Wordless Wednesday – Grooming
Emirates Melbourne Cup 2014 Tour
I received a message via LinkedIn from Racing Engagements and Cup Tour Manager Joe McGrath. It was with regards to the 2014 Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour.
If you know someone who is interested in having the 2014 $175,000 Emirates Melbourne Cup come to their community please forward on this email. We do travel far and wide.
The Cup comes with Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour talent (past Cup winning trainers, jockeys and owners) and presents a unique opportunity to drive community engagement. It also presents a unique opportunity to leverage off the Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour brand and drive some much needed charitable funds for a needy cause. The Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour is a key promotional driver for the Melbourne Cup Carnival and is a most successful event. But more so, it is actually quite a lot of fun.
The 2014 Cup Tour will start in mid-July and continue through to Emirates Melbourne Cup Day (4th November).
Tenders close on Monday, 14th April. If interested take a look at http://www.melbournecuptour.com.au.
“A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.” – Author unknown
Friday Feature: Dressage Competitor
This week’s letter is D. If you missed last week’s Friday Feature, take a look at Course Design.
Dressage is a form of riding that has its roots in military training. Being able to get a horse to perform a particular movement when it is asked in spite of what is going on around it, is a sign of a well trained and responsive horse.
These days, many may describe dressage as a form of demonstrating a horse’s obedience whilst also showing off it’s incredible movement. Dressage competitions start at local shows and Pony Club level competitions and work their way up to Olympic level and other high level events.
For someone who is looking to compete in dressage events for a living, there are a few options:
- train and ride your own horses
- be paid to ride for other people
- be taken on as a working pupil and gain experience whilst riding anothers’ horses
A willingness to ride any horse at the start (as a catch rider) may be what is required to gain the attention of others – as being someone who can ride anything, or as being someone who produces results with horses in the show ring. Results and sponsorship will be the main forms of income for dressage riding.
For some posts that relate to this topic on Equus-Blog, take a look at:
“If training has not made a horse more beautiful, nobler in carriage, more attentive in his behavior, revealing pleasure in his own accomplishment…then he has not truly been schooled in dressage.” – Col. Handler
Happy Trails (Horse Crazy Series)
The second book in the Horse Crazy series finds young Emily still at Webster’s Country Horse Camp without her closest friend Judy. She is however coping just fine, and learning to stand up for herself as well as recognise true friends.
In this novel for young teens, Emily starts to recognise that something is truly wrong with one of the other girls, Dru. Aside from being petrified of horses, Dru is truly unhappy about something.
On a planned overnight trail, Dru manages to fall from her walking horse on their first day out, resulting in the trip being called off until further notice.
The remaining riders are devastated – especially at the idea of such an unhappy rider having ruined their exciting plans. As this weighs heavily on the young unhappy rider, she makes a drastic effort to get away from it all.
A search party in the form of the Webster family and Emily head out at night to try to find the runaway Dru. After she is found Emily realises the depth of the young girl’s unhappiness due to family troubles.
In an attempt to move Dru’s thoughts to something else, Emily finds a way with the help of Chris Webster to cause the young rider to turn her attention to her faithful mount, Donna. Things slowly turn around and find Dru learning to not be fearful of horses and to even enjoy riding and caring for them.
Happy Trails ends with Emily finding she has a lot to write and tell Judy about.
Author: Virginia Vail
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/182956.Virginia_Vail
Fiction – teens
In my library? Indeed – a good follow on from the first in the series.
Want it? Get it now at Amazon.
“Wild oats aren’t meant for sowing – but they make a nice trail snack.” – Author unknown
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