The Last Morning News and Notes of 2010

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Good Morning Eventing Nation! I’m in a pretty good mood right now as the prospect of a brand new year always makes me happy. The New Year is like a new jar of peanut butter, its all smoothed over and perfect-looking, at least until the knife takes the first swipe at it. Its exciting, a whole year is in front of us and everything is to play for. The corporate headquarters should be relatively quiet today, John’s traveling but he should have more news later on, and most exciting is that we will have a guest post at lunchtime from Hannah Burnett, winner of the Fair Hill 3-star this year, on goal setting and achieving in 2011. 

And now for some news:
“New Year’s Eve in Montana: State Promotes Equine Designated Drivers in Commercial” This commercial deserves some sort of award, but I haven’t thought of which one yet. 
The Courier Press has written a touching article about the life of Becky Broussard, who passed on after a long battle with cancer on Christmas Eve. Becky touched the lives of many in the equestrian community as the owner of Rebecca Farms in Montana, as well as owning many top horses for several of our countries best riders. 
Joanie Morris has released an article on the USEF website entitled 52 Weeks in the Pursuit of Excellence. Its a great article, she gives a month-by-month synopsis of the year that was 2010, the high-points, low-points, but mainly about the pursuit for self-improvement and greatness that our American riders displayed over the year. 
Another year-in-review story, this time from The Horse Channel.  
When a minor skin problem led to her horse’s death, Mary Lou Lane set out to improve the knowledge and science of equine dermatology through her creation of the “Cappy’s Equine Dermatology Research Fund.” The fund was just recently launched and is spearheaded by Colorado State University. Read more here
The Horse Radio Network 2010 Hottest Horseman Awards have been announced. Guess who won? None other than Boyd himself. This news should make John happy. 
Fallon Walker wrote an article for the Chronicle recapping her clinic experience with Edward Gal. Its always interesting to ride under a different eye, especially one that’s famous in the equestrian world, and I think by reading Fallon’s insights, she found just that. 
Speaking of Edward Gal, he has just won the sixth leg of the World Cup series at Mechelen, in Belgium. This win was aboard the promising mare, Sisther de Jeu, and as Gal said after the competition, “She is very sensitive and is not used to a lot of noise and to the crowds, but she is learning to behave better, and to relax – this definitely will be her future.” 
The USEF is going to broadcast the George Morris Horsemastership training session. For as many hunter princess references that we make on this site, the value that people like George Morris and other hunter/jumper icons have for the horse community in general is huge. He’s a genius, I know I’ll certainly be watching the broadcast. 
The year of 2010 in photos. The Three-Days Three-Ways blog has the story.
Use the last day of 2010 wisely, Eventing Nation! Go 2011. 
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