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FREE REINING HH00rrssee RReevviieeww Vol. 25 • No. 12 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 AUGUST 2015 2. August, 2015 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview.com ON THE C OVER : Starpion N Stars, shown by Lowanda McDowell of Ashe - boro, NC, shows his precision turn on the haunches in the Am - HHoorrssee RReevviieeww august 2015 ateur Ranch Riding class on Saturday, July 18 at the Palomino Equus Charta, LLC World Championship Show, Tunica, Mississippi. Copyright 2014 ConTenTs • v ol . 25 • n o. 12 ( Nancy Brannon photo ) 6220 Greenlee #4 LOVE FOR HORSES -- It’s what makes the Horse Review the Horse Review P.o. box 594 arlington, Tn 38002-0594 901-867-1755 PuBLISHER & E DITOR : Tom & Dr. Nancy Brannon STAFF : Andrea gilbert gRAPHIC DESIgN : Melissa Frame WEBSITE : www.midsouthhorsereview.com E- MAIL : midsouthhorsereview@ yahoo.com or [email protected] RL A Sudden Kiss with his interesting mane braid at the There were plenty of handsome Palominos at the PHBA WTQHA show in Memphis, TN. ( Nancy Brannon photos ) World Championship Show in Tunica, MS. 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August, 2015 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview. com 2015 pan american games Dressage The u.s. equestrian teams got off to a great start at the 2015 Pan am Games, held July 10-26 in Toronto, Canada. on saturday July 11, the u.s. team took the lead from the outset of the team competition and held on for gold. u.s. team member steffen Peters posted the biggest Grand Steffen Peters and Legolas 92 Prix score of the day with legolas at 77.240%, and when (FEI/StockImageServices.com ) added to laura Graves’ 75.080% with verdades and kim - uS gold Medal Team: Kimberley Herslow, Steffen berly herslow’s 75.184% in the Prix st George, the first- (414.89). Peters, Sabine Schut-Kery and Laura graves on the day u.s. tally was 230.504. Peters scored 72.66% in the The intermediare i and Grand Prix freestyles were held podium at the OLg Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park Grand Prix special on legolas 92. on Tuesday, July 14. at the Toronto 2015 Pan American games in Caledon, on sunday July 12, the u.s. team was again on the us Chef d’equipe, robert dover, said his team’s great Ontario, Canada. ( FEI/StockImageServices.com ) gold medal podium, with u.s. rider laura Graves earning result “showed that our small Tour horses are beautifully the gold medal this day. Graves rode verdades to her best trained and our big Tour combinations showed why they silver - Canada 454.938: Zilverstar (Chris von mar - Grand Prix special score ever: 77.17%. u.s. Team mem - are ranked seventh and eighth in the world right now. tels) 75.026/76.210, brittany fraser (all in) bers kimberly herslow and rosmarin earned their per - what could be better for a Chef d’equipe than to bring a 76.105/76.079, Caravella (megan lane) 72.400/72.892, sonal best score in the intermediare i with 77.15%. sabine team and have them earn personal bests at a very impor - belinda Trussell (anton) 74.940/76.578 schut-kery earned a score of 73.55% on sanceo. Three tant moment. having earned qualification for the olympic bronZe - brazil 414.895: di Caprio (leandro da scores from each team were taken into account, so sabine Games, it allows us to now focus and put our energy into silva) 69.474/69.026, sarah waddell) 65.632/67.184, schut-kery and sanceo’s 71.790 in the Prix st George preparing for rio (2016 olympic Games).” Xama dos Pinhais (Joao victor marcari oliva) was the team discard. Results : 69.184/69.211, veleiro do Top (Joao Paolo dos sanctos) The us dressage riders—steffen Peters, kimberly Teams : Gold - usa 460.506: sanceo (sabine schut- 67.842/70.158 herslow, laura Graves and sabine schut-kery—won the kery) 71.790;73.553, rosmarin (kimberly herslow) Individual : Gold - legolas 92 (steffen Peters) usa team competition on a combined score of 460.50. Canada 75.184/77.158, verdades (laura Graves) 76.580/78.677, 80.075; silver - verdades (laura Graves) usa 79.825; won silver with 454.93 points, and brazil earned bronze legolas 92 (steffen Peters) 71.790/72.667 bronZe - Zilverstar (Chris von martels) Can 79.500. August Specials STEWART BROTHERS offers valid through August 31, 2015 HARDWARE CO. 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Eventing by Louise Parkes america scooped both the team and individual titles as eventing came to a close July 19, 2015 at the Pan-amer - ican Games 2015 in Caledon Park, Toronto, Canada. al - ways with their eyes on the target of that single qualifying spot for the rio 2016 olympic Games, Philip dutton, lauren kieffer, marilyn little and boyd martin forged a marginal lead over the host country in dressage on friday. and, once out in front, they held on tight to triumph ahead of brazil, while Canada had to settle for bronze. marilyn little took the individual title in fine style. Individual gold Medalist Eventing: Marilyn Little lying second, and less than a fence behind brazil’s ruy gold Medal Eventing Team on the podium for uSA, (uSA) and RF Scandalous at Caledon Equestrian fonseca, who led from the outset with Tom bombadill Marilyn Little, Boyd Martin, Phillip Dutton and Lau - Park Cross-Country Centre ( Pic Stock Image Services ) Too, the 33-year-old former Jumper rider kept a cool head ren Kieffer at the OLg Caledon Pan Am Equestrian to stay clear with her relatively inexperienced mare rf Park. (Pic Stock Image Services ) scandalous. The 2011 Pan-american eventing individ - bronZe - Canada 163.00: let it bee (kathryn robin - ual champions Jessica Phoenix and Pavarotti from son) 1,000, Pavarotti (Jessica phoenix) 42.10, Qorry blue Canada claimed silver this time around when fonseca’s Jumping phase d?argouges (Colleen loach) 51.80, bill owen (waylon single error dropped him to the bronze medal spot. as the final Jumping phase got underway on sunday, roberts) 69.10. a total of 11 nations lined out in the team competition, July 19, Team usa had less than a fence in hand over the Individual : Gold - rf scandalous (marilyn little) and ecuador, Chile and mexico were lying fourth, fifth brazilians, while the Canadians were more than 20 penal - usa 40.30; silver - Pavarotti (Jessica Phoenix) Can and sixth after the dressage phase. The usa had only a ties further adrift. america’s martin (Pancho villa) and 42.10; bronZe - Tom bombadill Too (ruy fonseca) slender 0.7 point lead over Canada going into cross-coun - kieffer (meadowbrooks scarlett) kept a clean sheet once bra 42.90. try day, and brazil was chasing hard with only three again, but when Philip dutton’s fernhill fugitive col - marks further adrift at this stage.