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The Virginia
Horse Industry Board Working for You
The Clifton Horse Society
(CHS), a nonprofit equestrian group located in Clifton, VA, has
received a monetary grant from the Virginia Horse Industry Board
to promote awareness of the Laurel Hill Park. The $2,920 grant
will be used to develop marketing, promotional, and
awareness-building materials for the park's trails and future
Equestrian Center.
The Equestrian Center will be
the first public riding facility on county parkland in Fairfax
County. Conceptual plans for the Center include indoor and
outdoor arenas, barns, a cross-country course, trails, and a
variety of riding programs.
"We are appreciative to
the Virginia Horse Industry Board, and excited about this
opportunity to build awareness of this new venue for horse
enthusiasts in Fairfax County," said Jean Voss, President of
CHS. "The rolling hills and access to trails at Laurel Hill
make it perfectly suited for horses, and the facility will help
to ensure that horseback riding remains a viable activity in the
county far into the future."
CHS is
working in conjunction with Fairfax4Horses, and the Northern
Virginia Coalition of Equestrian Organizations to promote the new
facility.
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Piedmont
Virginia Community College Offer Courses on Horsemanship and
Human Health
This course
explores how the principles of horsemanship apply to human health
and relationships by observing different techniques applied to
horses and how these techniques apply to human life skills. Learn
the basics of equine and human body language, the process of
modifying behaviors in horses and humans and communication
skills. Includes some hands on groundwork with horses so horse
owners can gain new insights. Classes alternate between sessions
at Galley Winter Farm and PVCC. Cost $249. Saturdays 9:00 a.m.-
Noon. March 13 - April 17. The classes will be taught by John
Sanford and Gail Todter, Ph.D. for more information visit www.pvcc.edu/docs/workforce_services_spring_schedule.pdf
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Two Virginians Candidates for 2009 USEF Equestrian
of the Year
With the close of the 2009
competition year and in anticipation of the United States
Equestrian Federation's annual Pegasus Awards celebration in
January, the Federation announced candidates in line to become
the coveted 2009 Equestrian of the Year.
Known as the USEF Equestrians
of Honor, these seven stars of equestrian sport across breed and
discipline have each been named recipients of one of seven
different competitive trophies awarded during the Pegasus Awards
on January 16 at the Downtown Marriot in Louisville, KY.
The 2009
Equestrians of Honor are:
Tommy
Garland (Arabian/Western) - Powhatan, VA - The Barbara Worth Oakford
Trophy is presented to an equestrian showing in a
non-reining Western discipline. Another champion who stood out at
the U.S. National Arabian and Half-Arabian Championships was
Garland who won the Arabian Western Pleasure Junior Horse title
riding JF Verrisk. He would also take that title at the East
Coast Championships, as well as in Regions 15 and 16. From the
Western Pleasure to the Junior Horse challenges, Garland was at,
or near, the top of the list in 2009.
Kenny
Wheeler (Hunter Breeding) - Keswick, VA - The Norman K. Dunn Trophy
is presented to the equestrian competing at halter or in-hand.
Wheeler was in champion's form in 2009 as the handler for a
string of winning horses. He was named the Handler of the Best
Young Horse at Devon. At the Upperville Colt and Horse Show,
Wheeler was named the Handler of the Best Young Horse once
more. For a third time, he was named Handler of the Best
Young Horse, this time at the Warrenton Horse Show where he also
took the top prize of winning the Sallie B. Wheeler/USEF Hunter
Breeding Championship.
Other candidates are Steffen
Peters (Dressage) - San Diego, CA; Suzy Stafford (Combined Driving)
- Bear, DE; Dr. Alan R. Raun (Saddlebreds/Hackneys) - Cumming,
IA; Vicky Humphrey (Arabian / NSH) - Canton, GA.
One of these seven award
winners will be named the overall Equestrian of the Year. This is
determined by a combination of an online vote of the general USEF
membership, equestrian media, the USEF Board of Directors.
Any USEF member may vote for
the USEF Equestrian of the Year by visiting http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/eoty/Eoty.aspx.
Type in your USEF member number and access the nominee's
information and photo. Voting will end at midnight on January 8,
2010 (EDT).
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 Greener Pastures
Bruce Gerrish, 48, of The
Plains, was found dead at his Independence Stables in a stall on
December 13. Gerrish excelled in the sports of fox hunting and
three-day eventing. An investigation by the Fauquier County
Sheriff's Office determined that it appeared that Mr. Gerrish may
have been kicked in the chest by a horse.
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Don't miss the February 2010 Print Issue
of the
Virginia Horse Journal - deadline
is January 12, 2010.
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