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2010 Spanish Sunshine Tour Week 1: Brits dominate
The British contingent has swept the board during the first week of the Spanish Sunshine Tour sealing victories in almost all classes across big tour, small tour, young riders and the owners’ classes. The competition, which takes place at Vejer de la Frontera in Spain, consists of three consecutive CDIs from 1 – 21 March 2010.
Carl Hester and Sasha Stewart’s nine-year-old Dutch-bred Metall stallion Uthopia (pictured) impressed on the pair’s first international big tour appearance. They headed the grand prix with a strong 71.10% only to follow it with a spectacular 73.83% in the grand prix special. Second spot was filled by Maria Eilberg and her 2009 European Championship partner Two Sox on 68.83%.
"Uthopia was absolutely fantastic, he has awesome potential," said Carl. "With Liebling moving on he has big shoes to fill and he’s doing just that."
Saturday’s competition was cancelled due to seriously bad weather resulting in classes spilling over to Monday. "The weather’s been grim but it’s been a good test for the horses," explained Hester "Uthopia has coped amazingly and I was thrilled with both our tests. The grand prix special really suits him - he has a fantastic passage and extended trot and the judges were extremely complimentary."
Uthopia’s stable mate Valegro ridden Charlotte Dujardin also had an outstanding debut at their first international. Dujardin and Valegro, Carl Hester and Roly Luard’s eight-year-old son of Negro, scored a small tour double winning a prix st georges with 72.54% and the intermediate I with 71.75%.
"Charlotte is riding with great maturity," said Carl. “She rises to all challenges and Valegro attracts so many people."
2007 Pony European team member Emily Harris, 18, scored a hat-trick in the young rider classes. With Judith Sharrock’s Washington 103, a 15-year-old Walt Disney gelding, Harris won the young rider preliminary, team and individual tests with 68.79%, 68.15% and 68.15% respectively. Her contemporaries are also posting good results; the top five positions in the young rider preliminary all being filled by Brits.
The Eilberg family has had great success on the first leg of the tour. As well as Maria’s high grand prix placings, Michael Eilberg and Marakov won the intermediate II, the first international at this level for Michael and the ten-year-old Latvian gelding. They scored 67.84% to edge ahead of Henriette Andersen and Louis D’Or in second. Their younger horses are also showing good form; Maria with Woodlander Rockstar and Michael with Woodlander Dornroschen have dominated the owners’ classes, sharing the top two places in all three.
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To keep up to date with news and events please keep an eye on the BHS Regional Website – www.bhs-londonsoutheast.co.uk
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PSHP STALLION PARADE SHAPING UP
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The Performance Sports Horse and Pony (PSHP) annual stallion parade - this year at Hartpury College, Gloucestershire - is shaping up to be a quite a spectacle.
Over 40 horse and sports pony competition stallions will come together in one place for an afternoon parade and an evening gala performance on Sunday 21 March.
In terms of performance success and number of competing progeny, Olympic and World Cup show jumping sire Baloubet du Rouet will be one to watch - but this is not to detract from the wealth of mainly British based talented and fully graded sires on display.
Whether you are looking to breed a horse or sports pony for dressage, show jumping or eventing – there will be plenty to take in. Entry is £10 on the door including the gala evening performance and special free prize draw. Doors open 2pm, parade finishes 10pm.
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Adonnis
Arazmataz
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Bernwode Benedict
Canturo
Caretino Glory
Cendy
Clarendon Winsten V
Desert Moon
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Donnersohn
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Golden Horseshoe Supports the British Endurance Team.
This year, the World Equestrian Games are in Kentucky, USA. As usual, the Horseshoe OC likes to do things differently, so our fundraiser is not a Sponsored Ride. Instead it is a Sponsored Walk!
Over the weekend of 17th/18th April, you can walk half of this year's Golden
Horseshoe Ride route, accompanied by a guide. Entry fee is £10 and you will need to gain a minimum of £15
sponsorship to take part. Approximately 12/13 miles will be covered on each
day, with refreshments provided en route. Take this opportunity to:
** Check out this year's course
** Get yourself fit
** See the fabulous views you don't have time to appreciate when competing
** Help to send our team to Kentucky!
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See the Golden Horseshoe Website for
more details.
In addition to raising money for the British Team, we are encouraging the competitors
in both the Sunday Pleasure Ride and Trail Run at the Golden Horseshoe to raise
sponsorship for 3 deserving and diverse charities.
Sponsorship
raised in the Sunday Pleasure Ride will go to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance,
and Moorland Mousie Trust (with competitors choosing their prefered charity).
<< cheque being presented to the Dorset and Somerset Air
Ambulance last year, riders at Tarr Stepps
Sponsorship raised by competitors in the Trail
Run is to go to Leukaemia Research.
Again, full information is on the website,
together with a provisional timetable of the event and also downloadable maps
of where this year's route will go.
THREE MORE JWI WINTER JA CLASSIC QUALIFIERS AT TOWERLANDS PARK
Thirteen-year-old Amy Inglis from Haywards Heath, West Sussex has just won the second John Whitaker International Winter JA Classic qualifier riding Nils d’Hurl Vent, as this combination had already qualified at the Hand Equestrian Centre.
The first qualifying place went to second placed Rosie Gunn from Nottingham riding the eleven year old chestnut mare Double Time who finished second with four faults in the final jump off in 34.75 seconds.
From the second qualifier 15 year old Sally Hopkinson from Pontefract, West Yorkshire riding her fathers 11 year old chestnut gelding Cevin III who finished third again with four faults in the third round in 38.99 seconds.
Fourth placed Lauren Edwards and Floating Change another combination who had previously qualified finished on 8 faults in 32.92 seconds.
The final qualifying place went to fifth placed Christina Harkin aged 14 from Nottingham riding Forthview Master a 10 year old bay gelding who finished on four faults in the first jump off in 37.59 seconds.
Riding the horses is said to be a benefit emotionally and physically
An Aberdeenshire charity which uses horse riding to rehabilitate injured soldiers has welcomed more than a dozen commandos to its Deeside centre.
Horseback UK offers veterans and serving personnel a chance to recuperate and develop new skills.
The Royal Marines from 45 Commando arrived at the centre this week.
Co-founder Jock Hutchison said of the horse-riding experience: " We introduce it as a combination of a Ducati 900 and a dolphin."
The former Marine said working with the horses could help heal both physical and emotional wounds.
The experience features cowboy hats and camp fires as well as the galloping horses.
Mr Hutchison told BBC Scotland: " They would not have joined the Marines if they wanted to sit on their backside and watch TV all day."
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The latest additions to Kate Negus Saddlery’s Grand Prix range still conform to the company’s belief in using selected components to get a bridle that is the perfect fit for your horse. The only thing that is different is that these bridles are made using patent leather.
Kate Negus’ patent leather bridles not only look stunning, they are also comfortable for the horse to wear thanks to the padded headpiece which comes as standard with this style of bridle, and the tailored fit that is common to all Kate Negus bridles.
The Grand Prix collection allows the purchaser to build their own bridle, thus helping to ensure that it is the perfect fit for their horse. Looking at the Grand Prix Patent Leather Cavesson, simply choose what size padded headpiece and then select which browband and the style and size of the cheek pieces – it really is as simple as that.
The Grand Prix Patent Leather Bridle comes in three options: Patent Leather Cavesson, Patent Leather Flash and Patent Leather Double. Prices start from £190.
Small improvement in US dressage champion's condition
Doctors and neurosurgeons monitoring injured dressage rider Courtney King-Dye have reported small improvements in her condition, her husband, Jason Dye, says.
She remains in a coma but is stable, following a fall from a horse just over a week ago. She is at St Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach.
"We still have no timeframe for recovery or indication of possible extent of damage, and will not until Courtney wakes from the coma and takes the next step forward in this process," Dye says. "It is a serious injury and the brain needs time to heal. Courtney knows the right direction to take and will fight to get there."
Courtney has undergone another MRI, which reportedly revealed no damage other than the fractured skull sustained in the initial injury.
Dye thanked the equestrian world for its support, and had been reading to Courtney many of the emails sent in support of his wife.
"I have not been able to read them all to her and hopefully I won't have to, I know we would all be much happier if she were reading them herself. Please keep them coming so I can't catch up with them."
He said her room is filling up with cards and photos, and a canvas print of Courtney and Mythilus at the 2008 Olympics is hanging at the foot of her bed.
"The nurses all admire it and are using it as inspiration to give her the best care possible, they want to be able to watch her at the 2012 games and point at the television and say that they knew her and cared for her!" he said.
Messages of support can be sent to comebackcourt@gmail.com
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The Equine Welfare team from HorseWorld have just successfully rescued a horse trapped in a ditch at Emersons Green thanks to the implementation of the Safer Horse Rescues Protocol involving all of the Emergency Services.
A member of the public spotted the distressed animal lying in the ditch unable to get to its feet and called the Police who were quickly on the scene together with the Fire and Rescue service and a vet. All had acted in response to the Safer Horse Rescue Protocol recently implemented by the Police Emergency Services at the request of HorseWorld and the British Equine Veterinary Association after an incident last year in which a horse died in a road traffic accident at Bitton.
Jerry Watkins of HorseWorld says, "The horse was trapped and in a serious condition
when we arrived. Had it not been for the speed in which the Police and Fire
Service responded, bringing in heavy lifting equipment and their expertise
in using this, then I believe the horse would have died. HorseWorld are proud
to have been leaders in getting the Safer Horse Rescue procedures established
in our area and are relieved that in this case they were successful in saving
an animal's life".
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Gastric Uclers
Controlling Horse Gastric Ulcers
Could feeding alfalfa hay help cure high-performance
horses of stomach ulcers?
It’s commonly thought that horses turned out on pasture are better off than
those that are confined, but if grass hay is the only hay they are fed, horses
can still get gastric ulcers.
A change in diet can be good for what ails you – even if you are a horse.
Research from Texas A&M University shows that feeding alfalfa to horses
that have the potential to be high performers either prevented or was
therapeutic in treating stomach ulcers.
"Something in alfalfa hay tends to buffer acid production," says Dr. Pete
Gibbs, Texas A&M Extension horse specialist.
SHOW jumping champion, Jessica Kurten has just scooped The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council ‘Sportswoman of the Month Award’ for February for her triumph at the Swedish World Cup Qualifier in Gothenburg in February. The strong performance from Kurten’s horse, Castle Forbes Libertina, who only returned to action after a seven-month injury lay-off, lifted Kurten to third in the World Cup rankings and guaranteed her place in the World Cup final in Geneva next month.
It is Kurten’s seventh time to win the ‘Sportswoman of the Month’ award since the awards began in 2004, and she is the only sportswoman who has won a monthly award in every year since the awards began, an indication of her consistency at the very highest level of her sport. Jessica will now battle it out with other monthly winners at the end of 2010 to be named the Sportswoman of the Year.
In January of this year the 40 year old, from Cullybackey, Co. Antrim, won the Leipzig leg of the World Cup qualifying series for the third consecutive year, triumphing in a 16-way jump-off with Castle Forbes Libertina. Kurten took the victory, along with the €37,000 prize money, and was reported to have “nearly brought the roof down at the Scandinavium arena with a rip-roaring ride from Libertina that secured their second victory of the 2009/2010 Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping season” in Gothenburg. Ireland impressively finished with two riders placing in the top three at the event as Banbridge’s Dermott Lennon finished third, after Germany's Marco Kutscher beat his time.
With Libertina back in action, Kurten is now climbing the world rankings with the March list placing her at 15, making her the second-highest ranked female rider in the world. The next step for Kurten and horse Libertina is the World Cup Final in Geneva which are due to start mid April.
Speaking of the news that she has been named Sportswoman of the Month, Kurten, said:" It’s a great honour to receive this award for the seventh time. I would like to share this award with my champion showhorse Libertina, and her owner Lady Georgina Forbes. The next target for me is the World Cup Finals in Geneva next month, where I hope to bring home some silverware."
Jessica will join Aoife Hoey and Claire Bergin, Ireland’s ladies’ bobsleigh team, in the running for the title of ‘Sportswoman of the Year’ 2010. The 2009 Sportswoman of the Year winner was Olive Loughnane for her silver-medal winning performance at the IAAF World Athletics Championships which took place in Berlin in August 2009.
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Champions Of Racing
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The Highlights of the from the 2009 British Open Show Jumping Championships
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Team Fredericks
Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks allow us inside their eventing world. We follow
their lives and learn how dedicated you need to be to get to the top of your
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Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks allow us inside their eventing world. We follow
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H&C Goes West
H&C gets an insight into all aspects of the American Equine Culture.
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The British contingent has swept the board during the first week of the Spanish Sunshine Tour sealing victories in almost all classes across big tour, small tour, young riders and the owners’ classes. The competition, which takes place at Vejer de la Frontera in Spain, consists of three consecutive CDIs from 1 – 21 March 2010.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for the BHS please either contact your Regional Development Officer, Claire McCaffery-Clarke – 
sponsorship to take part. Approximately 12/13 miles will be covered on each
day, with refreshments provided en route. Take this opportunity to: 
Sponsorship
raised in the Sunday Pleasure Ride will go to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance,
and Moorland Mousie Trust (with competitors choosing their prefered charity).
Riding the horses is said to be a benefit emotionally and physically
An Aberdeenshire charity which uses horse riding to rehabilitate injured soldiers has welcomed more than a dozen commandos to its Deeside centre. 
SHOW jumping champion, Jessica Kurten has just scooped The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council ‘Sportswoman of the Month Award’ for February for her triumph at the Swedish World Cup Qualifier in Gothenburg in February. The strong performance from Kurten’s horse, Castle Forbes Libertina, who only returned to action after a seven-month injury lay-off, lifted Kurten to third in the World Cup rankings and guaranteed her place in the World Cup final in Geneva next month.
