|
|
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
 Not
on our mailing list? |
E-Mail
This PageOn the Road to California: Lisa Wilcox and Naomi Wilcox and Naomi have come a long way in a short time. Partnered for only a year, the pair steadily rose up ranks throughout the Florida winter season consistently earning scores in the 70s, including a 78.50 percent at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge III for a freestyle they had barely mastered before competing with it. The pair's strong showing these last months has thus far earned them a spot on the coveted top-12 list – the list of horses and riders qualified to compete in this year's Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions, which will also serve as the Olympic Selection Trials. With only two more CDIs scheduled in the Eastern U.S. before the June Selection Trials, Wilcox and Naomi are now quietly working at home, out of the limelight as they prepare to make their way west in June. Read More.... The Equine Nanny Brings TLC Through the Night to Dressage Horses at Shows The Equine Nanny will be at Lamplight CDI and Raleigh CDI. Please book ahead for the upcoming shows, and ask your Dressage Show organizer to bring them to your shows. E-mail - Missy Sage Msagefox@aol.com Cell: 561 313 4653 - equinenanny.net
Paxton Farm CDI - May 9-11 - Batavia, Ohio CDI Dressage Grand Prix Action at Paxton Farm Marks the Return of Rocher, Neruda and Succes
Diane Creech and Leatherdale Farm’s Devon L Take Prix St. Georges Win at Paxton Farm CDI
Bettina Drummond: The Artist as Rider
Euro Update: Adelinde Cornelissen, 2008 Dutch Dressage Champion
New! Virtual Vendor
Clinic News
Herr Bachinger is an experienced clinician who will share his love of classical horsemanship with you at your pace. This clinic is designed with the rider and auditors in mind. While it is just not possible to fly over to Vienna with your horse and train on a regular basis, this clinic hopes to accomplish is a very detailed and comprehensive training regimen tailor made for the participant. Herr Bachinger will work with horses and riders of all levels. Read More..... Dressage Rider Lily Chiu Zilo Carries Olympic Torch in the Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Venue On
the Scene - Coverage
of events brought to you by DressageDaily's Mary Phelps-Hathaway,
a Markel
Equine Insurance Specialist - For quality coverage and the
personal service you and your horse deserve, take our on line insurance
tour, and support the website which brings you free news and information
on Dressage. A
Markel Equine Insurance Specialist - We Know Horses!
PhelpsPhotos is
the official photographer for Lamplight Spring Dressage. Stop by
the HorsesDaily.com RV behind the resturant to sign up for photos,
view and order prints. The Latest Results in DressageDaily's ScoreSource - Ocala Spring Dressage, Wellington Classic Dressage II, Palm Beach Dressage Derby CDI, Dressage in California and Euro results.... What's Going On? Save the Date - Don't Miss Out! Clinics, Parties, Symposiums, Fundraisers, Conventions and More! Visit our Virtual Vendor section - In our travels we meet some great companies bringing fine products and services to the equine world. Join us 'On the Scene' at our virtual Trade show, and support these great companies who do such a great job. Read More.... DressageDaily
Archives PhelpsPhotos®, DressageDaily, HorsesDaily® (Phelps
Equine World) established in 1997 celebrating 10 years on line, is
offered to the equine world FREE with the support of our sponsors,
and is owned by Phelps/Hathaway Ent Inc, Deleon Springs,Florida,
and Columbia, Kentucky. |
The list of riders and horses qualified to compete in June's Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions is beginning to form and Lisa Wilcox is ever more confident that when the dust clears, she and Naomi will remain on that list.
Perhaps one of the most unique requests for Missy Sage co-owner of the Equine Nanny, a nighttime watch service for Dressage competitions, was made by customer Lauren Sammis. The Pan American Team Gold and Silver Individual medalist wanted to be sure her equine partner; Hyperion Farm’s Sagacious would “get kisses throughout the night”. “We did so,” said Missy, “noting it on his chart.” With the busy May and early June CDI schedule, dressage competitors and their horses are on the move. The Equine Nanny will be at this week’s Lamplight Dressage, and the upcoming Raleigh CDI, providing their loving night watch services, easing the stress of horse owners concerned about whether or not their horse is settling in for the night. 
Batavia, Ohio – Michael Barisone and Neruda returned to the CDI Grand Prix ring for the first time in several months and hovered just below first place. They lost out one blue ribbon to George Williams and Rocher who were back in action in the U.S. They only returned to America one week ago from a two-month training trip to Europe that seems to have paid off. They won Friday’s CDI Grand Prix at the Paxton Farm CDI***/CDIY/CDIJ but only after the technical marks broke their tie with Barisone and Neruda. Both Williams and Barisone had scored a 67.542 percent. 
Cincinnati, Ohio – Canadian rider Diane Creech and Devon L took the win in the opening day Prix St. Georges at the Paxton Farm CDI. And cheering her on along the sidelines were Devon L owners Doug and Louise Leatherdale. "It was quite a special day. It made it even more special that Doug and Louise were able to be here with me,” Creech said. She and Devon L won the FEI CDI Prix St. Georges with score of 68.650. Second were Gillian Sutherland and Great Tyme with a score of 67.60. The Leatherdales, owners of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minnesota, have been doing quite a bit of cheering these days. 
While much of the dressage world seems in conflict over the question of whether dressage is art or sport, classical trainer and rider Bettina Drummond faces no such conflict. For her, riding has always been art. Drummond was a budding pianist at the age of seven when her mother, Phyllis Field, pulled her from her studies in Paris and sent her off to Portugal to study with the great riding master, Nuno Oliveira. For the next 20 years, Drummond was immersed in the classical system of riding, most particularly the French training method. Her childhood and early adult years were spent in the company of some of the world's leading academic equestrian of the last half of the 20th century, many now long gone, but very much alive in Drummond's memory. 
In the
absence of the strongest Dutch Grand Prix combinations, Adelinde
Cornelissen foregrounded herself at the 2008 Dutch Dressage
Championships in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Aboard her fantastic Dutch
warmblood gelding Parzival (by Jazz), Cornelissen won all three rounds
with top percentage marks. She scored 73.750 in the Grand Prix, 73.480
in the Special and 78.700 % in the Kur to Music. Three times, Cornelissen
beat silver medal winning Anky van Grunsven
on her second horse Painted Black (by Gribaldi). The bronze medal went
to 2007 Dutch Euro Championship team gold medallist Hans Peter Minderhoud
on Nadine (by Partout). 
After five years you finally have your mare ready for Grand Prix. She’s proven she’s athletic and sound, and while you’d love to have a foal from her, you don’t want to give up any precious training and showing time. So you choose to keep competing her, but regret missing out on a great foal. Now you don’t have to make that choice. Embryo transfer just got easier. World-renowned veterinary clinic Palm Beach Equine Medical Centers, headquartered in Wellington, recently purchased the New Bridge Embryo Centre in Aiken. 
Spanish Riding School Rider Christian Bachinger will be doing at 5 day clinic, July 15-20, 2008 at Wellspring Farm, Pennsylvania. Herr Bachinger is a 3rd generation rider at the Spanish Riding School, both his father and grandfather were riders. Today his father Ernst Bachinger, long time trainer of Olympian Dorothy Morkis, serves as the current Director of the School, overseeing the horses and riders. 
Dressage rider Mrs. Lily Chiu Zilo was one of 120 torch bearers selected to participate in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Hong Kong today. Chiu-Zilo was born in Taipei and later moved to Hong Kong with her family. The Wellington resident represented her country in the 2007 Asian Games with her Dutch Warmblood mare, Windsor’s Mira, making the long journey to Qatar to represent Hong Kong. In her quest to qualify to represent her country in the 2008 Olympic Games Chiu-Zilo has been making leaps and bounds in her training with Michelle Gibson on her grand prix mount, Stradivari 14, a 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding she purchased from Hubertus Schmidt. 
