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n equestrian circles, Chester Weber is practically a household name. Chester is the eight-time USEF National Four-In-Hand Combined Driving Champion
and has won many additional U.S. and international awards over the years. He’s also been nominated numerous times for the prestigious USEF Equestrian of the Year award. Chester has countless fans worldwide, however, there’s one particular eventer and equine journalist from Canada who claims to be Chester’s number one fan. In January, Kim Logue of Guelph, Ontario, experienced a once-in-a-lifetime “weekend of training” at the Weber’s stunning Live Oak Stud in Ocala, Florida, and she has become a new, passionate fan of combined driving.
AND THE WINNER IS… While on the internet last year, Kim spotted a special
contest for equestrians and eagerly submitted her entry. “I don’t own a horse currently, so I’m always looking for ways to get horse time,” Kim explains. She was the lucky chosen recipient of a weekend of training with the world champion driver after writing a winning essay describing why she is
By Lee Fiore
A Canadian eventer wins a dream-come-true “weekend of training” with world champion driver Chester Weber.
Chester Weber’s number one fan. The contest advertised on the “Gift of The Horse” website offered prize packages valued from $500–$2000 donated by many top trainers from every equestrian discipline. It was created by the Horse Coupon Book, and 100% of the proceeds benefit the American Youth Horse Council. (You can read Kim’s winning essay and learn more about the Horse Coupon Book and The American Youth Horse Council at
www.giftofthehorse.com.) Kim has experienced a “gift of the horse” of another kind
before. “When I was a little girl in Ontario, one of my father’s business clients gave me the gift of funding my first riding lessons,” says Kim. “I was completely awestruck at the horses at this gentleman’s farm while I accompanied my father on his business trips there.” Her parents later continued to pay for lessons until Kim was accomplished and mature enough to earn them as a working student. By the time Kim was sixteen, her parents encouraged her to obtain her driver’s license so that she could drive herself and her little sister to the barn.
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