Dutch dressage rider Adelinde Cornelissen beat out athletes from all other sports to once again be named the nation’s athlete of the year. Her many competitive success this year included earning the individual silver and the team bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.
(Phelps Media Group) – Wellington Classic Dressage offers a new feature on their website to make buying or selling a horse easier. Now you can go to wellingtonclassicdressage.com and click on the blue and red “New Feature. Horses for Sale” button to advertise your horse for sale or lease, search for your next mount, or find a new riding coach, all powered by MatchnRide.com.
Looking for a new horse? Click “Horses for Sale” and you can search for sale or lease horses and ponies by location, discipline, breed, age, gender or price. Or narrow your search using the advanced search option to find horses whose features and characteristics are most important to you.
Looking for the most exposure to sell your horse? Horse listings include a detailed description of your horse, photos, video, pedigree, training level and more. Ads are a snap to place and easy to update with a new photo or YouTube video. Go to “Place an Ad” and try a “Featured Horse” ad and it will be prominently positioned on the home page and in the upper left hand corner on all pages of the WCD Horse Classifieds.
“Our partnership with MatchnRide.com allows people who are looking for information about dressage shows in South Florida to also search for a horse,” said John Flanagan, Managing Partner of Wellington Classic Dressage. “It’s a one-stop-shop. The best feature for people in town for the winter season and wanting to search for or sell a horse is the “Wellington Horse Sales” pages displaying horses for sale in Wellington during the winter show circuit. “Wellington Horse Sales” links are clearly visible on all pages of the WCD classifieds. (wcd.matchnride.com).
Sellers can list their sale horses on the “Wellington Horse Sales” pages, allowing for easy information access for horse buyers in Wellington during this winter. Then, whether the horse is located in the Wellington area during the World Dressage Masters or the Sunshine Challenge CDI 3*, prospective buyers can watch the horse in action.
Horse listings are easy to place and can be updated at any time, making it convenient for sellers to display new photos and videos as the season progresses.
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Visit www.wellingtonclassicdressage.com today for your one-stop-horse-information shop.
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(FEI) – Jane Pontifex, scorer at the first Badminton Horse Trials in 1949 and a well-known and well-respected equestrian journalist, has died at her home in Surrey (GBR). She was 84.
Jane was the first official scorer for British horse trials. She valued accuracy in everything she did, and one of her most important legacies was in helping to devise the scoring system for horse trials which is still in use today.
She played a major role in the development of the sport, and was heavily involved in the start-up of Burghley Horse Trials in 1961.
Jane worked for the British Horse Society for many years as an official scorer before joining the staff of top British equestrian magazine, Horse & Hound. When Michael Clayton, then editor of the magazine, wanted to upgrade coverage of Eventing, Jane was his natural choice.
“Nobody knew more about the mechanics of the sport than she did,” he said. “She had a passion for accuracy, which was what I wanted, and she became Horse & Hound’s first woman reporter and first woman sub-editor for Eventing. Jane was a very valuable member of our staff, and a good friend.”
As horse trials editor for Horse & Hound, Jane took over reporting on all the top events, including Badminton and Burghley, and the major international championships, continuing to write even after her retirement from the job in 1988.
Jane was also the founding secretary of the British Horse Trials Support Group, a job she continued to do for a quarter of a century with typical efficiency and enthusiasm, and was a long-standing secretary to the British Equestrian Writers’ Association. Her devotion to the sport and love for detail resulted in a comprehensive book, Riding for Gold, which chronicled the history of Britain’s Eventing teams.
British journalist Kate Green remembers her former colleague and friend with great fondness. “Jane was not only great fun to work and travel with, but she was a fount of wisdom about the sport, and always willing to help and encourage up-and-coming journalists.”
Jane Pontifex’s death comes three weeks after the passing of Jim Gilmore, press officer to the Badminton Horse Trials from 1969 to 2001.
The FEI expresses its sincere condolences to Jane Pontifex’s family and her numerous friends on the international Eventing circuit.
Photo Courtesy of FEI by Kit Houghton
(USDF) – During their annual meeting on December 4, 2012, held at the Adequan/USDF Annual Convention, the USDF Executive Board approved the following official position on western and gaited dressage:
• USDF will in no way imply or encourage a position that “western dressage” or “gaited dressage” and dressage as defined by the FEI are the same thing.
• USDF will take no action that would indicate any preference of any “western dressage” organization over another, or imply that any has been designated an official voice or national affiliate of USEF or any other standing that would, by other disciplines or breed, be perceived as equivalent to USDF as the USEF recognized affiliate for dressage.
• USDF will stand firm on a position that the USDF, USEF, and FEI dressage rules, including terminology and criteria, cannot be used in a way that uses traditional concepts and terminology to mean something “different”.
• USDF will identify USDF educational programs and materials that would appeal to individuals interested in dressage, including western and gaited study, or who have students with that type of horse, as it relates to dressage as defined by the FEI.
• USDF will consider providing applicable website links to other organizations.
(USEF) – The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has seated two new para-equestrian committees. The Para-Equestrian High Performance Committee and Para-Equestrian Eligible Athlete Committee Committee are both pending approval of the USEF Executive Committee.
Para-Equestrian High Performance Committee (Pending approval of the Executive Committee)
Dale Dedrick
Barabara Grassmyer, Elected Eligible Athlete
Hope Hand
Rebecca Hart, Elected Eligible
Mary Jordan, Elected Eligible Athlete
Kim Kelly
Sandy Rafferty
Melissa Ransehousen
Sharon Schneidman
Lynn Siedemann
Hardy Zantke
The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Para-Equestrian High Performance Committee will be named shortly.
Para-Equestrian Eligible Athlete Committee (Pending approval of the Executive Committee)
Mary Jordan , Chair
Rebecca Hart, Vice Chair
Erin Alberda
Robin Brueckmann
Barbara Grassmyer
For further information regarding the USEF High Performance Para-Equestrian Program visit; http://usef.org/_IFrames/breedsdisciplines/discipline/allparaequestrian/hpparaEquestrian.aspx
For additional information please contact Laureen Johnson at (908) 326-1155, or via email at lkjohnson@usef.org.
During their annual meeting on December 4, 2012, held at the Adequan/USDF Annual Convention, the USDF Executive Board approved …
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