British based Australian husband and wife team, Clayton & Lucinda Fredericks, are the featured guests this week. Clayton will be making his second visit to Rolex with Ben Along Time, following his win in 2007, and Lucinda brings her Olympic team silver medal partner, Headley Britannia, for their Lexington debut. Craig Thompson from Aiken, SC tells us about the recently formed Professional Riders Organization (PRO). Listen in…
Download: Eventing Radio Episode 10 - P.R.O. & Clayton and Lucinda Fredericks:
- Be sure to enter to win March’s Eventing Giveaway! We have two great prizes you can win and this month there is no trivia - just register to win. The first prize is a Toklat Wither Relief Pad donated by KBC Horse Supplies, the source for all your horse’s needs. The second item is a six month supply of palaMOUNTAINS Equine donated by palaMOUNTAINS, providing Nutritional Science for Animals.
- Young event rider and point-to-point jockey Rosie Chinery is making good progress after a serious fall in which she broke her neck.
Rosie, 18, was riding work in Newmarket last Wednesday, 11 March, when the horse she was riding died underneath her. She was taken to Cambridge’s Addenbrooke’s Hopsital in a critical condition. Read more about Rosie’s recovery… - Correction: We reported on the show that Rosie Chinery’s horse survived the fall that injured Rosie. In fact the horse died at the scene and we apologize for this error.
- Olympic horse FRH Butts Abraxxas of German eventing team Gold medalist Ingrid Klimke changes its owner but will stay in Klimke’s stable. German ridesport patron Madeleine Winter-Schulze who owns already most of the top horses of German jumping star Ludger Beerbaum and also of German dressage queen Isabell Werth, has bought “Braxxi”.
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- Not content with being an eventing world-beater, Olympic silver medallist and twice European champion Pippa Funnell is turning her hand to writing children’s stories. Pippa hopes her books, Tilly’s Pony Tails, will be informative as well as great fun. Find all Pippa Funnell’s books at Borders…
- Learn more about the Professional Riders Organization at professionalriders.org. Thank you to Craig Thompson for joining us to explain the PRO and the mission of the organization.
- Clayton and Lucinda Frederick’s website can be found at teamfredericks.com. It was great to have Clayton and Lucinda on the show and we are looking forward to seeing both of them at Rolex. To help support Team Frederick’s trip to Rolex, please contact them through their website.
- We thank Kentucky Performance Products for their support of the Eventing Radio Show. Neigh-Lox, the original equine antacid is recommended by veterinarians and leading horsemen as a way of maintaining a healthy stomach which reduces the risk of ulcers. Neigh-Lox can be given daily to horses exposed to stressful conditions or as needed when shipping, competing or during stall confinement.
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