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Equestrian

Jumping, Dressage Festivals Bigger And Better This Season

The 2014 equestrian season is in full swing with the opening of the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival and the Adequan Global Dressage Festival. Both kicked off this week with high-level jumping and dressage competition. Show promoters Equestrian Sport Productions...

2014 Will Be An Action-Packed Year At International Polo

The International Polo Club Palm Beach kicked off 16 weeks of high-goal polo last weekend, offering the community the opportunity to see top athletes compete through April 20. This year, the biggest tournament in the country will be broadcast on...

McLain And Lauren Ward To Chair Homesafe Event

HomeSafe recently announced that two-time Olympic gold medalist McLain Ward and his wife Lauren will co-chair Jump for HomeSafe, set for Saturday, Jan. 11 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington. Hannah Patten, an up-and-coming teenage equestrian,...

Brandon Gager: Third Generation Equine Dentist

TAILS FROM THE TRAILS For most of us, our teeth are in our mouths, but for Brandon Gager, you could say that teeth are in his blood. “I’m the third generation of equine dentists in my family,” Gager said. “We’ve been...

Wellington’s IPC Set To Open 2014 Polo Season Jan. 5

Sunday brunch, divot stomping, champagne toasts and the excitement of high-goal polo return to the International Polo Club Palm Beach as the season kicks off this weekend with the Herbie Pennell Cup Finals on Sunday, Jan. 5. The season continues...

Rizzo, Betti To Offer Lessons And Clinics While In Florida

Italian Grand Prix dressage rider Silvia Rizzo and her partner, the former Italian Olympic eventing coach Michele Betti, are packing everything from bridles to bathing suits to spend the 2014 show season in Wellington. The two fell in love with...

Jan. 4 Polo On The Beach Event To Benefit Vinceremos

Polo on the Beach, a benefit for the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center in Loxahatchee Groves, will be held Saturday, Jan. 4 at the Palm Beach Shores Community Center (90 Edwards Lane, Palm Beach Shores). Gates open at 12:30 p.m. with...

Kelby Barranco Top Dressage Volunteer

TAILS FROM THE TRAILS The saying goes, “There’s something about the outside of a horse that’s good for the inside of a man.” Whoever coined that might have had Kelby Barranco in mind. Despite being born with microcephaly and cerebral...

Open House At Karen’s Equine Intervention

TAILS FROM THE TRAILS The weather was overcast, yet the atmosphere at Karen’s Equine Intervention was upbeat and sunny, smiles all around as volunteers rushed to finish up last-minute touches — horses brushed, platters of cookies out on the table,...

Wellington Extends Deadline On Horse Park Proposal

Members of the Wellington Village Council last week extended its exclusive contract with the organizers behind the Palm Beach Horse Park, an equestrian development proposed for the village-owned K-Park property on State Road 7. Earlier this year, council members agreed...

Caridad Party Brings Holiday Cheer

The annual Caridad Center Christmas Party was held Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington. It was sponsored by the Wellington Equestrian Group. Equestrian Sport Productions donated the venue and Tim Gannon provided lunch...

Lauren Briggs Joins Snaffle Bit Farm

TAILS FROM THE TRAILS I suppose you could say it was inevitable that Lauren Briggs would make horses her life’s work. She grew up riding and showing in Massachusetts, and her father, Ray Briggs, was a blacksmith who tended horses...

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