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Aesthete is the Bright Spot for Silva Martin and Owner Faye Woolf Winning the Markel/USEF Dressage 6 Year Old Eastern Division

2024-10-12T18:14:37-04:00June 8, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Silva Martin and Aesthete’s owner Faye Woolf decided to stick to the plan by heading to Morven Park for the Markel/USEF Young Dressage Eastern Selection Trials for the 6-Year-Olds just a few days after a fire at her husband Boyd Martin’s leased barn claimed the lives of 6 event horses. [...]

Lauren Chumley and Somer Hit Qualify for the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses at the Markel/USEF Young Horse Eastern Selection Trial

2024-10-12T18:14:39-04:00June 7, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

As a 4-year-old Somer Hit competed last year with his owner Alice Tarjan at the Markel/USEF National Championships for Young Dressage Horses placing fourth. This year with a wedding, her own, just two weeks ago, Tarjan handed the reins to her Frenchtown, NJ neighbor 26-year-old Lauren Chumley who skillfully presented [...]

Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Eastern Selection Trials Presents Exciting Possibilities for the USA

2024-10-12T18:14:51-04:00June 5, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

The depth of the growth of the Young Dressage Horse program in America was in full bloom at the VADA/Nova Summer Dressage Show at Morven Park in Leesburg Virginia. In the largest 5 and 6-year-old class yet of the horses presented n the Preliminary Young Horse Test for the 2011 [...]

Silva Martin Soldiers On at the Markel/USEF Young Horse Eastern Selection Trial for Young Dressage Horses

2024-10-12T18:14:57-04:00June 4, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Just last week, at her husband eventer Boyd Martin’s True Prospect Farm in West Grove, PA a tragic fire took the lives of six horses with four surviving horses under veterinary care. All dressage horses in Silva’s care were stabled separately and safe, with two being prepared for the Markel/USEF [...]

USEF National Young Dressage Horse Coach Scott Hassler’s Vision for Young Horses

2024-10-12T18:14:58-04:00June 4, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

DresssageDaily reporter Kelly Sanchez presents this in-depth article of the program, its challenges, and strengths. Get Scott Hassler talking about young horses, and his passion and enthusiasm practically spills out of him. He’ll tell you how young horses are just like school kids, how trainers need a good support system [...]

Dressage at Saratoga Continues a 17-Year Tradition

2024-10-12T18:15:09-04:00June 3, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Saratoga Springs, NY - With the red and white awnings of the historic grandstand at Saratoga’s Racecourse visible across the vast green infield, dressage horses and riders conducted their tests in three rings set on the actual racetrack, thanks to the generosity of the New York Racing Association (NYRA). Downsized [...]

Raleigh Capital Dressage Classic June 3-5, 2011

2024-10-12T18:15:20-04:00June 2, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

Some of the dressage world’s best-known horse-and-rider teams will be wowing spectators at the 2011 CDI3*Y/J Raleigh Capital Dressage Classic June 3-5, 2011, at the Hunt Horse Complex in Raleigh, NC. Among just a few of the world-class riders who will be competing are Michael Barisone, Jim Koford, Susan Dutta, [...]

Olympian Lisa Wilcox and Pikko Del Cerro HU Stars at the Kentucky Dressage Association CDI

2024-10-12T18:07:14-04:00May 30, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

US Dressage rider and Olympian Lisa Wilcox and Horses Unlimited’s Pikko Del Cerro HU reached a new plateau in their partnership which began in September 2010, when Florida-based Mikayla Gundersen who is Danish passed on the ride to Wilcox so they can compete for the USA with the National Championships [...]

Sabine Schut-Kery and Sanceo Qualify for the FEI World Breeding Championships at the Dressage at Flintridge CDI* Y/J

2024-10-12T18:07:21-04:00May 30, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

With their combined total of 82.280% in the 2011 Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Western Selection Trial for 5-year-olds at Dressage at Flintridge CDI* Y/J, June 26–29, Sabine Schut-Kery and the bay Hanoverian stallion Sanceo qualified for this summer’s FEI World Breeding Championships in Verden. “He’s so light, and each day [...]

The Show Goes on in California: Dressage at Flintridge CDI* Y/J

2024-10-12T18:07:29-04:00May 29, 2011|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

For most people, Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, but for dressage riders on the West Coast, it also means the annual Dressage at Flintridge Show, a favorite date on the calendar of both competitors and spectators. Despite widespread concern about the EHV-1 outbreak, which was linked [...]

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