Nineteen horse and rider teams were eager to negotiate the Linda Allen designed course for Sunday’s $30,000 Blenheim June Classic Grand Prix presented by Royal Champion, but in the end it was the double clean trip by Michael Endicott and David Robinson’s S.F. Shakira that clenched the win.
Tenth to go in the order, Endicott and [...]
The FEI World Equestrian Games, features top riders from around the world, participating in eight extraordinary equestrian disciplines. The games, being held outside Europe for the first time since their inception in 1990, will be hosted stateside at the Kentucky Horse Park, from September 25-October 10, 2010. Given that the WEG comes around every four years, between the summer Olympics, this [...]
Only seven years ago, Mark Watring and his dapple-grey Holsteiner, Sapphires’ many successive international Grand Prix wins initiated a flood of breeding inquiries. Sapphire, a classic, solidly put-together Warmblood , seemed to intuitively know that leaping the standards, untouched, was critical . But, given that he was a gelding and not a stallion, it looked [...]