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Fall Focus: WEG and Indoors |
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As we enter into November 2010, once again we have worldwide reasons to celebrate equestrian sport, including show jumpers, hunter and equitation riders from both coasts and across the ocean. Competing for the ultimate win of the year if not of their junior or professional career, many riders have ridden to recognition in the last month.
Three weeks have passed since the WEG and Capital Challenge closed. The shows go on as well as the riders. Certainly Belgian rider Phillippe Le Jeune left Kentucky with the win of a lifetime while Rodrigo Pessoa has taken the Indoor Grand Prix circuit by storm. West Coast rider Hannah Goodson-Cutt continues to dominate the older Junior Hunter Divisions, Large and Small. Read our overview of the WEG in all its glory, including inside scoops from WEF President Michael Stone, US Show Jumping Team Selector Bernie Traurig as well as WEG Course Analyzing with Guilherme Jorge and Hap Hansen. Plus yet another West Coast junior making her mark throughout the world, Lucy Davis, and an Indoors report to date.
Wishing all a fabulous fall and a Happy Halloween!
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Painting the WEG Picture |
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After years of hoping, bidding, planning and building, the Kentucky Horse Park gates officially closed for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, yet the economical and reputable impact the city and state experienced during the 16 days of competition still lingers. Hosted in the United States for the first time, the city and state lived up to its reputation as the acclaimed ‘Horse Capital of the World’ when hosting this international equine event...
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Inside Indoors |
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Capital Challenge, Harrisburg, Washington, and Syracuse
The excitement of the World Equestrian Games surrounding Lexington, Kentucky was nothing short of overpowering during the months of September and October. However many other year round competitors and enthusiasts of the sport instead found themselves at the most recognized and notorious end of the year championship shows...
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The Equestrian Equation |
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Can ESP (WEF) + Stone = WEG 2018 for the FEI?
The right mix of masters could bring the WEG back to the US, or so we would like to speculate... I had the chance to interview one of the individuals who could make this happen, Michael Stone. We spoke twice this year, once in Wellington during the WEG trials at WEF and then again in Lexington directly before the WEG Final Four on Saturday night...
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Natural Selection from Grassroots to the WEG |
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Bernie Traurig
Bernie Traurig’s involvement with horses began early and never faltered. From his first trail ride to his genuine backyard stables, a pre-fab garage that his father made into a stall and tack room, it seemed as if a childhood passion was destined to turn into something more serious. Dedicating most of his young rider success to his experiences at Meadowbrook Pony Club in Long Island, New York, and his trainer of four years, Captain Vladimir S. Littauer, Traurig went on to win both the AHSA (now USEF) Medal Finals and the prestigious ASPCA Medal Maclay Finals at the age of 16...
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Course Analysis |
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Analyzing the World’s Most Competitive Courses with Special Guests Hap Hansen and Guilherme Jorge
We’ve all ridden plenty of Grand Prix classes from our seats... in the audience. And thanks to modern technology we’ve watched the WEG courses via FEI.tv, the new USEF network and YouTube. But I had the chance to watch with Hap Hansen, who certainly knows what it’s like to ride those courses from the seat of the saddle. Plus in the midst of the competition I was able to converse with Guilherme Jorge, assistant to WEG head course designer Conrad Homfeld...
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Developing Young Talent |
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Look Out for Lucy
Committed, focused, intelligent and competitive, Lucy Davis is a trainer’s dream. Both natural and exceptional, the young equestrian exemplifies talent. And furthermore, she is soft spoken, kind and zen-like...
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