www.sidelinesnews.comVolume 2306 - June 2011 HUNTER/JUMPER • POLO • DRESSAGE • EVENTING ©Sidelines, Inc., 2011 $4.00All Rights Reserved For Horse People About Horse People June 2011 Horse Smart: You Can Ride at School! Mary King Rules Lechuza Wins the at Open Rolex FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES JUNE 2011 1 2 SIDELINES JUNE 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE What’s Happenin’ Incorporating I 38 30 Ingate HORSES USA PUBLISHER 70 Off Centerline Samantha Charles 84 Asides [email protected] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF N Cornelia Bernard Henderson Horse Show [email protected] 28 Five Questions for Lindsay Sceats 561-309-6636 38 On Course with Tori Corts STAFF WRITERS S Lauren Giannini, Jan Westmark - Allan, 40 Don’t Miss the Fieldstone Equestrian Danika Rice Summer Shows! 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Periodical postage paid at West Palm 68 Equine Law 92 Real Estate Beach, FL 33414 and at additional mailing 92 Tack and Feed offices 58 Sport Psychology 93 Equestrian Services POSTMASTER: Address changes should be 94 Classified sent to 11924 Forest Hill Blvd Suite 22 #376 80, 90, 91 Needy Nags Wellington, FL 33414. On The Cover: Junior rider Allison Toffolon and her hunter Carlsson ©Sidelines, Inc., 2011 All Rights Reserved Photo by Barbara Bower of www.barbarasvisions.com FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES JUNE 2011 3 4 SIDELINES JUNE 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE Of course, Jan Letter from the Editor visited with juniors, including this month’s There’s a lot going on in this issue. Where to begin? cover girl, Allison Rolex is a good place to start, and Lauren Giannini and Toffolon and Geoffrey Kim and Allan MacMillan were there, taking photos of it all Hesslink and did a as Mary King roared home not just in first place, but first Lighterside on “Miss and second in American’s only four star. The leader board June” a calendar was in constant flux, and if you, like me, followed it daily girl we can all relate on Lauren Gallops (www.sidelinesmagazine.,com/blog/ to. All this and more laurengallops) you felt like you were there with her. If you and a wedding, hadn’t discovered our blogs, well, it’s high time you did. We too? Hats off to Jan do have some fantastic bloggers: get to know them. for being Trophy Danika Rice wrapped up the USPA Open for us, and Wife and Queen of Alan Fabricant, too, the photos. We love polo especially Organization! since Sidelines got its start as a polo publication, and the There is more to Open is definitely the best tournament north of the equator. read, of course. I Congratulations to Victor Vargas and his Lechuza Caracas know you will find on their win. some great people This is also our education issue, with a focus on schools within these pages. and riding programs. I know you will enjoy reading about I especially enjoyed some educators who make the three Rs reading, ‘riting this issue with its last and riding. CJ Law is an amazing woman who’s coached minute excitement (Rolex finished only three days before the Mount Holyoke team for the past 27 years, and Bob we go to the printer… Lauren had a deadline for sure!) and Caccione’s incredible journey all began when he was a I’m sure you will find lots to enjoy when you come in from sophomore in college himself. This year Bob was named your ride. With the weather so nice, I expect this issue will the USEF/EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian of the Year. be what you’ll grab après barn chores. Jan Westmark got married (now Jan Westmark-Allan) but before she slipped on her wedding dress, she visited with Until next month! one of the most amazing women I’ve ever read about. Do not miss reading “The Inspirational Life of Lauren Barwick.” Cornelia Henderson FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES JUNE 2011 5 6 SIDELINES JUNE 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE F Five Questions for O John Xanthopoulos, MFH/Huntsman By Lauren R. Giannini Dr. John A. Xanthopoulos, X In 1973 John A. Xanthopoulos began his MFH/huntsman Treasure State lifelong involvement with the Intercollegiate Hunt, and Dancer, his paint/TB Horse Show Association. In 1974 he got hooked ex-racehorse mare H on foxhunting. When he joined the Department Photo by Christy Hayden/MT Shutterbug Photography LLC of Education at University of Montana Western in 2001, he launched his seventh IHSA team and continues to serve as its head coach. U John and his wife Susan, who rides and trains dressage horses, operate J & S Sporthorses, headquarters of the UMW Intercollegiate team N and Treasure State Hunt, founded by John in 2009. Their facility sets the stage annually for the UMW USEF horse show and three PHA T USEF/USHJA-rated hunter/jumper shows. It’s a good thing that John’s work is also his play. Sidelines: How did you start Montana’s first I foxhunt? JX: My love affair with hunting started on the East Coast. Once you do it, it’s like a terminal N disease: you can never get away from it. I worked as a professor of Education at the University of Montana Western and there was G no hunt, so I decided to start Treasure State Hunt. Joe Emily at Knoxville Hunt (WY) drafted you learn something new every day. our first six couple of foxhounds. Three extraordinary women have helped me: Lia Nagle, Caroline Bielser, and Sidelines: Who are two of your most favorite field hunters? Catherine Mee. JX: I’m a Thoroughbred man. Most of our school and hunt horses Paul Delaney, master of Grand Canyon Hounds, is the are ex-racehorses. I say most, because one of my favorites is MFHA’s Rocky Mountain regional director. He and his crew a Quarter Horse, 15 hands. Pete is a wonderful animal and he came up from Flagstaff for a week and hunted with us. very much is in tune to the hounds and my horn. He instinctively They saw our operation, inspected our facilities and I think comprehends and understands as well as sees the action, and he they couldn’t have been happier. We became a registered will take me places safely the way no other horse will. I think he’s hunt at the Masters of Foxhounds Association’s annual half-goat. The other good thing about Pete, at 15 hands, I can get meeting in January. on and off to get gates, etc, with ease. My other favorite is a paint Thoroughbred mare, about 16.3 Sidelines: Did you grow up with horses? hands, off the Idaho racetrack. Dancer has a heart that will never JX: I was born in Greece and grew up with donkeys. I quit. That horse amazes me when we go for long runs that she love donkeys. As a young Greek kid, especially back in the will keep up and maintain and sustain the pace with the hounds. ‘50s and ‘60s, donkeys were all over the place. They were That’s what I love about her. Out in the flat open range and in the prime movers and shakers – those animals did everything hills, she will give me 1,000 per cent of herself. in those days. I have no desire to hunt a donkey, but we carriage-drive them.