The aptly named Ocala Rednecks team encouraging the charity bidding
The Calcutta team auction to support Ryan, Caitlin, and Lillian was an unbelievable success Thursday night. The 14 teams were auctioned for a total of $14,000 dollars. More incredibly, Alan Shinton, the sponsor of the team challenge is personally matching the money raised from the acution, meaning that $28,000 total was raised Thursday night. The plan is to give the money directly to Ryan, Caitlin, and Lillian (meaning writing a check) to help them immediately recover from the loss of everything they owned when their apartment burned down in the True Prospect Farm barn fire. What a wonderful night of eventers coming together to support each other.
Because I know everyone wants to know, team Becky’s Beauties(Jon Holling, Becky Holder, and Doug Payne) won the highest bid–$3,100. Some other creative team names include The Old Man and the Sea of Women (Stephen Bradley, Kristin Bachman, Ryann Quigley, and Mara Depuy), The Rainbow Warriors (Will Coleman, Buck Davidson, Emily Beshear, and Sharon White), and Girl Power (Liz Rickfels, Dornin North, Amy Borun, and Phillip Dutton).
The Bromont CCI3* and training level dressage competes today–
[Live Bromont Scores, Tentative Schedule PDF, Ride Times]
Also, be sure to check out Samantha’s blog at SamanthaLClark.com and follow Samantha @SamanthaLClark for the latest behind the scenes interviews and info from Bromont.
Now for your eventing news and notes:
–There are 10 USEA events in the this weekend, and most of them start on Saturday. So, I’m just very thankful that I don’t have Saturday morning links and have to explain them all and link to the live scores. But, just to prove I can, I will list them all: Spring Run (KY), Aspen Farm (WA), Derbyshire (MI), Texas Rose, Queeny Park (MO), Valinor (MA), Plantation Field (PA), Copper Meadows (CA), Rubicon (VA), Larkin Hill (NY). For the three eventers staying at home this weekend, thanks for keeping it tuned to Eventing Nation. For everyone else, that’s why God made iPhones.
–Aspen farms horse trials starts in Washington today [Aspen Live Scores]
–The USDA has released a new report that indicates the rate at which new cases of equine EHV-1 are being discovered is slowing. This is the first really good news regarding the outbreak that started at that now infamous cutting horse championship in Utah in May. The most report from the USDA said that more than 85 horses have tested positivein the US, and TheHorse.com claims that more than 10 Canadian horses are also EHV-1 positive. 13 horses have died or been euthanized in both countries total. Fortunately, with the recent good news, some states are advising horse owners to return to normal activity with their horses. [TheHorse.com]
–Lots of riders are wearing their helmets at Bromont–certainly a ton more than last year. Speaking of which, Helmet Awareness Day is this Saturday. 10 helmet manufacturers and over 350 US retailers will be offering discounts on helmets purchased on Saturday to support the great effort of helmet awareness.
–The Encore Horse Trials (June 25-26) in Michigan will be accepting late entries. Please contact the secretary ([email protected]) if you plan on entering. There will be a $20 late fee for each entry and must be in by June 14th. I remember one year back when I was in middle school, it was raining like heck at Encore and I was riding this great little pony, but she decided to stop in the show jumping warmup as I was on deck, no doubt due to something stupid I did. I took a tumble into the mud and it was serious gut check time to hop back on, jump one more fence and then head into the arena. But I did, and I jumped a clean round, and I’m a better person for it. Good times.
–A shout out to the Bromont Facebook page
—ERS 145–Olympic Test Event, Euro News, and TPF
–A short list of every single Bromont blog that I could find: Doug will spend today walking and rewalking his course, Nikki Lendl is grooming for True Prospect at Bromont, Nikki recaps dressage day 1, meet Nikki from HJU, a first CCI* with Lee Lee Jones, the road to Bromont with Skye and Kristin
–A short list of every other blog from Thursday that I could find: Allison is leaning towards Burghley with Arthur, Kristin Schmolze looks ahead to the future, Valerie V judged the combined test at Hidden Hollow, Elinor MacPhail’s plan B, C, or D
–SmartPak has posted a great webinar about metabolic disorders [SmartPak blog]
–The FLAIR Facebook photo contest winner is an eventer– Katy Groesbeck from LA. Katy wins 5 FLAIR strips and a FLAIR microfiber strip rag to prepare the muzzle for applying the strips. Additionally, as Coren mentioned yesterday, FLAIR is sponsoring the PDutty eventing camp next week. The attendees will get FLAIR strips as well as attend FLAIR seminars on respiratory health.
–Right before the competitor’s reception Thursday night, I was doing what I do most Thursday nights at events. You know, sitting in front of my computer typing, minding my own business. And then it started to hail. Canadian weather is the inspiration for the latest of our worst videos ever:
–As a photo bonus round, here’s a picture of Hamish on the road to the Melbourne Three-Day:
[via Charlie Brister]
That’s all for now Eventing Nation. Stay tuned throughout the day for enough Bromont coverage to knock this post off of the EN homepage by noon, and notes from elsewhere around Eventing Nation. As always, thanks for making Eventing Nation part of your day.
