Press Release

West Palm Beach, FL (March 18, 2010) – Tokyo, a Dutch Warmblood owned by Renee Isler and ridden by Ryan Yap, showed off his spectacular canter during the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge II to capture the highest score for a Warmblood at the show. Tokyo’s high score earned him the Highlife Cup, sponsored by Highlife Farms, a world-class sport horse farm and one of the country’s most prominent breeding facilities.

Lexington, KY- March 18, 2010 - Kentucky Spring Horse Shows' management company, Kentucky Horse Shows LLC, is pleased to announce that Audi of Lexington, Johnson Horse Transportation, FarmVet, Dietrich Insurance, and the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute will be sponsoring this year's hunter/jumper competition. The event begins with the Kentucky Spring Horse Show being held May 12-16, 2010, and continues with the Kentucky Spring Classic scheduled for the week of May 19-23, 2010.

Wellington, FL - March 15, 2010 - After an exciting evening of competition at the International Polo Club Palm Beach on Saturday evening, Team International The Seley Parker Group of Merrill Lynch performed a beautiful quadrille for a score of 95.3 to take home top honors in the 2010 Challenge of the Americas. The Challenge, in its ninth consecutive year as an annual fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, was held under the lights on Piaget Field and was presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC).

West Palm Beach, FL (March 17, 2010) – Canadian Olympian Jacqueline Brooks and her Hanoverian gelding Balmoral rode away the winners of the FEI Test of Choice at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge II show, held at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center. Draper Equine Therapy, makers of therapeutic horse and rider products featuring the innovative “smart fiber” Celliant™/Holofiber®, sponsored the class and awarded Brooks with a Draper Saddle Pad.

West Palm Beach, FL (March 17, 2010) – Nancy Later and her new mount, Latamanda EHT, turned in an award-winning ride at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge II to win the Intermediaire II class. Sho Clothes, Wellington’s upscale dressage boutique that specializes in the latest and most fashionable dressage apparel for show and play, sponsored the class.

West Palm Beach, FL (March 16, 2010) – Danish Olympic dressage star Lars Petersen rode into the winner’s circle during the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge II, winning the FEI Grand Prix Special aboard Beemer and taking home another gift certificate from The Sanctuary Equine Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation Center. Petersen also won a class sponsored by The Sanctuary at the Gold Coast Opener earlier this year aboard his horse Success.

Loxahatchee, FL-March 16, 2010 - Olympian Lauren Hough will be a member of the show jumping team competing for Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center (VTRC) during the Great Charity Challenge. The event is scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 2010, and will be held at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center during the Winter Equestrian Festival. Based on the success of the team VTRC will receive between $8,000 and $150,000.
 

Tampa, FL - March 16, 2010 - Stadium Jumping, Inc., announced today that G & C Farm has joined this year's edition of the $200,000 Gene Mische American Invitational presented by G&C Farm in Tampa, Florida, as the presenting sponsor. The American Invitational, known throughout the equestrian world as the "Super Bowl of Show Jumping," will take place on April 10th, under the lights, at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.
 

Wellington, FL - March 15, 2010 - After an exciting evening of competition at the International Polo Club Palm Beach on Saturday evening, Team International The Seley Parker Group of Merrill Lynch performed a beautiful quadrille for a score of 95.3 to take home top honors in the 2010 Challenge of the Americas. The Challenge, in its ninth consecutive year as an annual fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, was held under the lights on Piaget Field and was presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC).

West Palm Beach, FL (March 15, 2010) – Janne Rumbough, an adult amateur dressage rider known for her many wins and beautiful P.R.E. Spanish horses, won the EQUILITE™ 2010 Grooming and Conditioning Award with her horse JR during the Palm Beach Dressage Derby CDI. Rumbough and JR, a stunning grey, were awarded EQUILITE™ brand products from award sponsor Arenus, makers of animal health products and supplement blends including SORE NO MORE®.