SU launches Equestrian Center, Bit by Bit fund-raising campaign
Rogers State University has announced it will begin a $2 million fund-raising campaign to enhance its equestrian facilities, which serve not only its students but also the surrounding community through a unique equine therapy program for disabled children.The fund-raising campaign was presented this week to the University of Oklahoma’s Board of Regents, RSU’s governing body. The campaign intends to raise $1 million to acquire land and construct modern, off-campus equestrian facilities, with another $1 million placed in an endowment to fund operating expenses for the RSU Equestrian Center and the Bit By Bit Therapeutic Riding Center at RSU.

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NEXT CLINIC Sonja Vracko 3/15-16, 2004

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Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center in Albuquerque, NM presents a Sonja Vracko Dressage Clinic on March 15 and 16, 2004
Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center will hold a dressage clinic featuring Sonja Vracko on March 15 and 16, 2004.
Sonja Vracko is a USAE and CEF S Judge. Ms.Vracko had been a competitor, trainer, judge and clinician in Canada, the United States and in Germany since the early Seventies. She has competed, trained and judged through the Grand Prix level.
She was born Germany and has studied with Willi Schultheis, Christine Stueckelberger and George Wahl in Switzerland and with Ducan Mavec in Lipica.

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no Canadian Jumpers in 2004 Olympic Games
Canada will be in both eventing and dressage, but will not have a jumping team for the first time since 1968. Jump Canada will choose one rider for the individual competition and it remains to be seen whether Ian Millar of Perth, Ont., will represent Canada at the Olympics for an eighth time...

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Top dollars reign at show horse auction
When people come to see Jeff Marsh about a horse, his Virginia twang ricochets across the audience with the speed of a Big Apple accent direct from Times Square.The veteran auctioneer called the shots Sunday at The Ridge Farm, where more than 100 people turned out and bid five- and six-figure prices for quality show horses. Marsh's lively banter set a dizzying pace, as a deft nod here or a subtle wave there spurred each horse's stock to rise steadily in value. Such auctions for horses in the jumper, hunter and dressage disciplines are common in Europe, but occur less frequently in the states...

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Debbie McDonald Awarded Whitney Stone Cup
Debbie McDonald of Hailey, ID, was awarded the Whitney Stone Cup at the USET Foundation luncheon held at the USEF annual convention in Los Angeles, CA.  Each year since 1980, the Whitney Stone Cup has been awarded to an individual who has achieved a distinguished record in international competition while also serving as an exemplary ambassador for equestrian sports...  
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Infection is my big bugbear
After the excitement and thrills of winning the two big Christmas chases at Kempton and Leopardstown, with Edredon Bleu and Best Mate, our spirits have been further raised by a couple of excellent January weekends which produced doubles for our yard on consecutive Saturdays. Yet despite these victories, it has been business as usual at West Lockinge Farm and there have been several surprise reversals with some of the promising younger horses.
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Koffler Named Great American/USDF Volunteer of the Year
The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) is pleased to announce that Margee Koffler, of Lexington, KY, has been selected as the 2003 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Volunteer of the Year. Koffler has been dedicated to dressage and the USDF on the local, regional, and national level for more than seven years. As her most recent contribution to dressage on the regional level, Koffler managed the 2003 Great American/USDF Region 2 Dressage Championships in conjunction with the East Central Cosequin/USDF Breeders' Championship Series Final, a competition that attracted more than 500 horses. On the national level, she is currently the chair of the USDF Development Committee and has been an integral part of developing the new USDF Advanced Young Rider Graduate Program in conjunction with the United States Equestrian Team...
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Wanted: A Few Good Clippers (of equestrian land use articles)
The Equestrian Land Conservation Resource is looking for clippers--people who are concerned about the loss of equestrian land and riding areas and want to do something about it. These clippers clip newspaper and magazine articles, not shaggy horses, and send them in to the Equestrian Land Conservation Resource's (ELCR) national office. The articles assist the ELCR in developing a national perspective responsive to the diverse local issues and conditions affecting equestrian access to trails, open space, and land use. This knowledge enables the ELCR to link concerned individuals with others in their region or elsewhere who are working on similar issues...

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What's in a name? simplicity. The end of AHSA, USEF and USET
U.S. Equestrian, that's the new name of the United States' main organization for equestrian sports. For many people, it has been a bit confusing to understand the various names of the competing organizations, over the past year, so I'll try to untangle the name game. The American Horse Shows Association (AHSA) exists no longer; nor does the United States Equestrian Team (USET), which was also called the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) or the National Governing Body (NGB). They have been merged to form U.S. Equestrian...

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Cruelty, neglect hurt more horses than West Nile does

This is a community and a country that loves horses, so why do we tolerate cruelty to them?In the state's largest case to date, 45 starving horses in Pine County were seized from their owner in November 2002. And recently, 16 horses in Todd County were rescued (seven more had died).   I thank God, because we are full here," said Drew Fitzpatrick, head of the Minnesota Hooved Animal Rescue Foundation ...

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Hot or cold blood, horses are equal
You may hear a horse referred to as being a cold blood or a hot blood, and many dressage horses are often called warm bloods.However, this actually doesn't have anything to do with their body temperature or their blood...

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Equine ID Task Force Meeting at U.S. Equestrian Annual Meeting
The American Horse Council will hold a meeting of the Equine ID Task Force during the U.S. Equestrian Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 14-18...

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Las Vegas seeking a winning pair for World Cup
The profile of horse sports in this country could take a great leap forward with the first-ever combined finals of World Cup show jumping and dressage next year in Las Vegas. The board of Las Vegas Events, which presented the World Cup show jumping finals in 2000 and 2003, approved the concept, which still needs the formality of a final nod from the FEI (international equestrian federation.) But since the idea has the support of FEI Dressage Committee Chairman Mariette Withages, among others, Las Vegas Events President Pat Christenson is expecting to make an official announcement soon, and would like tickets to go on sale in April, a year before the event. "What's most attractive to me is the marketing component. We like being able to market it as the world's top equestrian sports festival," said Christenson, who envisions the advertising slogan as, "Come watch America compete against the world. Debbie McDonald will be our icon for that," he added, referring to the 2003 Dressage World Cup champion.

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AQHA Moves Ahead in Approving Dressage from the beginning of 2004
Starting January 1, 2004, American Quarter Horses competing at official U.S. Equestrian/USDF shows will be recognized by AQHA for a yearlong trial period. Through the efforts of an AQHA Show Committee Dressage Task Force joined by representatives from United States Dressage Federation and U.S. Equestrian, AQHA has taken the first steps toward recognizing dressage. Starting January 1, 2004, American Quarter Horses competing at official U.S. Equestrian/USDF shows will be recognized by AQHA for a year long trial period...

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