Thursday June 30, 2005

The Pure Spanish Horse – P.R.E. Takes Hold in America

Fiesta Florida at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center

An estimated six hundred Jacksonville natives visited the barns, cheered their favorites at the competition and jumped to their feet, en masse, and a number of times during the electrifying Saturday evening program. The target audience, horse-lovers who were not yet familiar with the P.R.E., could not help but be duly impressed with the “Horse of Kings“.

Friday, June 3d, Frank Weber, announcer for Medieval Times Dinner Theater Orlando, opened the morphology competition by introducing the Presentation of the Flags ceremony and singing the National Anthem. A platoon of Foundation volunteers, from California , New Mexico , Virginia and Florida , scurried to their stations. Linda Ristow, National Show Committee Chairperson for the Foundation, took her place as official score person. Barbara Clark, Foundation Executive Director, wreathed herself in raffle tickets and manned her Foundation information booth. Barbara Currie of Agora California , determined and tireless global ambassador for the PRE, was on hand to do whatever was required of her, as always.