Press Release

DALTON, OHIO (May 22, 2013) – Buckeye® Nutrition’s pelleted Gro ’n Win® products take the guesswork out of feeding multiple horses with various nutritional needs. Created to be fed as a stand-alone feed or a supplement to a horse’s daily grain diet, Gro ’n Win® is formulated with a precise balance of amino acids, vitamins and Optimin® organic minerals for easy digestion and absorption. Gro ’n Win® is highly concentrated allowing for a lower feeding rate.

Ridgefield, CT – May 22, 2013 – Double H Farm and Rodrigo Pessoa announce that after a seven-year relationship, they will be going in different directions. Rodrigo Pessoa will no longer be the principal rider for Double H Farm. After an extremely successful partnership, Rodrigo will move on and Double H Farm will focus on other aspects of their business.

May 21, 2013 - Lexington, KY - New Vocations announced today that they are accepting resumes for the third annual Olivia M. Saylor Internship. The internship was established in 2011 to allow college students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the Thoroughbred aftercare industry by working for New Vocations Racehorse Adoption. Prominent racehorse owner, Paul Saylor, graciously helped establish the internship in honor of his daughter Olivia M. Saylor.

May 22, 2013 marks the beginning of six weeks of competition between May and September at the Angelstone International Show Jumping Tournament. Highlights of the fourth annual horse show will include five Grand Prix events, the FEI World Cup Qualifier, the 2013 Young Horse Championships, and over a million dollars in prize money.

Lexington, KY - May 20, 2013 - The 2013 Alltech National Horse Show announced today that for the third year in a row, the Saturday evening performance will benefit the United States Equestrian Team Foundation. During the Saturday evening performance, featuring the show's main event, the $250,000 Alltech Grand Prix, the horse show will share fifty percent of the night's gate receipts with the USET Foundation.
 

Wiesbaden, Germany - May 19, 2013 - Laura Kraut and Cherry Knoll Farm's Cedric rose to the top of the Longines Global Champions Tour rankings yesterday during the Grand Prix of Wiesbaden. Kraut's winning jump-off beat out two-time Champion Edwina Tops-Alexander and her all-star horse Cevo Itot du Chateau by a mere two tenths of a second.  Kraut now sits in the top spot on 77 points, leading the Global Champions Tour standings, and she has her eye set on the fourth leg of the GCT at the Olympic Park in London.

Lincoln, NE – Four young riders have been selected for the 2013 International Dream Program that annually sends young riders to Europe for an intensive 10-day dressage experience. The program is administered and funded annually by The Dressage Foundation (TDF).  An independent selection committee, after reviewing dozens of applications, chose the following young riders to make the twelfth annual TDF trip to Europe: Katie Foster (MI), Molly Eastridge (WA), Hannah Pierucci (VA) and Molly Maloney (NY).

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named the following four horse-and-rider combinations to the U.S. Dressage Team for the Aachen CDIO5* held during CHIO Aachen in Germany, June 26-30, 2013. Additionally, two Small Tour combinations have been named to represent the U.S. in CDI4* competition. In 2013, the United States will also be represented for the first time in CDI-U25 competition.

The following four combinations have been named to the U.S. Dressage Team for the Aachen CDIO5*(listed in Alphabetical Order):

ReRun, Inc., a Thoroughbred retraining and adoption charity, is holding this year’s spring auction of Moneighs® from May 26 to June 2, 2013 on ebay®.  A Moneigh is a 20x16 abstract painting created by a horse using muzzle, whiskers, hoof, tail or paintbrush. The trademarked name is derived from the name of a French artist, and the sound made by a horse.  ReRun has completed over 1000 paintings since 2001.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md., May 6, 2013-- The Maryland Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show, held April 26- 28 at the Prince George’s Equestrian Center Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, raised approximately $10,000 to benefit Thoroughbred Placement Resources, Inc.