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?
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 2010.
Throughout her preparation for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Australian show jumper Edwina Alexander has posted periodic diaries, and this is the conclusion. Read her thoughts about the WEG, the World Cup, and her upcoming plans, courtesy of Rolex.
Q. What have you been up to since the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games?
Germany’s reigning dressage queen Isabell Werth is back in the show ring after giving birth to her first child Frederik last year. Throughout her preparation for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games she posted periodic diaries, and this is the conclusion. Read her thoughts about the WEG, the sale of Totilas, and her upcoming plans, courtesy of Rolex.
Q. What have you been up to since the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games?
For more than 30 years, New York Times best-selling author Rita Mae Brown has captivated readers with tales of sabotage, murder and mystery. After her first book of poetry, The Hand That Cradles The Rock, was published in 1971, Brown began writing novels and hasn’t stopped since.
Australian show jumper Edwina Alexander is preparing for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, and she's agreed to a series of interviews and updates. With one week to go before the show jumping, she fills us in on her latest doings and plans for after the WEG.
Q. What’s happened since Aachen?
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