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courage, elevate and give a platform to minor- ity voices in a space where they are underrep- resented” according to Nation Media’s July 31 post on
eventingnation.com. Eventing Nation’s Editor-in-Chief, Leslie
Wylie, recently stated, “T e Diversity Schol- arship was really a spontaneous, seat-of-the- pants endeavor. We were so excited to see the equestrian world engage with the Black Lives Matter movement, with some really progres- sive discourse emerging about how to make the horse world a more diverse and inclusive space.” Wylie explained that she was a panelist on the
2019 Tom Bass Seminar at Tryon International Equestrian Center, which was the fi rst ever seminar dedicated to the subject of diversity in equestrian sports. She said that two things re- ally jumped out to her at the seminar. “First, and this seems obvious but I think sometimes it gets lost in the shuffl e, is the importance of just shutting up and listening to what minority voices have to say,” she said. Wylie feels, “we need to stop talking over minority voices and give them the microphone instead.” Secondly, Wylie realized that although con-
versations were a great place to start, these words were “only as good as our ability to take them out into the world and make them ac- tionable.” T us, Nation Media started the idea of a Diversity Scholarship and fi rst announced the “1st Annual $1,000 Diversity Scholarship” on June 26. Support for the scholarship took off and more and more people began pledging funds to the scholarship. With the help of generous dona- tions from Stable View, Katherine Coleman and Hannah Hawkins, Nation Media was able to of- fer $5400 worth of scholarship funds for 2020. T is year’s scholarship program received 27
submissions representing a broad spectrum of gender, racial, ethnic, sexual and class identities. T e program’s scholarship winners cross many equine disciplines as well, including eventing, hunters, jumpers, dressage, polo and western. “In lieu of declaring a winner we have expand- ed the fund to award each applicant $200,” Na- tion Media stated on July 31. Since announcing this year’s winners, Event-
ing Nation has begun publishing essays from each rider every day on their website. In addi- tion, at the end of each essay, EN posts a “Get Involved” section with resources and ideas for readers to be able to take action. T e online es- says keep the conversation going and help peo- ple take action. “Our response from readers to the essays has been really encouraging,” Wylie said, “Just comment after comment of positiv- ity and encouragement for the essay writers.” Nation Media intends to continue the schol-
arship on an annual basis. Below is a list of the 2020 Diversity Scholar- ship winners. You can read each winner’s essay on
eventingnation.com. • Caden Barrera (Minneapolis) • Dana Bivens (Oregon) • Madison Buening (Wisconsin) • Helen Casteel (Silver Spring, MD) • Anastasia Curwood (Kentucky) • Dawn Edgerton-Cameron (Annapolis, MD) • Morgan Fenrick (North Carolina) • Christopher Ferralez (Illinois) • Jordyn Hale (Delaware) • Malachi Hinton (Virginia) • Leilani Jackson (California) • Lea Jih-Vieria (New York by way of Middle- town, MD) • Kimberly Kojima (Germany) • Aki Joy Maruyama (Georgia/Belgium) • Mitike Mathews (Canada) • Briannah McGee (California) • Muhammad Rehman (Florida/Pakistan) • Deonte Sewell (Virginina) • Katarina Stovall (Texas) • Jen Spencer (Canada) • Scnobia Stewart (North Carolina) • Katherine Un (Washington) • Julie Upshur (Tennessee) • Lyssette Williams (California) • Christine Wilson (New York)
Lasix-free Study
A Lasix-free study on two-year-old race- horses in Maryland kicked off on August 7 at Laurel Park. T e planned study was approved by the Maryland Equine Safety, Health and Welfare Advisory Committee, which falls un- der the Maryland Racing Commission. T e study includes post race video endoscopies of all starters in 2-year-old races. T rough a press release, the Maryland Jockey Club stated that under an emergency regula- tion approved on August 2, all 2-year-old races through December 31 will be run Lasix-free with a 48-hour cut-off of the therapeutic medication. Private veterinarians who practice at Laurel will perform the endoscopies. Information forms for each horse will gather data to be transferred to an online database. MRC will maintain all records and only a horse’s owner and trainer will be given the results to maintain anonymity. T e study is part of a broader agreement
between the Maryland T oroughbred Horse- men’s Association and T e Stronach Group for a Lasix-free pilot program that will run through 2023 for 2-year-old races and grades stakes only. Graded stakes races for 2020 are not part of the pilot program.
WIHS Joins List of Canceled 2020 Shows
On August 14, the Board of Directors and
show management team for the Washington International Horse Show, presented by Mars Equestrian, announced the cancellation of the 2020 WIHS. Earlier this summer, on July 23, WIHS’s board had announced the show would move to Tampa, Florida, due to the continued closure of the Capital One Arena. In its newest press release, WIHS stated that
because “multiple issues have evolved resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, WIHS found it impossible to successfully host the Longines FEI Jumping World CupTM Washington for 2020.” WIHS has also moved its WIHS Equitation
Finals and WIHS Pony Equitation Finals, as well as the WIHS Children’s and Adult Hunt- er and Jumper Finals, to Tryon International Equestrian Center in North Carolina. T ese classes will be held October 20-25.
State Fair Canceled, Some Horse Shows Go On
On August 5, Maryland State Fair offi cials
canceled this year’s fair due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “T ere will be no rides, no racing, no public building, no commercial building, no indoor entries, no farm and garden entries,” stated general manager Andy Cashman. “T e only thing we’re going to have at this year’s fair will be the junior and open livestock shows… [and] no public will be invited.” In addition, those livestock shows held will be open to in- state participants only. T e fair was originally set to run from August 27 to September 7.
Kudos…
Kudos to Alexis Kinney and Abigail Grove on being named to the Interscholastic Equestrian Association’s Youth Board for the 2020-2021 season. Kinney is a junior from Hollywood and rides hunters out of A Moment in Time. Grove is a sophomore from Cumberland. She rides dressage out of Mystic Meadows Farm.
IHSA Adds Ranch Riding T e Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association
(IHSA) leadership team announced on July 29 the addition of Ranch Riding classes to its Western divisions. T e new class includes indi- vidual performance of an approved pattern that emulates maneuvers commonly used in ranch work such as gait extensions and turnarounds. T e new class is being off ered to IHSA West- ern Level II members.
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