Tampa, FL-February 8, 2010-Competition in the 2010 Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series started in January in Florida. With classes in full swing at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, riders are already earning big points on the Series’ overall standings.
One such rider is Heather Hooker of Wellington, FL. Hooker, who competes in the Series’ East Conference Junior division with her mount Perle, won two of the three Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series junior classes held at WEF in January.
With Cavalor’s support, the Series honors one rider each month as the Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series Rider of the Month. The honor goes to the one rider who earns the most points on one horse in Series competition that month.
With her back-to-back wins with Perle, Hooker earned 300 points, and was named the Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Rider of the Month for the month of January.
“Winning back-to-back Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series classes at the Winter Equestrian Festival is no small feat,” said Philippe Collard, President of Cavalor, Inc. “Her wins are very impressive, and we are thrilled to honor her as our January Rider of the Month!”
The Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series saw competition at 5 events during the month of January, and will see classes at more than 100 horse shows before the Series culminates in the Year-End Championships at the National Horse Show in November.
The Series hosts separate divisions for junior and amateur-owner riders in two Conferences-the East Conference and the West Conference. Series standings are used to help determine junior and amateur-owner entries for the National Horse Show.
In the overall standings through January, Nathalie Mathers Parrish and Costa led the amateur-owner standings in the East Conference while Heather Hooker and Perle led in the junior division. Series events in the West Conference will begin in March
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The Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series is designed to give amateur-owner and junior riders an opportunity to compete at higher levels and serves as a proving ground for many riders who aspire to someday represent the United States in international competition.
The Show Jumping Hall of Fame was organized to promote the sport of show jumping and to immortalize the legends of the men, women, and horses that have made great contributions to the sport. The Show Jumping Hall of Fame conducts the Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series, held under Grand Prix rules and specifications. The Show Jumping Hall of Fame has moved from its long-time home at Busch Gardens in Tampa, FL. An announcement about the Museum’s new home will be made later this year.
Any horse show offering a class that meets all the criteria set forth in the 2010 Show Jumping Hall of Fame Series specifications and has prize money of at least $1,000 is eligible to be part of the Series. For more information about the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, including Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series, please visit the Show Jumping Hall of Fame website http://www.showjumpinghalloffame.net
FarmVet Sponsored Rider and arguably America’s most prolific event rider & breeder, Bruce Davidson, is pleased to announce the re-launch of BruceDavidsonEventing.com. Riding on the tail of his recent induction into the USEA’s Eventing Hall of Fame, this multiple Olympic Team & World Equestrian Game medal winner is eager to share his lifetime of knowledge with the equestrian community. Located out of Chesterland Farm, in Unionville, Pennsylvania, Bruce continues to compete at the top level of the sport and produce exceptional young sport horses for multiple disciplines.
“Our new website focuses on the horses that I’m preparing for Rolex and the World Equestrian Games, as well as the brilliant young talent that we are producing here at Chesterland for competition and to be sold onto multiple disciplines. We are particularly excited about our breeding program with our young stallion, Keltic Lion, who is an imported Irish Sport horse by Lux Z, out of Karigal Lion, of the great Eagle Lion family. Keltic Lion was bred in Ireland by Patricia Nicolson, who is the number one sport horse breeder in that country. We imported him in 2006 as a yearling, he is the only stallion out of the Stream Lion (Eagle Lion’s mother) & the Eagle Lion family.”
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It all came down to Anky van Grunsven in the freestyle at the Exquis World Dressage Masters. She rode last in the class and came in knowing Steffen Peters had laid down a formidable score of 81.70 percent. But van Grunsven enjoys a challenge, and she upped her game with a trademark performance to take home her second Palm Beach Exquis World Dressage Masters freestyle win in Wellington, Fla., tonight, Feb. 6.
Van Grunsven was the only one to really put in a mistake-free ride, from her first immobile halt to her last. Peters had to ride just a bit tactfully at times, as Ravel appeared lit up by the electric evening atmosphere and the chilly winds blowing through the International Arena.
“We certainly saw what he can be capable of with his exit strategy the other day,” said Peters, referring to Ravel’s speedy departure during the victory lap after the Grand Prix test. “I knew there would be a little bit more horse in there. He still did a great job. I wouldn’t say it was a test that was tense. But there were some movements where I had to be careful.”
Salinero, on the other hand, appeared completely at ease under the lights.
“It was really good that I could practice yesterday evening with the crowd,” said van Grunsven. “He gets a bit nervous about the atmosphere. Today he completely settled down. I was very happy. He was concentrated. Tonight everything worked out the way it should.”
“When Anky is on, the freestyle seems to happen by itself. Her music and her choreography and her interpretation are so outstanding that it’s very hard to beat if she’s having a good test,” said Gary Rockwell, who judged at M. “Tonight it looked effortless. The horse was much better than in the Grand Prix. The extended trots were better, the passage was better. Her freestyle test is just so beautiful.”
Isabell Werth also brought her A-game, as the German superstar does not like to place third. But she ran into a major snafu in the canter half-passes at the end of her test with Satchmo.
“At the end of the half-pass I was a bit too sidewise, and he kicked himself and fell into trot. I couldn’t get him back into canter soon enough. I tried, but I missed the last half-pass. I was really happy with him though, because he was so concentrated and full of power and energy. He was just brilliant. There was a mistake at the end, so next time I have to do it better,” said Werth.
The top three riders were using the same freestyle music that served them so well at the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong. Van Grunsven rode to Wibi Soerjadi’s “Dance of Devotion,” a composition created for Salinero. Peters rocked out to the strains of The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” Men Without Hats’ “The Safety Dance” and Coldplay’s “Vida La Vida.” Werth also rode to music made for for Satchmo called “Hymn of Emotion.”
Peters did decide to spice up his freestyle with one-handed two-tempis on a curved line. “I didn’t have the guts to do it in the one-tempis, but I should have,” he said with a laugh.
Canada’s Ashley Holzer wasn’t far behind the top three with 76.30 percent for fourth place aboard Pop Art. She was followed by Denmark’s Mikala Münter Gundersen on Leonberg (72.20) and the Netherlands’ Christa Laarakkers on Ovation (71.15%).
Written by Sara Lieser for The Chronicle of the Horse
Belgium’s Jos Lansink has galloped off with top honors in one of the world’s richest show jumping Grand Prix, taking home €90,000 for winning the President of the UAE Cup in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
Riding his Gucci Masters winner Valentina van’t Heike, the World Champion rode a perfect jump-off round to prevail in the rich event, which carried a total prize pool of €300,000. It is among the richest Grand Prix events in the world, exceeded only by the Global Champions Tour shows and the CN Grand Prix in Canada.
To ensure the huge prize was well earned Olaf Petersen Sr. had built a course full of technical turns rather than tricky distances, making this a true test of rider skill.
At the end of the first round there were 11 qualified for the jump off and biggest casualty of the first round was Clarissa Crotta whose West Side van Meerputhoeve got into a bit of trouble coming out of a one-stride double at six which consisted of a wall to an oxer, and jumped his rider off. The Swiss team member appeared to land on her feet but was taken to hospital for an x-ray of her ankle. At time of writing there was no more news of the extent of her injury.
Lansink was fourth to go and took the lead with a speedy 36.43 over the shortened course. He judged his round perfectly as those who went faster, faulted. The last fence was the bogey, ruining the chances of Billy Twomey, Cameron Hanley, Rolf Goran Bengsston and Robert Smith, but Lars Neiburg and Ben Maher steered Lord Luis and Robin Hood W respectively round clean to take second and third. Abdel Said did the Gulf states proud by coming fourth on Avenir.
Michel Hecart struck a blow for France in the opening speed class when winning the Ghantoot Racing and Polo Club Prize worth €10,000 to the winner. Another on his first visit to the Gulf, Hecart has been impressed by the show and its facilities. “But for me I like to come here because it is outdoors. My horse is much better out than in. Although it was a long journey and I think my horse was tired on the first day but Norton de Vains seems OK today. We would have liked to send a French team but this is the same week as Bordeaux and by the time we realized enough riders were prepared to come, it was too late to change plans.”
Juan Carlos Garcia continued his outstanding season and made up for a rare off day in the Nations Cup by taking second on Paulin. Great Britain’s Robert Smith, who has been placed in almost every class here, was third on Raging Bull Vangelis.
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LYNDONVILLE, Vt. – Winter is most definitely here. It must be. The phones are ringing at Bag Balm headquarters.
Everyone wants a new tub of the gooey, yellow-green ointment. And all have a story about its problem-salving — they use it on squeaky bed springs, psoriasis, dry facial skin, cracked fingers, burns, zits, diaper rash, saddle sores, sunburn, pruned trees, rifles, shell casings, bed sores and radiation burns.
Everything, it seems, except for cows.
“Some, you don’t really even want to hear, but they’re gonna tell you anyway,” said accounts manager Krystina McMorrow, who is half the office staff.
“I’ve been here 14 years,” said accounts-receivable clerk Shawna Wilkerson, the other half. “The oddest one I’ve heard was somebody who reloads his ammunition. He puts Bag Balm on the bullet casing and it makes it easier to reload ‘em.”
Developed in 1899 to soothe the irritated udders of milking cows, the substance with the mild medicinal odor has evolved into a medicine chest must-have, with as many uses as Elmer’s glue.
According to Bag Balm lore, the stuff went from barns to bedrooms when dairy farmers’ wives noticed how smooth their spouses’ fingers were after using it on cows’ udders. The wives were jealous.
Bag Balm went to the North Pole with Admiral Byrd, to Allied troops in World War II, who used it to keep weapons from corroding, to Ground Zero for the paws of cadaver-sniffing dogs searching the World Trade Center rubble, and to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sold off pet care shelves and at farm stores for $8.99 per 10-oz. green tub (with cow’s head on the lid), it’s made of petrolatum, lanolin and an antiseptic, 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate — substantially the same formula used since John L. Norris bought it from a Wells River druggist before the turn of the century.
It is made in a one-room “plant” by the family owned Dairy Association Co., Inc. — six employees, two officers and no sales force — operating in a cluster of converted railroad buildings in this small (pop. 1,215) northern Vermont town.
Petrolatum is shoveled from 50-gallon drums into a large vat and blended with lanolin from Uruguay, then heated to 95 degrees. A machine quickly squirts the goop into metal cans that are cooled, capped and packaged.
The plant is inspected annually by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, though the product is marketed for use by animals, not humans.
Distributed by wholesalers and sold retail in farm stores, national drugstore chains and general stores, its popularity has grown largely with word-of-mouth advertising as converts becomes users and then devotees.
Imitators through the years have included Udderly Smooth Udder Cream and Udder Balm.
The Dairy Association won’t divulge sales figures.
In a 1983 report, the late CBS News journalist Charles Kuralt said upward of 400,000 units were shipped annually. Norris’ granddaughter, company President Barbara Norris Allen, won’t say how today’s shipments compare.
“The colder the weather, the better our business,” said Ron Bean, production manager at the plant, which is open for tours but not photographers.
To call the operation old-fashioned is an understatement.
The plant operates with one shift, Monday through Friday. The Dairy Association doesn’t take credit cards (“Send us a good ol’ check,” says Allen). And the names of individual stores that buy directly are kept on index cards in file cabinets.
Long-distance bicyclist Andy Claflin says he started using Bag Balm on a cross-country race last June, when a teammate turned him on to it for saddle sores.
Claflin, 37, from Dayton, Minn., was suffering from saddle sores as he competed in the Race Across America. A teammate told him it was good for the sores, a bane of long-distance biking. So he slathered some on, down below.
“I was sitting there in Arizona, it’s 110 degrees, the air conditioning wasn’t working, the crapper in the RV wasn’t working, I gotta’ bike 100 miles in this heat and great, I’ve got to deal with this,” he said. “It was nasty and filthy and it felt weird … But I didn’t have saddle sores from then on, riding 130 miles a day. When you’re on the bike, you’re like ‘Oh, this stuff is great.’”
Marge Boyle, 62, a quilter in Paducah, Ky., keeps a tin by her sewing machine.
“It’s really a wonderful product when you’re sewing, because of all the pinpricks you get. It soothes and heals your fingers. Quilters are always pricking their fingers. We wash our hands constantly to keep them free of dirt, and you need something to soothe them,” she said.
And it’s still de rigeur in barns, where it all started.
Dairy farmer Willie Ryan has used it since the ’70s, to soothe the chapped teats of cows. And more.
“The cows get frostbit sometime, so we use the Bag Balm,” said Ryan, 60, of Craftsbury, Vt. “Any open wound with swelling, you just put some of that in and put a pack bandage on it and it does wonders. Don’t ask me how, but it does,” he said.
For all its myriad uses, there’s one place its makers say never to use it.
“Never put Bag Balm in your hair, because you will not get it out,” said Wilkerson.
Artical By John Curran, Associated Press Writer
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