Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the Full Moon Farm Eventing Foundation’s (FMFEF) Spring Festival Fundraiser in Finksburg, MD! In an effort to raise funds to support a new grant aimed at providing opportunity to marginalized riders, the FMFEF is hosting several fundraising opportunities this year. Don’t miss out on a forthcoming silent auction, to which EN has donated three months of advertising (plus many more even cooler things up for grabs!).
Click here to learn more about FMFEF.
U.S. Events Opening Today
The Event at Skyline (UT); Stable View Local Charities H.T. (SC); Waredaca H.T. (MD); Texas Rose Horse Park H.T. (TX); Windridge Farm Spring H.T. (NC); Winona H.T. (OH);
U.S. Events Closing Today
Rocking Horse Sprint H.T. (FL); Stable View 2*/3*/4* and H.T. (SC); Pine Hill Spring H.T. (TX); CDCTA Spring H.T. (VA)
News & Reading
New Mini Episode alert! The Go Eventing Podcast is launching bite-sized interviews, starting with Kareem Rosser, author of Crossing the Line and When You’re Ready. Kareem shares his journey with horses, his work with Work to Ride, and his deep connection to Lee Lee Jones, who sustained a traumatic brain injury in 2016. This unedited conversation is raw, inspiring, and not to be missed. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform or here.
Do you know the ins and outs of the USEA Eventing Omnibus? There is tons of information at your fingertips when you dive in, including things like that to expect from the cross country course, which dressage test you’ll be riding, who the officials are, a tentative schedule, and more. It behooves you to know the omnibus, so click here to read more on getting the most from each listing.
Olympic medalist and World Champion Ros Canter and rising star Saffron Cresswell had both entered the ballot for this year’s London Marathon (April 27). After Saffron broke her back in two places and sustained damage to her spinal cord in a fall at Bramham last June, Ros decided to run in aid of Spinal Research, which aims to restore function and movement for people with spinal cord injuries. Read more here.
Do we need an equine SafeSport program? One writer for The Chronicle of the Horse thinks so. In a recent editorial on COTH, Armand Leone writes about the potential of a similar type of “SafeSport” program that could, in the end, become an advocacy voice for the horses who cannot speak for themselves when it comes to how they are being treated. Read more of Armand’s views here.
Sponsor Corner: Kentucky Performance Products
Check out this recent review of KPP’s Contribute supplement, An affordable and tasty way to add essential omega-3 fatty acids to your horse’s diet.
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Learn more about Contribute here.
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Go behind the curtain with German Olympian Bettina Hoy and why giving back through coaching fulfills her:
