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Subject: Breaking News from Virginia Horse Journal
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If You Love Dick Francis
Novels...
Horse
Country of Warrenton, Virginia invites you to "An Evening of
Remembrance on Thursday, March 11 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at
the Iron Bridge Wine Company in Warrenton, VA. The evening is for
sharing your remembrances and an evening of friendship and book
talk with fellow fans of the late legend. For information call
(540) 347-3141.
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Truck & Horse Trailer Safety Day
Virginia Cooperative Extension
and Blue Ridge Trailer Sales are offering a Truck & Horse
Trailer Safety Day. The workshop is offered on April 16th in
Ruckersville and April 17th Middletown, VA.
Topics
include:
·Trailer Floor Plans and Usage:
Slants vs. Straight
Loads,
Bumper Pulls vs. Goosenecks;
·Things to Consider When Buying
a Used Trailer;
·Tow Vehicle Requirements for
Different Trailers,
Hitches,
and Brake Controllers;
·Trailer Maintenance and VA
State Inspection
Requirements; and
·Trailering
Horses Safely
The program will be held at
Blue Ridge Trailer Sales in Ruckersville, VA and Lord Fairfax
Community College in Middletown, VA from 8:30am - 1:00pm. The
registration fee of $25 includes attendees' program materials,
lunch and refreshments.
Also, need help backing or
turning around your own rig? You can sign up for a trailer
driving clinic with one-on-one instruction at the LFCC location.
For more information please
contact Crystal Smith, Extension Agent at the Warren County VCE
Office, (540) 635-4549 or crystal.smith@vt.edu.
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Your Favorite Equine Magazines and Websites Sold
to Active Interest Media (AIM)
Enthusiast
publisher AIM has acquired several equine-related magazines and
Web sites from Source Interlink Media and from Horse Media Group.
From Source Interlink, AIM acquired EQUUS, Horse & Rider,
Practical Horseman, Dressage Today, Arabian Horse World, Discover
Horses and EquiManagement print magazines. Source's online
properties included in the deal are Equisearch.com, Equine.com,
HorseBooksEtc.com and DiscoverHorses.com.
From the
Horse Media Group, AIM purchased Spin to Win Rodeo and Trail
Rider magazines as well as MyHorse.com, HitchUpMagazine.com and
HorselinkMagazine.com.
An AIM
spokesperson said the company will continue to publish all nine
print magazines and to produce the online properties associated
with the acquisitions.
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Is There Anything An iPhone Can't Do? Official FEI
Dressage Tests? There Is An App For That!
 The Federation Equestre
Internationale (FEI) announced the launch of its first ever
official mobile application.
"FEI EquiTests" is a
mobile application designed to help riders learn, reference and
practice FEI Dressage tests. "FEI EquiTests", is available
through the Apple iTunes store under FEI license.
For each
test, the application allows iPhone and iPod users to:
·
read the test instructions along with the marking
criteria;
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view Dressage animation diagrams that outline the
movements of the test;
·
record and play readings of the test that are
perfectly timed to match the user's individual horses and the
arena in which they are practicing;
- reference the
official Dressage test score sheet to see where the judges'
emphasis is;
- get better
understanding of the FEI Rules as PDFs of the rulebooks on
topics such as movement definitions, competition rules,
dress code, judging and veterinary inspection are available;
·
keep up-to-date with the latest Dressage news
through the FEI news feed.
FEI EquiTests 1
is available for free, so that riders and coaches may evaluate
the features available. This application includes all features
related to one sample test: the globally used FEI Young Riders
Individual Competition Test.
FEI EquiTests 2
includes all the most recent 2009 FEI Eventing Dressage Tests and
is available for only USD 9.99.
For more
details visit the official websites at www.equiapps.com
and the Apple ITunes store: FEI EquiTests 1 and FEI EquiTests
2.
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Book
signing for The Horse in
Virginia: An Illustrated History by Julie Campbell at
National Sporting Library March 19
 Author Julie Campbell will
lecture and sign copies of her new book, The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History, on
Friday, March 19 at 7:00 p.m., at the National Sporting Library.
The book signing will be the first public event launching the
book's publication through University of Virginia Press.
Campbell is the associate
director of communications and public affairs at Washington and
Lee University, in Lexington, Va. Campbell's is the first book to
cover the complete history of the horse in the Old Dominion, and
much of the research was undertaken at the NSL.
Virginia's horse tradition goes
back 400 years to the first settlement at Jamestown. Since then,
the state's special relationship with the horse has never waned.
Virginia has been known for centuries for its production of
Thoroughbred racehorses and as the birthplace of the native
Quarter Horse breed. The state has also produced many famous
individual horses, including the great Triple Crown champion
Secretariat and Misty of Chincoteague, one of the most beloved
animals in children's literature.
Campbell was
raised in Santa Fe, N.M., and earned a B.A. in history from
Arizona State University and an M.A. in history from the
University of Arizona. She began her publishing career in Denver,
Colo., working for a variety of magazines. From 1987 to 1994, she
was an editor of books and a journal at the Arizona Historical
Society, in Tucson. She moved to Richmond, Va., in 1994, when she
became the editor of Virginia
Cavalcade, the illustrated magazine of history at the Library
of Virginia.
Admission to
the lecture is free, but seating is limited. RSVP to Judy Sheehan
at 540-687-6542 x 10 or jsheehan@nsl.org
and leave a name & contact number. Copies of The Horse in Virginia will
be available for sale. The National Sporting Library is located
at 102 The Plains Rd., in Middleburg. For more information and
directions, visit the NSL's website at www.nsl.org.
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Ending Thoughts
Horses are all different and will express a
particular 'instinctive' action quite differently. A human
threatening a horse for example, will cause a nervous animal to
run, but might cause a frustrated or resentful horse to bite. A
great deal of training is designed to dilute or overcome reflex
responses. Reading the Horse's Mind by Jackie Budd
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