The Dutta Corp Fair Hill International, continued...
“I remember we were beating away the bushes to fi nd everything we needed and then the challenge was linking it all together.”
Current FHI course designer Derek di Grazia said in that same 2013 arti- cle, “T e thing about Fair Hill that you appreciate after riding it is how much the terrain aff ects the horses.” Before becoming FHI’s course designer in 2000, di Grazia had competed several times there and won aboard Our Busby in 1991. T at same year, Eric Bull, also a top event rider, became FHI’s offi cial course builder. Ryan believes it is FHI’s cross-
country course that makes competi- tors come back to FHI year after year. “Phillip and Boyd and riders of that level have said it over and over again… If you get around Fair Hill, you are ready for a four star,” he said.
The First Family
T at fi rst FHI team was a mix of Chester- land organizers, local pony club organizers and trainers who already were familiar with the Fair Hill grounds. Nearly all were purely volunteers with a passion for eventing. John Ryan. Trish Gilbert. Fran Loftus. Bodgie Reed. Michael Tucker. Judy T ayer. Diane Trefry.
Mary Coldren.
Charles Colgen. Rupert
Rossetti. Derek di Grazia. Eric Bull. Sally Ike. T e list goes on and on. Trying to generate any sort of list of the fi rst FHI family is next to impossible. So many people, so many volunteers. So little time!
“It’s a big family,” said this year’s competi- tion manager and long-time show secretary Mary Coldren. “T e family. T at’s what has
Later, Coldren became treasurer for a few
years and then sat on the Board of Directors be- fore becoming FHI’s event secretary and stable manager. “I remember the years when stabling was grouped by the Davidson tent, the Dutton tent and the O’Connor tent,” she remarked,
commenting
on the way competitors liked to be stabled together. T is year, Coldren has fallen into the competition manager role. “T ey needed someone who knew all the players to step into the role and I just seemed like the logical fi t,” she said. “It really is a whole family
aff air,” Loftus said. “Mowing and weed-whacking,
painting
The Foreman, owned by Ann Jones and ridden by Olympian Phil- lip Dutton, is the only horse to have won the CCI3* at FHI more than once. The pair won in 2004 (left) and 2007 (right).
made Fair Hill so successful for so long.” Cold- ren’s fi rst exposure to FHI was as the offi cial “mower of the tracks,” she said with a laugh. “I was a student of Judy T ayer’s and all her stu- dents volunteered at Fair Hill. I was the one on the tractor with the bat-wing mower out there grooming the courses.”
Happy Birthday Dutta Corp! T e Dutta Corp., title sponsor of
FHI since 2013, is also celebrating a milestone this year with its own 30th anniversary! Pictured are FHI president Trish Gilbert and Dutta Corp. owner/ CEO Tim Dutta.
jumps….” When asked about that very fi rst FHI, Loftus stated, “I was very amazed how it all came together. What was
just fi elds and woods and hedges turned into a magnifi cent course.” Loftus started out as orga- nizing show jumping and manned the in-gate at times. Over the years she has also run the horse inspections and been a VIP shuttle driver. “T at is a lot of fun! You meet a lot of interest- ing people driving the shuttles,” she stated. But Loftus is best known for her paintings
of the cross-country fences that illustrate each year’s courses in the FHI program. “Its really in- teresting to talk with the course designers and walk around the courses with them while they are setting fences. I’ve learned a lot about the sport just from doing those paintings,” she said. Bodgie Reed runs the dressage phase, but like so many others on the FHI team, does so much more than that, pointed out that “there are a continued...
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