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?
Grand prix rider Margie Engle began her life with horses by imploring her non-horsey parents for lessons and trips to the local barn. She grew up in the Miami, Fla., area and started riding at Gladewinds Farm, where the Kramer family ran a lessons and local show business.
Three years ago, a group of grand prix riders came up with the idea of the North American Riders Group. Although it doesn’t have regulatory power, NARG has gained a voice in the show community, serving as an advocacy group, or a lobby, for the riders to communicate their concerns to show management.
Leading international course designer Frank Rothenberger, from Germany, will provide the challenging courses for the first leg of the 2011 Global Champions Tour to be held at the Qatar Equestrian Federation Outdoor Arena in Al Rayan, Doha from Mar. 17-19.
Since the beginning of 2011, Rothenberger has had a busy schedule in his capacity as course designer including the build at the CSI-W Zurich, Switzerland, where the World Cup event saw the success of German top show jumper Marcus Ehning, champion of the Global Champions Tour in 2010.
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum is back in the tack and winning after giving birth to a daughter last February. She’s agreed to periodic interviews about her life during the Rolex World Cup season. Read her thoughts about becoming a mother and winning a team gold medal at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
Q. Tell us about your Christmas holiday?
If it’s happened in international horse sports, Michael Stone has probably been involved in it, someway, somehow, somewhere.
Born and raised in a horsey family in Dublin, Ireland, Stone began riding at the age of 4. He’s played polo, ridden as an amateur steeplechase jockey and been long listed for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in eventing and short listed for the 1980 Moscow Olympics in show jumping.
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