Constanze Dempsey’s Thursday News and Notes from Devoucoux

 

Image via Rainer Leymann
Good morning Eventing Nation,

I come to you with some very sad news. Last week in Austria, 31 year old eventer, Irene Dempsey, was schooling with her coach Harald Siegl when she fell from her horse, Last Girl Standing. It was reported as a rotational fall, and she died instantly. She leaves behind a seven year old daughter, Constanze. Constanze’s father passed away four years ago. The Austrian Eventing Federation has set up a fund. The horse is reported to be unharmed. 
[The Austrian Eventing press release] To read it in English, copy and paste into Google translate. If you use Google Chrome, just right click and select “Translate to English”.
[More on the fund for Constanze] We will update you if and when the account is made international to accept donations. 
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Constanze and her grandmother. Words cannot express. 
Take barn tour with Jessica Phoenix! Se introduces you to all her horses. They’re all really nice, but I like “Big Momma Phoenix”. [HJU]
Shannon Lilley blogs about her road to the Pan Ams. Her horse has joined a frequent flier program. They’re currently at Morven where they had a flat lesson with Capt. Phillips. Both she and the Capt were pleased, and they jump tomorrow! [USEA]
In Sinead’s latest blog for the Chronicle, it’s just one more reason to love her. She asks, “Who’s THAT rider?”, and I’m thinking we’re in for a lovely Sinead treat. This time it’s an even better treat where we get to know Sinead a little bit better. She writes about the bottom line of horses in general: some days you’re out there to learn, some days you’re out there to teach, some days don’t make any sense at all, and on a very few precious days all the stars align and magic happens”.  Sinead also lets us into her head a bit, and that, yes even she, one of the top riders for our country, needs a bit of reassurance before heading out of the box. [Bravo Sinead]
There’s another CrossCountry app out there. This one was developed in Australia and sounds pretty cool. [Give it a shot]
An Englishman won the Bramham International Horse Trials photo contest. His photo will be on the cover of the program next year. [Congrats!] 
That’s all for today Eventing Nation. 
Hug your loved ones and go eventing. 

 
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