Georgian Horse Expo “2007”June 29th, 30th July 1st Victoria Park
You don’t have to love horses to love the Expo!
Come for the day, enjoy the action, visit the vendors, treat yourself.
The Georgian Horse Expo is three days of equestrian talent and music concerts. Watch demonstrations taking place in the show ring daily. Watch training presentations and action packed performances from local stables and riding schools.
The expo is all about family. There's so much to see and do that you won't want to miss a thing.
- Opening free style reining demonstration by the students at
- Cowboys and livestock from the Turkey Run Ranch demonstrate a working cow horse operation.
- Amazing Dodge Rodeo competitor and Roping champion Harry Hodges demonstrates his roping techniques.
- Special heavy breeds shown in logging and harness demonstrations.
- A graceful performance of dressage style riding by Olivia Wentworth Stanley.
- Horse care clinics by Elizabeth McCowan and Janine Cheung.
- Horse training clinics by Lew Sterrett “Out of the Round Pen, Now What! - From Green to Great!”
- Horse training clinics by Lew Sterrett - Establishing healthy boundaries to develop respect, security, and confidence for both horse and rider
Feature attractions
NIGHTLY Sermon on the Mount: Master horse trainer Lew Sterrett, captures the hearts and minds of spectators where ever he goes. This is a unique horse training segment that shows how to bring a horse from distrust to trust. Observe life lessons from the language of the horse.
SAT. NIGHT Country Music Concert: “Omar Stiefer” all the way from
FRI. NIGHT Youth concert: “Called 2 One” will be on stage entertaining all age groups. “Called 2 One” identifies their music style as a combination of rock and worship.
Join us for outstanding live action.
Nothing compares with the multiple layers of sight, sound, smell and taste that make up The Georgian Horse Expo Experience. It's the place where entertainment meets education.
All tickets include full General Admission to all the events, concerts and feature attractions.
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Complete Facelift for Bromont's June event
The Bromont Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that work is well underway on a completely new - redesigned course for the 2007 Bromont CCI**/CCI*/ CIC**/CIC* Three Day Event The Todd Sandler Challenge - being held from June 8 - 10th 2007 - in Bromont, Quebec Canada.
Internationally renowned course designer, Derek Di Grazia, USA has put his talents into application by re-designing the cross-country courses being run this spring. Riders will be thrilled to encounter the new challenges that Mr. Di Grazia has planned for them. The new vision for Bromont is executed through the efforts of course builder Jay Hambly and his team,
The latest changes and improvements (including 30 new jumps) are the first phase for the preparation of the much anticipated three star level competition in the works for the spring of 2008.
Since the preparatory work involves huge human-resource input as well as financial investment, no other competitions will be held this coming fall as originally planned. The transformation into the three star course is already started with major changes being done right now.
The Bromont Three Day Event The Todd Sandler Challenge is one of the few equestrian competitions still being held on a former Olympic site. The latest changes demonstrate the Organizing Committee's commitment to offering world-class competition opportunity to eventing competitors.
For additional information about Bromont, please visit Quebec's eventing website at:
http://www.canadianeventing.com/accc/index_a.html
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OEF to Accredit Horse Facilities in Northern Ontario
The Ontario Equestrian Federation is coming to the north in June 2007! We want to meet with Ontario's horse community all across province and we are prepared to go the distance. Current members, potential members, facility operators, coaches and business owners, we want to meet with you!
The OEF invites all facility owners and operators to join the Horse Facilities Council. In order to complete the accreditation process, all new Horse Facilities member must receive a site visitation from an OEF representative to determine that safety, education and animal welfare standards are practiced. Jack De Wit, President of the Ontario Equestrian Federation, Bruce Brown, Chair of the Horse Facilities Council (HFC) and Mark Dobrindt, Vice Chair of the Recreation Council, will be traveling to visit facilities in Ontario and accredit new Horse Facilities Council members. If you have a facility, or know of a facility in your area that may be interested in joining the OEF's Horse Facilities Council, join now so we can include your facility on our site visits this summer. The OEF will only promote Horse Facilities Council members, in addition to providing other benefits including personal liability insurance, province wide marketing opportunities, OEF Office referrals, and other valuable resource tools.
The Horse Facilities Council represents the interests of commercial horse facility owners and operators, including but not limited to breeders, lesson stables, boarding stables, equine sales and trail riding facilities. The Horse Facilities Council works to increase the profile and welfare of the horse and its use in leisure and sport activities in Ontario, and provides risk management and promotion of the horse industry to the general public in order to increase awareness and participation.
For more information please contact the OEF
905-709-6545 ~ 1-866-441-7112
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Caledon Equestrian Park to Host
2007 Pan American Games Selection Trials
Palgrave, Ontario --- The Caledon Equestrian Park will host the 2007 Pan American Games Selection Trials for both dressage and show jumping.
The Pan American Games Selection Trials for show jumping will be organized by Equestrian Management Group (EMG) and will take place during its Caledon National tournament held May 16-20. Two weeks later, from June 1-3, Barbara Mitchell and John Taylor of CornerStone will organize the Selection Trials for dressage. This marks the first time that the Caledon Equestrian Park will host Selection Trials for two different equestrian disciplines in the same year. The 2007 Pan American Games take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 14 to 29 and will include the equestrian disciplines of dressage, show jumping and three day eventing.
The Caledon National show jumping tournament will see over 1,000 horses competing. A handful of those, representing the very best in the country, will contest two Selection Trials - the $20,000 Alliance Homes Open Welcome on Friday, May 18, and the $50,000 Caledon National Grand Prix on Sunday, May 20. The results will help determine the five members of the Canadian Show Jumping Team.
While many visitors to the Caledon Equestrian Park are familiar with the show jumping events, dressage might be new to some. Often referred to as 'ballet on horseback', riders subtly guide their horses through a series of required technical movements. The most compelling dressage competition is the 'freestyle' where the required movements are choreographed to music.
The top eight horse-rider combinations from across Canada will contest the Selection Trials for dressage, featuring $6,000 in prize money generously sponsored by Schlesse Saddlery Services, who is also the official saddlers of the event. Seven judges, licensed by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) and representing such nations as Argentina, Canada, Peru and the United States, will determine the outcome.
Held over all three days of competition, the Selection Trials for dressage culminate with the Musical Freestyles on Sunday, June 3. A Fundraising Reception will also be held on Sunday afternoon to benefit the Canadian Dressage Team that, at the last Pan American Games held in 2003 in Santo Domingo, claimed Individual Gold and Team Silver Medals.
"The Caledon Equestrian Park has hosted Selection Trials for show jumping numerous times in the past, but what makes this year unique is that we are hosting the Trials for both dressage and show jumping," noted Craig Collins, Managing Partner of EMG, who recently oversaw a $100,000 investment made in the footing at the Caledon Equestrian Park, including in the Grand Prix ring and schooling area. "With free admission, we hope that everyone in the community comes out to support Canada's top equestrian athletes."
For more information on the show jumping tournament, please visit the EMG website at www.equiman.com. For more information on the dressage competition, including class times, please visit the CornerStone website at www.cornerstonefarms.com.
Located north of Toronto, the Caledon Equestrian Park hosts more than 20 equestrian events each year, including eight major show jumping tournaments.
Contact: Jennifer Ward - Starting Gate Communications - tel: (613) 569-2423 - www.startinggate.ca
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John Pearce and Jill Henselwood to Represent
Pearce, a resident of Stouffville, ON, was previously sitting in second position in the Canadian League standings but overtook the lead with a winning performance in the final qualifier, the $50,000 Orange County Register Grand Prix at the CSI-W Oaks Blenheim Spring Tournament in San Juan Capistrano, California. Riding Forestview Farm’s 10-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding Urioso, Pearce’s win earned him an additional 20 World Cup points to give him a final total of 80 points.
Pearce, who will be competing in his third World Cup Final, having competed for Canada in 1992 in Del Mar, California, and in 1999 in Göteborg, Sweden, will head to Las Vegas with Urioso as well as Archie Bunker, a nine-year-old Oldenburg gelding also owned by Forestview Farm.
Henselwood of Oxford Mills, ON, was the previous leader following the final week of the HITS Desert Circuit VI held March 6-11 in Thermal, California, where she earned her final 12 World Cup qualifying points aboard Juniper Farms’ 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Special Ed, in the $150,000 World Cup Qualifier Grand Prix. Added to her previous 51 points earned throughout the Canadian League competitions, as well as earlier success during the six-week
Henselwood will be representing
Traditionally, the final event in the Canadian World Cup League was held at
For complete Canadian League World Cup standings, please visit http://www.jumpcanada.ca/programs/WC_standings.html. For more info on the 2007 FEI Jumping World Cup Final, please visit www.worldcuplasvegas.com.
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