Your Connection to the Modern Sport Horse


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Their First Four-Star Earns Five Stars by Amber Heintzberger Madeline Backus and her Trakehner mare grow up together overcoming adversity to successfully compete at their first Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event.


34 Days in Paradise by Pat Payne For Oregon breeder Rose Sullivan, a trip to Cuba introduced her to a world few Americans have seen.


Three Strikes and Still Swinging by Charlene Strickland After multiple setbacks, grand prix rider Shelley Fellers rebounds with her Swedish Warmblood.


The App Advantage by Sydney Masters-Durieux Sport horse equestrians use mobile apps for stabling, shipping and barn management.


SPECIAL BREED SEC TION


Danish Warmblood: On the World Map by Staff of Dansk Varmblod


Danish Warmbloods play a rapidly growing role on the international breeding scene.


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DEPAR TMENTS & COLUMNS


10 Publisher’s Welcome 11 Letters to the Editor


47 Point of View – Dr. Gerd Heuschmann Continues to Spread his Message. by Andrea Haller


52 Conformation Corner – The Old and the New. by Judy Wardrope 55 Point of View – Mastering Lightness: Then and Now, Part 1. by JP Giacomini 60 Barn Exam – Free Forms: Friend or Foe? by Attorney Krysia Nelson 64 Index of Advertisers


66 Warmblood Whoas – Fight for Your Right to Sport Your Integrity. by Summer Stoffel


On the cover: Danish Warmblood Montana 6 July/August 2017


(Rambo x Loran), owned by Brenda Duet, ridden by JJ Tate and bred by Oak Hill Farm, won the Gold Coast CDI Intermediate 1 Freestyle in Wellington in January 2017. Photo by Richard Malmgren


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Amber Heintzberger


Charlene Strickland


Courtesy Dansk Varmblod


Fiona Scott-Maxwell


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