Mark Bellissimo, 55, is the founder, managing partner, and largest shareholder of a series of equestrian related entities which are focused on creating sport, entertainment, lifestyle, and commerce centered around the love of horses.
The new executive director of the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association, Janet Greenlee, doesn’t have a name familiar to most USHJA members. Greenlee, 59, has spent her career in communications and business management largely outside the equestrian world. She’ll start her tenure at the Association on Jan. 2, but is attending the USHJA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., held Dec. 8-12.
Sue Blinks first became a household name in the international dressage world with the expressive Flim Flam. Blinks and Flim Flam won team bronze at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and were part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games (Spain).
Blinks, 55, and her current Grand Prix partner, Robin Hood, have won CDI Grand Prix classes in California, Quebec and Ontario. Based out of Leatherdale Farm West in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Blinks is a popular clinician and trainer, in addition to her riding duties.
There aren’t many eventers out there with more three-day wins than William Fox-Pitt of Great Britain, and he’s currently one four-star away from winning the Rolex Grand Slam. He’s agreed to a series of interviews and updates as he prepares for the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton CCI****.
You’ve had a tremendous season so far with a four-star win in Kentucky, team silver at the London Olympic Games and now a victory in the Fidelity Blenheim Palace International CCI***. How do you feel it’s gone?
French grand prix show jumper, Kevin Staut, holds the No. 1 spot on the Fédération Equestre Internationale Rolex Rankings and has been the owner of that position since July 2010.
The 30-year-old rode for his country at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games aboard Silvana, a 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare (Corland—Donate, Widor), and helped bring home team silver.
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum is back in the tack and winning after giving birth to a daughter in 2010. She’s agreed to periodic interviews about her life during the Rolex World Cup season. Read her thoughts about her homecoming this winter and the upcoming Rolex FEI World Cup Final.
Q. Tell us about your time in California this winter.
Since founding Langer Equestrian Group in 1971, president and CEO Larry Langer has produced and managed multiple large-scale horse shows including the 1992 FEI World Cup Show Jumping Finals in Del Mar, Calif., and the 1996 Olympic Show Jumping events in Atlanta, Ga.
Langer started competing when he was 8. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Northrop University (Calif.) and a degree from California State University in business administration. He worked briefly as an engineer before deciding he wanted to be in the horse industry.
Eventer Sally Cousins is a familiar name on the U.S. Eventing Association leaderboard. She regularly places in the standings, and in 2010 she earned the Auburn Labs Lady Rider of the Year, the Intermediate Adult Rider high-point award, and she rode Penny Wilson’s Troy to the Intermediate Horse high-point award. However, eventing is a second career for Cousins, Oxford, Pa.
The new owner of Totilas reveals his thoughts on the status of U.S. dressage breeding, overall breeding philosophies and plans for his newest stallion.
Paul Schockemöhle estimates that he owns 3,500 horses, including 35 show jumping and dressage stallions, and employs more than 200 people. A three-time winner of the European Championships in show jumping as well as Olympic team bronze and silver medalist, he once trained world-class riders Ludger Beerbaum, Otto Becker and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum.
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