Scene & Herd
Letter To Trainers (as seen in In Stride Magazine)
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As this issue of In Stride is dedicated to horse welfare, we at the USHJA would like to take this
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opportunity to ask you to be ambassadors in this field.
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Most sports require equipment in order to perform. If you play golf, you need clubs; if you play
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tennis, you need a racket; if you run, you need sneakers—and obviously, if you compete in equestrian
sports, you need a horse. Why point out something so obvious? Because in the throes of competition and
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in the business of making money, we can often overlook this key piece of our sport: our horses.
It is the role of the trainer to fill many shoes and wear many hats. Our children look up to you
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for guidance and imitate how you, as mentors, behave and handle horses. The USHJA strives for excel-
lence in educating its members, but without ambassadors in the “trenches”, we will all fall short in our
mission to achieve that excellence. We ask that every trainer make it a point each day to stop and take a
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few minutes to reflect on the importance of demonstrating and teaching horsemanship and appreciating
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the gifts our horses bring us each day by merely allowing us to be in their presence.
As the show year gets going full tilt and our lives are consumed by the busy summer, please
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remember that you are not just teaching horseback riding; you are shaping our youth, our grassroots
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equestrians and our industry. You have the ability to change the way people think, act, and behave. We
ask that you take your role seriously and strive to achieve excellence in each of your horses and riders,
thereby helping to create an industry filled with talent, empathy, and true horsemanship.
© 2007 United States Hunter Jumper Association, Inc. The “Open Letter to Trainers” article originally appeared in the June 2007 issue of USHJA
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New Heights
West Coast goes North
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Calgary, Canada is a long way north, Cup and also piloted Paco to the top
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but when the action in our sport is in prize in the $20,000 Molson Cup. Will
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the province of Alberta, riders from Simpson aboard Carlsson Von Dach
all over the world will flock there. won the $15,000 AMJ Campbell Van
Actually, not only “the action”, but Lines Challenge class. Kim, ridden by
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the money. Every class at the Spruce Christy Sutherland, won the $2,000
Meadows shows have sponsors who Coril Holdings Jr Barrage 1.20m.
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means money to the winners. Big rib- the top prize in a huge, hotly contest-
bons, large neck sashes for the horses, ed $5,000 ATCO Jr/Am Parcours De
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beautiful bronze trophies, flowers and Chasse class during the Canada One
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of course the coveted winners coolers! show. A tremendously fast jumpoff,
Following all the results of the West Megan still beat the clock and left the
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Coast winners is a task of huge magni- jumps up to lead the victory gallop.
tude. For this column, here is a short But the real story is the Skyliner re-
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recap of the winners and those who sults. This is the second year for this
traveled north to be rewarded by the show, set during what used to be the
robust experience of the Victory gal- “dark” week between Spruce Mead-
lop in an International horse show at ows shows. Now, in it’s infancy, with
a facility of International renowned what looks like a huge future ahead
status. of it. Only junior and amateur riders
Flexible, ridden by Rich Fellers, compete in classes in the Nations Cup
won the $50,000 Lafarge Cup during format and the Final Four competition
the North American show. Richard to wrap up that week.
Spooner rode Airtime to the win in
the $20,000 McDaniel & Associates
For more see the “Winners’ Circle” on pg. 18
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