Sir Rockstar getting some love at Pine Top Farm. Photo via Erin Jarboe’s Facebook Page.
While it’s no longer the final event of the year, Pine Top’s Thanksgiving HT is always the happiest season wrap up for me. This is one of my favorite events of the year. We always went with a group of friends right after the holiday, so it felt like a family affair. Congratulations to all who had a great weekend!
National Holiday: Giving Tuesday
There are no events opening or closing this week. Countdown to the 2019 season starts… now!
Tuesday News:
Poland has earned another Olympic qualifier at the Equestrian Festival Baborówka. This offers C group athletes a valuable chance to represent their country on the biggest stage. The event will be held May 23-26, 2019. [From Baborówka to the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020]
If you’re like me, and bummed to be missing the USEA Convention, then you’re in luck because they’re live streaming it! Some content will be open to all, and others will only be available to members, so be sure to renew your membership before next week. [USEA to Live Stream the 2018 USEA Annual Meeting & Convention]
A study in Denmark is hoping to shine more light on the issue of rider weight. Participants wore weighted vests over a period of two months, and the researchers are now analyzing the data. [Rider weight: Researchers hope study will cast light on thorny issue]
The Hill family is at it again! Last November EN profiled Katherine and Bruce Hill, a brother-sister duo from Area V for whom eventing — and volunteering — is a family affair. Now the whole Hill family has a new goal: to run to half of the L.A. Marathon in March 2019 with Team World Vision to help provide clean water for children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Today, on Giving Tuesday, any donations made to their accounts will be doubled by Team World Vision. This means that if someone donates $50, which provides clean water for one person for life, that donation will be matched so now two people will be receiving clean water for life. Can you help the cause? [Katherine’s Team World Vision donation page]
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