Equestrian
Wellington Agrees To Letter Of Intent For SR 7 Horse Park
By Lauren Miró at June 14, 2013 | 12:05 am | 2 Comments
Members of the Wellington Village Council were divided Tuesday over whether to give exclusive consideration to a horse park on the village-owned K-Park site at the corner of State Road 7 and Stribling Way. Council members voted 3-2 to approve a letter of intent from proposers Palm Beach Horse Park LLC, with Vice Mayor Howard Coates and Councilwoman Anne Gerwig more...
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Clinic Benefit For Oklahoma Tornado Horses
By Ellen Rosenberg at June 7, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS I love the Wellington-WEF message board (www.wellington-wef.com). Not a day goes by that I don’t check to see what’s doing in our local horsey community, and recently I ran across a notice reaching out to equestrians, animal lovers and local businesses. Cowboy Bob Faath will conduct an Oklahoma Tornado Equine Relief Horsemanship Clinic on more...
Wellington’s Offer Could Halt Lawsuits
By Lauren Miró at May 31, 2013 | 12:05 am | 1 Comments
Members of the Wellington Village Council are giving owners of the controversial Equestrian Village project a second chance to get approvals for the site in exchange for putting pending lawsuits on hold while the process is revisited. In what they called a “leap of faith,” council members were divided 3-2 in favor of making the offer at Tuesday’s meeting, with more...
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Ag Commissioner Meets With Horse Park Team
By Town-Crier Editor at May 31, 2013 | 12:04 am | 0 Comment
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam visited Wellington on May 21 to meet with the Palm Beach Horse Park development team to discuss plans for the proposed equestrian facility. The development team presented the current plans and ideas for the horse park, designed to be an addition to Wellington’s thriving equestrian scene. The horse park would provide more...
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Groups Reach Agreement On Dressage Dates
By Town-Crier Editor at May 31, 2013 | 12:04 am | 0 Comment
Equestrian Sport Productions and Wellington Classic Dressage announced Wednesday that they will host several international events at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival venue on the corner of South Shore Blvd. and Pierson Road. The proposal will utilize the AGDF venue as the main base for the international events, aside from the iconic Palm Beach Dressage Derby CDI-W, more...
Kids Learn Literacy By Reading To Horses
By Ellen Rosenberg at May 31, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Lots of us have done lots of things with and to horses: ride them, of course, train them, show them, occasionally dress them in costumes, take them on trail rides, feed, groom, care for and love them. But how many of us read to them? That’s exactly what a group of 175 first-graders from Hidden Oaks Elementary School did on Friday, May 17. more...
Lawsuit Settlement Discussion On Council Agenda
By Lauren Miró at May 24, 2013 | 12:05 am | 1 Comments
The battle over the use of the Equestrian Village property could be settled next week with the Wellington Village Council expected to discuss a settlement offer to curb its legal woes. A discussion of the issue is on the agenda for the council’s Tuesday, May 28 meeting, Village Attorney Laurie Cohen told the Town-Crier this week. The settlement offer could halt more...
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Legal Administrators Golf Tourney Supports Vinceremos
By Denise Fleischman at May 24, 2013 | 12:04 am | 0 Comment
Palm Beach Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators hosted its second annual Community Connection Golf Tournament to benefit the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center on Friday, May 17 at the Madison Green Golf Club. Guests enjoyed lunch before tee off and dinner with an awards ceremony. There was also a silent auction, raffles and goodie more...
Pony Camp Great For Horse-Loving Kids
By Ellen Rosenberg at May 24, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS The horse community is a small world. When I sat down with Claudia Campbell at her comfortable farm in Loxahatchee, we started talking about old times and stables far, far away. Turns out we both attended C.W. Post College, part of Long Island University, in Brookville, N.Y., and had ridden at many of the same stables. Campbell also taught riding more...
Students Score Scholarships Through IPC’s Kids Fun Zone
By Town-Crier Editor at May 17, 2013 | 12:04 am | 0 Comment
As world-class polo players and fans celebrated the close of another exciting season at the International Polo Club Palm Beach, enterprising business students from Palm Beach Atlantic University may have come out the biggest winners of all — at least from their perspective. For successfully running the club’s popular Kids Fun Zone during the 16-week polo season, more...
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