By Kate Green
Great Britain has won the 2013 FEI Nations Cup™ Eventing by just one point after an epic battle with last year’s champions, Germany.
Month: October 2013
Fort Worth, TX – Oct. 11, 2013 –Championship Bull Riding (CBR) has named Steve Rempelos as Chief Marketing Officer effective immediately. He assumes management of CBR corporate partnership development, television marketing, event marketing, licensing, and communications.
Breeders’ Cup encourages fans to use public transportation to and from Santa Anita Park, Nov. 1 and 2
LOS ANGELES (Oct. 7, 2013) – The Breeders’ Cup, horse racing’s premier international event, has partnered with Metrolink to encourage fans to use public transportation to travel to and from the 30th running of the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita Park on Nov. 1 and 2. A wrapped train car decorated with six thoroughbred horses is currently traveling across the Metrolink system leading up to the championships.
LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 10, 2013) – Keeneland Association earned its sixth International Simulcast Award at the 21st annual International Simulcast Conference, held Oct. 7-9 in Lexington. It is the fifth time in the past six years Keeneland has taken the top honor.
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LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 9, 2013) – Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s homebred Kitten Kaboodle found room on the rail at the head of the stretch and spurted clear to win the 23rd running of the $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3) for 2-year-old fillies by 4 3/4 lengths over favored Zinzay before a sun-splashed Wednesday afternoon crowd of 12,186 at Keeneland.
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Encino, CA (October 9, 2013) – ACM Lifting Lives® announced today that the October “My Cause” web feature will spotlight Lauren Alaina and the charity organization, Special Olympics Project UNIFY. Alaina is a Special Ambassador for Project Unify, and traveled to PyeongChang, South Korea last January for the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games. The web feature drives awareness of artist-supported charitable organizations and supports fundraising efforts for those philanthropies.
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By Helen Murray and Eileen Schnettler
Lexington, Ky.- Three division of National Championship competition at the 2013 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions presented by The Dutta Corp got underway Wednesday in the Kentucky Horse Park’s Rolex Stadium.
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LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 1, 2013) – Conquest Stables’ My Conquestadory, a 3¼-length winner over males in the Summer Stakes (G2) on turf at Woodbine in her lone start, heads a field of 13 juvenile fillies entered Tuesday for Friday’s 62nd running of the $400,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1).
STEVENS CAPS ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ WEEKEND WITH HIS THIRD GRADED STAKES TALLY, FOURTH OVERALL
ARCADIA, Calif. (Sept. 29, 2013)—Although he disappointed as the 5-2 favorite in the prestigious Grade I Arlington Million Aug. 17, Argentine-bred Indy Point made amends in Sunday’s Grade II, $150,000 John Henry Turf Championship, with an authoritative 1 ¼ length victory as the 2-1 favorite, providing Gary Stevens with his third graded stakes tally of the weekend while projecting himself as one of the horses to beat in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Turf (1 ½ miles) on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita.
Lexington, Kentucky…On Saturday night, October 12, 2013, there will be an added degree of excitement at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions presented by The Dutta Corp. Prior to the start of the Grand Prix Freestyles, Dressage Celebrity Mounted Games will be held in the Rolex Stadium of the Kentucky Horse Park, featuring competitors participating in pony relay races as a fundraiser for the U.S. High Performance Dressage programs.