Winter Training Lists
The USEF announced the 2010 Eventing High Performance Training List and the Developing Rider List, which is chock full of PRO members. Please join us in congratulating the following PRO riders and owners ...
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PRO Member Spotlight, with Margaux Lander
Margaux Lander, age 15, is a PRO Competing Member from Floyd, VA. Margaux is currently competing at Training Level and trains with Caroline Atherholt Dowd. Margaux, who goes to school in Roanoke, teaches riding lessons to little kids to help pay for her horses. She loves to weight lift, play basketball, paint, go camping and hang out with her brother.
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At the Start Box, with Hawley Bennett-Awad
Canadian Olympic Team Member and PRO Member, Hawley Bennett, topped off a great 2009 season winning the Bromont Three-Day Event CCI*** with Gin & Juice co-owned by Linda Paine by getting married to Gamal Awad. Hawley is based at Kingsway Farm in Temecula, CA.
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Ask a Pro, with Ruthie Harbison
PRO Professional Member, Ruthie Harbison is an advanced level rider and trainer from Wellborn, Florida who is well known for importing, producing and selling upper level event horses and prospects to amateurs, young riders and professionals.
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What's in Your Tack Box, with Boyd Martin
Boyd Martin is a member of the PRO Riders Advisory Board and lives in West Grove, Pennsylvania. Boyd was recently named to the USEF High Performance Winter Training List with Neville Bardos, with whom he won the Fair Hill International CCI3*.
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PRO Business Spotlight, with Allina Strickland
Allina Strickland is from Columbus, Georgia, and is an Independent Insurance Agent who is associated with AFLAC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, and a Registered Representative for financial planning. Allina owned Meadowbrook Training Center for over twenty years and during that time coached students of all ages and was the Area III Young Rider Coordinator for many years. Allina is also the Poplar Place Farm Horse Trials Marketing Director, but her proudest accomplishment by far is being super groom extraordinaire Katie Strickland’s mother.
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Ocala Horse Trials Results
The Winter Eventing season kicked off this past weekend with the first in the Ocala Horse Trials series. The weather was brutal for Florida, but the tough and seasoned competitors made the most of the conditions at the Ocala Horse Park. EquiVentures, co-founded by Jonathan Holling and Peter Grey, had a full list of entries including a large group of PRO members.
A Farewell to Cooper
Members of the Professional Riders Organization would like to offer their heartfelt condolences to PRO member Jennie Brannigan on the loss of her extraordinary partner, Cooper, who succumbed to his battle with laminitis, when the decision was made to humanely euthanize the eight-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding.
It's Time to Renew or Join PRO for 2010!
Don't miss out! It's time to join PRO for an exciting 2010 eventing season as we put together the PRO Event Tour Series and bring PRO to competitions throughout the US with many new opportunities for riders and fans alike.
Clayton & Lucinda Fredericks Clinic in Aiken, S.C., Feb. 9-11, 2010
Holly Payne, PRO rider and Advisory Board Member, will be offering a three-day clinic with Clayton and Lucinda Fredericks, Kentucky Three-Day Event champions, from February 9-11, 2010. The clinic will be held at Paradise Farm in Aiken, South Carolina.
Rebecca & Jerome Broussard and Cassandra & Carl Segal Selected as Recipients of PRO's 2009 As You Like It Owners Award!
NOTTINGHAM, PA: Their names are well known in the world of Eventing, and today the Professional Riders Organization has chosen to honor these two couples who have made exceptional contributions to the career of individual riders and the sport of Eventing through their ownership of horses and personal investment in our sport. Each are humble patrons of the sport of Eventing, who rarely put themselves in the limelight.
PRO Poplar Wrap Up!
This past weekend, PRO traveled to Poplar Place Farm in Hamilton, Georgia for its inaugural CCI two-star, CCI one-star, and fall horse trials. We couldn't have had a nicer weekend, with the beautiful weather, great competition on the courses, and exciting events off the course as well.
PRO's Silent Auction!
PRO is hosting an exciting silent auction with great prizes for a great cause! The auction is now open for bidding and has been extended until Fair Hill International because of its popularity! All proceeds benefit the PRO Prize Money Fund, which rewards exceptional PRO riders at events on PRO's Tour.
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PRO As You Like It Owners Award
Do you know an outstanding owner who has made a lasting contribution to the sport? If so, enter them for the PRO As You Like It Owners Award! We'll reward one owner with $5,000 prize money at this year's USEA Convention.
Click here to learn more about the PRO As You Like It Owners Award, then click here for a nominating application!
The deadline for nominations is November 1, so send yours in today!
Keep Up with PRO Riders This Fall!
For an insider's look at PRO riders' trips abroad, check out one of the many blogs written by PRO riders.
PRO Wants to Know More About YOU!
We want to spread the word about our exceptional riders...But we need your help! Click here for a form that we'll use for event announcements and press releases.
PRO was everywhere at Kentucky!
PRO riders like Laura VanderVliet, Leslie Law, Bobby Costello, Will Faudree, Danny Warrington, Craig Thompson, Mikki Kuchta, Phillip Dutton, Bonnie Mosser, Buck Davidson, Allison Springer, Doug Payne and Sinead Halpin met fans and signed autographs.
Meanwhile, PRO Founder Buck Davidson won big, finishing in third place on My Boy Bobby (owned by Carl and Cassandra Segal) winning the USEF Pinnacle Trophy as the highest placing American.
Bobby Costello and Will Faudree
Leslie Law, Bobby Costello and Will Faudree
Craig Thompson
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