DECEMBER 2019 THE RIDER /51
Exclusive to the Digital Edition of The Rider
DECEMBER 2019 Vol. 1, Issue No. 3
Fair Hill Thoroughbred Show Provides New Opportunities to Rider and Thoroughbred Teams
Check out these stories inside!
Canada’s HeadCheck - See Pg 52
Palm Beach Equine Veterinary Clinic - See Pg 55
Auction by
Arqana •
See Page 54
FHTS Hosts Clinic Led by Commandant John Ledingham and Awards TERF Good Ambassador Scholarships
December 5, 2019 (Fair Hill, MD) – The Fair Hill Thoroughbred
(www.fairhillthoroughbred-
show.com) had its best year ever, according to president Lisa Demars. “We had more
Show
well! We are very proud to support these riders,” said Demars.
than 125 riders competing with their Thoroughbreds in hunter and jumper classes. Each of these teams was in the process of retraining OTTBs for a new discipline. And they are doing really
competitors the opportunity to enter a drawing to earn one of 15 spots in a free clinic led this year by Comdt. John Ledingham of Co. Meath, Ireland, and held at The Stables at Fox Cross- ing, Cochranville, PA. Comdt. Ledingham was a member of the Irish Army Equitation School until his retirement in 2002. He com- peted in the Seoul Olympics, three World Championships, three Euro- pean Championships, 15 Aga Khan Nations Cups and
The show offered
63 Nations Cups for Ireland. Comdt. Ledingham was also a three-time winner of the Hickstead Derby and the Hickstead Speed Derby, and four-time winner of the Royal Dublin Horse Show Puissance setting a record of 7’5” in 1987! Since his retire-
ment from the Irish Army, Comdt. Ledingham has been Chef d’Equip of Irish Junior Teams, winning four gold, two silver and two bronze medals at European Championships and a gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games, Nan-jing, China. He was Irish Equestrian Team manager, Athens Olympics;
Coach to Irish Modern Pen- tathlon riders at the London and Rio Olympics; Chef d’Equip World Breeding Championships, Lanaken, Belgium where Irish-bred horses won two gold, three silver, and two bronze medals; Coach to the British Equestrian Federation Showjumping Pathway (2010-2016); Chairman of the Coaching Committee, Horsesport Ireland (2002- present); three-time Coach of the Year and he is a recip- ient of an FEI Gold Medal. This year, the
FHTS again awarded $500 TERF Good Ambassador Scholarships to select com-
petitors program. sponsored by the Thoroughbred Edu- cation and Research Foun- dation. The award is designed to support riders who have demonstrated - while at the show – an abil- ity to retrain their thorough- bred. Riders are nominated by the judge and show man- ager, and then asked to sub- mit a brief essay describing how they would use the scholarship to further their riding careers.
This year’s scholarships went to:
Continued on Page 52 Bob
Cacchione See Page 52
New Book: Riding For the Team •
See Page 55
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