Volume 2309 - September 2011 www.sidelinesnews.com HUNTER/JUMPER • POLO • DRESSAGE • EVENTING ©Sidelines, Inc., 2011 $4.00All Rights Reserved For Horse People About Horse People September 2011 Mystery Rider Tami Hoag Polo and The Prince FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 1 2 SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE What’s Happenin’ Incorporating I 30 Ingate HORSES USA 66 Off Centerline PUBLISHER Samantha Charles 80 Asides [email protected] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF N Cornelia Bernard Henderson Horse Show [email protected] 6 My Line 561-309-6636 20 Wellington’s Mason Phelps Spearheads STAFF WRITERS S Lauren Giannini, Jan Westmark - Allan, 28 National Horse Show Move to Kentucky Danika Rice 22 Five Questions for Hector Florentino CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 24 Scott Stewart Just Loves Showing Johnny Robb, Fred McWane, I Sydney Masters - Durieux, 62 28 Lake Placid Horse Shows Were a Sarah Ward Piece of Heaven in 2011 PHOTOGRAPHERS David Lominska, Jack Mancini , D 42 Competition Hot at Woodside Flashpoint, Alan Fabricant, Susan Stickle Lauren R. 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If you want your win so enjoyed this month’s cover story, Jan Westmark-Allan’s to be considered for the column, interview with Tami Hoag, who not only writes a cracking e-mail [email protected] good book, but is a very competitive dressage rider, who with a photo (permission from the competes at the very top levels of the sport. photographer required, so be sure Jan also did a husband-and-wife pair of interviews with you may use it editorially) and a Pierre and Samantha St Jacques, a duo that are both on brief paragraph about your win. top of their respective disciplines. Polo writer Danika Rice entertained us with the visit of There’s always a lot to read in Will and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they any issue of Sidelines, and this made their visit to Santa Barbara, and visited with Peter one is no exception. Whatever Brant, one of polo’s more colorful and controversial patrons. your discipline, I know you will find Lauren Giannini caught up with Scott Stewart, one of the some fascinating people to learn nicest guys in the horse show world – and leading hunter about in this month’s offering. rider almost every time he shows. Lauren also visited with Iroquois huntsman Lilla Mason who hunts – you guessed Until next month, it – her dressage horses. Contributor Laura Danowski introduces us to Brianne Link who has more circuit awards than years in the saddle, Cornelia Henderson and is definitely an up and coming young rider to watch. Sidelines is now available at Chapters/Indigo Bookstores in Canada FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 5 6 SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE M Dog Training’s Difficult; I’d Rather Ride! By Sarah Ward In fact, he was even afraid Y of cats! He had pretty When I started college, for the first time in my life I intense separation “issues” wasn’t surrounded by family and friends 24/7. In fact, I and would cry whenever I was lonely. Against my better judgment, and others as left him, even to go to the well, I decided to adopt a rescue. Mind you, not just any bathroom. That is, until he dog: I found myself a Coonhound! learned how to open the L I went to PetFinder.com and there was “Tommy.” He door so he could sit with was at a no-kill shelter just waiting for the right person to me. Awkward? Definitely! come along and give him his first forever home. And that When classes started I was me! I figured (logically) that the barn would be the back, our all-day outings perfect place for an “energetic, intelligent, and active” dog to the stable were a thing N that “requires plenty of exercise.” There was no doubt in of the past. Tommy had my mind that my new companion would be able to run-off to be alone in my small off any extra energy at the stable and come home happily campus apartment. When E exhausted. I didn’t know much about Tommy except that I’d returned to take him he was two years old and his ear had been bitten off while out, he’d drag me down the at a foster home. But it turns out I was the one who’d stairs, pulling the leash out of my grasp, and gallop off into the bitten off a little more than I could chew. distance. There was more than one kindly stranger who returned While these scent hounds are bred to hunt raccoons, my wayward dog. I had to do something; it was time for me (as possum, and even bobcats, Tommy was far from “typical.” Cesar Millan says) to become “pack-leader.” I did a lot of research on training methods, read advice from experts, watched videos, and talked to fellow dog owners. A “Dog Whisperer” I am not, and there was a lot of trial and error going on as well as a lot of people telling me that I was crazy (yes, well maybe sometimes just a little!)… Horses aren’t with you all day long, live in your house, bark or howl, and I don’t know of one that’s ever been potty trained. But I do know that to have successful partnerships with both equines and canines, it takes time, understanding and patience. Tommy and I have come a long way and he and I have made great steps together. He’s even learning (very, very slowly) to stop barking at the barn, but unfortunately he can’t always resist chasing the horses now and again. While he finds this tons of fun, I am quite sure that my mounts are not so amused. We now spend a lot of time playing together and when we can’t get to the barn, we head to the park. His anxiety attacks are gone; at home he relaxes by chewing away on his bone. No more crying or bathroom visits. Today it is rare to find me without my Crazy Coonhound, but from now on, I think I’ll leave the dog training the pros… horses are more my speed. FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 7 8 SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 9 10 SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 11 12 SIDELINES SEPTEMBER 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE E Five Questions for Samantha St Jacques V By Jan Westmark-Allan Samantha St Jacques and her horse Livewire were members of the 2008 Canadian Olympic Three E Day Eventing team, a feat most riders spend their lives dreaming about.