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Polo’s Zorrino A Second Chance for Chanel FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 1 2 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE What’s Happenin’ Incorporating I 74 30 Ingate HORSES USA 98 Off Centerline PUBLISHER Samantha Charles 122 Asides [email protected] N EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cornelia Bernard Henderson The Social Scene [email protected] 74 Sidelines Tetrathlon 561-309-6636 Presented by FarmVet Contributing Editor S Erin Gilmore 80 2011 JustWorld International Fundraiser STAFF WRITERS Lauren Giannini, Jan Westmark, I Horse Show Danika Rice 44 22 Pat Boyle: The Innovator CONTRIBUTINg WRITERS Johnny Robb, Fred McWane, 24 Tom Struzzieri: The Businessman Sydney Masters - Durieux, D 28 Ashley Herman-Griffin: The Young Gun Sarah Ward PHOTOgRAPHERS 40 Mark Bellissimo: Master of the Universe David Lominska, Jack Mancini , Flashpoint, 42 A Few Minutes with Callan Solem Alan Fabricant, Susan Stickle Lauren R. 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Jan Westmark did the rounds for us again, and her On Course with Michael Tokaruk introduces a fascinating young man who has jumped head first into working with Andre Dignelli’s impressive team at Heritage Farm. Jan also seems to be taking over the dressage beat, and her stories on former Olympian Dottie Morkis and Leah Wilson are good reads no matter your preferred discipline. Polo writer Dankia Rice profiled Zorrino, one of the more amazing grooms in the sport, and did a Five Q interview with Jeff Blake, one of America’s top home-grown stars. Lauren Giannini did an interview with a delightful young eventer: Jennie Brannigan and introduced us to a charming man-behind-the-scenes in the show jumping world: Mauro Atzeri. Our regular columnists are all here as well – Ann Reilly’s Sport Psychology, Lisa Hollister’s Equine Law, Sarah Ward’s My Line and Lauren Corey’s Juniorside. I know you will enjoy the issue – so grab a quiet corner, put your feet up and settle down for a good read. Until next month. Cornelia Henderson FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 5 6 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 7 8 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 9 10 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 11 12 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 13 14 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 15 16 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE SIDELINES MARCH 2011 17 18 SIDELINES MARCH 2011 FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE F Five Questions O for Nigel Peel X By Lauren R. giannini In 2010 Nigel Peel, MFH & Huntsman North Cotswold, UK, became the first person from overseas to receive the H Julian Marshall Award. Presented annually since 2001 during the Bryn Mawr Hound Show at Radnor Hunt, it honors living individuals for their lifetime contribution to U hunting and hounds. Nigel had been invited to judge the Grand Championship at Bryn Mawr, the weekend after he officiated in the English ring at the Virginia Hound Show at N Morven Park. “It was a great honor to be given the Julian Marshall Award, and I was completely taken aback. It was a wonderful surprise,” admitted Nigel, whose ‘career’ spans T 40 years. Since 1988, Nigel as MFH/huntsman and his MFH wife Sophia have been at the helm of the North Cotswold, a I renowned pack in the UK. He served three terms on the British MFHA committee and currently is a member of the Hunt Staff Benefit Society Committee, chaired by HRH the Nigel Peel, MFH/Huntsman, poses with the mostly ‘ladies’ N Prince of Wales. pack of North Cotswold hounds for Horse & Hound magazine North Cotswold may be a smaller pack, but they have before mounting up. The North Cotswold country is located won the championship three times at Peterborough, the in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, north of the famous G biggest hound show in the UK, as well as garnering titles Cheltenham race meeting and the university town of Oxford at every hound show in which hounds have ever entered. Photos by Nico Morgan Sidelines: What led you to become a huntsman and Hooker, MFH of the Hillsboro Hounds. master? There’s another great connection: back in 1939 with the war NP: My mother hunted, both my parents were very keen on us, Bill Scott [then master/huntsman] who was a great friend hunting people. In Sussex we had an extremely good, old- of Mason Houghland [founder of Hillsboro in 1932] sent a draft of fashioned master and I used to go with him when I was very hounds from the North Cotswold to Hillsboro: he didn’t want them young and open the gates. He wasn’t very fond of jumping put down and we couldn’t feed them because of the war. That and he put in a lot of gates. He hunted the hounds and was blood still runs in the Hillsboro pack. master for 55 years with the Chiddingford & Leconfield. When I left school I went to Cowdray. After a season, a Sidelines: Do you have an all-time favorite foxhunting horse? pack in Yorkshire was looking for a master and they took NP: I’ve been so lucky – I’ve had so many wonderful horses. I me: I wasn’t quite 20 and I hunted the Goathland. It’s a suppose one of the best horses I ever had was a little colored wild, northern country with very few foxes. I stayed there horse, only 15.1h. He was called Geronimo – also known as for two seasons. Then I hunted the Cambridgeshire for The Pink Pig – and he was a quite well known horse in the West the Crossmans, whose family had been masters for many Country. I had him since he was four and I hunted him for nine generations. You had to hunt the fox – you couldn’t just seasons. He was as good a timber-jumper as I’ve ever ridden. You gallop after it, and that taught me a great deal. I’ve always could walk him up to a five-bar gate and he’d leap over it. He was been very grateful to the Crossmans. wonderfully athletic and a lovely horse to ride.