? How do sport, going from the classic long format to the short format you deal with the extreme ups and downs of life with horses? without roads and tracks and steeplechase? SC: If I have a horse that seems to be on track, I’ll certainly give SC: Change is inevitable and I think that a lot of the the Olympics my best shot, but I don’t want to run my whole life changes are a real effort to make the sport safer and better around that. I see too many people do that. I really love the training for the people and the horses. and I love the competing aspect of it and I want to be successful, I try not to be a complainer – some days I can complain but I’ve been doing this for a long time and I’d like to keep doing it with the best of them, but I think a lot of the people out there a lot longer. I think you have to have a good perspective on where have really given the changes a lot of thought and I think you are with a certain horse and where you are in your career. You we’ve got to trust them. have to keep a good sense of yourself – this is a pretty small sport and it’s relatively obscure. We’re not exactly changing the course Sidelines: You always put your horses first: where did you of history. People in the horse world are privileged anyway, and it’s get this and why does it continue to work for you so that you important to remember that and try to keep it real. I work at being still have that dream? level-headed and down to earth. SC: I really respect the horses I ride and it’s important to me to do the right thing by them. I expect them to work for a Sidelines: What were some of the lessons you harvested from living, but it’s no good trying to press a horse if it’s not really your time in England? How has that affected your training routines? ready to go. One of my favorite sayings that I heard last SC: I think it gave me a picture of what the sport is. I just was year is: if you didn’t bring it with you, you will not find it here. amazed at the way they seemed to really enjoy what they are doing. They really rode their horses very forward, and the horses Sidelines: What’s one of your major peeves in the horse world? seemed to enjoy it. Even at the big events, the horses seemed to SC: People who complain about their horses – that be having a good time. drives me crazy, absolutely crazy. Horses by nature are I love this sport. I would event every day if I could get away with it. very generous creatures. You really can’t make them do Even all these years later it’s still thrilling to me to do it and I really anything, so when somebody starts complaining about look forward to it. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 23 24 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S Striving for those P “Moments in Time” O By Ann S. Reilly, Ph.D. Become Aware in the Present of Your Horse’s Condition There comes a day in many a rider’s career when their Learning to prepare yourself and your horse to ride in the primary motivation to ride is for those “moments in time” moment takes awareness and some trial and error. Once you R where they are, as Whitney Houston sings it, “more than learn what works for you, the key is to seek that personal level I thought I could be, and in that moment of time I will be each moment you ride. free.” Since there is variability in your mental and physical states T In those transcendental rides, they feel completely each day, and your horse’s, it takes awareness and effort to “one” with their horse, in perfect balance and rhythm. psych up or calm down to the level at which you perform well. They feel no fear, the ride seems unconscious; they are To do this, you need to be able to read your own mind and S totally immersed and their performance is effortless and body and assess your horse’s condition. in control. Often riders complain because their horse does not feel right. Attention is narrowed to only their partnership and the The solution to this issue is to focus in the present, determine course. Often, it feels like time slows down, their mind where your horse is, and take action to get your horse where he becomes very quiet, and they are so focused that they needs to be to ride well, in practice or competition. Figure out are not distracted by sounds or sights. These experiences what you need to do to get your horse going well, and then work occur because the rider is performing completely in the at doing it by focusing each stride on what you want to happen, P present. using patience to develop it. If you don’t know how to get your While these experiences often seem to “just happen,” horse to where he needs to be to go well, ask your trainer what to it is possible to practice so that occurrences are more do rather than just thinking “he doesn’t feel right,” “he is too lazy” S frequent. Many athletes who have won everything they or “she is too strong today.” Take action in the present, during possibly can, seek motivation to practice and perform by each stride to get your horse riding well. setting themselves up to get into these “zone” moments Finally, trust yourself and your horse every moment you are in practice and games, and trying to see how they can riding! Let go of consciously trying to force what you want to Y keep those moments going. There are ways to mentally happen and go a little “unconscious” by trusting your instincts practice during each ride that will help you get in the and skills while feeling what you want your horse to do. By “zone” more often. doing this, you will find that you are allowing yourself to develop C effortless performances—those amazing moments in time! Riding in the Present When riding in the “zone” the rider’s attention is focused H in the moment. The mind is are free of self-critical or judgmental thoughts about performance; they are “just riding.” Riding in the present means focusing on feeling the horse under you, feeling each stride, and making O the appropriate adjustments for proper pace, balance, straightness, and intensity. That is the present. Worrying about something that L happened in the past, or thoughts about what “might” happen in the future are distractions. O Focus on Your in the Present Moment The goal for the present moment is focusing on what you want to happen, what you want your horse to do. Step into the ring, develop the proper pace and balance G in the first few strides. Start at the ingate by making sure your horse is awake and connected at the walk. You might want to get your horse to move off your leg at the walk, Y then come back, or do a few leg yields to make sure your horse is listening to you. Learn and know your plan for the course ahead of time, so you can begin getting in the “zone” prior to entering the ring. Going around the course, the focus remains in the present, maintaining the balance, rhythm, pace, and bend each stride. When doing this remember to breathe! Try to get your breathing in rhythm Ann S. Reilly, Ph.D. is a sport psychologist and author of “A with the horse. Breathing gets the oxygen to your brain Sport Psychology Workbook for Riders,” available from amazon. and muscles, so you can think and maintain muscular com. Questions for Ms. Reilly’s column can be addressed to strength. [email protected]. Photo by Ina Bachman FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 25 26 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Five Questions for O Dick Feldman R Lake Placid Horse Show Association Chairman Richard M. “Dick” Feldman is the force behind the success of the Lake Placid and I Love New York Horse Shows. The effort he puts in promoting and improving Lake Placid’s S famed horse shows is a true labor of love, and he is fully committed to doing everything in his power to make sure that everyone who comes to Lake Placid enjoys their visit E there to the fullest. Dick’s efforts go way beyond what he does during the two weeks of horse shows. He spends part of his winter at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL, not only seeking exhibitors’ input on improvements, but also making sure that Lake Placid is part of their travel plans. Dick joined the Lake Placid Horse Show Association S Board of Directors in 1987 and was elected Chairman in Dick and Diana Feldman 1991. It is clear to all who know Dick that nothing is more Photo by James Leslie Parker important to him than putting on a horse show that gives Morrissey and David Distler, all combine to make our horse shows exhibitors “the best two weeks of a horseman’s summer!” H truly unique. Anyone who’s ever been there can tell you why I’m so fanatical about them—who wouldn’t be? Sidelines: Tell us about your background with horses. DF: I’ve been involved with horses ever since I was a child. O Sidelines: What’s so special about riding there? As you all know, I’m still in my forties(!) and I ride every day DF: I guess what sets us apart is our grand prix field and its natural whether I’m in New York or Wellington or hunting with the terrain. The course designers use that terrain to set courses Scarteen Black and Tans in Ireland I most certainly ride unlike what riders see the rest of the year. The riders get to go W every day when I’m on my farm in Lake Placid which is uphill and downhill and they just love being able to open up and just a hop, skip and a jump from the horse show grounds. gallop. We also make sure that everyone gets a turn to ride in I helped found the New York Parks Department Mounted that ring—amateurs, juniors, adults, even the childrens. If it’s that Auxiliary, I was Master of Hidden Hollow Fox Hounds in much fun riding in our grand prix field, I want everyone to have a New Jersey and I am still a member of the Golden’s Bridge chance and that includes the hunters! Last year we held a USHJA Hounds in North Salem, NY where I have hunted for many Hunter Derby in the Grand Prix field and it was a huge hit. It was years. My family and I owned Bet Twice who won the an amazing setting and a fabulous atmosphere. The riders told Belmont Stakes in 1987 after finishing second in both the me that it was the most fun they had all year. Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Sidelines: What other classes make Lake Placid such a great Sidelines: What makes the Lake Placid Horse Shows so horse show? special and why are you so fanatical about them? DF:: We’re part of all the important series—Hall of Fame, NAL, DF: For 40 years exhibitors have come to Lake Placid to Washington. Whatever exhibitors want to help get them indoors, start their summer in one of the world’s choicest resort we offer it in Lake Placid. We have short- classes, and my destinations. The natural wonders of the Adirondacks, our favorite, the Line class. Seeing those kids dressed up in first-class facility with three all-weather rings plus our grass their hunt coats and and riding helmets, all so excited to Grand Prix field, our half-million dollars in prize money, ride in the same field as the grand prix riders, well nothing gives and the professional management provided by Michael me as big a thrill. And, of course, we have our annual Doggie Costume Contest that was the brainchild of my wife, Diana, who is the unofficial “Social Chairman” of the horse shows.

Sidelines: So there’s no town anywhere like Lake Placid? DF: You definitely have that right. This is a resort town with first- class hotels, the finest restaurants and a quaint Main Street with shops up and down the street that are so much fun to go into. But it’s a town that has also managed to keep its natural charm. Hiking, tennis, , boating, canoeing, swimming—you name it, Lake Placid has it. And we add things like , ice skating, a golf tournament, even a short-stirrup clinic for the kids! I invite everyone to come this summer, and please let everyone know that if there’s anything they need, they should come find me and I will make sure that they fall in love with Lake Placid just like the rest of us have. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 27 28 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H My Line: Sitting on the Sidelines By Sarah Ward I’m also a bit terrified. I haven’t admitted this to anyone, until now. I’m scared that O Okay, so in my last column I said how I was going to when I get back in the saddle, I won’t get “it” back, whatever that embrace my season out of the saddle. Use my down time magical “it” is. The last time I competed was at WIHS: and I won! as a learning opportunity. Sounded easy, educational and Now I have this deep-rooted fear that it will never happen again! R inspirational right? Well, the longer I am in physical therapy Realistic? No. Unreasonable? Yes. Crazy? Absolutely. It is only following my knee surgery, the more time not riding, and when I look at my horses that these insecure thoughts disappear. the more frustrated I feel! So much for taking the high Truth be told, since getting out of the hospital, I have “ridden” S road! Honestly, I so want to be back in the saddle. I’m sure (if you can call it that) my horse Tyler twice! I managed to mount many people have been in the exact same position, and up after a few weeks of rehab. My feet were in the , my you know exactly how I am feeling - deprived and sorry for fingers on the , and I felt reassured that everything was going myself. Nothing you can do about it, right? Time heals all to be okay. Visual-reality check for all you readers: my trainer Liza E wounds and all that… Well, they don’t heal fast enough in Boyd was by my side, leading me around the ring like I was a little my book! lead line kid! I had this urge to pick up a canter and jump around It is amazing that now that I can’t ride or show, it’s all I think but I don’t think Liza would have appreciated that, and I am sure about. I study my old rounds, check show results online, it wouldn’t have been great for my knee either. One step forward, watch videos, read equestrian magazines and books about three jumps back! horses - anything to keep me in . If I could put as S much focus on my studies as I do on my horse obsession… Straining at the Bit well that is another story. Recovering from an injury takes time for both humans and horses. I know this. I mean, we let our horses mend at the proper H A Star PT Student rate, and give them time to heal at their own pace. But now I My goal is to be back at the top of my game by Devon, wonder if they feel the same way I do, stall rest, walking but there are a lot of steps to getting there. Start with baby like bed rest and rehab are not really so much fun! I know I have steps, progress to long strides and then finally…jumping! to apply the same principles that I would bringing a horse back. I O Or so I hope. I have physical therapy sessions a minimum know this intellectually, but emotionally I am “straining at the bit” to of three times a week. I put my all into it, work through the get going! So, I will work really hard, do all my exercises, and keep pain and all that, repeat the exercises as I am instructed. my eye on the prize - RIDING! W I am a “star” PT student! Truly, I am as dedicated as one Advice from the injured to anyone who loves riding: don’t play can get… but it’s a long, slow process, and while I am flag (that’s how I got hurt)… ok, just kidding! There are no determined to get back in the saddle, I have to admit that guarantees, and accidents happen. But for me, I’m going to try to be smart and stay “sound” from now on, ‘cause watching videos from the “good old days” isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be!

Sarah Ward is currently on the mend and living in . Sarah rides with Finally Farm’s Jack Towell and Liza Towell-Boyd and competes with Finally Farm in the hunters and jumpers in both the amateur and open divisions. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 29 30 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Catching up: Returning champion Elizabeth Boyd had Michael & Bridget Imparato are very a slew of supporters in the stands for her fourth try at victory proud to announce that Michael I in the WCHR Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular, including E Imparato, long time equestrian her husband Blake and baby Elle, brother Hardin, dad has completed his basic military Jack Towell and some Finally Farm riders who flew in training at Lackland AFB, In San just for the night including Sarah Orberson-Taylor and N Texas. “Mikey” as everyone her husband Andy. Liza won the class three times, on knows him is now Airman Michael Brunello in 2010, Fiyero in 2008, and Monday Morning in Imparato. Michael is very proud to 1997 and this time she had both Brunello, who she recently G be serving his country and is now stationed at Sheppard AFB in Texas A for continued schooling purchased, and also Onassis, normally ridden by owner Sarah Ward who is has been sidelined by surgery! Liz didn’t win this T year, but she placed third with Onassis. We’re sure that Sarah Ward, the author of Sidelines’ own My Line column, will give us the E details on that night in an upcoming issue. This winter Hillary Dobbs is proving that her talent goes beyond the speedy jumpers. She has been seen putting in winning rounds in the Pre-Greens aboard one of her and fiancé Roy Wilten’s spectacularly beautiful sale horse Thundergod...

Ki-Juan Minors turned every head when he sang the National Congratulations to Cealy Tetley,the recipient of the Anthem before the 2011 Great Charity Challenge during Week 2010 Susan Jane Anstey Media Award. Cealy’s 6 of the Winter Equestrian Festival. His perfect, flawless work has been featured in countless national and rendition left us all wanting to hear more of his voice. When you international print and online media for over 20 years. make it big, remember that we knew you when, Ki! From a major games perspective, she began delivering high quality coverage beginning with the 1996 So what’s the story? According to The Palm Beach Post, Olympics in Atlanta. Since then, she could be found, An 8-year-old horse valued at $28,000 disappeared from its camera in hand, at multiple Olympic, Pan American Wellington barn and authorities charged Mark Reid, a former and World Games Photo by Alyson Sanderford/PMG Continued on page 32 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 31 32 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Continued from page 30 couple different individuals, but really, should it have come to that? employee with stealing it. We also heard that a horse died recently on the WEF grounds. Story from barn was aneurysm; story from attending blacksmith We are hearing rumors that makes us unhappy about some was magnesium overdose...disgusting!!! Aren’t we supposed to very unethical practices… what top small pony now has a tendon be horsemen? or suspensory injury which will require surgery (story is pony wasn’t being ridden then it was put on a lunge line for 1.5 hours On a happier note, Team Zenyatta is graciously donating their and broke)? And what Pony of the Year several years ago recently share of the proceeds from the sale of the Zenyatta Breyer Horse showed up at WEF with a tail that was nothing more than exposed model to CANTER, Old Friends, and Race for Education. These bone from about half way down...? The trainer that leased her for additional funds will help CANTER continue its work to move ex- his client, the owner, and the USEF and steward were notified by a race horses into second careers. To date, the CANTER program has assisted in the transition of over 15,000 horses from the race track to the show ring, hunt field and trails. So get out there and buy that Zenyatta model for the little girl in your life!

From the other side of the pond, we learned that Aloïs Pollmann-Schweckhorst has definitely left the stables of Paul Schockemöhle at Mühlen. It seems Andreas Kreuzer, the bronze medalist at the last European Championship for Young Riders in Jardy, is the new main rider in at the giant stable. Andreas took over the stallion Chacco Blue (Chambertin), which jumped at Top Level last year.

Jessica Kuerten confirmed that she’s not showing the horses of Lady Forbes these days. “The horses are still at my barn and are well taken care of. We train them every day. It’s a really sad situation, but I can’t tell anything more. That is the job of Ashley Wells, of Erie, Pennsylvania won the inaugural ETS the lawyers.” Jessica lost the ride on Libertina, Cosma, Myrtille Medal class at Chatham, Virginia. She took home the Paulois and some other mounts. But all is not dark: Wiebke Van $5000 Virginia Intermont College scholarship, a Tournament De Lageweg gave her the ride on VDL Harley (Heartbreakerand of Champions logo down coat, and a Virginia Intermont she won the VHO Cup on him at the KWPN stallion approvals. Equestrian Team jacket. Ashley shows off her ribbon with Virginia Intermont Coach Eddie Federwisch on the left, and More news from Europe may be old news to you by now, but it’s Jim Arrigon, ETS Producer and Head Clinician Continued on page 34 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 33 34 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

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Jennifer Burger, Mason Phelps, Chrissy Serio and Jill Grant donned western gear for the final “Buck Off” Event February 10, to benefit Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center Photo courtesy Phelps Media Group

important to note that Sven Holmberg, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), recently resigned as chairman of the Jumping Committee and from the powerful FEI Bureau citing “politics and power games” in the body that governs worldwide horse sports. The USA’s John Madden of Cazenovia, New York, deputy chair of the Jumping Committee, takes over as acting chair immediately. The position will be filled on a permanent basis at the General Assembly in November.

The Annual Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center’s Benefit Auction Dinner & Dance was held Friday, February 18. It was a huge success, as all 22 of the center’s horses were adopted. Chairwoman Tuny Page, Young Professionals Chairwoman Devon Kane, and Celebrity Hostess Tami Hoag headed the event that was held at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida.

Todd Minikus just can’t get a “break” – or can he? First he was sidelined with a rather painful kidney stone, and just when that had passed, he was felled by a broken collarbone! Heal quickly, Todd!

The University of Central Florida’s team was High Point Team for the first time ever at the University of Central Florida! Congratulations, ladies!

Congratulations to Phelps Media Group, recently awarded the Wellington Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award. This is quite an honor and well deserved by a talented team of writers and photographers headed up by company owner, Mason Phelps.

Eric Lamaze landed a “timely” new sponsor over the winter circuit – that’s right, he’s the newest face of Rolex! If that’s not a sign of success, we don’t know what is. Unless you count making the Top Four at WEG, the Olympic gold medal. . . in any case, good for you, Eric.

Horse Show News: The Carole and Jim Looke Family Fund are sponsoring the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at the Spring Gathering Charity Horse Show in beautiful Katy, Texas. Good reason to be there!

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Continued from page 34 2 thru 6, 2011. This event will host a full compliment of hunter and Six-time jumpers and host the finals for the ASPCA Alfred B. Maclay. This Olympian Nick horse show will be managed jointly by Hugh Kincannon and Leo Skelton will be Conroy. the new coach for the G&C Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum made a splash competing Farm’s riders, at HITS Thermal this year, where she traveled all the way including Pablo from her home base in Germany with a group of young horses, Barrios Photo by Jennifer husband Markus and daughter Brianne in tow. Now we hear that Wood Media, Inc. “someone” has offered her a pretty sweet deal to base herself from California for one to two years. Nothing is decided, but with Meredith’s mother still living in Southern CA, we think anything’s possible.

Horse Sports by the is expanding to five contiguous weeks this year. Events will be starting on June 30 with two back-to-back USDF Level 3 rated dressage shows and then will be followed by four weeks of USEF AA Hunter - Level 4 Jumper competition in the future. starting July 6 - July 31. Over $550,000 is being allocated to prize money and awards. All new footing is being installed in the main We hear the talented rider Garrett Warner, from California, has competition arena. moved East to work for Aaron Vale. . .

Lusitano breeders Haras Dos Cavaleiros, who made a splash The 2011 HITS Culpeper Show Series, that takes place in the at the World Equestrian Games with their Lusitano Lounge, will heart of Virginia horse country, will host a total of six $40,000 Grand break new ground once again at The Pin Oak Charity Horse Prix, five of which will qualify for this year’sPfizer $1 Million Grand Show as an Official Presenting Sponsor this year. OwnersRafael Prix. In addition, HITS Culpeper will also host five $5,000Devoucoux Chávez Monzón and Carmina Zamorano González will be Pin Hunter Prix, all of which will qualify for the all-new Diamond Oak’s first International Hospitality Sponsors in 2011, bringing Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix Final. That’s some pretty big bucks! their Lusitano Lounge and at least six horses to show at Pin Oak Week One March 23 – 27 at Great Southwest Equestrian Center recently signed on as coach to Pablo Barrios and in Katy, TX. Haras Dos Cavaleiros is a major supporter of Working the team at G&C Farm. At press time Pablo was holding the 26th Equitation competition in both Mexico and the United States, and standing in the FEI world ranking of , and wants to has expressed interest in bringing to Pin Oak Continued on page 38 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 37 38 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Continued from page 36 information. The managers of the FENCE facility have been had move up into the top ten. G&C owner Gustavo Mirabel hired Nick at work renovating the barns in anticipation of the new events. to facilitate more success from this already outstanding farm. . . do we hear calling? Kyle King celebrated his birthday with a bang when he rode Corrine Super’s Capone I to a triumph in the The Tryon Riding & Hunt Club is offering five weeks of A rated $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix on February 13, presented shows this summer and will also be working with JP Godard by Pfizer Animal Health, at the HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, on his June date at FENCE. Visit www.trhcevents.org for more California. Have you heard the story behind this incredible stallion? It’s a juicy one, and worth the time to Google it! Will Simpson and Candice King, By the way, winning that Sunday’s feature class was extra participants in the remarkable for the birthday boy, who won the Grand Prix with the 2011 Sidelines largest starting field to date at the2011 HITS Desert Circuit. They Tetrathlon were the top horse-and-rider combination out of 49 horses! presented by FarmVet, continued The Colorado Horse Park will be highlighted with nearly their ways $1,000,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs during the inaugural in Florida when edition of the expanded Colorado Summer Circuit, June 8-July they took a reining 24, 2011. For 20 years this circuit has attracted some of the lesson from continent’s best hunter and jumper competitors, and this year it USEF Horseman expands to six weeks. Pat Boyle and Showplace Productions of the Year Tom will offer exhibitors their trademarked five-star hospitality, while McCutcheon on CHP is busy creating an exciting slate of new amenities. The February 21. Grand Prix ring is currently under construction and brand new Photos by footing is being installed. New jumps, new gardens, a competitor’s Alden Corrigan for lounge and other facility improvements are just a few of the items Equestrian Life receiving a makeover.

Passing: It is with great sadness that our horse community acknowledges the passing of Debby Malloy Winkler. The German based American show jumping rider died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall while cooling out her horse following a training session in February. She was wife to five-time German Olympian Hans Günter Winkler and only 51 years old. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 39 40 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 41 42 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Nick Haness is Riding High O By Erin Gilmore There are very few 22 year olds in the world who can already say they’ve accomplished a good portion of their R dreams. And in the notoriously difficult , it’s a very rare feat to own one’s own business – and see it succeed. But for a rider who began paying all of his own show expenses at 16, won a USET Final at age 17, and S went pro at 18, dreams are simply goals within reach. Nick Haness knows how lucky he is. He holds the reins of his own business, a healthy-sized stable of 30 high quality E hunters and jumpers. He enjoys the perks of having his own private facility in a small community outside Los Angeles. And in 2011 he has begun to emerge as a talented rider in the hunter divisions, enjoying recent success on the HITS Thermal winter circuit. But for Nick, luck started with hard work, and knowing exactly what he wanted at a very young age. The Southern S California native comes from a close family of five boys where mainstream team sports were the norm. His parents, doubtful of Nick’s passion, saw horses as a passing phase. H But while his brothers earned varsity letters, Nick sought out riding lessons, knowing that all he ever wanted to be when he grew up was a trainer. During Week 3 of the HITS Thermal winter circuit, Nick Haness O Without the funds to buy him a high-dollar equitation had five horses in the ribbons of the $10,000 Devoucoux Hunter horse, Nick’s family helped him in other ways, shuttling Prix. He placed 3rd with Du Calme (pictured above) and won the him to various trainers in the area. He trained with Allison class on Jessica Singer’s Cruise Photo by Cheval Photos Sherrad, catch rode ponies for Wendy Carter, and began W his equitation career with Jim Hagman. But it was frustrating the young trainer, 21-year-old Nick leased a barn, hired one of the for him to watch friends with less riding experience – but best private grooms in the state, and went to work. His mother more financial support- get farther in the equitation rings became his bookkeeper, and Nick’s family finally began to see than he could. that horses were much more than a passing phase for his son. As he learned firsthand the challenges involved in managing a The Horse That Changed it All business from start to finish, Nick promised himself that he would And then Nick got lucky. In 2005 his parents scraped never settle for the mediocre. together the funds to buy him Carson, an 11-year-old Or become too big for his britches. One year after opening Westfalian that would be his equitation prospect. For his his Hunterbrook Farms, Nick wisely brought on industry veteran Christmas present that same year, Nick was given a week Richard Slocum as a partner. The noted trainer and judge from of showing in Indio. After earning a big championship in the Virginia adds an element to the business that Nick knew he junior hunters during that week, Carson caught the eye of needed for long-term success. a buyer who made Nick and his mother an offer that they “Last year at Thermal I had 13 horses and just me,” he says. couldn’t refuse. Selling his first horse was hard, but Nick “It was hard to be everywhere at once, and I knew I had to have saw it for what it was – a chance that would open doors help as the business grew. Richard has been in the industry a long for him. time, and he brings an element to the business that makes is so With the money from that sale, Nick leased a fancier much stronger.” horse and began training with notable West Coast hunter rider John Bragg of Bridgeport Farms. And from there, The Next Generation things began to happen very quickly. He won the 2006 2011 already appears to be a breakout year for Nick. He has USET Show Jumping Talent Search – West, was Grand ruled the qualifying classes for the $500,000 Devoucoux Hunter Champion at Capital Challenge and placed 4th in the 2006 Prix Final, finishing with the first place ribbon and four others in the Maclay Finals. top eight during Week 3’s Hunter Prix Classic. At 18 he turned pro, transitioning from being John’s Nick looks up to John French, Peter Pletcher, and other riders student to his assistant. Bridgeport Farms, a large, three- who have experienced the vast success in hunters and jumpers facility training enterprise, opened Nick’s eyes to the details that he dreams of. He sees himself as one of the next generation of running a training business. But after two years with of hunter/jumper trainers, he aspires to follow in their footsteps. Bridgeport, Nick felt ready to step out on his own. “I live and breath all of this, and if could do 20 horses in the class “I’ve always been an independent person,” Nick explains. I would,” he says. “I would love to be one of those riders at the “It was great experience working for someone, but I always top of the WCHR Finals, at all the Indoors, winning in the hunter wanted to do it my own way, and I always knew I could do and jumper rings. With a few more years of experience, I can get it my way.” there.” With a group of very supportive clients who stood behind No doubt. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 43 44 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 45 46 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Houston’s 66th Annual Pin Oak Charity Horse Show O Adds New Events and Prize Money R S E

S H O Pin Oak Charity Horse Show is one of the top venues in the United States for hunter and jumper riders Photo by Shawn McMillen resented once again by BBVA This iconic sporting event doesn’t disappoint on the social Compass, Houston’s historic Pin Oak side either. Pin Oak holds a Gala Dinner during the Carole W Charity Horse Show will be held March and Jim Looke $30,000 Grand Prix jumping event week one, P and the Houston Area Land Rover Centres $30,000 Grand 23-April 3 at Great Southwest Equestrian Prix during week two. The $15,000 USHJA International Center in Katy, TX. The show benefits Texas Hunter Derby on April 1 has become Houston’s own ladies Children’s Hospital and Houston’s Ronald “Hat Event” in the Sponsor’s Club, presented by Valobra McDonald House, Family Rooms. Jewelry & Antiques. For details about the Prize List, class This year, Pin Oak’s two-week show forms the schedules for each breed, or how to become a sponsor, visit first two legs of a powerhouse triumvirate of high- www.pinoak.org. level hunter and jumper competition; the Texas High Performance Series, which with the Spring Gathering Charity Horse Show, also at Great Southwest, runs through April 11. Together, the two shows will offer more than a half million dollars in prize money. This is the kind of innovative thinking that Pin Oak has implemented to update its hunter/jumper offerings, in lockstep with the USHJA’s recommendations on how to better serve the needs of its members. Pin Oak added a $15,000 3’6” to 4’ USHJA International Hunter Derby, presented by Valobra Jewelry and Antiques three years ago, which has been a hugely successful event for both riders and show sponsors. For 2011, a $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby joins the roster, with fences from 3’ 0” to 3’ 3”. These competitions are structured in the format that the USHJA commission said would be ideal—i.e., higher fences equal higher prize money with the addition of the 4’ High Performance Hunters and the 3’6” to 3’9” and 3’3” Performance Hunters. With $120,000 in hunter prize money from Pin Oak, and $190,000 from Spring Gathering, the Texas High Performance Pin Oak’s $15,000. USHJA International Hunter Derby, Series should have no problem pulling nationally presented by Valobra Jewelry and Antiques on April 1, has ranked riders from Florida and California. become Houston’s very own “hat event” in the Sponsor’s Club. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 47

Rick Terry of title sponsor BBVA Compass, Eva Bisso, Franco Valobra and Lynn Walsh presented the prize for the $15,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby in 2010. Photo by Shawn McMillen

Two-time American Grand Prix Association Rider of the Year winner Tony Font and Gardenio dazzled spectators in Pin Oak’s $30,000 Grand Prix Photo by Shawn McMillen 48 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 49 50 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H On Course With O Sarah Orberson Taylor R By Jan Westmark Sarah Orberson Taylor, a 22-year-old jumper rider from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, said she spent a decade S bouncing around from farm to farm looking for the right trainer. In 2010, she started training with Finally Farm in Camden, South Carolina, and feels like she has “finally” E found her home. “When I started training with Jack Towell and Liza Boyd at Finally Farm, I found trainers who are all on the same page and are working towards the same goal. They have my best interest at heart, they are supportive and they work to help me meet my goals and then set new ones. They have really boosted my confidence and my skills in the S saddle,” Sarah says, adding that she trailers in for lessons and meets them at shows. “I am thrilled to be with Finally Farm and am learning so much and having a great time Sarah and Hootie enjoy a fun moment together H too.” Photo by Sydney Masters. Sarah says her search to find the right trainer was a revolving door experience. “I had some great trainers over ST: My riding goals are to switch to only jumpers and hopefully O the years, but circumstances kept occurring in which they get to the point of at least doing the high junior/amateur jumpers. would move or leave the barn where I was. It really became a struggle and I almost gave up riding. But now my riding Sidelines: You are in a paralegal program, how do you find time and showing future looks fantastic.” to show? W ST: I do my school online so that I am able to travel and ride Sidelines: What horses do you own and compete? whenever I need to. I made that decision when I started college ST: I own True Religion, who I call Hootie, and I ride him in that I didn’t want to ever have to miss a horse show because of a the child/adult jumpers 1.10 and the classics. I also have test or a class that I couldn’t miss. Macket that I was doing in the amateur owner hunters 3’3” last year but he is for sale because I am only doing jumpers Sidelines: What do you do in your spare time? now. I also have my old junior hunter and a pony jumper ST: I love to read books about law cases, watch reality TV, and that just hang out. relax with my three small dogs Gucci, Coco and Fendi. I also love to shop. Sidelines: How have Jack and Liza inspired you? ST: If I hadn’t begun riding with them, I probably wouldn’t Sidelines: Describe yourself in 10 words or less. have ridden much longer. I couldn’t find a consistent trainer ST: Carefree, dedicated, determined, critical of myself, energetic, around the Charleston area and was getting frustrated. impulsive. They have inspired me to not only continue riding but to dream much bigger than I ever could have imagined before.

Sidelines: What do you consider the highlight of your career so far? ST: My most recent exciting highlight was placing 6th in the $25,000 Barry Lane Memorial Grand Prix. That was my first big class since switching to the jumpers and it was pretty exciting.

Sidelines: How has your journey to find the right trainer made you a better rider? ST: I have had the opportunity to ride with several very good trainers and picked up bits and pieces of knowledge from each of them. I have seen characteristics that I would want to see in myself, and those that I would not. With having been through so many trainers, I now know what I want out of my trainers and what I don’t.

Sidelines: What are your riding goals? Sarah and Hootie Photo by Flashpoint Photography FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 51 52 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Angela and Megan Millon: O Quite the Mother-Daughter Team R By Jan Westmark starting a family – but I always knew I would get back to the S e v e n t e e n - y e a r- o l d horses. Megan Millon is part S of a riding family that Sidelines: What horses do you includes her amateur own and compete? mom, Dr. Angela Millon, MM: I currently ride Corleona E a pediatrician, and her and Forte. Corleona is a 9 brother, Mike, a former year old Westphalian mare competitive junior rider who that I have been riding in the is a freshman at Wofford high children’s jumpers. I hope College. The family lives to move up to the low junior in Easley, South Carolina, jumpers on her soon. Forte is outside of Greenville, my brother’s equitation horse S on their own horse farm and I plan on showing him in the complete with a Victorian equitation and junior hunters farm house. until he gets sold. H “We keep our horses AM: Currently I don’t “own” on our home farm and any horses myself! We have care for them ourselves. three kid’s horses on the farm, Megan and Angela spend a moment together at a show O We split the barn chores, All photos by Flashpoint Photography a hunter, jumper and equitation feeding, watering, cleaning horse. I have taken over my stalls and dragging the daughter’s young hunter ring every day,” Megan said. “My mom also body clips our because the mare was green and not coming along as fast as we W horses and ships our horses to where ever we need to go. I had hoped. I like projects and quirky horses. We found the mare also groom, clean tack, and pack supplies for shows.” on a trip to Ireland two summers ago. We did not go to Ireland on Megan said she loves being part of a horse show family a horse-hunting trip - it was just supposed to be a regular vacation and that it has brought her family closer together. “We stay - but we came across a very nice green prospect that came home at the horse shows in our living quarters horse trailer, and with us. My husband thought we might come home with some since we bought the trailer even my dad enjoys coming handmade sweaters and blankets. Oh well, another case of better to horse shows to watch us ride. I really like doing night to ask for forgiveness than permission! As it turns out, I love the check with my mom because we can talk about how the mare, Hallie, and I started with her last summer and we moved show day went, what went well and what we are going to up to the 3’3” amateurs last fall. I hope to step up to the regular do differently the next day.” amateur owners this year. Sidelines caught up with Angela and Megan to find out more about the adventures of this fun-loving mother- Sidelines: Do you have a favorite horse? daughter duo. We gave Megan the chance to speak first MM: My favorite horse is Corleona because she is very opinionated followed by her mother, Angela – because mom always about gets the final say! everything. Her favorite things are treats and jumping but she is really grumpy about everything else. She detests flat work, dogs Sidelines: When did you start riding? and all other horses because they compete for my attention and MM: I started riding when I was four years old, but honestly treats. She is really a sweetheart deep down when you get to I can never remember not riding. When it came time for know her but she can come across as a “tough German broad.” me to start jumping Mom said it was time for me to get a At home she is as quiet as my old children’s hunter but in the ring real trainer. I started showing on the local circuit with Lee when the buzzer goes off she is all business and ready to go fast Cone, and he helped me when I was showing in walk-trot- and turn hard. canter and cross rails. Our family then decided to train with Holli Adams, of Still Creek Farm in Columbus, North Sidelines: You spend a lot of time riding with your mother, what Carolina, in order to start showing on the A circuit. do you like about that? AM: I started riding back in the ‘70s with Rick Fancher when MM: I get to spend a lot more time with her than most teenagers he was just starting out as a professional at his parents’ spend with their parents which make us really close. We have a farm in Weston, Connecticut. He laid a great foundation lot of fun riding at home and doing barn chores together every and not only did he teach me how to ride but we all did our day. We also travel a lot because we trailer our horses to lessons own barn work back then. All the kids learned to groom, every weekend at our trainer’s farm and to shows, which means bathe, wrap legs, body clip, braid and clean tack correctly. we have a lot of time to talk. She is very supportive of my riding I rode up until I went off to college. Then I took about a career and will often get me out of school early in the week so we 20-year break - college, medical school, residency and can get to the show in time to let our horses settle in before they FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 53

lifetime for her, and definitely changed her life. The discipline and responsibility that having a horse taught me as a kid had a huge impact on who I am today, and I think it has had a similar impact on Megan. These are life skills that will serve her well no matter what she does when she “grows up” and I am glad I was a part in instilling these values.

Sidelines: What would you like to see Megan accomplish in her riding career? AM: This is Megan’s last junior year and I hope she qualifies for the year end equitation finals on our equitation horse and can go to indoors on our jumper. I know she also wants to participate in the Emerging Athletes Program and I hope she can. My son did and it was an excellent experience for him.

Sidelines: Your mom describes you as a serious, hard working and dedicated rider that can be ridiculously funny. How would you describe your mother? MM: I would describe her as kind, dedicated, hard working, intelligent, loyal, a super-mom, good rider and an excellent multi- tasker.

Sidelines: Do you and Megan have any dramatic differences when it comes to riding? AM: Megan is always impeccably turned out when she rides for lessons. Her hair is perfect, nails painted, pearl earrings, makeup, scarves, breeches and boots. I am old school, jeans and full chaps with paddock boots. She makes fun of me and I make fun of her.

Angela and Hallie compete have to show. I love it when she gets me out of school so we can go to a lesson or a show – it’s sort of like we are partners in crime because I am getting out of school and she is getting out of work.

Sidelines: What are some of the joys you have encountered from riding with your daughter? AM: Most teenage girls and their moms tend to drift apart, especially during the teenage years. We work hard together, laugh a lot and pitch in to help each other when I have a long day at the office or when Megan has a lot of homework or a big test or paper coming up. I can remember when Megan was younger she rode just because her brother and I did. Every day we had to pry her away from the cartoons after school to ride. Then suddenly it all changed. She fell head over heels in love with a horse we had on the farm. His name was Foreign Exchange and they just clicked. They were virtually unstoppable in the children’s hunters for three years and Megan won more classes and championships on him than all the rest of us combined. He was the horse of a Angela bonds with Hallie, the mare they found in Ireland 54 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Vermont Summer Festival Returns O with Six Weeks of Competition Each year, thousands of competitors flock to southern to suit every taste, many horse show exhibitors combine family Vermont to vie for more than $750,000 in prize money. vacations with horse showing. R Each Sunday during the first five weeks features a $30,000 The annual Vermont Summer Festival returns to East Dorset grand prix, culminating with the $50,000 Vermont Summer for six consecutive weeks of competition running July 6 through Celebration Grand Prix on Sunday, August 14. August 14, 2011. S A weekly $10,000 Open Welcome Stake, presented by For more information about the Vermont Summer Festival, visit Manchester Designer Outlets, and a weekly $10,000 Show www.vt-summerfestival.com. Jumping Hall of Fame Junior/Amateur-Owner Classic are E also feature events. For hunter competitors, the Vermont Summer Festival will host five $5,000 3’3” hunter derbies as well as a WCHR Handy Hunter Challenge during week three. This year, Michel Vaillancourt, Anthony D’, Eric Hasbrouck, Chris Brandt, Alan Wade and Kenny Krome will set the tracks in the all-weather grand prix ring as course S designers. Located just a few miles north of Manchester, a hub for outlet shopping and other leisure activities, the picturesque H location is part of what makes the Vermont Summer Festival special. Well-known for its wide variety of area amenities O including a large range of lodging options and restaurants W

Chloe Field enjoys a quiet moment with her mount Louis Jacobs and All photos by David Mullinix Photography Kachina are familiar faces at the Vermont Summer Festival

There is something for the whole family Hunter competitors can look forward to five $5,000 hunter at the Vermont derbies in 2011, plus a WCHR Handy Hunter Challenge Summer Festival FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 55 56 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 57 58 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Top Riders Coast to Coast O R S E

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O The $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, was the largest Grand Prix starting field ever at the HITS Ocala Winter Circuit. Kent Farrington riding Up Chiqui, owned by Alex Boone, Dobbs W and Farrington, beat out 48 starters to take the top prize in the class Photo by ESI Photography

Scott Stewart dominated the First Year Green Hunter division during week six at the 2011 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, earning the championship aboard Inclusive R Photo by Sportfot, Official Sport Photographer of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, O

U During the Kachina Classic at the HITS Arizona Winter Circuit in N Tucson, Arizona, New Mexico’s Elani Rager made it two in a row when she captured the D $25,000 HITS Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, aboard Lisa U Upplegger’s Castor for the second consecutive week P Photo by Horseinsport.com

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Beezie Madden and Mademoiselle won the $31,000 WEF Challenge Cup Round 6 at the 2011 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival Photo by Sportfot

Louise Serio and Castle Rock earned a victory in the WCHR Palm Beach Hunter Classic Spectacular on February at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival following two rounds of competition at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center Photo © Sportfot

Leading the way for the High-Performance riders it has been Rich Fellers, who scored a trio of Grand Prix triumphs at HITS Thermal. So far, sits at the number one spot in the Pfizer Million Rider Rankings with more than $28,000 in prize money won on his leading mount, Flexible Photo by Flying Horse Photography FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 61 62 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE H Florida and California Shows O Charlie Jacobs and Leap of Joy winning the High Amateur-Owners Week IV at R the Winter Equestrian Festival Photo by The Book LLC S E

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An exciting jump-off topped off a fantastic class in the P $150,000 FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix CSI 3*-W presented by Spy Coast Farm, as and Cedric added Four weeks in a row, Christina Kelly won the $10,000 EquiFit another grand prix victory to their tally at the 2011 FTI Winter High Junior Jumper Classic during the Winter Equestrian Equestrian Festival. Following their win in the $78,000 Festival, this time riding Creata Van Ten Biesen, owned by Adequan CSI2* Grand Prix the previous Sunday, Laura and Diamond Edge Farm. Kelly also won a class in the Medium Cedric bested an all-star field with a picture perfect round for Junior Jumpers earlier in the morning the win Photo by Sportfot Photo by Sportfot FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 63

Nick Haness and Cruise sailed their way to victory in the $10,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix at Desert Circuit III, in Thermal, California Photo by Cheval Photos

Taylor McMurtry and Just An Illusion celebrated their first Hayley Barnhill and Casallo were the Large Junior 16-17 grand prix win ever to conclude the Ocala Winter Classic on Hunter Champions during the fifth week of the 2011 FTI Winter Sunday, February 13th, by topping the $50,000 EMO Grand Prix, Equestrian Festival presented by Pfizer Animal Health at HITS Ocala Photo by Sportfot Photo by ESI Photography 64 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 65 66 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 67 68 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 69 70 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S On Course With Junior Rider I D Samantha Schaefer E L I N By Jan Westmark

E eventeen-year-old junior rider Samantha Schaefer has been called a teen phenom S Sin the show world, having landed in the winner’s circle in countless hunter, jumper and equitation classes. A celebrated pony rider who won the USEF Pony Finals Medal in 2006, Samantha has made the transition from pony rider to full-out junior champion with ease. J “Equitation is a big deal for me and that is what I am focusing on now,” Samantha. “I trained with Kim Stewart for a long time and now I am also R training with Andre Dignelli’s Heritage Farm in the equitation. I have been riding Andre’s horse Pioneer in the equitation classes and he’s really good at the USET Finals because he jumps open water really well.”

She’s Got Florida Covered Samantha proved that Pioneer is a master at the USET when the pair won the class during the beginning of the 2011 Winter Equestrian Festival. “I show at WEF and in Ocala at HITS during the Florida winter circuit. I also showed in Jacksonville at the beginning of the winter season,” Samantha says. “I’m covering the whole state of Florida!” Samantha, who lives in Maryland when she’s not in Florida, proved that she does take equitation seriously when she made a clean sweep of the equitation classes on Pioneer last summer at the Vermont Summer Festival. They won the Pessoa/USEF National Hunter Seat Medal, the ASPCA Maclay Horsemanship Medal and the USEF Show Jumping Talent Search. While it seems the fourth “Big Eq” class is missing from Samantha’s impressive Vermont run, that’s because she won the WIHS Equitation Classic Finals in 2009, which means she can no longer compete in the WIHS. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 71

Samantha and the flashy grey gelding Zendor Z compete at the Winter Equestrian Festival All Photos by ManciniPhotos

Missing Travino Samantha won the WIHS Finals on a horse named Travino, also owned by Heritage Farm. Following their brilliant win, Travino broke his hock in a freak accident and had to be humanely destroyed. “He was a really special horse and losing him was very difficult,” Samantha said. “But Andre always has my back and that’s why I’m riding Pioneer now. Andre is really good at matching riders to horses.” While Samantha loves the equitation, she also competes in the hunters and jumpers. “I’m competitive so I like it all,” she said. “I do think I like the jumpers best because I learn something new every day in the jumpers.” During the third week of the Winter Equestrian Festival, Samantha and Canute won the Medium Junior Jumper Classic and two weeks later she cruised to victory on her horse Sugar Ray in the Low Junior Jumper Classic. She also rode into the winner’s circle on All In, who was Older Small Junior Champion, and on Corvet Z, who was Small Junior Older Reserve Champion. With several jumper and equitation wins firmly under her belt, Samantha said she was looking forward to focusing on the hunter divisions at WEF. “I grew up riding ponies so I really know hunters,” Samantha said. “WEF has been going really well and now I am hoping my hunters are on their best behavior!”

Samantha has made the transition from pony rider to junior champion with ease 72 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S Juniorside I Just Call Me the Warm Up Rider D By Lauren Corey The Stanford IHSA Collegiate show was just a few weeks ago, and I was lucky to have had the opportunity E to help out with the show. I offered to warm-up ride and horse-hold. The procedure is a little different from the IEA; the college riders only get to watch the horses warm- L up before they get on to show. There are no warm-up jumps, they are not even allowed to touch the reins before I entering the arena! Getting to Know the Horse N Warming up the horses was an interesting experience… but lots of fun! On day one, the coach put me on Pumpkin, a pony that Santa Clara University had brought to the E show. As I was putting the on, one of the Santa Clara riders was giving me tips on how to ride her. “Good luck, S she likes to refuse and can get very forward,” she told me. I warily mounted up, wondering what I had gotten myself into. We entered the arena and immediately her ears perked up and she started prancing in place. Pumpkin was great at the trot, so I quietly asked her for the canter, but she started galloping around the arena. It might not have J looked like she was bolting, but it sure felt that way! Luckily, after several laps in each direction, she realized there was R someone on her back that she needed to start listening to, and began to calm down.

Jumping Adventures Lauren Corey is a junior at Woodside Priory School in Northern When the coach arrived she told us the warm-up pattern; California. She enjoys competing for her interscholastic equestrian cantering a vertical off each lead. When it was my turn, I team as well as training for A circuit shows on her own horse, picked up the right lead in the corner and headed towards Petey. the jump. But as soon as Pumpkin realized we were going to jump, she lurched forward and jumped the 2’6” vertical to back off, but I added my leg immediately and she flew over the a whole stride early. We circled back to try again, and this jump. The next jump was much of the same, and I took an inside time, I kept control to get to a decent distance. turn to the oxer, hoping it would slow her down. The oxer ended up But I wasn’t done yet! The coach told us to canter a ok, but the coach wanted us to run through the exercise again. We bending line with a rollback to an oxer. I felt Pumpkin start smoothed out the ride and made much better distances. After such an exciting warm-up ride, I walked back to my barn to exercise my horse. I really appreciated working with Petey, although he can have his “moments”, I know what to expect! Petey listens to my aids and responds instantaneously. Unfortunately we had to use the indoor arena due to the winter rain and storms. It can become pretty crowded at times, but Petey has been well behaved this winter. The last month has been so much fun with all the riding that I have been able to do, as well as show preparation for the IEA Stanford show coming up in a couple of weeks. I hope I do well and accumulate enough points to qualify for Zones. I’ll keep you posted… FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 73 74 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Kayla competes Stransky S Mission Farm’s Clever Captain in the low juniors I Photo by ManciniPhotos. D E L I N E A Few Minutes With Junior Rider S Kayla Patregnani

By Jan Westmark jumping someday. I was riding for another barn that focused on equitation and my true love was show jumping, so it was great Junior riders who spend a great deal of time on circuit timing because Stransky Farm focuses on jumpers. It’s been J often form wonderful bonds and lasting friendships with a wonderful experience and we’ve traveled to places such as other riders. That is exactly what happened when Kayla Kentucky, , Venezuela, Connecticut and New York. Patregnani, of Parkland, Florida, met Daniela Stransky. R Kayla started riding at Daniela’s family farm, Stransky Sidelines: Who is your trainer now? Mission Farm at Le Club Wellington, and the two have been KP: I train with Hector Florentino and he is very skilled at jumpers inseparable ever since. “It was like we had known each and has a good horse sense about what a horse can and can’t do. other for years,” Kayla said about meeting Daniela and the He also knows how to push the boundaries when coaching Daniela entire Stransky family. “We had an instant connection, we and me and has taught us to take good, but safe, calculated risks were laughing, sharing stories the whole bit. From day one when competing to shave seconds off our time. we knew this was a friendship and relationship beyond the horse world. And it still is today, we are family.” Sidelines: What horse do you compete? Kayla has become an active member of the non-profit KP: I show Stransky Mission Farm’s Clever Captain, a gorgeous Step By Step Foundation, founded by Daniela’s mom, grey Warmblood. I show him in the low juniors and am looking Liliane Stransky, and even traveled to Haiti to deliver forward to moving up to the mediums. supplies and help build an elementary school. “It was probably one of the most rewarding and most gratifying Sidelines: What do you consider your career highlights? things I’ve ever done in my life,” Kayla said. “Both Daniela KP: Clever and I qualified and showed at Syracuse and at the and I have accomplished much together with Lilly and I Putnam Jumper Classic we showed in the low juniors and ended look forward to the many years ahead.” up second. I really don’t reflect as much on the wins as I do the Kayla’s community volunteer experience hasn’t classes I don’t win because I learn more that way. My real highlight gone unnoticed, and during the fifth week of the Winter is still ahead of me, when one day I will take my grand prix horse Equestrian Festival she won the Vita-Flex® Victory Pass out in the same ring with Margie Engle. Sportsmanship Award. The 16-year-old was thrilled with the recognition and looks forward to continuing to help her Sidelines: What are your current riding goals? community. KP: Nationals. Don’t break any bones. Stay on course!

Sidelines: How did you meet Daniela and her family? Sidelines: How did your riding career begin? KP: A mutual friend who believed that Daniela and I shared KP: I wanted to ride since I was seven years old, but I was either the same passion introduced us. We were about the in synchronized swimming, soccer, , dance and anything same age and we had the same goals of doing grand prix other than what I wanted to do, which was ride horses. Finally, FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 75 after three years of complaining and begging, my parents finally gave in and bought me my first horse, Gunner. We did great together and Kayla and Clever were grand champions three years in a row at our local Parkland show. Captain Photo by ManciniPhotos. Sidelines: Who is your equestrian idol? KP: One of my favorite riders is McLain Ward. He is one of the best jumpers in the world and is as smooth and graceful as an equitation rider with the precision of a jumper. It is a great combination.

Sidelines: What do you like about competing at the Winter Equestrian Festival? KP: Everything! The atmosphere, the talent, the venue, the competition, the comradeship, the celebrities, the entertainment. It’s amazing to have a world-class showground less than an hour from my doorstep.

Sidelines: What is the best part about being friends with Daniela and her family? KP: Daniela and Liliane are all my extended family, so that is wonderful. Daniela and I also have lots of fun, from riding dirt bikes through WEF and going to the mall or the beach. Of course there’s also enjoying popcorn, candy and a movie, occasional homework and lots of music. Most of the time, though, we just walk our courses, compete, eat and sleep.

BFFs: Kayla (right) and Daniela Stransky enjoy their dirt bikes Photo by Kathy Andersen 76 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S Brooke Coleman I is Champ at Second Annual D Collegiate Equitation Challenge By Heather Bellock/Phelps Media Group

E The Second Annual Collegiate Equitation Challenge took place Friday February 11, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center during Week 5 of the Winter Equestrian L Festival. Following the format of NCAA varsity equestrian competition, 16 universities were invited to pick their top riders to compete in the challenge. Course designer Bobby I Murphy created six courses with increasing difficulty. The judges for the preliminary and finals were Ralph Caristo N and Jimmy Torano. E S

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Texas A&M senior on the varsity equestrian team Brooke Coleman “I honestly never thought I would be doing advanced through the preliminary division, earning the High First equitation again because I’m not a junior Round Trophy presented by Jill Townsend and Winter Heaven Farm. anymore. It is so amazing to be able to get Coleman’s scores throughout the finals earned her this year’s championship to come back and compete in the equitation title, presented by the South Florida Hunter Jumper Association for the one last time.” –Brooke Coleman

The format of the Challenge followed NCAA Varsity Equestrian competitions tournament style head-to-head, bracketed competition. The preliminary division included all sixteen riders in two brackets of eight. Riders from each bracket were randomly matched to ride the same horse and completed the same course to be judged against each other. The riders with the higher score advanced to the finals in the International Arena under the lights for a chance to win the championship trophy. The riders with the lower scores competed for championship of the Consolation division. The format continued like this in both the finals and the consolation division All photos by Heather Bellock FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 77 78 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S For The Love of Horses P Part II Training & Rider Education = Fewer Unwanted Horses E By Lauren R. Giannini was on it,” says Cathy. “She was a , Vox Populi re: Equus and I thought the only Are you incensed by the reason why anyone bred C existence of unwanted that mare was because horses? What solutions they couldn’t see past the can you offer that might color: oh, she’s pretty! I help them to achieve a Everything was wrong. brighter future? Donations She could never have to rescues are always been any kind of athletic A welcome, but hands- competition horse in any on involvement is even discipline or sport. I was better. You never know: just going to send it to somewhere down the road, my friends with a snarky L the horse you save may email, but I decided to put be one that you used to it on a blog. It got very own or one that you always popular pretty darn fast. coveted... Then, because it’s been Some of you may be on so long [four years] familiar with the Fugly I decided to spin off on F Horse of the Day blog. It other topics.” isn’t exactly rated “G” and There is no shortage of often the language gets ammunition for Cathy’s very blue as the Fugly verbal guns. She doesn’t E author crusades hammer fire blanks and she doesn’t and tongs to expose pull any punches. Some negligent owners and posts are funny, at the A breeders. No matter how expense of one or more fired up Cathy Atkinson misguided persons who gets, she’s pro-horse all deserve to be outed for T the way. the suffering they impose “My argument is on horses and small with people not being animals in their keeping. responsible and, She has zero tolerance if U in particular, being Dustin’s Dreamer, rescued and rehomed, ridden by his trainer people breed an iffy mare shortsighted about their Jennier Radebaugh, earned the championship in the Thoroughbred or stand a faulty stallion. breeding program and division at the State College (PA) Horse Show in July 2010. If the good progeny aren’t R whether or not they have Photo by Annelise Reinhart - springtreephotography.com selling like hotcakes, how the capability to afford to can anyone expect a raise the foal properly and give it the training it needs so good price for offspring cursed with substandard genes? E that it will have a value,” states Cathy. “I think that this is the root cause behind slaughter.” Supply & Demand In 2006 she got more involved in rescue and started “The way to solve the problem is to treat the horse business going to auctions, which she hadn’t done in about 20 like a business and only reproduce what has a high market dollar years. In the old days, some horses went to the killer, but value – it’s supply and demand,” explains Cathy. “You start with she didn’t remember ever seeing young sound horses in that and then you have to put training on them, because that the killer pens. further ramps up the value. You’re running a business and you “When I went to auctions in Washington State, I was want everyone to want what you have to sell. completely shocked at how many horses were in terrible “Right now, we have an oversupply of horses, in particular, condition or hadn’t received any kind of training,” admits we have an over-supply of untrained horses that are kind of low Cathy. “Four-year-old horses you couldn’t even lead to the quality to begin with,” she adds. “Horses so wild you can’t get sales ring. Nobody had bothered to register the horses or them in the trailer or pick up their feet. You have to train these trim their feet. That pretty much led to beginning my blog.” animals so they become too valuable to end up in a kill pen.” She remembers a mare with a baby for sale on Craig She’s quick to admit that show quality horses can occasionally List. The photo looked just like the hysterically funny fall through the cracks. illustration of conformation faults by artist Sam Savitt. “I’ve always been frustrated by the idea that, every time I look “If you go back to the very first blog entry, that mare at a kill pen, some of those horses have someone in their past FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 79 who would pull them out of that kill pen, but there’s no way for that information to get around,” says Cathy. “I have always wanted to do something that was like a national registry of horses, that someone could pull up on a cell phone and search specifics about the horse, like – bay mare that cribs with right front sock.” The result is HorseReunions.com, and Cathy’s registry is free to use. If you enter search criteria, e.g. bay mare, cribs, right front sock, you might learn that someone is looking for or has a horse matching that description. “I wish I had more money to promote the site and get it in wider use,” says Cathy. “It has 800-900 horses on it right now. I’ve been in discussion with someone who would purchase it and put the money in to make it more widely used. I have some success stories.” Thanks to horsereunions.com, people found their horses that were again for sale and were able to buy them back. Others found their horses that weren’t for sale, but they visited and took photos, reassuring themselves that the horse was safe. They also declared their willingness to step in if the new owner couldn’t take care of the horse for whatever the reason. Before & After of Baby New Year, OTTB rescued from starvation “I wish there was some way of guaranteeing a back-up home by Angel Acres, who were called only after two other OTTBs and for every horse,” says Cathy. “AQHA has Greener Pastures. The three ponies had starved to death. Photo Courtesy of Angel Acres - www.saveahorsenow.org association came out with a program where you can register your interest in a particular horse after it’s done on the track. We have social media: there has to be a way to network these horses so that people with an emotional interest can find them.”

Don’t Let Pride Stop Your Call for Help Throwing a monkey wrench into the issue of unwanted horses is the fact that people tend to live on hope only to find themselves with too many mouths to feed. “That’s when you’ve got horses lined up at the sale – it’s last minute and desperate – some fall through the cracks,” says Cathy. “Human pride prevents them from going to their buds and saying, ‘hey, I’m really in trouble, can you take some horses?’ We see this again and again.” It isn’t just money or the lack of it that triggers unwanted horses. To rehab and retrain horses just off the track or those that grow up untouched by human hands requires hands-on experience.

Green or Really, Really Green? Unfortunately, most people have an inflated idea of their riding Horses often come off the track full of steroids and other drugs skills. that can make them act a bit wacky until the garbage works out “Think of all the horse people you know – how many are able to of their system. Too often a relatively quiet rescue, even OTTBs, put the first couple of rides on a horse? How many are comfortable gets put in a stall, fed grain twice a day, and gets ridden right with that and can do a good job?” asks Cathy. “It’s going to be a away. The horse acts up – whee! off goes the rider – and the very low percentage. More people are comfortable with a green horse ends up with a bad rep and a quick trip to auction, which horse. They’re just not comfortable with a ‘never been sat on’ essentially describes how Cathy acquired one mare in particular horse.” whose seller said the horse was crazy, because she bucked off her rider that first day at her new home. “I looked at the horse’s papers and she had gotten the mare a Several Good Bets week after her last race,” recalls Cathy. “I said, ‘you know what, Horse rescues in your area or nationwide are a mouse- I think I can deal with her.’ I paid $500 and she was fine. There’s click away. Here are just a few with proven track records: nothing anyone can do to stop human stupidity, and that’s why Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue, CanterUSA, LOPE, these horses get into trouble. Leighton Farm/Thoroughbred Placement and Rescue, Ask smart questions before taking home any rescue, especially MidAtlantic Horse Rescue, Middleburg Humane Foundation, OTTBs. Is the outfit training the horses and making them more and ReRun. adoptable? Or are they just storing them? What about your skills? Some rescues are dedicated to rehoming and retraining “People are lazy – they don’t really want to learn everything they ; others have all sorts of breeds and sizes, need to know to take care of a horse,” states Cathy. “They can’t including OTTBs and unraced Thoroughbreds. see hind end lameness. They can’t post a trot without stirrups. Every month Sidelines offers a Needy Nag: it might be a They wonder why they don’t have control. Lack of knowledge pony or a horse that captures your heart. about training or a simple health issue is why we have unwanted Continued on page 80 80 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

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Continuing Rider’s Ed (CRE) Riding comprises three key elements: stay on, stay balanced, stop when you want. That’s your foundation to add all the subtleties and nuances of proper position, tactful hands, automatic seat, and all the other ‘icing’ of the riding cake. If you’re wondering why trotting downhill with your OTTB or rescue might not be a good idea, you need to work with a professional like Steuart Pittman, who’s at the helm of the non-profit Retired Racehorse Training Project in Davidsonville, Maryland. He knows what it takes to retrain OTTBs and the importance of educating riders. Steuart spent much of his childhood foxhunting, racing ponies, and participating in Pony Club at the family farm in Maryland. In 1990 he began to train and sell horses for eventing, dressage, and show jumping. A revamped website provides buckets of resources for riders interested in taking horses off the track and training them for new jobs. “We have a database of people throughout the US who can help people in different areas,” said Steuart. “We heard from 105 professional trainers throughout the country who like to work with ex- racehorses. The new site will have information Little Baby Tinkles, now 8, was pulled from a New Holland kill pen several years about them as well as listings of the non-profits ago and went on to Penn State Equestrian Team with his adopter. and farms that rehab horses off the tracks.” Photo Courtesy of Angel Acres Steuart feels very strongly that Thoroughbreds stop racing just about the time they’re ready to do some serious off the track,” said Steuart. “Entry level riders especially need work as sport horses. But people must be willing to train them and to watch the horses and riders and hear what kind of skills are find them new owners. needed so they can decide what’s best for them. They might decide that they’re better off getting one that’s proven as a riding Recycling Racehorses horse and is a bit older. Or if they get one right off the track, work “The Retired Racehorse Training Symposium [Oct. 4, 2009 in with a professional who can get them started. You have enough Maryland] had a huge turnout: 350 people heard about it on the money to do that if you don’t pay much for the horse.” internet and showed up for four hours of learning about horses The Retired Racehorse Training Project plans to conduct their educational programs throughout the country so that various non- profits can use them as fund-raisers. “I do lots of clinics, and sometimes we do special groups just for horses off the track,” said Steuart. “We’re planning to do some Retired Racehorse Training camps this summer where people can bring their horse for a week. Wouldn’t that be fun? Riding lessons, going to the racetrack, learning how to gallop a racehorse – there’s going to be a huge demand.”

Helpful Links: Retired Racehorse Training Project: www.dodonfarm.com CANTER: www.canterusa.org LOPE: www.lopetx.org ReRun: www.rerun.com Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue: www.saveahorsenow.org Florida TRAC: http://fltrac.org/ Fugly Horse of the Day: http://fuglyblog.com Horse Reunions: www.horsereunions.com Exceller Fund: www.excellerfund.org Elite Thoroughbred Adoptions: www.elitethoroughbreds.org AAEP – Transitioning The Retired Racehorse: http://www.aaep.org/images/files/ Magic Touch, 15, the last known daughter of Ferdinand, has TransitioningGuidelines2011.pdf been rehomed two times by Angel Acres. Photo Courtesy of Angel Acres FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 81 82 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE E Florida Court Finds Trotting Center Q Could be Liable for Injury U By Lisa Hollister, Esq. case concluded that the plaintiff had failed to present a case and granted the motion for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. I Even in states that have Equine Activity Statutes, a sponsor can still be liable for injuries to participants. In most Florida Equine Activity Act states the statute protects the equine sponsor from liability The Appeals Court found that the Florida Equine Activity Statute, N when the injury is as a result of inherent risks associated which Defendant relied on to obtain a directed verdict in its favor with the activity. Liability is usually found when the sponsor from the trial court, did not protect the defendant from liability acts or fails to act in some manner which violates or is in this instance. According to the Statute, Section 773.01(6) an E an exception to the state law. All of these statutes have equine sponsor is not liable for injuries to equine participants exceptions under which liability can be inferred if the when the danger or condition in question is “an integral part of sponsor acts in a negligent manner. This is to say that a equine activities including but not limited to: …(d) collisions with sponsor will not be protected by the State Statute if it is other equines or objects.” determined that the equine sponsor has acted in a manner On appeal the plaintiff argued that the existence of the mound L contrary to how a reasonably prudent person would have blocking the infield was a hazard not associated with the training of acted under the same or similar circumstances. horses. Looking at this issue, the Appeals Court found that when viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the plaintiff (the A McNichol v. South Florida Trotting Center, Inc., non-moving party) there is evidence to support a determination 4D09-1663 (FLCA4) that the mound was not an inherent risk of the equine activity. After the South Florida Trotting Center was damaged Thus the Court found for the plaintiff and concluded that there was W by several tropical storms and a hurricane, the harness an issue of whether or not the mound created an inherent risk and track used a road grader to push dirt from the track to the that issue should have been presented to the jury. inside apron, creating a large mound of dirt around the entire inside of the track. This mound of dirt remained for Assumption of the Risk an undetermined period of time. While Myles McNichol The trial court had also found that the plaintiff was barred from was driving a horse around the track, his horse spooked in recovering because McNichol had expressly assumed the risk response to a vehicle being operated next to the track and of injury. The doctrine of express assumption of the risk totally bolted across the track, running into the dirt mound. As a bars recovery when the injured party consents to a known risk. result McNichol was ejected from his jog cart and injured. Thus the defense that is a and as McNichol filed a lawsuit against the track alleging that it such the driver expressly assumed the risk of injury can only be breached its duty of care and was negligent in allowing the successfully raised when the risk posed is inherent in the contact dirt mound to be placed and stay on the inside edge of the sport itself. The court found that it should have been up to the jury track. According to McNichol’s testimony, it is normal for a to determine whether the existence of a mound precluding a driver sulky driver to use the infield as a place to go when a horse from exiting the track was an inherent risk of the equine activity becomes out of control and the dirt mound blocked access of training . As a result the Appeals Court reversed to the grass infield. the trial court’s decision and remanded it back to the lower court for a complete hearing. Trial Court Decision of a Directed Verdict for the Defendant Conclusion After plaintiff McNichol presented his evidence against If you are an equine sponsor the race track, the defendant moved for a directed verdict in the state of Florida, in order alleging that the plaintiff had failed to establish a prima to take advantage of the state facia case of negligence. (In a civil case either party may statute, it is important that you request a directed verdict after one side has presented its remember that the only risk evidence. The party asking for such a decision by the court which participants are expected is in essence saying that the other party has failed to state to consent to are those that are a viable claim with the facts presented and as a result the directly related to the activity court should enter a judgment in favor of the moving party.) in which they have engaged A motion for directed verdict is only granted once the voluntarily. evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the non- moving party. This is to assure that if the court is going to make a decision without an entire trial, the facts are so in favor of the moving party, had the entire case been Lisa Hollister is an attorney presented to a jury, the jury would have found against the practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio. non-moving party. Thus if there is any evidence to support Questions for Ms. Hollister’s a possible verdict for the party opposing the request for column can be addressed to a directed verdict, the court must deny the request and [email protected] continue with the trial. The trial court in the McNichol FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 83 84 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S Is there a Second Chance for E Dakota and Jack?

How big is your heart? Do you have room for two C oldsters, in good condition but in desperate need of a foster home? If you do, read on. Cheri Winter, a retired Maryland-National O Capital Park Police Officer has been doing her best to care for these dear old souls, but is in search of a more permanent home for Dakota and Jack, two retired park police horses. N They are located in Littlestown, Pennsylvania and it would really be great if they could stay together although separating them has to be an option in order to save their lives. D Cheri contacted Leighton Farm, who posted Dakota and Jack on their “Looking for a Home” site. This is their story: “I need help looking for a loving C H Jack is clearly in good condition for his age – and the weather cats. I will probably adopt the indoor cat since the farm will be put out for auction the beginning of April 2011. A “I have been keeping up on their care with regular farrier visits, worming, having their teeth floated, supplying feed and water.” So there you have it. Here is a chance for another Second N Chance story to be written with a happy ending. These old boys need someone to give them that last forever home. How long will they last? Who can say? But they don’t need much: turnout, shelter, hay and water – dental and hoof care, of course. And a C chance to doze in the sun together in the twilight years of their lives. If you have room in your heart and fields, contact Cheri via E e-mail at [email protected]. S Dakota and Jack

home that these two horses can go to, and live out their retirement the rest of their lives,” Cheryl says. “Dakota and Jack are two ex-Maryland National Capital Park Police horses whose owner lost her battle to cancer on Dec. 1, 2009. She was a retired M-NC Park Police Officer. Both horses are over 29 years old and in good health. They still live on the farm of their former owner, and I travel there to care for them nearly every day. “The electricity at the farm was turned off in February of 2010 so I transport water to them daily since the well is not working without electricity. There is still a supply of hay and they have about 15-20 acres of pasture. “Last winter was hard on us caring for the horses. Luckily the neighbor was able to walk to the farm during the storms when I could not get out and on the road. I live about 35 miles from the farm and my primary concern is the horses and one remaining indoor cat. I was able to adopt out her two dogs to a loving family and I adopted one of her barn Dakota FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 85 86 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S I D Sweet victories, silly moments, loyal companions… here are a few of the editor’s favorite Side Shots. E

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Ann Egan and Victoria winning a ladies cart championship! S Photo courtesy Ann Egan

Smooches Editor’s Choice Paul Tapner gives Stormhill Michael a pair of bunny ears Photo by Nico Morgan

Devon, the long-haired Jack A thrilled Scarlett Worrow rode Thistledown at Russell says “What’s Up, Doc” HOYS Photo by Nico Morgan Photo by Bill Tatgenhorst

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Needy Nags Roamer is a 20 year old gelding. He is a 15.3h Dutch Warmblood out of Ranly - a grand prix show jumper. Roamer has training in 3rd level dressage, hunters and jumpers, 4-H junior champion, WEF children’s jumpers but he is best suited for a lovely horse because of arthritis in his legs. He is adventurous and fun loving with great ground manners. He clips, ties, loads and does it all. He ties at camp and has been to the beach. He actually loves men! He has also done youth camps; but prefers an adult rider. He has had a really great life and right now he is hanging out with his vacationing in Florida. We are looking for a wonderful new mommy who is small and weighs under 130 lbs. to trail ride him and have adventures; but he still wants to have lots of fun. He has been kept very well with the best of everything - that’s the kind of home we are looking for him. So if you are looking for a safe horse, lots of licks and kisses and want to go – he is your man! Roamer would love to be adopted by a small adult man or woman who will have fun with him and share his adventurous spirit on long rides. We are very selective who will get him and the match must be perfect. He has had only the best and we want more of the same for this great guy. This would be a forever home. Roamer can travel and his adoption price is $1000.00. For more information on Roamer or any of our other horses contact (561) 792-2666 or email [email protected]. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 93 94 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 95 96 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Catching up: Robert Dover’s radio show on Tuesday nights is getting close to 100,000 listeners from around O the world. Even though the broadcast is local in southern Florida you can listen on Doversworld.com on Tuesday evenings. He has great guests, hot button topics and all F the latest news. Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

The Professional Riders Organization (PRO) has F really come under fire recently in the sport of eventing. It seems that half of all evnters dislike this organization with a passion, and the blogs have been blowing up with debate over whether PRO is good for the sport – or not. Photographer Sue Stickle has shot at the 2007 and 2009 FEI World Cup Finals in Las Vegas, NV, as well C as the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY, where she shot reining, driving (for the first time), show jumping, eventing and dressage. She has E been the official photographer for the World Dressage Masters Palm Beach for the past two years in Wellington, along with the Official Photographer for the Challenge of the Americas for the last several years. This girl is busy N and her list of shows across the country and abroad keeps growing! Fans of World Equestrian Games Bronze Medalist Steffen Peters can now enjoy an intimate moment with the dressage First , and now . . .eventer Blyth Tait is making T star thanks to a “Custom Moment” video. In the video a comeback to international competition. With these two produced for Custom Saddlery, Steffen is interviewed and New Zealanders back in the game, and Olympic medal for shares everything from what he eats for breakfast to whether the NZ event team could very well be in the cards in 2012. E or not he likes dogs. Shot on location at Carol Cohen’s Two Swans Farm in Courtney King-Dye reports that she’s begun trotting in Wellington, Florida, Steffen shows off his sense of humor her hippotherapy sessions. Courtney was also featured during the “Custom Moment” interview with Cohen. The R recently in a Florida news segment about hippotherapy video appears on the Custom Saddlery website, www. and Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center. You go girl, mysaddle.com, and on the Dressage-News.com website, we’re behind you all the way! L www.dressage-news.com. A sign of the times? In any case, it’s a great value and we’re glad to see a horse company offering free shipping. I SmartPaks over $40.00 now ship free. Even better, free by Mark Bellissimo, backed out of hosting it for the third year shipping applies to the entire order, so customers can add because many top riders couldn’t commit to the invitation-only anything to the SmartPaks, from treats to tack trunks to event due to scheduling conflicts. additional SmartPaks, and it will all ship free. The county-operated Brandon Center needed upgrades for the N tournament, including better footing. It was announced recently that the “King of Rolex”, “What’s there now is safe but not friendly,” said Wellington Phillip Dutton’s great horse Connaught, is retiring from resident Arlene “Tuny” Page, who competed in the tournament E four star competition. In addition to competing at the Beijing in 2009. Olympics, Connaught placed in the top 10 for 4 straight years at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, winning in We know there are intercollegiate leagues for jumping and 2008. dressage, but this is the first we’ve heard of Intercollegiate Eventing! The West Coast Collegiate Eventing League was One of the most high-profile tournaments for dressage created by the University of Davis Event Team! We hope to hear remained on American soil this season - and in Palm Beach more about this intriguing endeavor soon! County - despite the Winter Equestrian Festival nixing it from its lineup. Thanks to polo player John Goodman and Bumps and Bruises: his family and the club he founded, International Polo Club Eventer Lauren Kieffer underwent surgery in February after Palm Beach, agreed to sponsor the United States leg of the breaking her wrist in several places after a fall from a young horse. Exquis World Dressage Masters March 9-11 at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center at Okeeheelee Park South. Debbie McDonald wasn’t shy about sharing the news that a “They stepped forward to save the only five-star dressage helmet saved her life after a recent fall in California. She was event in the western hemisphere,” said Ken Braddick, who riding a client horse when it unexpectedly bucked her off, sending runs the Wellington-based website dressage-news.com. her head first into the ground. Debbie, who began wearing her “It shows a strong support for the Olympic discipline of helmet at all times after Courtney King-Dye’s fall last year, dressage.” suffered whiplash and a concussion, but knows it would have been much worse had she been helmet less. Apparently, the Winter Equestrian Festival, headed FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 97

But, Debbie was back in action by mid-February, teaching News to share: New baby, engagement, pickup truck? On a joint clinic with USEF Technical Advisor Anne Gribbons in the move, having parties, falling off horses? Share what’s Florida. The USEF Observation Session spanned two days, happenin’ with your dressage friends by e-mailing us at editor@ and another one is planned for the weekend of April 6-7 in San sidelinesnews.com. Be sure to put “News Off Centerline” in the Diego, CA. subject line.

Dressage Under the Stars hosted by The Players Club Bar & Grille, kicked off 2011 with week one musical freestyle winner, Chris Von Martels on Don Darveen. Von Martels is joined by (left to right) Quantum Saddle Representative Ted Rekal-Nuttall, dressage trainers and riders Jane Savoie and Carole Grant, 2010 Dressage Under the Stars $10,000 winner Tami Hoag, co-producer Rick Rockefeller-Silvia, and Juan Gonzalez of The Wellington Institute. 98 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE D A Few Minutes with R Sean Cunningham By Jan Westmark

E New Mexico-based dressage rider and trainer Sean Cunningham has an impressive riding history. It includes training with Olympian Lendon Gray and riding for some of S the biggest farms in the country, including Iron Spring Farm and Horses Unlimited. “When I was 12 years old, I decided I wanted to learn how to ride horses because I thought they were cool. I rode S my bike to a farm about half a mile from my house to inquire about lessons and it just happened to be a dressage farm with a lesson program,” Sean said. “I’m one of only a few A people who I know of that started in dressage and stuck with it. Most people convert from another discipline, but I fell in love with dressage from the beginning and it’s been G my passion ever since.” Sean, who lives and trains out of his STC Dressage in Albuquerque, originally moved to New Mexico to work for Horses Unlimited. When he branched out to open his own E business he decided to stay there, even though New Mexico isn’t exactly the center of the dressage universe. But that Sean and his girlfriend Acacia Coast with their Border Collie hasn’t kept Sean and his students from succeeding, and Duke while he doesn’t plan on staying in New Mexico forever, he Photo by Barbara Coast said it has been an exciting place to start his own operation. Sidelines: What was working for Lendon Gray like? SC: Working for Lendon was incredible. It was incredibly difficult, Sidelines: What do you like about New Mexico? yet inspiring and educational and worth every second. I was SC: New Mexico is still in the grassroots stage of exposed to world-class riders, horses and training during my dressage so there is a tremendous amount of growth and time there and my education advanced very quickly. I only wish I development taking place and it’s exciting to be a part of realized then that I know now, which is that I really still don’t know it. This area has also been a good place to start my own a fraction of what there is to learn about horses. If I had, I might training operation, because I’m kind of a “big fish in a small have found a way to keep working there longer, but for a variety pond.” I’ve been able to build my business and reputation of reasons, the most pressing being financial, after one and a half as an independent trainer very quickly, and my clients and I years I moved on to take a position at Iron Spring Farm. have enjoyed a lot of success in the process. It’s been fun! Sidelines: What did you learn working at Iron Spring Farm? Sidelines: Did you have a moment that kick-started your SC: Working at Iron Spring allowed me to develop my appreciation dressage career? for young horses. I really started looking more and more at SC: Yes, I call it my “big break” and it happened at bloodlines and the impact they can have on the future quality of Tempel Farms in Wadsworth, Illinois, home of the Tempel the horses. Obviously there are never any guarantees, but certain Lipizzaners. Prior to that, I had mostly just ridden at the dams and sires can definitely be shown to produce, on average, typical kid-friendly boarding facilities where I certainly good or bad conformation, easy or difficult trainability, willing or learned a lot and grew to appreciate the work involved in easily soured minds, etc. It was a unique opportunity to work for horses. The desire to learn all I could was growing though, one of the best sport horse producers in the country and again, and I knew if I wanted to be one of the best I needed to it was an outstanding learning experience. Then, in the spring of train with the best. In the spring of 1999 I started calling 2007, I moved to New Mexico to work for Horses Unlimited. It was and e-mailing Tempel, trying to find any way possible to another chance to work with some really nice horses developed get my foot in the door. The person on the receiving end by a good breeding program. of my calls and e-mails was Roberta Williams, George Williams’ wife. Thankfully, rather than getting annoyed with Sidelines:: Who has had the biggest impact on your career? my persistence, she was impressed by it. Even though they SC: Without question, Lendon Gray. To this day, her voice speaks didn’t really have room to take on another working student, loudest in my mind when I’m trying to work through something with she thought I was worth taking a chance on and found a a horse or a student. Her desire to find the best in each horse and place for me anyway. Over the course of the next three in each person and bring it out so that they can shine is amazing years, I worked there during my breaks from Iowa State and inspiring. I am always trying to further my education, so I have University where I was earning my Bachelors Degree in just recently started traveling out to California to work with Hilda Animal Science. After graduation in 2002, and because my Gurney. goals were more competition oriented, I moved to New York to take a position as a working student for Lendon Gray. Sidelines: You have had great success with your clients in FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 99

Albuquerque, what stands out to you? SC: I work with various clients around the Albuquerque area, the most prominent of which is Paradigm Sporthorse Farm. They are a small operation, breeding a maximum of five foals per year, but they are proof of the saying “quality, not quantity.” They have produced numerous champions both under saddle and in-hand, and have been steadily climbing the ranks as dressage breeders over the last few years. In 2009, USDF ranked them 28th in the nation, and they tied with Pembroke Farm in Lemitar as the top dressage breeder in the state of New Mexico. Out of over 1,100 dressage breeders on the USEF list, they have been consistently ranked in the top 50 in the country for the last three years. I also work with Camelot Friesians and have shown several of their horses to top placings, including setting high scores at New Mexico Dressage Association shows.

Sidelines: What are your goals? Sean and Modern Magic, a five-year-old Hanoverian mare owned by Paradigm Sporthorse SC: As a rider, my goal is to compete Farm Photo by Kathleen Bryan internationally as a member of the U.S. team. As a trainer, I hope to be able to impart my knowledge and expertise to my horses to make of directors and the Jr/YR Chair for the New Mexico Dressage them suitable mounts. As an instructor, my goal is to pass my Association, I hope to help steer our club, and dressage as a whole, knowledge along to my students so they cam grow and become in a direction that will benefit us all and make us ambassadors for better riders and trainers themselves. As a member of the board the sport. 100 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE D Melanie Pai and Canaan Ranch R By Ann S. Reilly, Ph.D. On the surface, Melanie Pai comes off as a girl-next-door type; fun company and a cheerleader who loves everyone E in equal measure. But the dressage trainer and owner of Canaan Ranch in Fulshier, Texas and Middleburg, Virginia has had a heavy influence in the sport of dressage during S the last decade. From owning Steffen Peters’ 2004 Olympic mount Floriano, to nurturing some of the best of the best young dressage stock in the country, Melanie’s passion for S the sport has left a lasting footprint on the industry. Pai has been riding horses since she was four years old. Growing up she rode and horses, A and learned to jump one summer as a kid, but it was experiencing a horse’s exuberant extended trot that was the catalyst for her lifelong passion for dressage. G After taking a break from horses to raise her family, she began riding again after her husband gave her a dressage horse one Christmas. Her return to dressage led to the E creation of Canaan Ranch, and a journey that she never could have predicted. Not everyone has a horse of Olympic caliber, but Melanie did in Floriano. After his first rider left the Pais, Melanie was looking for a replacement. Steffen Peters had been to the ranch for a clinic, and the rest, as they say, is history. He was invited to Texas to ride Floriano and Gucci, her two Melanie Pai and King Garcia winning at Devon. King is Grand Prix horses. Steffen told her that Floriano had a responsible for showing the horses in hand at dressage sport good chance of making the 2004 Olympic Dressage Team, breed shows as well as in hunter breeding and presents them for and Melanie and Lou gave him the go ahead to show breed inspections. “King has been with us for many years and is Floriano in international competition. Steffen and Floriano a vital part of our young horses development,” Melanie says

were selected as the first alternate for the 2004 in , Greece, and were participants in the 2005 World Cup in Las Vegas, NV, winning the 2005 Invitational Championship there.

The Toughest Time But Melanie’s life has not always been a bed of roses. In 1994, her 6-year-old son Kyle began the fight of his life when he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL). ALL is the leading form of leukemia in children; representing approximately 85% of leukemia patients under the age of 19. For the next three years, Melanie and her family were in and out of the hospital and faced many ups and downs throughout Kyle’s treatment. “I had to become a vigilant person and try to balance my family’s lives,” remembers Melanie. At 9, Kyle was finally taken off chemo and went into remission. “It was such a long road... everyone I met along the way had a different story,” Melanie adds. “Not every child that walked into that hospital with Kyle survived.” Five years later, Melanie decided she was ready to give back and fight the disease that turned her family’s life upside down. She started by participating in her children’s schools with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program. In 2009, when she learned of the LLS’s “Equestrian of the Year” campaign, “I was so excited and ready to go as a participant…it really brings my two worlds together.” This fundraiser welcomes equestrians from all disciplines and levels to compete against each other to see who can raise the most amount of money for the LLS. Melanie has also generously given to the sport of dressage “Dreams are what life is about,” Melanie Pai says. “I in the US. She sponsors dressage shows, including the $5,000 have achieved many of my dreams and am working on Canaan Ranch Pas de Deux held at the EEMI Dressage Show. achieving many more of them.” FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 101

Down on the Farm As well as owning winners Gucci, Floriano, Donates, and Ikaros in the FEI ring, and many winning horses at the lower levels, Melanie has also won a few USEF “Breeder of the Year” awards. During the 2010 show season, Devotion, Declaration, and Fuertin Tina CR made successful debuts in the training and first level divisions. Donates and Ikaros showed at Grand Prix and Intermediaire. Devotion, Pai’s favorite ride, a 6 year old by Donates, was recently sold to John and Amy Schaff of Davidson, NC; Declaration (by Donates) to hunter rider Edna “Issy” Kelly, who with trainer Paul Valliere, is in love with the five year old’s disposition, movement, and personality; and yearling Fuente de Mar (Fluersco x Love Tale) to Mason Dixon, LLC.

Present Dreams “Now, I have two FEI horses being ridden by Lynda Alicki and I’m ready to turn my focus back to the international FEI ring,” Melanie explains. “Ikaros is my Danish Warmblood Grand Prix horse that we are hoping to campaign successfully for a spot on the 2012 Olympic team in London. Donates is my Oldenburg stallion who Lynda has been showing successfully for the last 3 years. Lynda and Donates are currently getting ready to campaign for a place on the 2011 US Team,” Melanie says. Her outlook on life is inspiring. She has been through the roughest times one can go through as a parent, and still believes that “dreams are what life is about. I have achieved many of my dreams and am Not only does Melanie ride, but she also sponsors dressage shows, including working on achieving many more of them.” the $5,000 Canaan Ranch Pas de Deux at the EEMI Dressage show 102 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE P Five Questions For Jason Crowder

Jason Crowder was named Most O Valuable Player in the Pacific Coast Open Championship in 2010 L Photo by Dina Stuart O

By Danika Rice Sidelines: What would you say is the most memorable polo game you played and why? From the Golden Coast of California to the sunny shores JC: It would have to be the Pacific Coast Open Finals. It’s the of Florida, Jason Crowder’s journey coincides completely biggest tournament in California, was played in my hometown with what he already attributes to as home. Sunshine and with my friends and family there, and I got to play it with the best beaches, horses and polo are all a continuous staple in the polo player in the world, Adolfo Cambiaso. There’s not much more life of this 27 year old. Raised in Santa Barbara, California you can ask for than that. When you get the chance to play with and surrounded by it’s notable 20-goal summer season, teammates that make you a better player, everything becomes Jason is now spending his first winter season playing on that much more important, that much more memorable. the opposite coast, competing in the International Polo Club’s 20-goal tournament series (the Herbie Penell Cup, Sidelines: What was the best part of playing with Adolfo? Joe Barry Memorial, Ylvisaker Cup and Ingelhart Cup) JC: How calm and cool he stays no matter what happens on the with Scott Woods’ ERG team, as well as taking part in field, no matter the situation. From the very first time I met him, the 14-goal tournament series with long time childhood he just made me feel like I’d known him forever. On the field that friend Julian Mannix. From the ranks of pee-wee polo translated to a great team dynamic, because I was already so competitions that began at the age of seven, Jason’s comfortable with him. career has skyrocketed and has set him as a cornerstone in the California Polo Circuit, playing consistently for years Sidelines: Just this year, you’ve won the Pacific Coast Open, in Indio, San Diego and Santa Barbara. In 2001, he was played with Adolfo Cambiaso and have already been named Most named to Team USA in the Federation of International Polo Valuable Player in Wellington’s 20 goal series. What is the next World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, and again in career goal you hope to accomplish? 2004 to represent his country in Chantilly, France. Coming JC: I’d like to one day win the U.S. Open. It’s the top tournament off a notable performance in the 2010 Pacific Coast Open in the U.S., and if you’re playing professionally, you always want Championship where he played with Adolfo Cambiaso as to win the biggest tournament. I’ve loved polo since I was a kid, part of the winning Lucchese Polo Team, Sidelines caught and growing up playing in California was always great. But now, up with Jason in Wellington, to reflect on the past year and getting the chance to play in Wellington, I get to play at a higher what it meant to play with the world’s best in his hometown. level and continue to better myself and my skills. So now, I want to work each day on playing the best polo I can. And hopefully that Sidelines: Who has been your biggest influence, on or off will eventually give me the chance to play the [U.S.] Open. the polo field? JC: My dad Steve. From coaching, training horses to Sidelines: If you could play with anyone of your choosing, who playing, he’s been a part of it all from the beginning. He would you play with and where would you go? has been involved with so many different areas of polo, JC: I would go to and play with Cambiaso there. Top he’s always got advice to give no matter what situation I’m horses, top players, great fields. There’s so much to learn, and asking about. when you’re there you learn from the best. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 103 104 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE P O Bands of Brothers L Previewing the 2011 U.S. Open O

Facundo Pieres will be on the Zacara team for the Open Photo by Alan Fabricant FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 105

By Danika Rice reached their 10 goal handicap in 2005, and his youngest, Nicolas, is not far behind at 7 goals (and will be raised to 8 goals following They say that blood is thicker than water. the winter season.) Family tradition carries a high expectation in this family, as Gonzalo Sr. found much of his success alongside the company of his own brothers, Alvaro and Alfonso Pieres, in he truest test of brotherhood, family and the 1980s. blood ties will be seen on the polo field this There is always something spectacular to be seen out of a Pieres, as their heritage speaks volumes through talent and years Tspring, during competition for the coveted of success on the polo field. U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, And it’s worked before. In 2009 all three Pieres brothers played Florida. Family is the name of the game as 11 with Audi, and they won the Open. In 2010, Facundo and Gonzalito played with Audi, and lost to Crab Orchard in the Final. This year, teams face off to take home the silver Open cup Facundo goes to play with Lyndon Lea’s Zacara squad, and young during the Final match this month. And this year, Nicolas takes his spot beside eldest brother Gonzalito on the Audi more than ever, the most common theme of team team. They are joined on the Audi team by a newcomer to the U.S. polo scene: Brazilian Rodrigo Ribeiro de Andrade. Patron Marc organization aligns along family ties, linked both Ganzi rounds out the team of four. in camaraderie and sibling rivalry, connection and competition as patrons search for the innate A Lethal Advantage The intimacy with which one knows a brother will arguably teamwork that is key to winning the world’s prove a lethal advantage to them as an opponent. Facundo and biggest tournaments. Gonzalito have spent years playing together on fields around the world. The countless hours of practice, strategy and learned Blood Ties advantage will likely prove both useful and detrimental to an Team Audi has harnessed that teamwork in the form of the opponent who already knows your horses, your strengths, your Pieres brothers, a trio of players from Argentina who are, quite weaknesses and the next likely move you’ll make. literally, at the top of their game. Their father, Gonzalo Sr., has a “It’s always fun to play with or against my brothers,” Gonzalito lot to be proud of, as his eldest sons Gonzalito and Facundo both Continued on page 106

Facundo Pieres defends while Eduardo Novillo Astrada shoots on goal Photo by Alan Fabricant 106 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Julian Mannix will be teaming with brother Frederic and and Mariano Gonzalez on The Hawks in the Open Photo by Alan Fabricant

Frederic Mannix follows the ball through the goalposts Right! Left! Whistle? Facundo and Gonzalo Pieres in action Photo by Alan Fabricant Photo by Bruce Jones FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 107 US OPEN Teams

Valiente Bendabout Pony Express Bobby Jornayvaz ...... 0 Gillian Johnston ...... 1 Bob Daniels ...... 0 Polito Pieres ...... 8 Magoo LaPrida ...... 9 Santiago Chavanne ...... 9 Miguel Astrada ...... 9 Julio Arellano ...... 9 Bautista Heguy ...... 9 Nacho Astrada ...... 9 Sugar Erskine ...... 7 Agustin Garcia Grossi ...... 8 26 goals 26 goals 26 goals

Audi Zacara Lechuza Marc Ganzi ...... 1 Lyndon Lea ...... 1 Martin Espain ...... 6 Nicolas Pieres ...... 7 Sebastian Merlos ...... 10 Victor Vargas ...... 1 Gonzalito Pieres ...... 10 Facundo Pieres ...... 10 Guillermo Caset Jr...... 9 Rodrigo Andrade ...... 8 Mariano Uranga ...... 5 Juan Martin Nero ...... 10 26 goals 26 goals 26 goals

Las Monjitas The Hawks Crab Orchard Camilo Bautista ...... 0 Julian Mannix ...... 3 Ignatius du Plessis ...... 7 Javier Astrada ...... 9 Fred Mannix ...... 6 Hilario Ulloa ...... 9 Eduardo Astrada ...... 10 Mariano Aguerre ...... 10 Adolfo Cambiaso ...... 10 Santiago Toccalino ...... 7 Mariano Gonzalez ...... 7 George Rawlings ...... 0 26 goals 26 goals 26 goals

Grand Champions Orchard Hill Melissa Ganzi ...... 0 Steve Van Andel ...... 0 Nachi Heguy ...... 9 Hector Galindo ...... 7 Lolo Castagnola ...... 9 Lucas Criado ...... 9 Juan Bollini...... 6 Pablo MacDonough ...... 10 24 goals 26 goals

Continued from page 105 says. “It makes you play smarter, and push a little harder, because you are going to do. Even if we win or lose, I will be happy,” you don’t want to hear about them beating you when you get home. They can almost always guess what I am going to do, so I Learned Teamwork or Familial Cohesion? have to try to be smarter.” For the second year in a row, The Hawks will see the return of Canada’s Mannix brothers, Julian and Frederick, teaming Family Ties All Around with Mariano Aguerre and Mariano Gonzalez. 18 year old Julian Camillo Bautista’s Las Monjitas U.S. Open team will field Mannix made a successful debut on the East Coast last year in the another set of brothers, as Javier and Eduardo Novillo-Astrada 20 goal tournaments at the International Polo Club after spending join Santiago Toccalino to face the second half of their personal two years honing his skills during California’s winter season at the band of brothers, Ignacio and Miguel Novillo-Astrada playing with Eldorado Polo Club. He walks into a practiced teamwork between Polito Pieres (a cousin, not brother to Gonzalito, Facundo and older brother Frederick and Mariano Aguerre, who have played Nicolas), for Bob Jornayvaz’s Valiente team. together in both the U.S. and Argentina for the last two years. Confused yet? That’s four Novillo-Astrada brothers, playing in This season will be a showdown of learned teamwork versus sets of two, who will be galloping the manicured greens of IPC, innate cohesion, a true demonstration of hard work against also hoping for family ties to play more advantageous than harmful behavioral knowledge of an opponent who will also be joining in their pursuit of a championship title. you at the dinner table that evening. Should you lose, perhaps it “It is great because if [my] brothers beat me they are the top,” will be your brother on the podium instead of you, allowing for a says Eduardo. “If they are the top, they get the cup so the trophy gracious amount of happiness for their success over yours, and stays in the family. I know them a lot and they know me, but that likely an overwhelming sense of rivalry that will push that player makes it a bit more fun and more difficult because they know what ever harder in the next match. 108 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE P A Name of His Own O Weston Gracida Story and photo by Erin Gilmore L “I get up in the morning for There are only a few more minutes the horses,” says Weston of sunlight left in the day, but at the O end of a long, sandy road in South Florida, Weston Gracida is still riding. Every morning he pulls on his boots and crosses the 20 yards that separate house and barn, where the attention of 22 polo ponies, at least one polo game, and a pair of grooms await him. And every day, he rides. But when you’re a Gracida, this is all you know. And when you know polo, the name Gracida is as much a part of the lexicon as mallet, near side, ride off and boards.

Polo Dynasty True to form, 22-year old-Weston Gracida seems to be following in the footsteps of the Gracidas who came before him. His father Ruben Gracida, a former eight-goal player, enjoyed a high-goal career “Do you know how much it sucks to go to work when you’re that spanned 30 years. During Weston’s childhood, suffering?” his father traveled around the world winning high goal But one day, he woke up and the allergy was a little less, until championships in France, Italy and Mexico, and in this gradually, it disappeared. Now he looks out over the family farm, country won U.S. Open and Pacific Coast Open titles four on ten acres at the historic Gulfstream Polo Club in Wellington, times over. If anything is possible, one day Weston may and thinks in terms of possibilities. Better able to focus on his approach the success of his legendary second cousins, game, he’s beginning to be considered as one of the emerging ten goalers Memo and Carlos Gracida, who between them talents on the Florida polo scene. The place is a perfect turnkey have won every major polo tournament around the globe. facility, with private polo arena, stick and ball field, sand track and That generation of Gracidas, the third in a line of four polo- tidy stalls and paddocks. It’s an ideal setup for any equestrian playing generations, cemented the family name into polo business, and Weston loves to teach and school up the green history. The Gracidas are now known as one of the greatest horses, but he keeps a busy schedule during season – playing polo dynasties in the world. multiple games per week on a freelance basis. But as one of the next generation Gracidas, Weston doesn’t get hung up on the accomplishments of others, not Oceanic Interests even those within his family. And polo isn’t his only outlet. Weston has his pilot’s license “I get up in the morning for the horses,” he says. “I love (something he earned in his “spare“ time), can navigate large the horses, and I love to play.” watercraft, and harbors a passionate interest in marine biology. He’s only a few credits away from earning his bachelor’s degree Suffering Through It in biology from Palm Beach Atlantic University, and if his career Which is surprising, considering the fact that until very choice ever deviates from polo, it would likely fall in that direction. recently, Weston was severely allergic to horses. It was After all, with his wavy surfer hair and broad, tanned forehead the world’s most ironic joke – a Gracida with a horse Weston fits right in with coastal community that he grew up in. allergy. But for Ruben, allergy symptoms were no reason But this spring and summer, Weston will travel to where ever to keep his only son out of the barn. So despite a constant the game of polo takes him. He’s still weighing his options as to battle with hives and fits of sneezing , the young boy was the exact location, but “my father always told me that polo was my handed a pitchfork, and later a saddle, and taught the art passport to the world,” he explains. With offers to play in both the of horsekeeping and riding. Watery eyes and an itchy nose Southern and Eastern regions of the country, Weston is coming never stopped a Gracida from meeting his goals. to the realization that polo is evolving from a lifestyle, to a viable Today, Weston is rated at 3 goals and is enjoying his career for him. busy professional career, but in those days, he admits that As each season passes, Weston’s talent builds, and his passion he hated going to the barn. grows. With or without that passport, it’s clear that this Gracida is “Until last year I never touched the horses,” he explains. out to make a name of his own. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 109 110 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE P “A penny and a kiss” O The Story of La Fortuna By Erin Gilmore

L Polo ponies with freakish natural talent tend to be hot blooded, sensitive and generally unsafe for small children, so it’s a rare horse that can come off the field O from a high goal polo game to babysit a 6-year-old. But in addition to being a high-goal superstar, Tommy Wayman’s placid, intelligent La Fortuna was the keeper of a young girl’s heart. And when he was inducted into the Polo Hall of Fame on February 18, 2011, La Fortuna’s story became a polo classic. An acclaimed American 10-goaler and Hall of Famer himself, Tommy Wayman also managed an extensive polo-breeding program from ranches on two continents, in San Antonia, Texas, and San Martin de los Andes, Argentina. Whenever he visited his vast Argentina estancia, Tommy made a habit of calling around the neighboring estancias to search for polo prospects.

If Not for a Parrot Mouth. . . It was during one of those searches that he came across La Fortuna, a grey gelding of unknown breeding “He could go from 0 to 60 in a matter of seconds, stop on a dime with a significant parrot mouth. In the late 1970s parrot and turn on a nickel.” mouth was thought to be a genetic defect, and Dicky Santamarina, the owner of the neighboring estancia, A Better Offer? wouldn’t let Tommy try La Fortuna for fear that his But it was inevitable that La Fortuna would catch the eye of reputation would be ruined if the gelding left the property. others. When Tory was 8 years old, a buyer who offered a very But Tommy persisted, and was finally allowed to ride large sum in exchange for the gelding approached the family. La Fortuna. He knew immediately that the horse was “My dad told the guy, ‘I can’t sell him, he belongs to my meant to be a high goal and set upon Dicky to daughter’,” Tory relates. “And the guy said to tell me that I let him purchase the gelding. Finally, Dicky let him have could have the money for La Fortuna, and he would give me a La Fortuna for free as long as Tommy promised not to tell replacement horse that would be just for me. anyone where he had found the horse. “So my father called me in and told me about the offer, and to Tommy brought La Fortuna to the Wayman family’s this day I remember looking straight at him, and telling him that San Antonio, Texas ranch, and began training him up I wouldn’t sell La Fortuna for any price.” for the high goal. The placid gelding immediately earned another fan in Tommy’s 6-year-old daughter Tory. He One of the Greats was trustworthy enough to carry Tory up and down the And so, La Fortuna remained in the family. He went on to sides of the polo field wearing just a halter, and like any become Tommy’s anchor pony throughout the highlight of his child who’s lent the power of a cantering horse, she fell career, playing high goal polo in every corner of the country. head over heels in love, and decided that La Fortuna had He was named Best Playing Pony in countless U.S. Open to be hers to own. tournaments, Best Playing Pony in every major high goal tournament of the early 80s, and at the time was considered to A Penny and a Kiss be one of, if not the most famous horse in polo. When Tory told her mother of her plan, she was “My dad always said that the horse was one of the reasons given a penny and sent to speak with her father. Tory he got to be ten goals,” Tory says. “He could go from 0 to 60 in very seriously placed her offer on the table, but Tommy a matter of seconds, stop on a dime and turn on a nickel. They responded that a penny just wasn’t a high enough price went to ten together, and he never let me forget that if he hadn’t for the parrot-mouthed gelding. However, young Tory sold La Fortuna to me for a penny and a kiss, he might not have could purchase him for a penny and a kiss. gotten so far.” And with that, Tory was officially deemed owner of La La Fortuna was retired at the age of 15, and lived out his Fortuna. As the gelding became Tommy’s go-to high goal days on the Wayman ranch in Texas, babysitting weanlings and pony, Tory watched over “her” horse. teaching them manners. He passed away in 2001, but with his “Whether it was polo or taking care of me, he always induction to the Polo Hall of Fame, he’ll always be remembered knew what his job was,” Tory remembers. “After a game as one of the greatest ponies in polo. they’d throw me on him bareback with a halter and away And as for Dicky Santamarina, he eventually came to the I’d go. And no one had to worry about me because I was conclusion that parrot mouth wasn’t such a defect, after all. His with La Fortuna.” estancia in Argentina is now known as “La Fortuna”. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 111 112 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE P POLO HALL OF FAME O WELCOMES NEW INDUCTEES L A record-breaking crowd of 430 turned out on Friday, Champions Polo Club, Glen and Gloria Holden Celebrating 100 February 18th at the Museum of Polo to celebrate the Years of Santa Barbara Polo, International Polo Club and Barbara 22nd Annual Museum of Polo Hall of Fame Dinner and Uskup. Wine and spirits for the evening were provided by Robert welcome the new inductees into the Hall of Fame; Stephen Lipman, Lipman Brothers, Brown-Forman and Bacardi USA and O A. Orthwein (Living Hall of Fame Inductee) Charles Cary the entertainment sponsor was Jan Pamela Polo Team. The Rumsey (posthumous Hall of Fame Inductee), Merle reception was followed by dinner during which the past Hall of Jenkins (Living Iglehart Award Recipient), Jules Romfh Fame Inductees were introduced and given commemorative lapel (Posthumous Iglehart Award Recipient) and the Horses to pins for the Museum of Polo Hall of Fame. Dinner was followed Remember Tenby and La Fortuna. by the awards presentation ceremony for the new inductees, all Arriving on a perfect balmy Florida night lit by a brilliant of whom gave very moving acceptance speeches. The evening full moon, guests first enjoyed the Grand Reception with was capped off with dancing and an exuberant celebration by the appetizers sponsored by Marc and Melissa Ganzi, Grand friends and families of the new members of the Hall of Fame.

Glen and Gloria Holden, Siobahn Gallagher, Ruben Gracida, Dave Offen Photo by Krystal Zaskey Photography

Merle Jenkins was honored as the Living Philip Iglehart Award Recipient as founder of the Detroit Polo Club, supporter of Intercollegiate polo, sponsor of the Michigan State University and University of Michigan Polo Clubs. He served as a USPA Governor, as Secretary and was the CEO of USPA Properties, Inc. He was the first USPA Promotion Committee chairman, Merle served for 32 years on the USPA Safety Committee, was instrumental in initiating the first tests of polo helmets and developing the first USPA committee to formulate standards, testing and certification of helmets coming on the market Photo by Alex Pacheco FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 113

Steve Orthwein was named Living Hall of Fame inductee for having devoted over 50 years of his life to contributing to and supporting the sport of polo Photo by Alex Pacheco

Tori Wayman saw her fantastic horse, La Fortuna, recognized as a Horse to Remember. La Fortuna was played by her father, Tommy Wayman. She is flanked by Marty Cregg and John Walsh

Judy and Ed Bernard with Linda Clarke Photo by Krystal Zaskey photography

Jerry Spitler, Samantha Charles, Clint Nangle and Chris Vining Photo by Krystal Zaskey Photography 114 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE P High Season for Juniors at O Eldorado Polo Club L Clearing the ball down the boards, O complete with leadline player! From left to right: Thomas Steinke, Elise Pardue, Jacqueline Trabits, Gracie Gonzalez, Rosie Gonzalez and Randy Heredia All photos by George Leinonen

Arty Cameron Memorial Tournament keyfauver, and Cameron and Elinor Smith. The 9th Annual Arty Cameron Memorial Tournament Eldorado Polo Club Junior Program was held at the Eldorado Polo Club February 5 and 6. The The Eldorado Junior Program has been continuous for the past participants ranged in age from 2 years to 13 years. There 25 years. Many of today’s professional players have been a part of was a shortened field with ponies and children on lead line this program including Frederick Mannix, Jason Crowder, Carlitos that was coached by Susan Guggenheim. The trot/canter Galindo, Nicolai Galindo and many others. The program was field was coached by Billy Ramos. The participants for this started by players and supporters such as Joe and Sharon Barry, year included a great group of walk/trot riders, including Corky Linfoot, Rege Ludwig, Alex Jacoy, Susan Stovall,Tommy Elise Pardue, Thomas Steinke, Jacqueline Trabits, Randy Wayman, Arty Cameron, Karlene Garber, Glen Holden, Paul Von Heredia, and Gracie and Rosie Gonzalez. The trot/canter Gontard, Graham Bray and many others from the Eldorado Polo group included Grant Palmer, Alonso Cruz, Amanda Club staff and community. The Polo Training Foundation and F.I.P. Brumby, Riley Jordon, Mila Herrera, Rhyo Rainsford- have been continuous supporters of this program.

Amanda Brumby takes her shot as teammates Mila Herrera (red Craig Steinke flagging with the “assistance” of the helmet) and Alonso Cruz back her up. Opposing team member youngest Steinke family member Riley Jordan rides up on the offensive Continued on page 118 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 115 116 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

Catching up: Whatta guy! Robert Orthwein was named Wellington’s 2011 Equestrian Idol after A rapping his way to victory, beating out fellow polo player/dressage rider and previous year’s winner Jenna Wyatt. Look for full coverage and photos in this S issue.

Dena Miller has been invited by Clint Nangleto I join the Equine Welfare Committee. Since founding Ladies Polo Auxiliary of Texas in 2005, LPA has raised money and awareness for Ranch Hand Rescue, an organization in North Texas that rescues abused and D neglected horses, has followed up on reports of polo ponies sent to slaughter and gotten to the bottom of various reports of horse abuse and neglect. That E should provide her with good background on the Equine Welfare Committee.

A round of applause for Samantha Charles, who S Leah Lewandowski, Allison Mayer, Chelsea Stotka and Andrew was honored at the Outback 40 Goal Challenge for Tatgenhorst do the divot stomp at IPC being one of the folks behind the whole thing, way back when! “Honestly,” says Sam, “Dave [Offen] and Andrew Tatgenhorst, Esquire, passed the Bar and is practicing in I started it together, I did not “start” it, but it was kind PB Gardens. Remembr when he was just a little kid, distributing of him to recognize me…” Sam was presented with Sidelines the newspaper at games? one of the paintings that Heidi McGrath did of all the 10 goalers (22 of them) who have played over the years in Ronai White, patron of CasaBlanca, was excited to celebrate the Challenge. the win of the first of her winter tournaments at Eldorado (OR EMPIRE???), as she will be hanging up her spurs after 17 years Ryan Boger tells us that the U.S. Polo Association of playing as soon as the winter season ends in April. chose 23-year-old polo standout Steve Krueger as the winner of the firstEquus & Co. Award. The award honors We dare say Nic Roldan took a bit of ribbing after the Palm a Team USPA player for his or her commitment to the sport Beach Post dubbed him “the prince of polo!” of polo and its growth in the United States. Five finalists from Team USPA were in the running for Wedding bells? Chris Nevins recently celebrated a birthday, the Equus & Co. Award based on their leadership and and on the same day proposed to girlfriend Tiffany Foster. The communication skills, sportsmanship on the field and two have not yet set a date. participation in key Team USPA programs over the past year and Steve took home the award and $5,000 from Club News: Prestonwood Polo and Country Club has Equus & Co. in front of a packed stadium at IPC! acquired the final 47 acres adjacent to their property, and are moving forward with their original plan to develop an exclusive, John Goodman has been getting a lot of positive press luxurious polo community in North Texas horse country. Next lately, due to the International Polo Club’s sponsorship phase after homes? The third Prestonwood Country Club location of the U.S. leg of the Exquis World Dressage Masters, with pool, tennis courts and of course, more polo! held March 9-11 in Florida. The Palm Beach Post quoted dressage newshound Ken Braddick as saying ““They U.S. women’s polo went international in February, as Karen stepped forward to save the only five-star dressage event Reese, Tiffany Busch, Cecelia Cochran and Lauren Biddle in the western hemisphere.” traveled to Jamaica to compete in their annual international match. Although the U.S. team did not come home with the win, a great time was had by all. From the warm beaches of Jamaica, a tougher breed of polo players will be playing polo on the wintery New England Coast for the Newport Polo Club’s annual fundraiser. Brrrr!

The Gay Polo League pulled off another winner with their tournament at the El Dorado Polo Club in Indio, California recently. 750 spectators showed up to watch a great game of polo and listen to William Devane, who was the voice of polo for the day. We also heard that Bobby Drennen is going to make it east to help out with the Gay Polo Event in Wellington in April. Bobby tells us he is going to run the VIP tent at field side and that he is currently negotiating to be the keeper of the VIP section at ringside at the National Horse Show in the fall. It will be nice to have Bobby back on the east side of the Mississippi. Dayelle Fargey won MVP for the 4-Goal Finals out in California Polo in California is heating up! Empire Polo Club has already Continued on page 118 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 117 118 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE

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All in the name of good sportsmanship; Elise Pardue Alonso Cruz blocks shakes hands with Thomas Riley Jordan’s swing Steinke at the end of the match at the ball

Continued from page 116 States, and is a tournament that has been referred to as “The World Series” of arena polo. England sent one of their best arena According to teams to compete against an equally matched U.S. team. the Palm Beach Post, Nic Roldan Bumps and Bruises: Matias Obregon is recovering nicely is the “prince from surgery to replace the lens of his eye after getting hit with of polo” so how a mallet in a 12 goal match in Wellington. Doctors are optimistic do we address his sight will return, thankfully his goggles absorbed most of the him? Your Royal impact and probably saved his eye. Um, facemasks, anyone? Poloist, perhaps? Photo by Bruce Jones PTF President Danny Scheraga sustained a broken leg in New York after being kicked by a horse while tying its tail.

Nick Cifuni a pulled groin muscle playing in California, and Carlitos Galindo was flown in from Florida to play the 8 goal finals for the CasaBlanca team with his father until Nick is ready to return to action.

We were so pleased to hear one of our favorite polo fans, hosted the Artie Cameron World Junior Polo Tournament, and Susan Shelly is on the mend in Lake Worth Florida. Hugs to you, is now looking toward the USA vs England 22-goal Townsend kiddo, and we’ll be looking for you fieldside just as soon as you Cup (look for coverage in the next issue of Sidelines) and an can get around again. unprecedented Champions Cup, offering $60,000- $100,000 in cash and prizes, as well as hosting the USPA’s Western Region Passing: Matias Coscia, 17, the son of Rube Coscia died in Interscholastic championships. We’ll have a lot of west coast polo February. Any of Ruben’s friends who wish to help with the funeral to talk about! expenses can address checks made out to:

Also hosted by Empire was the USPA Townsend Cup Matias Coscia Memorial Fund Challenge, a 22-goal arena polo match between England and the Athens First Bank, Attn. Rachel Cooper U.S. on Saturday, March 26th, 2011. 2100 Experiment Station Road This is the highest-level of polo played in the Western United Watkinsville, GA 30677 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 119 120 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE S Robert Orthwein Named 2011 O Equestrian Idol Winner C I A L

S C E N Catherin Herman, Idol Winner Robert Orthwein, Patricia Keenan, and Rebecca Brewer All Photos by Phelps Media Group

Equestrians from all disciplines gathered on Friday, They Run This Town E February 4, to enjoy the Equestrian Idol Musical Talent Following a new format for 2011, three former Idol winners Show, presented by Tiffany & Co. Palm Beach Gardens. teamed up with this year’s contestants for some incredible Six talented performers vied for the crown, but the top collaborative performances. To kick off the show, Jenna prize and 2011 Equestrian Idol title was awarded to Robert Wyatt and 2010 Idol winner Brian Lookabill took the stage to Orthwein. Equestrian Idol, co-chaired by Catherine Herman perform the Rolling Stones, “Honky Tonk Women”, followed and Patricia Keenan, was the first event to be held in the by 2008 Idol winner Ki-Juan Minors and Teaghan James for “new” Grande Pavilion at the International Polo Club Palm Lady Gaga’s, “Just Dance”. Taylor Blauweiss, the first Idol, Beach in Wellington, Florida. was next, pairing with Susan Muench to sing Bonnie Tyler’s Robert Orthwein is a three-goal polo player who competes “Total of the Heart”. Lookabill took the stage again, at the International Polo Club Palm Beach and is based out of this time with Casey Hodges to sing Sugarland’s “Stand Up.” the Port Mayaca Polo Club in Okeechobee, FL. The Orthwein Ki-Juan Minors was up next with Robert Orthwein. The two family has been playing polo for three generations and has got the crowd on their feet with their version of Jay-Z and been intimately involved in developing polo in south Florida. Kanye West’s “Run This Town”. Taylor Blauweiss returned “I’ve ridden my whole life, and as a horseman I really with Hilary Dobbs to sing Katy Perry’s “Waking Up in Vegas”. wanted to help out the cause since EQUUS is such a Three contestants moved to the finals, and were voted on via great foundation,” Robert said. “They do incredible work the audience’s live texting. for horses and the community all over the United States, This year’s judges included the three former idol contestants, so for me to rap and do something fun like this to help Taylor Blauweiss, Brian Lookabill and Ki-Juan Minors. Another them out is great all the way around. Thanks to EQUUS new feature this year included one judge selected from the for this opportunity and for all that they do for the horse audience via raffle. Eleven-year-old Gabriella Duval won the community.” “Join The Judges” raffle. Mason Phelps, Jr. emceed the 5th annual Idol event. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, The EQUUS The evening’s live auction featured a polo lesson with Kris Foundation helps thousands of people and horses each year. Kampsen and Brandon Phillips, a dog training session with Over $1.5 million in grants have been awarded since the first Companion Dogs and Philip Levine, a woman’s watch from awards in 2003. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent Tiffany & Co, a man’s watch from Tiffany & Co, and finally a of the law. For more, visit www.equusfoundation.org. beautiful diamond pendant also from Tiffany & Co. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 121

Denise and Eric Hasbrouck Ron Neal and Jennifer Burger

Brandon and Erica Phillips Richard and Diana Feldman

Taylor Blauweiss, Lee Hughes, and Heather Blauweiss Mark and Katharine Bellissimo 122 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE Polo Club Directory Go to www.sidelinesnews.com for active links to polo club websites as shown below. CANADA NORTHEASTERN OC POLO CLUB WILL ROGERS POLO CLUB 23401 Via Pajaro Felice Densa – General Manager Coto de Caza, CA 92679 April - September POLO CLUB LA PAMPA POLO CLUB Phone: (714) 791-8369 (310) 573-5000 Cam Clark – President & SCHOOL [email protected] www.willrogerspolo.org P.O. Box 17, Site 9, RR 2 East Hampton, Southampton, www.ocpolo.com Okotoks, Alberta, T1S 1A2 Montauk, NY - May 1 - Oct 15 May – Sept. 2-8 goal/grass/lessons/boarding SAN DIEGO POLO CLUB To advertise your 0-20 Goal & Green Horse Polo Dennis Banks (631) 267-6042 (858) 481-9217 Fax (858) 481-2247 7 full size fields. Outdoor arena. C (203) 520-3238 F (631) 907-4412 Polo Club in the Polo Email: [email protected] Club Office – (403) 938-0182 [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.sandiegopolo.com Club Directory call Website: wwwcalgarypoloclub.com Joyce Jones MYOPIA POLO SANTA BARBARA Lyle Graham, Captain (954) 796-1809 THE POLO CLUB Amanda Hersey, Polo Manager POLO CLUB 13561 Leslie Street Polo Hotline – (978) 468-1019 8, 12, 20 Goal Seasons or email Richmond Hill, ON, L4E 1A2 www.myopiapolo.org Club League Polo - Apr-Oct Karen White – Manager Call Ariana, GM (805) 684-6683 [email protected] Year-round, 5 fields, indoor and www.sbpolo.com outdoor polo arenas, PACIFIC COAST Polo School (905) 888-POLO [email protected] www.torontopoloclub.com CALIFORNIA POLO CLUB Los Angeles, CA. 91436 Phone - (818) 558-7656 (POLO) [email protected] www.californiapoloclub.com

EDUCATION DIRECTORY Go to www.sidelinesnews.com for active links to education websites as shown below. CALIFORNIA MASSACHUSETTS NEW JERSEY To advertise your School or MIDLAND SCHOOL, STONELEIGH-BURNHAM RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SANTA BARBARA, CA SCHOOL EQUINE SCIENCE CENTER Equestrian Program Derek Svennungsen, Dir. Admissions Mina Payne Cooper, Director of Riding 57 U.S. Highway 1 in the Education (805) 688-5114 Admissions Office (413) 774-2711 New Brunswick, NJ 08901 www.midland-school.org Equestrian Center (413) 773-8333 [email protected] Directory call www.sbschool.org www.esc.rutgers.edu Joyce Jones FLORIDA MICHIGAN NORTH CAROLINA (954) 796-1809 AMERICAN HERITAGE or email SCHOOL MY HORSE UNIVERSITY ST. ANDREWS [email protected] College Preparatory with (517) 353-3123 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE Equestrian Program for [email protected] Phone (800) 763-0198 PK3 - Grade 12 www.myhorseuniversity.com Email [email protected] 6200 Linton Blvd. Website www.sapc.edu Delray Beach, FL (561) 495-7272 MISSOURI www.ahschool.com VIRGINIA GARY MULLEN, EQS Go to UF EQUESTRIAN CLUB DIVISION CHAIR AVERETT UNIVERSITY Bridgette Boland (573) 592-4280 Bachelor of Science Degree in (352) 870-9171 [email protected] Equestrian Studies with concentrations www.sidelines- [email protected] in equine management, dressage instruction, evening instruction MULTI STATE Intercollegiate Dressage Team magazine.com KENTUCKY ranked 4th in the nation. www.averett.edu EQUESTRIAN COLLEGE GEORGETOWN COLLEGE RECRUITER for all Equine Scholars Program Find a college..Learn the process.. Jen Roytz, Executive Director Get Recruited! (502) 863-8430 equestriancollegerecruiter.com http://equinescholars. our blogs georgetowncollege.edu FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 123 FARMS / BARNS / TRAINERS DIRECTORY Go to www.sidelinesnews.com for active links to farms, barns and trainers websites as shown below. ALABAMA LADY JEAN RANCH TENNESSEE Fifty Rideable Acres Covered Arena with Mirrors FOX LAKE FARM Boarding Annual & Seasonal BANNOCKBURN FARM, L.L.C. HUNTERS COURT STABLE Training, Sales and Showing Allison Majerik Black 10333 Randolph Siding Road World Class Jumper Bloodlines “Teaching horses and riders to be and Mark Tompkins Jupiter, FL 33478 Hunter/Jumper/Dressage/ their best…” Hunters/Jumpers/Equitation/Ponies (561) 745-1300 Fax (561) 745-2526 Eventing Prospects David Q. Wright – Cell (615) 973-2713 , AL (205) 991-0624 www.ljrelite.com www.bannockburnfarmllc.com www.foxlakefarm.com www.hunterscourt.com NEM HUNTERS & JUMPERS Nan E. Martin, Trainer/Rider NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA FLORIDA Lessons-Showing-Sales-Boarding (561) 315-6334 www.nemhj.com GARY ZOOK ASHLAND FARMS Show Stables @ RUGBY CREEK Ken & Emily Smith Autumn View Farm Full Service Facility/Retirement/ Training/Showing/Sales PENNINGTON FARMS, INC. One of NJ’s finest facilities Rehab/Lay Up/Seasonal/Foals/ Ann Pennington, USEF “R” Judge 14710 Palm Beach Point Blvd. Hunter, Jumper, Equitation Broodmares/Sales/Leasing Hunters/Jumpers/Ponies Wellington, FL 33414 55 Bartley Road Nationwide Transportation Fort Myers, FL 33966 Ken (561) 818-8495 Long Valley, NJ 07853 (276) 579-4215 (239) 275-3276 Cell (239) 850-2085 Emily (561) 371-1510 (908) 500-2020 www.rugbycreek.com www.penningtonfarms.com www.ashlandfarmsfl.com [email protected] www.garyzook.com BILL SCHAUB PINE RIDGE FARM To advertise in the Over The Hill Farm Hunters - Jumpers - Ponies Hunter/Jumper/Equitation/ Training - Showing – Sales NORTH CAROLINA Farms/Barns & Training and Sales Naples, FL 34108 B (407) 322-1912 C (407) 474-2348 John Paul Jimenez (239) 207-9408 Trainer Directory www.pineridgefarmnaples.com NORTH STAR EQUINE [email protected] Premier overnight/full boarding facility call Joyce Jones www.othfarm.com 3 miles off I-95, 24 (14 x 14) stalls SUNLIGHT EQUESTRIAN Equine vet/manager on premises (954) 796-1809 CARRIAGE HILL FARM CENTER World class travelers have stayed with us. or email Hunters/Jumpers/Ponies/Equitation Stuart, Florida – Helen Varble STALLIONS WELCOME (910) 858-2545 Delray Beach, FL Hunter/Jumper/Dressage/Western [email protected] www.northstarequine.com Jane Fennessy – (561) 451-7900 Boarding/Training/Showing/ Vinissa Blann – (561) 715-4435 Lessons/Sales Tricia Loftus – (954) 650-8945 (772)-781-5429 www.carriagehillfarms.com www.sunlightranch.com

CINDY REDDISH QUARTER SUNSHINE MEADOWS HORSES/SAVANNAH PINES EQUESTRIAN VILLAGE EQUESTRIAN CENTER Hunter/Jumper/Dressage & Pleasure Sales - Lessons 6 rings w/ jumps, 2 Dressage rings, 6984 S.W. Busch St., Palm City, FL 1 mirrored. Boarding & Training Training Cindy - (772) 283-6189 170 acres in Delray Beach, FL Boarding Lisa - (772) 260-5540 (561) 441-2596 www.sunshinemeadows441.com EDGELEA EQUESTRIAN CENTER THE GOOD EARTH FARM Suzanne Carroll Nancy Fried Tobin Ocala, Florida Reiki Practioner/Animal Communicator Certified Exp. Instruction Full Board-Hunter-Jumper-Dressage Quality Hunter, Dressage, Event Riding School 3 yrs. and up Horses and Ponies Ponies and Horses for sale 2141 “B” Road, Loxahatchee, FL (352) 484-1049 [email protected] www.edgeleastables.com (561) 792-2666 www.goodearthfarm.info EL CAZADOR EQUESTRIAN CENTER GEORGIA Lesley Cox – Seminole, FL Hunter/Jumper Training and Showing NEW VINTAGE FARM (813) 416-0986 [email protected] Julie Curtin – Trainer/Rider www.elcazadorec.com Hunter/Jumper/Equitation Training/Boarding/Sales HORSES FOREVER FARM 2625 Cox Road, Woodstock, GA 30188 Carlos Aquirre/Maria Lithander Barn: (770) 926-0833 Wellington – (561) 644-6349 Mobile (770) 329-5765 www.newvintagefarm.com 124 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE REAL ESTATE DIRECTORY Go to www.sidelinesnews.com for active links to realtor websites as shown below. FLORIDA MARY ELLEN SENCER OFFUTT REALTY, INC. NORTH CAROLINA Broker/Owner Saddle Trail Realty Located 5 minutes from Luxury & Equestrian Property The AMAZING EQUESTRIAN (561) 512-4340 - Wellington, FL (859) 421-5222 CAROLINA HORSE FARMS PROPERTIES - Florida USA www.saddletrailrealty.com www.offuttrealty.com Sheelah Clarkson (828) 694-1558 Destiny International Properties, Inc, www.sheelahclarkson.com 24 hours a day 7 days a week MARYSUE JACOBS NEW YORK (561) 791-2501 Broker-Private Services VIRGINIA Destiny International Properties Equestrian, International, SALLY SLATER - NY & CT BROWNING REALTY, INT’L. Prud. Douglas Elliman RE ROBIN SHORT, REALTOR Eike & Randy Browning Land, Estates, Development Bedford thru N. Salem & Vic. Lisc. Broker in Northern Virginia Call (561) 791-2151, 358-2266 (561) 791-2501 Equestrian Properties (703) 728-2172 Email: [email protected] [email protected] (914) 584 0137 www.robinshort.com www.palmbeachpolo-properties.com [email protected] MATT JOHNSON, REALTOR CAROL O’BRIEN, P.A. Equestrian Specialist To advertise your Firm Illustrated Properties, Wellington TERI POWERS, CRS, GRI Keller Williams Realty, Wellington Keller Williams Realty in the Real Estate (561) 758-8593 (561) 795-3013 [email protected] Equestrian Property Specialist [email protected] www.mattsells.com Serving Orange County, NY Directory call www.carolobrien.com (845) 258-8312 [email protected] Melissa Burns PALM BEACH POLO REALTY www.farmsrus.net (561) 951-4225 or email DESTINY INTERNATIONAL Phone: (561) 798-7110 Wellington, Florida Email: [email protected] melissab@sidelinesnews. Estate Homes, Equestrian, Land www.palmbeachpolo.com com 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days (561) 791-2501 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Equestrian and Residential DIANA TASHMAN, L.L.C. Experienced – Licensed - Insured The Tashman Group Wellington, FL - Saddle Trail Realty Keller Williams Realty Dug Hunt and Mary Ellen Sencer TACK & FEED SHOP of the Palm Beaches (561) 512-4340 (561) 346-7955 www.saddletrailwellington.com [email protected] DIRECTORY Go to www.sidelinesnews.com for active links to tack ROBERT ROSS & feed shop websites as shown below. THE ELEBASH COMPANY Equestrian Real Estate Pamela Surtees Keller Williams Realty-Wellington CANADA THE TACKERIA Serving Wellington and Phone: (561) 758-6185 13501 South Shore Blvd., Palm Beach for 23 years Email: [email protected] Suite 107 (561) 371-7176 RUNNING FOX EQUESTRIAN Wellington, FL 33414 [email protected] SCOTT BRITAN PRODUCTS, INC. (561) 793-2012 Illustrated Properties 19815 Airport Road (800) 882-7656 Wellington, FL Caledon, Ontario, L7K A01 [email protected] EQUESTRIAN PROPERTIES www.tackeria.com Karen Connelly Member of the Florida Bar Luc Childeric - Hunter/Jumper Dale Lawler Phone: (561) 801-2633 & Dressage, Dy’on bridlework - finest Let the experts handle your [email protected] Sedgewick leather, Wildkart stirrup irons SILVER SPUR real estate needs. Toll Free: 1 (888) 387-8225 www.runningfox.com EQUESTRIAN, INC. (561) 227-1535 New & Used Equestrian Supplies, equestrianpropertiesinc.com KENTUCKY Tack, Clothing, Bits, & Repair. FLORIDA “Your One Stop Discount Shop” HOLLY ANN CHANEY BIEDERMAN REAL ESTATE 160 Business Park Way, Suite 2 Boca Executive Realty, L.L.C. KY Equestrian Properties Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 (561) 719-0828 (859) 277-2030 C. M. HADFIELD’S Cris - (561) 798-6651 [email protected] www.biedermanbrokerage.com SADDLERY Specializing in English Bridlework BLUEGRASS SOTHEBY’S and Clothing - Mon - Fri 9 - 5 MINNESOTA JOAN “NAPPY” TRANTER 300 Business Park Way, Suite B-100 Keller Williams Realty, Wellington INTERNATIONAL REALTY Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 HARTLEY WOODWARD, INC. Cell (561) 758-8321 Linda & Chris Willson (800) 854-RIDE (561) 793-2947 nappytranter.com Lexington, Kentucky 5159 Main Street East, Suite 110 [email protected] Maple Plain, MN 55359-0187 (859) 338-7925 www.hadfieldssaddlery.com homesandhorsefarmsky.com Fine English Tack, Apparel & Accessories LAURA O’CONNOR Phone – (763) 479-0222 Equestrian Specialist JC WESTERN SUPPLY www.hartleywoodward.net Keyes Realty - Wellington CENTRAL KENTUCKY’S English & (561) 252-4992 MOST RESPECTED FARM Boots & Apparel [email protected] BROKER Jupiter, FL (561) 748-8801 Kirkpatrick & Company WPB, FL (561) 684-7331 MARTHA W. JOLICOEUR, P.A. (859) 231-8444 jcwesternwear.com Illustrated Properties, Wellington, FL www.kirkfarms.com Phone: (561) 797-8040 Email: [email protected] To advertise your Store in the Tack & www.marthasproperties.com JUSTICE REAL ESTATE (859) 255-3657 Feed Directory call Joyce Jones www.kyhorsefarms.com (954) 796-1809 or email [email protected] FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 125 EQUESTRIAN SERVICES Go to www.sidelinesnews.com for active links to equestrian services websites as shown below. ALTERNATIVE CUSTOM BARN HOOF CARE/ INTERIOR DESIGN HEALTH DOORS AND GRILLS FARRIER SUPPLIES LORRIE BROWNE INTERIORS Serving Equestrian & Seasonal Clients NAN E. MARTIN, LSH BARNWARE® VISBY PRODUCTS in Wellington, FL for the last 15 Years. Solutions for Animals & Humans Custom Entrance/Stall Doors & Grills No Hoof, No Horse Office – (561) 791-8585 Intuitive - Raindrop Technique (910) 944-8110 Distributor of Hoof Power www.lb-interiors.com Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils www.barnware.com Rasps, Tools, and all Equine Sales & Training your hoof care needs (561) 315-6334 Wellington, FL (561) 965-9602 www.experience-essential-oils.com I D L E W I L D ® JUMPS Classic barn stalls, doors and gates Custom Woodwork/Furniture Southshore & Pierson, Wellington HORSE JUMPS WEST ARENA FOOTING (561) 793-1970 Largest Selection in N. America [email protected] TRANSPORTATION (866) 389-0018 [email protected] GGT-FOOTING(tm) www.jumpswest.com “THE ART OF GREAT FOOTING” BROOK LEDGE (864) 804-0011 EQUINE SAFETY HORSE TRANSPORT www.ggt-footing.com Trips 3-4x up and down East PSYCHOTHERAPY KEEPING HORSES SAFE Coast weekly, 3-4x weekly to KY and back, Trips to CA, 48 states AND SOUND - (561) 202-5063 & all CND Provinces. Insured, EQUESTRIAN COUNSELING ATTORNEYS www.horsesafetyfirst.com Licensed, DOT. Custom built vans, SERVICES air ride, video monitoring. 2 drivers Counseling for “Horse People” by a CHANDLER R. FINLEY, ESQ. EQUINE THERAPY Ea trip. Specializing in horse shows, Licensed psychotherapist and “Horse Immigration, Corp., Real Estate Barn moves, airport, racetrack, Person.” Helping horse people and Contract Privates, Entire vans or LTL. Overcome Anxiety, Depression, (561) 478-9930 or (305) 379-7676 EQUINE HYPERBARIC (800) 523-8143 Relational Conflict, Addictions, CENTER OF www.brookledge.com Substance Abuse, Adjustment Disorders, BREEDING SOUTH FLORIDA Transitional Issues and more. Hyperbaric Oxygen is an (561) 791-8939 SERVICES Adjunctive Treatment to your HORSE www.sagrising.com/ecs Medical and Surgical Treatments TRANSPORTATION AMETHYST ACRES 1630 F Road, Loxahatchee, FL 33470 (561) 319-2557 INTERNATIONAL SADDLE FITTING EQUINE CENTER equinehyperbariccenter.com Stallion Collection, Cooling & Freezing SERVICE Artificial Insemination, Assisted Foaling LAZCAR (540) 254-1017 FENCES INTERNATIONAL, INC. SCHLEESE SADDLERY www.amethystacres.com International Horse Air Transportation First Class Worldwide & Domestic SERVICE The Premier Female Saddle Specialist! Transport. Scheduled weekly flights CHIME BELL FENCING Adjustable saddles custom fit to you to and from Europe, CEM QUARANTINE Fencing, Round-Pens, Run-In Sheds and your horse in motion. and all other destinations worldwide. Fast, dependable, professional work Ride Pain Free. IMPORT/EXPORT When Quality and Service Counts. Aiken, SC only For You. For Your Horse. TOLL FREE 1 (866) 4-LAZCAR James McCarthy 1-800-225-2242 ALL INCLUSIVE, We work with Ph (305) 223-2162 Fax (305) 227-2141 (803) 617-8744 www.schleese.com all shipping companies, breeds, www.lazcar.com disciplines, states and countries. www.saddlesforwomen.com Import and Export is all we do. FLORIST (740) 809-8180 THE DUTTA CORPORATION International Horse Air Transport www.bluediamondstables.com To Advertise your WELLINGTON FLORIST, INC. Scheduled weekly flights to & from #1 Florist 15 years in a Row Europe. 104 Titicus Road, Suite G Service in the CHIROPRACTIC 13889 Wellington Trace North Salem, NY 10560 Equestrian Services Wellington (WPB), FL 33414 (914) 276-3880 Fax (914) 276-3883 (800) 226-9299 or (561) 795-9299 Directory call DR. BEVERLY GORDON www.wellingtonflorist.com Chiropractic Consultant/Licensed Human HYPNOSIS/NLP Joyce Jones & AVCA Certified Animal Chiropractor Movement assessment and performance FLY & MOSQUITO LIFE COACH (954) 796-1809 enhancement. Practice limited to horses. or email Oyster Bay, NY Wellington, FL CONTROL (516) 606-4141 LAURA BOYNTON KING, [email protected] [email protected] C.H.T., N.L.P, Performance Coach DIPTERA Certified Sports Hypnotherapist Botanical Insecticide (561) 841-7603 www.lauraking.net Barn & Backyard Bliss Fly & Mosquito Control Systems (561) 329-8227 (561) 798-6801

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2211 BARNS FOR RENT BREEDING SERVICES SADDLE TRAIL 8-12 stalls. Private 8-stall wing Do you have a plan? Concerned about the with available 4 additional stalls. Professional CLONING—Want a horse just like yours? economy? Want to look younger and feel style barn Close to WEF Cloning produces an exact genetic copy. For better? For more Information call or email MALLET HILL 6-7 stalls close and beautiful. more info; [email protected] or 908- Joyce at 954-796-1809 or [email protected] PALM BEACH POINT EAST 16 stalls complete 310-2125 MA03 facility and close to show grounds - Nike footing. M232 RETREAT - Key West style 4-stall barn, great turnout, tidy grooms quarters. Maria Mendelsohn Coldwell Bankers 561-758- DOMESTIC STAFFING AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION 1605 NV 29 SERVICES

WELLINGTON TOWNCAR & CAB WELLINGTON – 3-minute walk to North WEF SPECIALIZING IN COUPLES – Providing 561-333-0181 show grounds. Center aisle barn, paddocks, domestics of distinction to those discerning Airport Transportation Service wash racks, sand ring. BR & Grooms quarters. individuals who have come to expect THE VERY www.wellingtontowncar.com Seasonal, monthly, weekly. 630-728-2875, BEST. We offer a variety of staffing services. ON TIME –EVERY TIME!! JL01 [email protected] NV06 Florida’s oldest and most reliable Domestic Agency with over 87 years experience. Allied LOXAHATCHEE, 6-8 stall barn for lease. Employment staffs local, statewide, national $150.00 to $200.00 per stall. Quality 10 acre and Europe plus the Islands. Allied Employment BARN DESIGN & facility. Full care available. 561-716-5552. Domestics 561-882-4244 email kgm007@ CONSTRUCTION NV07 comcast.net www.alliedemploymentagency.com AP02 5 STAR BUILDERS SPECIALIZES IN CONSTRUCTION = of stables with living BARN AND HOUSE RENTALS quarters throughout western Palm Beach EMPLOYMENT County. Our team of highly specialized WELLINGTON RENTALS, BARNS AND WANTED: Agent/Driver for Wellington, Fla. craftsmen will design, schedule, build and finish HOUSING - Call Now Nancy Bulls Westwind Based Horse Transportation Operation CDL a legacy stable for your property, horses and Realty LLC 561-635-9297 cell nancybulls@ Required Call: (954) 448-1044 A206 trainers. Please call us at 561-795-1282 MA01 yahoo.com FE3

WELLINGTON – 24 STALL BARN; 2 Tack Rooms/Office (12’ x 24’ each), Grass Field, 250’ HORSES FOR SALE BARN RENTALS x 300’, 8 paddocks, Sand Ring, 150 ‘ x 240’, DENT FAMILY MINIATURE HORSE RANCH WELLINGTON - FIRST CLASS 10 STALL 1100 sq. ft. house, Wash Rack, Laundry Room, – Over 55 years, Same location. Photos and BARN FOR RENT - on 2.3 acres, Groom’s 8/10 mile from Littlewood Show Grounds. Call videos of “For Sale Horses” at; quarters, on . Call (561) 801- (954) 448-1044 O810 www.dentranch.com FE4 2633 or Email: [email protected] JA01 DAVIDHOPPERINC – Amenia, New York BOARDING AND TURNOUT 12501. Outstanding selection of sport horses- AMAZING SELECTION OF WELLINGTON from unbroken to competition ready. Hunters, RENTALS – FOR SALE BARNS, HOUSES & AIKEN, SC - Large grassy pastures with Jumpers, Dressage, Equitation. All prices, CONDOS. Saddle Trail Realty, LLC Mary Ellen trees for shade. $200/mo first horse and $150 ranges. David Hopper. Cell: 914-474-7175. Sencer 561-512-4340 saddletrailsrealty@ additional. Will check on horses daily and refill Barn: 845-373-8897. www.davidhopperinc.com gmail.com SE05 water trough. 803 257-7407 JN27 FE5 VERY PRIVATE TWO-STALL BARN - With 1.5 acres of shaded turn out. 10 minute to show grounds. Includes tack room, feed room, HORSES WANTED two large stalls, two large turn out paddocks. Available for immediate occupancy. Seasonal EQUESTRIAN COLLEGE RECRUITER or year round. Home 561-790-7163, LLC - is looking for some nice school horses Cell 561-379-3126 AP01 that are serviceably sound. These horses can compete on the flat through jumping 3’6”. Many LEXINGTON KY. – 7 miles to Horse Park. colleges are looking for mounts to replace some 19-acre, 15 stalls (all 12 x 12 rubber-matted) Missed the of their school horses that are retiring. I have horse farm. Irrigated ring with jumps, 11 large placed about 8 horses in the last few months. paddocks, washer /dryer, tractor, drag and You get the satisfaction of finding your horse a spreader included. Grooms quarters and 7 deadline? new home where he will be well cared for and camper hook-ups available on site. Otis Brown You can advertise on loved and you may qualify for a tax write off. – Brass Lantern Farm 859-361-4440 JA06 This is a free service and colleges are anxiously the website waiting on some new arrivals. Please visit www. EquestrianCollegeRecruiter.com and click on Email: Classifieds@ the donation link. JN28I NEXT ISSUE 4/16 sidelinesnews.com DEADLINE 3/25 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 127 SIDELINES’ CLASSIFIEDS

JEWELRY LOXAHATCHEE, FLORIDA – 5.41 acres in El PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Rancho Waite, beautiful private equestrian residential area, off Seminole Pratt Road. Pines, NEED HELP WITH YOUR PROPERTY WHILE pond, well, septic, electric, survey. $189,900. YOU’RE AWAY? – E. Williams & Associates Sailfish Properties 561-967-5512 kelly.dace@ checks your property, provides housekeeping gmail.com AP04 and all services for Polo/Equestrian homeowners since 1984 www.ewilliamsassociates.com 561- SADDLE TRAIL LAND- JUST REDUCED 791-7667 FE8 -This is the only parcel in Saddle Trail Park currently offered for sale. It is high and dry and completely fenced. This is an exceptional lot backed by a canal and the bridle trail, just a PUPPIES FOR SALE 7 min. hack to WEF. Call Now! Mary Ellen Sencer 561 512 4340 Saddle Trail Realty. LLC [email protected] FE7

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BEAUTIFUL REGISTERED CAIRN TERRIER PUPPIES for sale located in Aiken, SC. Please email for more information and pictures [email protected] JA16

REAL ESTATE AMAZING SELECTION OF WELLINGTON L’IL DECO - SPORT PONY - PROPERTIES – FOR SALE- BARNS, 2nd Generation Art Deco - Pinto, Oldenburg/ HOUSES & CONDOS Saddle Trail Realty, Shetland cross, 14.1hh Gelding currently LLC Mary Ellen Sencer 561-512-4340 training and showing in multiple disciplines - [email protected] AP10 Dressage, Eventing, Hunter/Jumper and Fox J R JEWELS - EMERALDS – Specializing in Hunting. He sails over 2’9” hunter course jumps EQUINE PROPERTY - 5 bedroom 5 full baths High Quality “One of a Kind” Custom Equestrian with great endurance and accuracy. Foaled 2 1/2 bath home on 50 acres built aprox 1998 5 Jewelry and Sculptures. Columbian Emeralds - February, 2004. Flashy, kind pony with beautiful stall barn with work shop/ tack room additional Diamonds and Precious Stones. Repairs 3755 markings: a Medicine Hat, natural eye tattoo out buildings 2 bedroom caretaker apt above Military Trail 5A. Jupiter FL. 33458 Call toll and white eyelashes! Price $7,500. Call (828) the barn. Pool, 2 acre stocked fish pond, hot free 1-800-840-6828 “Your imagination is our 808-1040 or email: [email protected] tub exercise room 3 stories with all the stuff creation, so dream on.” AP03 JA15 you want to live the life. Dexter Michigan aprox 15 minutes from University of Michigan in Ann SUPER FUN PONY FOR SALE! Welsh Arbor. 1.2 mil firm price reduced from 1.8 Call LAND FOR SALE cross, 15, 14 H, chestnut with star, strip, snip 810 923 6199 or inquire [email protected] and flaxen /tail. Has done hunters, FE9 jumpers, police , parades, trails 5 BEAUTIFUL ACRES - in Suwannee and Pony Club. Travels great. Will work for short County, FL near Live Oak with quick access CUSTOM HOME IN PRISTINE EAST AIKEN stirrup, older children or small adult. Approved to Gainesville. Rolling land with beautiful SETTING – 182.1 acres w/ approx. 100 acres home only. (IN) 260-468-2392 or hardwoods. Secluded and perfect for your of Coastal Bermuda pasture. Gated entrance, [email protected] , $2,800. JA10 dream home and horses. High and dry. New three wells. 40x52 shop w/concrete floor& Survey included. $55,000. Owner financing if electricity. Luxury 2787 SF gourmet kitchen qualified. Email: [email protected] or call w/granite counters & lighted custom cabinetry, (803) 466-7399 or (803) 685-5902. M216 hardwood floors, archways, Palladian windows, custom ceiling features. MB with marble floors. Your ideal horse farm in this one of a AIKEN, SC - HATCHAWAY BRIDGE FARMS. List your ad on the kind setting. $1,200,000.00 Meybohm Per acre prices just lowered on some lots. Realtors: David Stinson 803-640-0123 or From $19/ac……OWNER FINANCING George Fansmith 803-617-8038 AP05 AVAILABLE…Beautiful high end equestrian Barn Book development with four large gorgeous properties CALL SUZY HASLUP – A leading agent for all already built. Fabulous riding facilities in friendly website www.thebarnbook.com - your equestrian needs. Specializing in AIKEN, community. All horse people. Trails, jump fields S.C. Short term rentals, purchases and sales. and dressage ring 803-257-7407 N40 Visit www.aikenhorserealty.com or call 803-215- Free classifieds 0153 AP06

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87-ACRE HORSE FARM NEAR OCALA FL. PADDOCK PARK 11- REDUCED $800K- A TRANSPORTATION – 5156 sq. ft. main residence w pool. 3 barns, magnificent 4 bed 3 1/2 bath 4200 sq. ft. estate. Euro ciser, breeding shed, storage shed and this home is 5 yrs. old and is in flawless condition. track. 2 manufactured homes + grooms apt. See the virtual tour on utube 1721 Clydesdale Stephynie Pegram, Coldwell Banker, Camelot Ave, Wellington Fl. Adjacent lot also for sale. Realty 407-922-6053 AP07 Call for info! Mary Ellen Sencer 561-512-4340 Saddle Trail Realty, LLC saddletrailsrealty@ CYPRESS TRAILS ESTATE HOME FOR gmail.com FE13 SALE- Mint condition custom-built home on 1/2 acre private lot has 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2.5 FINE HOMES AND HORSE PROPERTIES garage, a screened heated pool, huge patio, - available at Aiken, South Carolina’s many upgrades, 2800 sq. ft. under air, and so oldest sporting community. Call or email much more! Close to Wellington, conveniently Courtney Conger, Carolina Company Real located to Equestrian facilities and priced to sell Estate Company, (800) 880-0108. E-mail at $375,000. Normal sale, can close quickly! [email protected] Web Call Pierrette Lagor, Realty Associates Florida Page: www.carolinahorseproperties.com JL04 Properties at 561-254-2368 for appointment to see. Easy to show! (MLS# R3171704) AP08

PALM BEACH FARMS – 4/2/2 Updated RENTALS screened pool home with 1/1 guest cottage on AIKEN, SC - 2/1 lovely barn apartment with 4 acres, pond, gated and fenced. $687K. 6 stalls and turnout also available. Seasonal and contiguous cleared acres also available. Zoned weekly or weekend prices…call 803 649-6989 Ag. NO HOA. Call; Walt Haniak 561-512-4751 STREAMLINER DELUXE 8 HORSE, 54k mi, NV21 K/W Realty MA05 kept in barn, absolutely beautiful, only $49K, possible financing, for more pictures and info; FOR RENT: JUDY ROSSI, KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY [email protected] 954/816-5993. FE22 FOOL’S COTTAGE: Quaint downtown cottage, WELLINGTON - Equestrian, residential, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, open floor plan all renovated rentals, investment properties. Cell: 1-561-985- with hardwood floors and granite counter tops. 4466 Email: [email protected] Big picket fenced yard on quiet downtown street. FARMINGTON GREEN HORSE website: www.judyrossi.com MA06 $1,500/mo Furnished and utilities included 803 TRANSPORTATION - (561) 791-9686; Cell No. 649-6989 [email protected] (954) 448-1044 D. O. T. Authorized and Fully www.horsefarmsandcountryhomes.com Reduced to $1,200/mo long term without utilites Insured Air Ride Equipped, Local and Long CINDY POLK & DAVID O’FLAHERTY. MA09 Distance. O854 REALTORS - Specializing in horse farms and country homes. *Land * Huntboxes * Hobby EFFICIENCY – Fully furnished, full kitchen, TV/ Farms * Polo Clubs * Fine Estates * Professional Satellite. W/D. Private entrance. NO SMOKE- Equestrian Facilities* Armfield, Miller & Ripley VANS & TRAILERS NO PETS. $700.00 INCLUDES ALL. 561-632- Fine Properties LLC 204 East Washington St. 0464 561-790-0857 AP09 Middleburg, Va. 20117 703-966-9480 MA07

CONCORD, MA-RIVERFRONT FARM, Premier equestrian property for sale. $8,500,000, TRAINERS Ginette Brockway, Keller Williams Realty, 978- 621-4370. www.homesandhorses.com. FE10 SUZANNE LA PORTE – DRESSAGE; Seasonal training in Loxahatchee, FL. 561-909-8163 or FARMS FOR SALE -JUPITER HORSE 561-644-7543 JA08 FARM, 8.2 acres, 5-stall barn, tack room, large paddocks, auto waterers, plus a 3 bedroom TEAMWORKDRESSAGEINC. = CARING home, with large garage and parking for a motor PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE home. $595,000 Pamela B. Coffey J/T Brokers Customized Training Programs for All Levels. FRANK DIBELLA DELUXE HORSE Group, Inc. 1-800-741-4848 x308 Board and Training multiple options. Trailer- VANS – New /used horse vans & trailers [email protected] FE11 in-Lessons Welcome. FEI Schoolmasters 2-15 horse. 4-Star, Hawk & Kingston Available. Select Quality Dressage Horse Dealer. (PA) 610/495-2270 Sales. Clinics. High Performance Libby & Jules 35 ACRE HORSE RANCH, DARLINGTON www.frankdibella.com FE 23 SC - 2461 sq ft home with wrap around porch Anderson. Jupiter, FL. Cell: 202-213-3191 overlooking pastures. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, E-mail: teamworkdressage@verizon swimming pool with bath house, 15 acre www.teamworkdressage.com NV24 fenced hay field, stocked pond, 100’ x 200’ lighted arena with irrigation and round pin, 8’ TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD: The cost is $40 for the first 20 words and $1 for each x 24’ concession stand, announcers booth/ additional word per issue. $15.00 for each photo. Name, address, phone number, how registration, bathrooms, 14 stalls with turn outs, many issues to run ad and payment (check or credit card number & expiration date) tack rooms, trailer and camper hook ups, 30’ must be included with typed or handwritten ad. Mail to Sidelines, Inc., 11924 Forest x 80’ tractor barn with heated/cooled rec room Hill Blvd., Suite 22 #376, Wellington, FL 33414, Email to classifieds@sidelinesnews. with half bath, 20’ x 90’ hay shed with double com Credit card number, full name and signature must accompany any ad taken by enclosed garage, 40’ x 30’ utility barn with garage - Truly a spectacular piece of property mail or phone 561-798-4828. ALL ADS ARE PRE-PAID. Advertising deadline is 12:00 with endless possibilities! Contact Teleaha pm Wednesday, 17 days before publication. Not responsible for mistakes due to illeg- Rowell 843-230-4149 FE12 ible handwriting. Phone 561-798-4828