Fair Hill International, continued...
Dogs is for you! T e sport features various breeds of dogs bred to run while pulling wheeled carts made to mimic a sleigh on snow. Xtreme
Weather Kennels will be demonstrating this sport on Saturday and Sunday. New for 2012 is the addition of a Frisbee Dog competition on Saturday. T e competition is held by the Appalachian Air Canines group and will include long-distance and freestyle routine competitions.
Family Fun T e Kids’ Corner opens bright and early Sat-
urday morning and includes several activities such as a hay maze and face painting. T e Art and Sport of Falconry is back with
live birds of prey. Demonstrations will be near the food court on Saturday. Saturday also fea- tures Miniature Horse demonstrations and HorsePlay. New this year is the team of Silly Goose and
Val. As the keeper of Musical Zoo, the Barn- yard Farm and other assorted puppet-fi lled imaginary locales, Val provides energy-fi lled, comedic and uplifting programs for children. T e program includes audience participation with a variety of songs and dances.
The Draw of Fair Hill by Julia Wendell Competing at the
Julia Wendell and Cavendish at Full Gallop Farm this winter
Fair Hill CCI*** in 2005 with my horse Redmond far exceed- ed any expectations I had for myself in the sport of eventing. I completed my fi rst Beginner Novice event when I was 38, and fell instantly in love with the sport, and thereaf- ter made it one of my life’s passions. For me, though, the day-to-day process is the most im-
portant element, as well as the intense bonds I’ve cultivated with my horses. I’m not a natural rider, and have had to work hard. I grew up riding in the woods of western Pennsylvania, so perhaps I thought I was a natural when I fi rst came back to horses after a 15-year hiatus. But eventing quickly humbled me, and continues to do so, as I watch all the extremely talented young professionals come up the ranks. I’ve worked hard, and not given up when things weren’t going right time after time, and that’s why I’m on the entry list at Fair Hill this year.
Having never thought I’d ever get to FHI, I got there several years ago,
and fi nished well–largely due to my amazing horse-of-a-lifetime, Red- mond, who soon after suff ered another injury which took him out of the upper-level game. Since then, I have struggled with my desire to get back to Fair Hill through several other horses who didn’t work out for me and have discovered that getting back to Fair Hill once you’ve gotten there is almost harder than getting there in the fi rst place. Seven years later, I fi nally fi nd myself perched on the precipice of an- other Fair Hill weekend, funnily enough, with my horse Cavendish as my guide. A horse I’ve had since he was fi ve (now 13), who has given me a devil of a time getting here. He’s an 18-hand, intensely strong and sen- sitive Irish Sport Horse, who has developed after years of hard work and heartache, into a cross-country machine. Good dressage and show jump- ing still elude us, I’m afraid, but we are still working on those phases, and who knows, maybe we’ll get all three elements down before the NEXT Fair Hill (hopefully not another seven years hence!). Why keep coming back? Why keep the passion going? Why not give
up? T e answer to those questions is yet another question–Why breathe? And yet, sadly, just having turned 57, I do see the end of upper-level eventing darkening the horizon, which makes this October all the more signifi cant to me.
And what advice might I give to those dreaming of one day competing at the Fair Hill International, or engaged in any other nearly impossible endeavor? Keep the dream alive, and keep working hard. You’ll get there.
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Katie McCoy & Accolade Boumi Temple Mounted Patrol Horse Show 2012
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Mule Puissance If you have never seen Coon Jumping, then
you must make it out to FHI on Friday to see it fi rst hand. T e coon jump is a competition where mules are asked to jump a vertical rail from a standstill. T e mule that jumps the highest without knocking the rail down wins. During the lunch break on Friday, Harrison Mules Days of Carroll County will be bringing several mules into the main arena for a demon- stration. Want a sneak peek? Harrison Mules Days takes place the fi rst week in October.
Katherine O. Rizzo
854140-121012
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