Polo's Bands of Brothers for the Love of Horses Nick Haness Is Riding High
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www.sidelinesnews.com HUNTER/JUMPER • POLO • DRESSAGE • EVENTING ©Sidelines, Inc., 2011$4.00 All Rights Reserved For Horse People About Horse People April 2011 Polo’s Bands of Brothers For the Love of Horses Nick Haness is Riding High FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 1 2 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE What’s Happenin’ Incorporating I 120 30 Ingate HORSES USA 96 Off Centerline PUBLISHER Samantha Charles 116 Asides [email protected] 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 Horse Show 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 - Sports 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 Equitation Challenge Outside US 1-803-685-5247 [email protected] Foxhunting PUBLIC RELATIONS/DISTRIBUTION I Bill Tatgenhorst 16 Clementine was the Quintessential Field Hunter [email protected] 20 Five Questions for Huntsman Claire Buchy- 104 ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION Anderson and Kennel Huntsman Chip Anderson MANAgER N Stan Johansen Polo AD DESIgN 102 Five Questions for Jason Crowder Cris David [email protected] E 104 Bands of Brothers SIDELINES, INC. 108 A Name of His Own: Weston Gracida 12400 A South Shore Blvd 110 The Story of La Fortuna Wellington, FL 33414 112 Polo Hall of Fame Welcomes Inductees FL Office (561) 790-6506 S 114 High Season for Juniors at Eldorado Polo Club Subscription Rates U.S. and Possessions: $29.95 Departments Directories Canada $39.95 90 Stallions Foreign except Canada $49.95 4 Letter from the Editor 122 Polo Clubs Across America WebSite: www.sidelinesnews.com 6 Letters 122 Education SIDELINES (ISSN 1071-3859) is published 123 Farms, Barns, Trainers monthly for $29.95 per year by Sidelines, Inc. 24 Sports Psychology 12400 A South Shore Blvd., Wellington, FL 33414. 124 Real Estate Periodical postage paid at West Palm Beach, FL 82 Equine Law 124 Tack and Feed 33414 and at additional mailing offices 125 Equestrian Services POSTMASTER: Address changes should be 92 Needy Nags sent to 11924 Forest Hill Blvd Suite 22 #376 126 Classified Wellington, FL 33414. On The Cover ©Sidelines, Inc., 2011 All Rights Reserved Gonzalito Pieres takes a break between chukkers Photo by David Lominska FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES APRIL 2011 3 4 SIDELINES APRIL 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE 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 back 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 sport in a bit 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, Mannix, 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 ponies, 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.