USEF Announces Dressage Short List for WEG
The U.S. Equestrian Federation (USEF) has announced the short list of horse-and-rider combinations for the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games Dressage Team.

Steffen Peters of San Diego, Calif., riding Floriano, a 16-year-old Westphalian gelding, owned by Stephen Browning and Laurelyn Browning
Guenter Seidel of Cardiff, Calif., riding Aragon, a 14-year-old Bavarian Warmblood gelding, owned by Richard and Jane Brown
Debbie McDonald of Hailey, Idaho, riding Brentina, a 15-year-old Hanoverian mare, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Parry Thomas
Leslie Morse of Beverly Hills, Calif., riding Tip Top, a 12-year-old Swedish Warmblood stallion, owned by Leslie Morse; and Kingston, a 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion, owned by Leslie Morse
Arlene "Tuny" Page of Wellington, Fla., riding Wild One, a 10-year-old Hanoverian gelding, owned by Arlene Page
Catherine Haddad based in Vecta, Germany, riding Maximus, a 12-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding, owned by the Janet Schneider Trust
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Biotechnology gives $10 million to equestrian games
Biotechnology company Alltech is officially the title sponsor of the world equestrian games that will be held in Kentucky.The Nicholasville-based company has announced it will pay ten (m) million dollars to become title sponsor of what will now be called the Alltech F-E-I Games Kentucky 2010.The games are sanctioned by the Federation Equestre Internationale.It's the first time a private company has put its name on the games.
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Michelle Gibson wins top class at Dressage Festival of Champions
Two 1996 Olympic Team Bronze Medal teammates rode a victory lap together again yesterday for the first time in 10 years - Michelle Gibson riding Lex Barker claimed first place in the USEF Intermediaire I with a score of 72.550% and Guenter Seidel aboard Princeton claimed second place with 70.900%. "I was having déja vu about Peron and Graf George - I thought, we need to get on the team again together!" quipped Seidel, naming their respective mounts at the Atlanta Games
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Steffen Peters and Floriano Win USEF Grand Prix at USET Foundation Dressage Festival of Champions presented by Paul Miller, Inc. at Gladstone

California riders claimed the top three spots in the USEF Grand Prix today at the USET Foundation Dressage Festival of Champions presented by Paul Miller, Inc. in Gladstone, New Jersey. Three-time Olympian Steffen Peters of San Diego riding Floriano, a 16-year-old chestnut Westphalian gelding owned by Laurelyn Browning, claimed victory with a score of 74.500%. Two riders tied for second place - Guenter Seidel of Cardiff and Leslie Morse of Beverly Hills both earned 71.583%. Three-time Olympian Seidel was in the irons on his 2004 Athens Olympic Games mount, Aragon, a 14-year-old gray Bavarian warmblood owned by Richard and Jane Brown. Morse was aboard her 12-year-old Swedish warmblood stallion Tip Top 962, her mount for the 2006 World Cup Dressage Final.
These three riders topped the class of 12 competitors competing in the first of three tests that will be held at the festival, June 15-18, for the 2006 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF National Grand Prix Championship/World Equestrian Games Selection Trials. Today’s Grand Prix test counted for 45%; the USEF Grand Prix Special test on Saturday, June 17, will count for 35%; and the USEF Grand Prix Freestyle test on Sunday, June 18, will account for 20%. The combined scores according to the above percentages comprise the rider/horse combinations’ final average at the Selection Trials.
Peters chose to go for it on the first day of competition. “I took a lot of risks today in the extensions,” said Peters. He noted that he was especially pleased with Floriano’s expressive passage. “It all worked out great today.” In the awards ceremony following the competition, Floriano exhibited some excited moves – even standing on his hind legs, and Peters explained that he was glad to see that the older gelding still has that spark in him. “He’s a hotter horse and that is why he is still going so strong.”
With the World Equestrian Games looming (August 20-September 3 in Aachen, Germany) Peters said that he does not expect to improve his horse’s performance beyond today’s 74-percentile mark and if he and Floriano were selected for the team he would be very happy to stay at the 74-percentile mark, which is likely the highest score this horse could achieve. “In the last centerline, he anticipated the piaffe a tiny bit but overall he was so in front of my aids,” Peters explained, “and he had so much energy, but was still very relaxed in the walk and the canter work, so I think this is as good as it gets.”
While Peters took risks, Seidel said that he rode conservatively today. “Except for a few obvious mistakes, I was very happy with my ride.” Seidel explained that he used the Grand Prix to feel Aragon out a bit prior to the upcoming weekend competitions and that he went for a careful ride in the first round. “If you push too much, he can become a little tense and hectic.” Aragon has previously earned 10s for his classic piaffe, but not today. “The first two weren’t as good as he can be,” Seidel admitted, “but the last was much better.” Seidel explained that the difference in the piaffe performances had to do with Aragon’s through-ness and overall response to the leg today. Seidel stated that he planned to push the horse more on Saturday.
Morse said she was very pleased with her ride. “He stayed with me most of the ride and I was very happy with him.” Morse noted that she was especially pleased with how her stallion handled the crowd and the venue in his first competition at Gladstone. “He stayed who he was and he was really good.” She admitted that Tip Top could have showed himself more in the piaffe and been quicker off her aids. “But overall, it was one of the best rides I’ve had,” she enthused. Morse revealed that she might have warmed Tip Top up too long because he had been very fresh in the morning and even did a little bucking in their morning walk on the grounds. “I wanted to go in and do a good, clean ride and build from there.”
With her eye on a berth to the World Equestrian Games, Morse noted that she and her stallion are constantly evolving and plan to keep improving as that competition draws near. “We’re constantly trying to get better at this,” she said, and noted that it was her responsibility to get her horse as strong and fit and solid as possible. “Every show we are moving up. I presume by August, absolutely we will take it to another level. That’s our goal, and that’s what we will work very hard to do.”
Officiating were four USA “I” judges: Jessica Ransehousen, Hilda Gurney; Anne Gribbons; and Janet Foy; the foreign judge was German “O” judge Uwe Mechlem.
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Horse beats man in marathon race
Man was unable to overcome beast in a unique endurance event today.Amid sweltering temperatures, the gruelling 22 mile "man versus horse" race in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, Mid Wales, was won by an equine entrant.Gordon Green, the event organiser, had predicted the hot weather may tip the balance towards humans - for only the second time in its 26 year history - as he said they could cope better with the conditions.
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Ten British equestrian greats inducted into Hall of Fame
Eight great riders and two horses have been inducted into The British Horse Society Equestrian Hall of Fame. Jennie Loriston-Clarke MBE FBHS, Robert Oliver, Captain Mark Phillips FBHS, Bertie Hill, Caroline Bradley, Marion Mould, Nick Skelton, Douglas Bunn, Tosca and Beethoven will all entered the BHS Equestrian Hall of Fame.British Horse Society President Noel Edmonds said: "I know the panel had a tough time choosing just 10 new laureates. All these equestrians and horses deserve to take their place in the Hall of Fame."The laureates were selected by a panel chaired by BHS Chairman Patrick Print FBHS and also comprising: Michael Clayton, Ginny Elliot, Lucy Higginson and Michael Mac. The panel considered a number of nominations made by members of the public.Of the new laureates Captain Mark Phillips, Douglas Bunn, Jennie Loriston-Clarke, Mary Hill (the widow of Bertie Hill), and the owner of Beethoven will today collect certificates to mark their induction at a luncheon at the Goring Hotel, London.The owners or riders of Dutch Courage, Sefton, Cornishman V and Merely a Monarch who were admitted in July 2005 will also be present to collect their certificates.
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Albuquerque Driver charged in horse fatal
A three-vehicle accident that sent three people to the hospital and killed a horse is being blamed on a driver who shouldn't have been driving in the first place.Albuquerque police reported Yvonne Marquez, 50, was driving on a suspended license when her pickup truck hit two other vehicles on Coors Road NW at Paseo del Norte late Monday afternoon.She struck another pickup pulling a horse trailer injuring the horse so badly it was euthanized at the scene.
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Boom or bust for equestrian property?
Read the latest newspaper reports and you'll believe that the British property market is behaving like a crazed yo-yo. For every headline touting an upturn, another predicts doom and disaster.The truth, according to specialist estate agents, is a lot less dramatic. Prices are solid and stable and the market is "steady", according to Richard Nocton, of Woolley & Wallis, who sees neither "colossal peaks nor troughs"."It is quite firm," agrees William Grant of Fox Grant. "It may be creeping up a little bit but it isn't running away."The latest figures from the Horse & Hound property index, which tracks advertisements in the magazine, support this analysis. They show that the middle price for the equestrian properties advertised in Horse & Hound is £799,500. This represents a 7% increase over last year, which is healthy, but hardly anything to write home about.
This simple number, however, hides a much more complex picture. On average, prices are slightly higher, but the number of houses available appears to be lower than last year. This is because, across the country, the supply of good equestrian homes remains tight. "We're looking at lots of stuff with pony paddocks, but the market is very short of properties," confirms William Grant. This is particularly true at mid-market level, according to the Horse & Hound index. Homes priced between £500,000 and £750,000 — the most popular range in the first four months of last year — seem to have virtually vanished from the market.
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Catherine Haddad Aims at the 2006 World Equestrian Games
Catherine Haddad has expressed her intent of qualifying for the United States Equestrian Team to compete at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. Permanently based in Vechta, Germany, Haddad has been in the Euro-picture this year aboard the 12-year old Danish Warmblood Maximus JSS. With top sixty percentage marks, Haddad is walking in the footsteps of Lisa Wilcox who had to go through specific procedures to qualify for the U.S. team, as she too was based in Germany.
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Local riding instructor earns Germany’s highest equestrian teaching qualification



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Local riding instructor earns Germany’s highest equestrian teaching qualification

East Mountains, Albuquerque, NM -- Thursday, June 1, 2006 -- Ulla Hudson has been awarded Germany’s top qualification for equestrian trainers, the Trainer A of the German FN (Reitlehrer, FN) . After a month of intensive training and examination in Europe, Ms. Hudson was awarded the degree of Trainer A in both jumping and dressage. She is the only trainer in New Mexico, and one of only a handful outside Germany, with this advanced qualification. At the same time, she received the German FN Silver Performance medal in Dressage and Jumping. Ulla Hudson already holds the Silver and Bronze Medals of the United States Dressage Federation.

"This has been my dream since I was six years old,” said Ulla, who with her husband Patrick Hudson MD, is the owner of Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. Windsong is an 80 acre horse farm in the East Mountains within easy reach of both Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

"With my new qualifications, I can develop the finest teaching program that truly meets the diverse needs of my many students," she said. "My students will be assured of having the best possible teaching available to help them develop into first class riders, whether in dressage or jumping."

Ulla Hudson was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1979. She founded Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center in 1984. She has been a resident of New Mexico since 1981.

Dressage is an international Olympic discipline that seeks to train horses in obedience and precision of movement. Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center is a complete horse facility that offers boarding, training, riding instruction, tack sales and horse importation.

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Toppled horse box slows M4
TWO horses have had to be treated by vets after their box toppled over on the M4. Lanes were shut and traffic built up fast as officers had to create an area for the animals to be treated and then loaded into another vehicle. The accident happened shortly before 9am yesterday just east of Junction 15 (Swindon) when the horse box was travelling along the M4 westbound towed by a Land Rover car. The occupants of the Land Rover, from the Southampton area, were uninjured. They were believed to have been taking the horses to a competition. Officers investigating the incident believe a tyre blew out on the trailer and as the Land Rover went into the hard shoulder, the horsebox toppled over leaving one horse with a cut on its leg.
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