“The Quarantunies” team at Hagyard Midsouth Three-Day Event & Team Challenge. Photos by Tom Kimmel.
Five-star eventer, respected trainer, “R” course designer and bada$$ drummer Cathy Weishchoff has been keeping our spirits lifted this year with her nightly “Quarantunes” live stream performances, which have been going strong for over 180 days now. Each morning Cathy posts the day’s playlist to her Facebook page and Instagram page, and then friends can tune into FB live at 8 p.m. ET to hear the set. (She’s also been doing a #oneminutewithcathy video tip tutorial series that is well worth the watch — you can watch those on YouTube here.)
This weekend the team of Margaret Kimmel (watch their cross country helmet cam here!), Micki McDaniel and Gail Jackson honored Cathy at the Hagyard Midsouth Three-Day Event & Team Challenge, riding in green as The Quarantunies. Rock on, Cathy!
National Holiday: National Kentucky Day
U.S. Weekend Results:
Hagyard Midsouth Three-Day Event & Team Challenge: [Website] [Results]
Hunt Club Farms H.T.: [Website] [Results]
Pine Hill Fall H.T.: [Website] [Results]
Tryon Riding & Hunt Club “Morris the Horse” H.T.: [Website] [Results]
News & Notes:
Week 2 of SmartPak’s Ultimate Blanketing & Clipping Giveaways is on! This week you can enter to win an Andis Pulse ZRII Cordless Clipper. Use the link below to enter, but don’t wait! This giveaway ends Saturday, Oct. 24. [Enter]
The 2nd annual Tom Bass Seminar on Diversity in Equestrian Sports will be held on on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, following cross country at Tryon International 3-Day Event. EN is proud to once again partner with this important event, whose inaugural edition last fall at TIEC foreshadowed this year’s ongoing reckoning with issues of race in equestrian sport. The year’s seminar will be presented virtually due to Covid-19 from 3:30 p.m. ET and will be live streamed on the main arena Jumbotron as well as on EN as well as via presenters The African Connections Research and Education Fund, Inc. and SportsQuest International, LLC, and HorsesDaily and TIEC. More details to come!
Australian Olympic team medallists Shane Rose and Stuart Tinney took the top three spots in the CCI4*-S at Equestriad in Camden, NSW on Sunday. The first 4* class to be run in Australia since Tonimbuk International in March saw Shane Rose riding Virgil defend his 2019 title to take the class, just ahead of Stuart Tinney’s Celebration. [An Eventful Life]
Top female jockey Hollie Doyle has broken the British record she set in 2019 in a “tremendous feat.” The 23-year-old has set a new record for wins achieved by a woman during a calendar year after riding her 117th victory in 2020 with State Occasion at Kempton Park on Oct. 14. [Horse & Hound]
Hot on Horse Nation: Every week HN teams up with Ovation Riding to recognize those doing good in the horse world. This week’s standing ovation goes to the MARS Equestrian™ Fellowship, which supports Amanda Adams’s work to improve not only how the industry cares for senior horses but also how veterinarians can better diagnose the conditions and diseases that affect them. [HN]
Just in on Jumper Nation: Founded during the last crisis in 2008 by father/daughter team, Mark and Paige Bellissimo, the Great Charity Challenge presented by Fidelity Investments® (GCC) came forward as a way to increase funding to local non-profit organizations. With the U.S. facing another crisis 12 years later, this year the organization awarded $1.3 million to 49 local Palm Beach County organizations at the onset of the pandemic, enabling them to quickly react and meet the needs of the area’s most vulnerable residents. [JN]
Video: In case you missed it, the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill staged a “virtual event” from Thursday through Sunday featuring an eclectic mix of Fair Hill reviews, previews, interviews and more. One of my favorite “more” elements was a mixology lesson with Ezra Allen and Aaron Joseph of Cane Collective, who’ve got at least two signature cocktails lined up for the inaugural event on Oct. 14-17, 2021.
Maryland 5 Star Cold Pumpkin Chai Toddy
3 oz Chai Tea
1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1 1/2 oz Cane Collective Pumpkin Syrup
1 1/2 ox Old Line Single Malt Whiskey
Garnish with Lemon & Candied Ginger
Maryland 5 Star Fizz
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
2 oz Cane Collective Pear Cider
1 1/2 ox Sagamore Rye Whiskey
2 oz Club Soda
Garnish with Fresh Red Pears
You can shop Cane Collective’s signature mixers here, and you can follow them on Instagram @cane_collective. I queued the video right up to their bit for you below. Check out the Opening Ceremonies, Dressage Day, Cross Country and Show Jumping Days all on the Maryland 5 Star Youtube Channel, and be sure to follow the event’s website and Facebook for all the latest.
Go forth and conquer this week, EN. Go Eventing!
