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Blenheim EquiSports June
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With a Grand Prix event each weekend, Zone 10 Young Rider Selection Trials, a USHJA Hunter Derby, Zone 10 Pony Hunter Finals, Open Jumper Classics and Children’s Pony Hunter Divisions, Blenheim EquiSports hosted four weeks of superb summer horse shows in San Juan Capistrano. Why go anywhere else?
Saturday, June 12: Derby Day
Blenheim once again set the stage for a fabulous USHJA Hunter Derby. As popular with spectators as it is with competitors, this high performance two-round event is now known as a well-respected and challenging class for the top hunter. Some of the entrants will also be competing in the second annual Derby Finals in Kentucky this August. For those who can’t make it to Kentucky for this prestigious event it will be available live online through EquestrianLife.com...
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Sunday, June 13: $30,000 Blenheim Classic Grand Prix at June Classic I
Sunday turned out to be a picture perfect day for competitor and spectator alike. Zone 10 Teams for the NAJYRC were determined and awarded, based on the results from this week. Nineteen horse and rider teams negotiated the Linda Allen designed course for the $30,000 Blenheim Classic Grand Prix presented by Royal Champion...
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Sunday, June 13: NAJYRC Celebration
After the points were tallied and the teams determined, both the 2010 ‘A’ and ‘B’ Teams were honored during the opening ceremonies of the $30,000 Blenheim Classic Grand Prix, presented by Royal Champion...
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Sunday, June 20: $30,000 June Classic Grand Prix at June Classic II
Susie Hutchison and El Dorado 29’s Cantano add yet another win to their list, the $30,000 June Classic Grand Prix, made possible by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. A rather impressive list, this mighty match of horse and rider has led the victory gallop on the Blenheim International Field eight times since April of 2008.
Course designer Javier Fernandez’s goal was to have five horses in the jump-off, and then to have one or two jump double clean...
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Sunday, June 27: $30,000 Copa De Amistad Grand Prix at June Classic III
Sunday afternoon turned out to be a day for the ladies in the $30,000 Copa
de Amistad Grand Prix presented by EquiFit, inc. The event welcomed twenty-four horse and rider teams onto the Peter Holmes designed course with seven riders, six of them women, earning spots in the jump-off. With two of the seven spots, it was Mandy Porter aboard Wild Turkey Farm’s LaMarque who led the victory gallop...
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Saturday, June 26 - Sunday, June 27: Zone 10 Pony Hunter Finals
The ponies took to the field this past Saturday and Sunday for the Zone 10 Pony Hunter Finals. Read all about it and view the photos...
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Saturday, June 26: Softball & BBQ
Great sport didn’t end when the final horse trotted off the course last Saturday. Soon after, three softball games commenced on the East Grass Field...
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Saturday, July 3: $25,000 Red, White & Blue Grand Prix culminates week four of June Series
The $25,000 Red, White & Blue Grand Prix presented by the St. Regis Monarch Beach, invited 19 horse-and-rider duos onto the Michel Vaillancourt designed course at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park. Vaillancourt remarked, “I think today’s course dimensions are very worthy of this class. It is definitely a solid 1.50m course. We will have a jump off but not certain how many."
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EquestriSol News |
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Honorable Mentions
Here at home we witnessed a list of notable equestrian triumphs. And we certainly won't have room to mention them all. So hats off to all of you who won your first blue, jumped your first 3'6" course or your first jumper course. As we raise our now three-year-old daughter we relearn so many lessons, and the one we most recently discussed (although I don't think she completely understood) was looking at the glass as half-full. We would like to raise our glass, full or half-full, to all of you who touch our lives through your achievements...
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Sponsor Stories |
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Equestrian Connect
A little over one year ago, amateur jumper riders Barbara Phillips and Simone Coxe were having coffee together and griping about entry forms. They had been doing their own entries for years, and were sick of all the repetition, endless handwriting and the holdup when mistakes were made. Then and there the two equestrians decided that instead of wishing there was an easier way to enter horse shows they would create an easier way to enter horse shows...
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A Stable Story |
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Bernie Traurig's Equestrian Coach
We are deep into a new age where knowledge is literally at our fingertips. From connecting to collecting, the wealth of available resources awaits the typing of a simple address. Not your physical address, but the uniform resource locator or URL. That string of characters – www-dot-equestriancoach-dot-com - represents a wide world of people that are now reaching one another in ways that were virtually impossible just over a decade ago...
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Sponsor Stories |
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Greg Mech & Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
Aside from being responsible for the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Business and Strategy for the Southwest Region of Merrill Lynch as well as the Market President for Bank of America acting as the senior executive for local businesses, civic and philanthropic leadership for Bank of America in Orange County, Greg Mech loves horses...
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A Day in the Life |
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Rusty Stewart
The atypical is typical for grand prix
rider, trainer and breeder Rusty Stewart. Each day has similar goals but begins and ends in its own way for Rusty and his wife Kandi, who run Grey Fox Farm out of their own facility in Camarillo, California...
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Sponsor Stories |
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St. Regis Monarch Beach
Dismount from your day on horseback and enrich your senses at the St. Regis Monarch Beach. Paradise awaits less than 10 miles from Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park on the breathtaking coastline of the Pacific in beautiful Dana Point. This destination is the perfect place to unwind and recharge after a day in the show ring or simply the getaway you need from day to day life...
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