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,...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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,...
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...
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...
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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...
The Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center will hold its 27th annual fundraising dinner and auction on Friday, Feb. 7 at the International Polo Club in Wellington.
Vinceremos has provided equine-assisted therapies for people with varying physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities for...
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Saturday, Nov. 30, had been a rainout: overcast the entire day, bands of heavy showers moving through. And then, wonderfully, as evening fell, the skies cleared and the rain ceased, just in time for a show...
