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| 14th April
2001 |
Red Hills Horse Trials 2001
By Rita
Juanita Mock
The fourth annual Red Hills Horse Trials were held
this year on March 9-11, in Tallahassee, Florida. This combined training 3 day
event took place at the Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park, welcoming 250 horses and over
500 volunteers. More than 12,000 spectators showed up to watch as well,
including eight year old Sarah Tepper, daughter of Dave and Lois Tepper.
“I just liked all of it…I just like to see the riders jump…its
really cool!”
Friday started Red Hills off with a cloudy day of
dressage, and, even though the crowds were rather low that day, the competitors
did not lose their spirit of excitement. Ralph Hill of Ocala, Florida, on
Winston, placed first in the Training Horse division Group A, with a dressage
score of 33.5, which they maintained for the rest of Red Hills with no
cross-country or show jumping penalties. Kelli McMullen Templ, also of Ocala,
Florida, pulled off 26.5 dressage penalties riding Barber’s Berber in the
Training Horse division group B, achieving the lowest dressage score at Red
Hills this year.
David O’Connor, competitor:
"It’s one of the top horse trials in the
country, the whole community gets behind it…one of the premier
events…it’s a joy to go to."
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| 14th April
2001 |
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First Equine Specific First Aid
Course From The BHS
After much consultation with the horse industry
and first aid training organisations, the British Horse Society has developed
an Equine-specific First Aid course. This one-day course will be presented by
trainers who have expertise in horse-related injuries and accidents. The day
will include generic first aid skills and requirements in the morning and
horse-specific first aid in the afternoon. Courses will be organised throughout
the UK (see list so far on following page). |
The Health and Safety Executive applaud and
encourage industry taking the lead in the design of industry-specific,
appropriate and relevant qualifications. HSE fully supports the BHS in the
development of the first, Equine-specific First Aid course.
This one-day first aid course will also be useful for examiners, grooms,
competitors, fence judges and volunteers - in fact anyone involved in
equestrian activities.
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| 14th April
2001 |
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Jaycee Juleps & Jockeys Gala To
Benefit Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
RALEIGH, NC – A traditional event for the
Brookhill Steeplechase is a gala to celebrate the thrill of the chase and to
benefit a local organization. This year, the Raleigh Jaycees Brookhill
Steeplechase Juleps & Jockeys Gala has chosen to benefit the Duke
Comprehensive Cancer Center. |
The Juleps & Jockeys Gala will be held at
Exploris in downtown Raleigh from 6:00 - 11:00 pm on Friday, May 4, one day
prior to the Jaycees' Brookhill Steeplechase. Tickets to this black-tie gala
are $100 per person and are tax deductible. Doors open at 6:00 pm and dancing
will begin at 8:00 pm.
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| 13th April
2001 |
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The Story of Pearl the Pony
Pearl is an 18-year-old Shetland pony that was
rescued in horrid condition. She had worms, anemia and was tied to a tree,
forcing her to stand on hooves that were 14-16 inches long. Needless to say,
she was crippled. After several failed attempts to get the appropriate
authorities involved, a neighbor was able to rescue Pearl, and get her on the
road to recovery. |
Unfortunately, 2 months later, due to an improper
wrapping , Pearl lost circulation in one of her legs. This led to gangrene and
eventually the loss of a major portion of one of her legs. This is usually an
automatic death sentence for a horse.
But Pearl surprised everyone by continuing to walk and graze. Pearls
strong-will and determination to live bought her some much needed time as her
vet and her owner searched for answers. On Christmas Day, Pearl got a
remarkable opportunity - a chance at a prosthetic! This is still rare at the
moment and in the research stage (for horses). Pearl is in Virginia at Serenity
Equine, where it could take 6-9 months for the whole procedure. A small price
to pay for a little pony who deserves so much!
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| 13th April
2001 |
Show Jumping - Kurten Warms Up In Sweden For World Cup
Test
Ireland's Jessica Kurten had two of her horses out
on the first day of the Gothenburg Horse Show yesterday (Thursday April 12),
steadily improving her positions through the evening.
But her big tests will start today (Friday) when the first of the World Cup
Final Qualifying Competitions begin. Jessica then has to jump again on
Saturday, before she can be sure of qualifying for the World Cup Final itself
on Monday (April 16).
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| 13th April
2001 |
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| 13th April
2001 |
Foot and mouth costs farmers' markets £2.5 m
Farmers' markets are reeling from the
impact of the foot and mouth crisis which has so far cost producers
£2.5million, reveals a survey released today* by the National Association
of Farmers' Markets (NAFM).
Since the onset of foot and mouth, 80% of farmers' markets have closed as a
precautionary measure to prevent spreading the disease.
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| 13th April
2001 |
NFU Issues Three Golden Rules on Easter Countryside Visits
NFU President Ben Gill today issued a
message to the public to enjoy their Easter holidays in the UK - but to keep on
their guard against inadvertently helping to spread foot and mouth disease.
He said: "I am very grateful to all those who have responded to the plight
of farmers and rural communities and have kept away from areas affected by foot
and mouth.
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| 13th April
2001 |
Foot and Mouth Takes Centre Stage at NFU Farm Tax Seminars
Top agricultural taxation experts will
be speaking at a series of nine farm tax seminars organised by NFU Services, in
association with NFU Mutual Finance.
Aimed at professional advisers, the seminar will feature experts from Promar
International and will look at updates on all aspects of farm tax as well as
the impact of foot and mouth disease.
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| 12th April
2001 |
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Federation Equestre
Internationale News
11 April 2001
- World Cup Dressage Final: Ulla Salzgeber is the
new World Cup Champion
- World Cup Jumping Final: participation
- Olympic rider new president Guatemala NF
- Foot and Mouth Disease: updated list of cancelled events
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| 12th April
2001 |
Traxdata Showing Team Win First - Ever Qualifier
Although the competition plans of the
Traxdata Show Jumping and Showing Teams have both been frustrated by the
outbreak of Foot and Mouth, the Traxdata Showing Team has got their season off
to a good, if belated, start by winning at Patchetts.
Patchetts Equestrian Centre, Watford,
Hertfordshire staged the first Royal International Horse Show showing
qualifiers on Tuesday since the start of the foot and mouth outbreak.Young
Charlotte Edwards (aged 7) took 1st place in the RIHS lead rein pony
of show hunter type and becomes the first ever qualifier for the new lead rein
pony championship at The Traxdata Royal International horse Show.
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| 12th April
2001 |
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ILPH helps stop Illegal
Horse Traffic
Acting on findings made during a recent ILPH
(International League for the Protection of Horses) visit to Serbia, both the
Federal and Republican authorities are cracking down on illegal horse
transporters from entering the country.
Transported by truck from far afield a large
number of horses (estimated in thousands per annum) are being smuggled across
the unfenced and largely unpoliced forest frontier between Romania, Bulgaria
and Serbia. |
Wishing to tighten controls on all border
infringements the Serbian authorities have reacted with commendable speed,
seizing illegal transports as they enter the country.
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details |
| 12th April
2001 |
EFI Welcomes Appointment of Lt. Col. Gerry Mullins to Board of
NCTC
Lt. Col. Gerry Mullins has been appointed to the
Management Board of the National Coaching and Training Centre at the University
of Limerick.
Lt.Col. Mullins is a Director of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland, and has
for some time been Chairman of the EFI Coaching Committee.
The NCTC was established to assist in raising the standards in coaching and to
provide specialised training for elite sportsmen and women. It has become an
essential resource for Irish sport and will remain central to the development
of a high performance strategy for Ireland.
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| 12th April
2001 |
Disease Forecast Shows Painful Measures Are Working - NFU
Today's statement by the Government's
Chief Scientific Advisor that the foot and mouth outbreak is "flattening
out" show that the current measures to tackle the disease are working,
painful though they are for farmers.
NFU President Ben Gill said: "This is more encouraging evidence that the
current slaughter and destruction policy is having the desired effect.
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| 12th April
2001 |
Plans To Get Restricted Areas Moving Welcomed By NFU
Plans announced today to allow healthy
animals trapped in foot and mouth restriction zones to go for slaughter will be
a massive help in alleviating the bottleneck of pressure built up in those
areas, says the NFU.
NFU President Ben Gill said the plans to allow farmers not directly affected by
foot and mouth but caught up in the 10km surveillance zones to move their
animals were "good news".
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| 11th April
2001 |
Great news for the horse
world!
Equus – One of the few events still
happening! |
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There is a fantastic new exhibition for horse
lovers, owners and riders – Equus 2001. Kate Hoey, Minster for Sport, will
be opening Equus 2001-The Horse Event, one of the few events still happening.
This is a first event of its kind for the horse industry and is to be held at
London’s newest international indoor venue, ExCeL, the Royal Docks.
In light of the current Foot & Mouth Disease,
the organisers of Equus will be following MAFF advice and procedures. There
will be disinfectant matting for vehicles, horses and visitors. Despite the
timetable changing as some horses are within exclusion zones there are still
lots of exciting displays and demonstrations in the Main Arena.
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details |
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2001 |
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Money and
pride on the line at APHA's 2001 World Show cutting competition
FORT WORTH-If you're a Paint Horse cutter and up
to the challenge of earning big money at this year's American Paint Horse
Association (APHA) World Championship Show, be sure to enter the Cutting
Challenge competition. This year's Challenge event features $10,000 in added
money. |
Cutting competition rounds out the APHA World
Show, scheduled June 24-July 7 at the Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort
Worth, Texas. Riders who register before April 15 pay a discounted entry
fee.
A part of the First USA Challenge Series, the
competition will include the 3-Year-Old Cutting Challenge and 4-Year-Old
Cutting Challenge, with $5,000 added to each. Preliminaries for both events
begin July 6 at the Will Rogers Coliseum, with the finals taking place in the
same arena on July 7.
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details |
| 11th April
2001 |
Show Jumping - Kurten Bids for World Cup Final Glory in
Sweden
JESSICA KURTEN will be the sole Irish competitor
at the FEI World Cup Show Jumping Final in Gothenburg, which begins on April 13
and finishes on Easter Monday (April 16).
Currently ranked as the World No.2 female rider, Jessica, from Cullybackey in
Co. Antrim, will carry the Irish flag on her own, following the decision by
Ireland¹s other World Cup qualifying rider, Peter Charles, to pull out of
the Gothenburg Final.
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| 11th April
2001 |
Public Want Farmers To Get A Fair Share Of The Bottle
In a week when many consumers have
woken to an overnight increase of up to 2p per pint on the price of doorstep
milk deliveries, the NFU has beeninundated with calls from the public seeking
assurances that the price rises will mean more money for dairy farmers.
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| 10th April
2001 |
Essential oils and COPD
COPD is largely what I call a
"Oman made" disease. With increasing numbers of horses kept in for
months on end sometimes with little or no turn out, COPD has become
increasingly common. It is basically an allergic reaction to dust, fungal
spores and other airborne irritants and is aggravated by life in poorly
ventilated stables, lack of fresh air and dusty foodstuff and bedding. Having
said that, it is also possible for horses to be allergic to pollen and show
distressed breathing patterns when turned out. I tend to think that increased
pollutants in the air and the number of horses living in semi-urban
environments is a contributing factor.
If caught in the early stages COPD can be effectively managed... however the
longer the condition goes unacknowledged the more sensitised the lungs become,
leading to a more acute problem and increased discomfort for the horse.
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| 10th April
2001 |
Farm Leaders Meet With Prime Minister
NFU President Ben Gill today warned the
Prime Minister that there must be a swift response to sporadic outbreaks to
ensure the slow-down in the number of new foot and mouth cases is not
undermined.
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| 10th April
2001 |
NFU President To Update Prime Minister on Foot and Mouth
NFU President Ben Gill will update the
Prime Minister on the current situation with foot and mouth.
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| 9th April
2001 |
Schuyler Riley Wins $300,000 AGA Championship
WELLINGTON, FL - APRIL 8, 2001 -
Schuyler Riley of Wellington captured top honors in the $300,000 AGA
Championship, the richest event in U.S. show jumping history, Sunday at the
Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club.Riley out-dueled seven others in the jump-off,
finishing with the only double-clear round aboard Ilian, an 11-year-old
Dutch-bred bay gelding. The 29-year-old earned $90,000 for first place and, in
a six-day span in the sport's two richest shows, took home $116,000.
"Ilian is a superstar horse," said Riley after her eighth career
major grand prix victory. "He's quite sensitive, with a lot of character.
When we're on, he's a real threat out there."
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| 9th April
2001 |
Horse and Pony Sales New Gifts Section
A while ago we reported to you details
about Horse and Pony Sales, an internet site where you could advertise your
horse or pony for sale. There have been a number of changes to the site since
we featured this report. The site has added a number of new sections. The first
to be added was a section for advertising horseboxes and trailers for sale. The
first trailer to be advertised in this section was sold in less than 1
week.
The next section to be added was a section for
selling horse related gifts, including some unique horsey mouse mats - eg one
which features the "Mares and Foals in a River Landscape" by George
Stubbs reproduced by kind permission of the Tate Gallery London, and another
entitled "The Liver Chestnut" by the highly acclaimed equestrian
artist Lydia Kiernan.As a special
introductory offer to this new section, Horse and Pony Sales are giving away a
free advertising voucher to the first 10 orders for gifts received quoting
“Equiworld”
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for further details |
| 9th April
2001 |
Irish Horses in Sweden
Last year I got an Irish imported pony. His name
is Ryan. Before I got him I was mainly interested in the Swedish Warmblood and
their pedigrees, breeders etc. But when I got my Irish pony my interest in the
Irish horses started to wake. In Sweden there is many Irish imported horses and
ponies that no one really knows anything about. They just exist and have no
papers at all. Some of them do but most don't.
I wanted to try and create something that could
bring people together so we could exchange information about our horses. All of
them must have been "babies" at some time and maybe someone wonder
whatever happened to their horse after being exported to Sweden. So thats why I
have created the site about Irish Horses.
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further details |
| 9th April
2001 |
Henri Prudent Jumps Ahead of Wife Katie
WELLINGTON, FL - April 7, 2001 - US
Equestrian Team Veteran, Katie Prudent rode just before her husband Henri,
breaking the earlier pace set by yesterday's victor, Aaron Vale with a clear
round and in 62.719 seconds aboard Belladonna, the 18 year-old Dutch bred mare.
French Equestrian Veteran, Henri Prudent made up enough time over the 11
obstacle Jose Gamarra of Bolivia designed course to capture the $10,000 Open
Speed AGA Championship aboard the 11 year-old Selle Frances mare, Bellone
D'Ideale.
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full report |
| 8th April
2001 |
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The Poitevin
Born and bred in the marshes of Western France,
the Poitevin is the least known of nine French heavy breeds, and the most
endangered. Its reputation was made by the magnificent mules bred by the mares
for centuries, the biggest and strongest mules in the world! But as a horse it
was sneered at as "a heavy horse that has more conformational faults than
most, is singularly unattractive in appearance and has little potential as a
working horse" according to Elwyn Hartley Edwards. |
Yet, as a descendant of the Flemmish horses
brougth to Poitou in the 17th century to drain the marshes, it is related to
the Shire - and hence to the Clydesdale - whose ancestors came from Holland to
reclaim the Fens.
Whilst most heavy horses were bred for specific purposes - including meat
production - the only work required of the Poitevin was that it sired enough
mares to provide for the booming mule trade. It has therefore retained all the
characteristics of the "primitive" horse, including the rare dun
colour. It is lighter than most draught horses and its gait is sprightly; when
black, it is a heavy friesan, abundant feathers and flowing mane and tail.
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| 8th April
2001 |
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The Best of British!
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Baileys are showing their
support for British growers by sourcing the latest edition to their stable
entirely in this Country. Baileys Best British Oats are carefully selected, top
quality oats of varieties that will be grown specifically for them. They are
thoroughly cleaned, clipped and dust extracted before being lightly bruised and
packaged in 20kg “Union Jack” bags. “The oats are bright and
plump with a good bushel weight,” says Baileys MD and stud owner, Paul
Venner. “The nutrient content is excellent and I am delighted to have
found all this in British-grown oats rather than having to buy in from
abroad.”
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| 8th April
2001 |
Hottest Rider on Circuit Molly Ashe Withdraws from Sunday's
£300,000 AGA Championship
WELLINGTON - Molly Ashe, the hottest rider on the
show jumping circuit, has withdrawn from Sunday's season-ending $300,000 AGA
Championship at the Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club.
Ashe, who won the last two grand prix events, gracefully withdrew after
three-time Olympian Leslie Howard qualified for the class. Ashe was going to
ride Howard's horse, Cloverleaf, in the richest show jumping class in the
United States, because her own horse, Kroon Gravin, had already been shipped to
Sweden for the prestigious World Cup competition, scheduled for April 16-21.
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