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EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Morven Park won’t hold FEI Divisions
The Morven Park Fall Horse Trials in Virginia Oct.2-4 has cancelled its plans to hold FEI divisions, including the CCI 4-star Long that it was offering for the first time. It will only present national divisions. The problem with the FEI competition was, as usual...
Benefit tack sales set in Hunterdon County
Cleaning out your tack room or closet? Donations are being taken for tack sales at Mane Stream and Riding with HEART, two organizations involved with therapeutic riding. Riding with HEART’s fall tack sale Oct. 24-25 at 639 Route 513 in Pittstown will accept a variety...
Not cancelled after all? East Coast Jr. Hunter championships gets new venue
The 2020 Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships East Coast has been saved. It is being transferred to the Traverse City Horse Shows at Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, Mich., Aug. 23-25, 2020. The championship, which was canceled earlier this week,...
Equitana USA and AECs are also pandemic victims
EQUITANA USA’s live three-day trade fair and expo at the Kentucky Horse Park next month has joined the ranks of cancelled events at the venue (see the main story at this website). Planned for Sept. 25-27, it has been rescheduled for Oct. 1-3, at the Kentucky Horse...
Park Commission says Lord Stirling Stable programs will be back in ’21
Aware of public concern about the future of Somerset County’s Lord Stirling Stable in Basking Ridge, the park commission and freeholder board have issued a statement to address the rumors, particularly speculation that the stable will be closing permanently. While...
USDF will induct three into hall of fame
Dr. Hilary Clayton of Mason, Minn., Gary Rockwell of Wellington, Fla., and Verdades, the 2002 KWPN gelding owned by Laura Graves, have been selected for induction into the Roemer Foundation/U.S. Dressage Federation Hall of Fame. As the inaugural McPhail Chair in...
Advice and a caution about horse adoption
Nearly every week the Standardbred Retirement Foundation has revealed that nearly every week, it has found finds trotters and pacers tagged for slaughter who were either homed by past owners or trainers with good intentions, or were given to an organization for this...
Give the Pleasure Pace a try
Want to get out on your horse and mingle (safely) with others, but don't feel like going to a show? How about trying the Alexandria Equestrian Association's Pleasure Pace July 11 (july 12 raindate). It's being held at Vetter Farm on Spring Mills Road in Holland...
Trying to make sense out of “a crazy year”
“This for certain has been a crazy year that tested us all,” U.S. Equestrian Federation President Murray Kessler said as he opened the board’s mid-year virtual meeting Monday. You can’t accuse him of exaggeration. It’s enough to cite the example he gave: When USEF...
ESP CEO Mark Bellissimo marries
Equestrian impresario Mark Bellissimo married eventer and Horse Scout CEO Lucienne Elms earlier this month in a private North Carolina ceremony “with just a handful of witnesses, together with the couple’s two dogs,” according to the Horse Scout website. “I have...
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