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Articles This Week
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- USEA Video Series - Choosing an Event Horse
- Prince Meets the King - or Muggle Meets Jimmy
- Red Hills Gold Cup Coverage
- Red Hills Wrap-Up
- Anglo-Arab Snooze Alarm & Lauren Kieffer
- Hot Topic Debate with Capt. Mark Phillips, Leslie Law & Bruce Davidson

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USEA Video Series - Choosing an Event Horse
By Josh Walker with help from Phyllis Dawson

The debut production of the USEA's new educational video series. In this first video, Olympian Phyllis Dawson guides us in the process of learning how to pick the right partner for your style and ability.

http://useventing.com/blog/?p=157
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Prince Meets the King - Or Muggle Meets Jimmy
by Melissa Stubbenberg

Melissa Stubbenberg is the owner of "Muggle" the 2007 USEA/EMCO Future Event Horse Grand Champion

Well the allergies are starting to hit and cobwebs have been dusted off the dreaded torture machine in the basement (elliptical machine)....SPRING is coming and the let down time of winter is over. Time to get myself and my horses back into work.

This time of year is the hardest for me. It is still dark and cold outside when I get up to ride and dark and cold when I get home from work at night. It is very hard to get motivated. So to help put the fear of God into me and get my behind in gear, I helped co-organize a series of clinics here in Unionville, PA with one of the Kings of eventing-Jimmy Wofford.

http://useventing.com/blog/?p=152
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Tallahassee Lassie for the Weekend - Coverage of the Red Hills Gold Cup Event
by Emily Daily

Finally. I have arrived at my destination. Last night as I slept, visions of palm trees and snuggly warm sunshine danced in my brain, enticing me to the Floridian delights (is there such a thing?) of the weekend to come. After a hectic taxi ride through rush hour traffic (with me, chronically paranoid of a missed flight, nervously chomping my nails to the quick), after gulping down a quick breakfast of hashbrowns and too many cups of coffee at the airport restaurant (because, really, aren't hashbrowns just an excuse to eat french fries in the morning?), after several claustrophobic hours on two planes (the aisle seat, no less...with unfriendly bottoms waddling past me, inches from my face), after treading the 18 miles across the Atlanta airport (I reached for the handrail once, but then realized how many boogery children's hands and flu-ridden passengers had grasped it before me), and waiting... waiting...waiting. Finally... I've arrived in Tallahassee for the first Gold Cup event of the year. Let's explore some of the possibilities of the long weekend stretched out before us....

http://useventing.com/blog/?p=147
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Red Hills Wrap Up - Montgomery & Dutton Win the Golden Cups by Emily Daily

Red Hills Horse Trials in Tallahassee, Florida, the first of this year's 2008 Adequan USEA Gold Cup events, finished up their weekend with packed crowds, blue skies, and a fabulous day of show jumping. Clark Montgomery and the steady Thoroughbred gelding Up Spirit, owned by Montgomery and William and Holly Becker, put together a stellar ride to finish off his weekend at the top of the CIC3*W division - which was the "Advanced" division for the Gold Cup.

http://www.useventing.com/competitions.php?section=gcs&id=1410
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Anglo-Arab Snooze Alarm & Lauren Kieffer Win Ambassador Award
by Peggy Ingles

Snooze Alarm, the talented Anglo-Arabian event horse owned and ridden by Lauren Kieffer, was named the 2007 Arabian Horse Association's Ambassador Award Winner,. This award is given annually by the AHA to the registered Arabian, Anglo-Arabian or Half-Arabian for outstanding achievement in representing the Arabian Horse community to the general public. The horse must have achieved a unique accomplishment that showcases the breed in order to be eligible.

http://useventing.com/blog/?p=166
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Mark Phillips, Bruce Davidson and Leslie Law Weigh in on Two Hot Issues Currently being Debated in Eventing: Cross-Country Courses and Speeds

The USEA is privileged to have three Olympic and World Championship riders discuss their impressions of the sport today and their suggestions for how improvements may be brought about. (All articles will appear in the next issue of Eventing USA). Captain Mark Phillips has submitted to us his column for the March/April issue of Eventing USA and asked that we share this with our members on our website prior to print publication.

http://www.useventing.com/aboutus.php?id=1438
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