The 2016 Adequan Global Dressage Festival will attract some of the biggest names in high-performance dressage to compete for prize money in the richest series of the sport.
Diamante Farms, a founding sponsor of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, will once again be an official sponsor of the 12-week festival, held in Wellington from Jan. 14 through April 2.
For the fifth year in a row, Diamante Farms will be the presenting sponsor for the Global Dressage Festival Wellington CDI5* held Feb. 10-14.
This year, Diamante Farms’ owners Terri and Devon Kane will continue a tradition that they began at the CDI5* Freestyle in 2015 — the Salute to the Olympians. Diamante Farms will once again be the title sponsor of the FEI Under 25 (U-25) classes.
“We feel it is very important to our sport to have a first-class facility in order to bring top competitors from all over the world,” Terri Kane said. “The only way we will be able to be truly competitive is to compete against the best. At one time, the only way our competitors could do that was to go to Europe. Now, with this facility, we are seeing the Europeans come here.”
The 2016 Adequan Global Dressage Festival is the world’s largest international and national dressage circuit, featuring several CDIs and weekly U.S. National events.
Devon Kane will be competing on her well-known partner Destiny, her self-trained Danish Warmblood who claimed the title of 2014 U.S. Dressage Finals Grand Prix Champion with Kane.
Terri Kane will also be debuting some of her younger horses at this year’s show series, including Sir Galanto, her Hanoverian stallion, and Winchester, her Oldenburg gelding.
For more information, visit www.diamantefarms.com or call (561) 307-2831.
ABOVE: (L-R) Winchester, David Kohn, Terri Kane, Devon Kane, Steve Francis, Sir Galanto and Lucas Guerra.
