Nina Ligon Wins First CIC3* of 2012
Nina Ligon and Butts Leon rode to victory in last weekend’s CIC3* at Poplar Place Farm in Hamilton, Georgia. The pair finished on their dressage score of 46.5 exactly 10 points ahead of second placed Carl Bouckaert and Mensa. Nina also claimed the third position with Jazz King while the sole American in the field, Danielle Dichting took fourth with Tops. Ronald Zabala-Goetschel swept the fifth through eighth places with Wise Equestrian’s Master Rose, Brer Fox, and Kairo respectively. Elena Ceballos rounded out the finishers in eighth with Nounours du Moulin.
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Rebecca Raubacher Short Film
The distinctive Animals To Wear clothing that is seen all over events across the U.S. features the artwork of Rebecca Raubacher. Recently Rebecca was the subject of a short film that was filmed on location at Fair Hill International, The Raubacher Gallery, and Winswept Stables in Lewes Delaware. It was featured in the 2011 Dusty Film Festival at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. The film was also chosen by the Rehoboth Beach Film Society to be screened in their Cinema and Art Film Event.
Read the rest of this entry FLAIR® Master Class: Eric Dierks No 4: Big Bank and Skinny Brush
FLAIR has launched its newest Master Class series of videos. The current videos feature Team FLAIR’S Eric Dierks, a member of the USPC Board of Governors taking the viewer on a course walk of the 2010 USEA American Eventing Championships.
In this fourth video in a series of videos featuring Team FLAIR’S Eric Dierks, Dierks takes the viewer through Complex Number 12 of the 2010 American Eventing Championship — explaining just how he would ride this Big Bank and Skinny Brush.
Read the rest of this entry On the Bookshelf: Raja, Story of a Racehorse
If Raja, Story of a Racehorse had been written when I was 11-years-old I would have worn the cover off from reading and re-reading it. Thirteen years later I still read the 250 page book in one sitting as I just had to know what was going to happen to Raja next.
Although the novel could best be described as a modern-day Black Beauty meets National Velvet to me it was so much more than just a fictional account as Raja’s story has happened time and time again for thousands of horses including several of my own. My very first horse Jackson, although not nearly as royally bred as Raja, started his life on the track and even racked up $10,000 in prize money. A bowed tendon landed him at auction where he was bought by a riding school. When the school’s owner was sent to jail the horses ended up in horrific condition and Jackson came into my life. After a career of hunter/jumpers and eventing Jackson is now 18 and retired to the important job of babysitting a herd of donkeys. Throughout the entire book little details kept bringing me back to not only Jackson’s story, but the four other OTTBs that have been in my life.
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