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Tim McQuay Wins USEF Qualifier at the Gordyville Breeders Cup Reining icon Tim McQuay of Tioga, TX, won the USEF Open Reining Championship Qualifier at the Gordyville Breeders Cup in Gifford, IL, on Saturday, March 19. Riding Dun Gotta Gun owned by Jerry Kimmel, McQuay made it look easy receiving the top score of 228.5 besting the field of 14 in the CRI-B FEI International Reining Competition. For the full story, click here. United States Equestrian Team Foundation’s 2005 Maxine Beard Award Goes to Cayce Harrison Free Admission for All Winter Equestrian Festival Events at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center Gene Mische, President of Stadium Jumping, Inc., the company that produces the Winter Equestrian Festival, announced that all events at this year’s Winter Equestrian Festival at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center, will be free of charge. For the full story, click here.
Sale! Save on Official USEF Merchandise The March feature item of the month is the Blue Ribbon dog jacket by Royal Riders. Available in numerous color palettes and sizes, there’s one that will surely fit your canine friend. Click here to order this item. From now until March 31, purchase $50.00 or more on USEF merchandise and you will receive a USEF Sport Bottle for 50% off the regular retail price – a savings of $5.50! Please enter the word sportbottle in the coupon code section when checking out to receive this special limited offer. To view the entire selection of official USEF merchandise, click here. 2005 Garden State Horse Show Features New Classes and New Hunter Annex The 54th annual Garden State Horse Show returns to the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, NJ, May 4-8, 2005, with a line-up of special featured classes and some exciting new additions for exhibitors and spectators alike. The Garden State Horse Show, presented by the Junior Essex Troop, Inc., features several classes and two jumper sections that are new for this year. In the jumper division, a new pony jumper section has been added, highlighted by the $500 North American League (NAL) Pony Jumper class. The pony jumper section is sponsored by Terra Nova Marketing Solutions of Doylestown, PA. Also added to this year’s schedule is the new Young Jumper Championship section, sponsored by Marty and Debby Deleyer of Smithtown, NY, with classes for horses age five through eight. For the full story, click here. Rule Change Alert The USEF Executive Committee met Tuesday March 15, 2005, and approved a few extraordinary rule changes. These changes can be found at www.usef.org/documents/rules/ruleChanges/2005/ApprovedEC3-15-05.pdf
Kathy Kusner to be Inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame Olympic equestrian Kathy Kusner will join NFL quarterback Drew Bledsoe and Track and Field legend Louis Zamperini for the 2005 Class of Inductees into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame. These three world-class athletes will be enshrined into this unique Hall of Fame for utilizing their platform of sports to make positive changes in the world. For the full story, click here. Learn Dressage with an Expert at the Las Vegas World Cup Dressage with the Expert will be offered at the 2005 Las Vegas World Cup, featuring FEI “O” Judge, Cara Whitham. Dressage with the Expert is a fascinating way to “eavesdrop” on the comments an expert might make about the performance of riders and horses while they are actually competing. It is a great way to gain a better understanding of this majestic sport. Whitham has judged all over the world and knows these horses and riders well. For the full story, click here. Certified Horsemanship Association International Conference Set for September AFA Convention Breaks Attendance Record There are nearly seven million horses in the United States, according to the American Horse Council. Each one of these horses is literally one hoof away from success or failure, contentment or pain, life or death, and farriers are positioned to determine the difference. Perhaps more than anyone else (except the horses themselves), farriers know that healthy hooves are critical to horses’ well-being; hooves make the horse. That certainty is what brought a record-breaking crowd of 1,800 to the 34th Annual Convention of the American Farrier's Association (AFA) last month in Chattanooga, TN. For the full story, click here. From the March 2005 issue of EQUESTRIAN magazine: National Horse of the Year Champions
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) congratulates our Grand National, National, Zone, Regional and District Year-end Award winners, as well as Silver Stirrup Award winners. Each horse, rider, driver, handler and owner pictured and listed in EQUESTRIAN represent the culmination of many hours of training and conditioning. They represent the very best our sport has to offer. We applaud their determination and salute their success! To see the photo gallery of the 2004 National Champions in the USEF's Horse of the Year program, click here for the full story in PDF format. 1% Below Factory Invoice on Select New Dodge Vehicles for USEF Members Real savings for USEF members through USEF Purchasing. For more information, call USEF Purchasing toll-free (877) 576-6872. The United States Equestrian Federation, Inc. (USEF), as the National Equestrian Federation of the U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show jumping, and vaulting, as well as 20 other breeds and disciplines of equestrian competition. As the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation has over 80,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including educating and licensing all judges, stewards and technical delegates who officiate at these shows. VISION STATEMENT The vision of USEF is to provide leadership for equestrian sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian federation in the world. ©2005, United States Equestrian Federation, Inc. |
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