Locals rule in Counties Cup
Posted on Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at 3:33 pm.
The locals reigned supreme today when the Pukekohe-owned and trained Postman’s Daughter won the Gr. 2 DHL Counties Cup in the hands of Pukekohe jockey Danielle Johnson.
Postman’s Daughter is trained on the course by her owner-breeder Don Walker, who described the four-year-old, the only horse he has in work, as “not bad to get out of bed for.” Read More>>
FLAIR® Master Class: Eric Dierks: No. 1 – Galloping Fences
Posted on Saturday, November 26th, 2011 at 7:13 am.
First of a series of videos featuring TEAM FLAIR’S Eric Dierks. Dierks, a member of the USPC Board of Governors, takes the viewer on a course walk of the 2010 American Eventing Championships.
In this first part of an eight part series, Eric discusses the role of galloping fences in the first part of this cross-country course.
Team FLAIR’s Kelly Yates Wins AQHA World Title
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 1:22 pm.
11-10-2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Team FLAIR Barrel Racer Kelly Yates Wins World Title at AQHA World Show
FLAIR LLC, makers of the FLAIR® Equine Nasal Strip, is pleased to announce that Team FLAIR Barrel Racer Kelly Yates won the Junior Barrels World Championship title at The 43rd American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) World Show on Monday November 7, 2011. The 43rd AQHA World Show is being held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Nov. 5-19, 2011. Yates was one of 3,572 total entries during this year’s competition.
Championship mount FIESTA DEL REY (a.k.a. Wizard), is a 2006 chestnut gelding owned and bred by Yates — out of her mare FIREWATER FIESTA by DUAL REY. FIREWATER FIESTA was the 2000 and 2001 AQHA-PRCA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year with $11,084 in Barrel Futurities of America earnings alone. “He’s just extremely special,” Yates said of Wizard. “I call him my knight in shining armor. He just loves it, like she did. It’s not work.” While Yates didn’t take FIESTA DEL REY to many futurities as a four- year old, she says she “…saw something special in him.”
Yates, a member of Team FLAIR Barrel Racing, uses FLAIR strips on all her competition horses to protect their lungs and keep them running their best. Using FLAIR strips on Wizard at the AQHA World Finals as the pair raced toward their Junior Barrel Racing win, Yates said of her horse, “He’s just been an awesome horse. I’m very proud of him.”
About FLAIR Nasal Strips:
FLAIR® Strips provide drug-free support and protection to the respiratory system of the hard-working equine athlete. FLAIR Strips are proven to: reduce airway resistance, reduce lung stress and bleeding, reduce fatigue, and shorten post-exercise recovery time.
For more information about FLAIR Strips, please visit http://flairstrips.com
For more informaiton about Kelly Yates, please visit kellyyates.com
Media Contact: marketing@flairstrips.com
1000 Facebook “Likes” November Contest
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 10:36 am.
FIRST OF ALL: Thanks so much to all who took the time to enter our latest contest! Also, many thanks to our partners and those who helped spread the word. We are appreciative!
We had entries from all over the world and from many disciplines, including: Barrel Racing, Endurance, Eventing, Roping, Fox Hunting, Rodeo, Polo, Pleasure Riding, QH Racing, Saddle Seat, and TB Racing. Thank you for either using FLAIR® or wanting to try FLAIR! We had fun and hope you did too and we’ll be starting another contest soon!
Now, on to the important part…
WE HAVE A Ten FLAIR® Strip WINNER!!
Congratulations to Meagan Majchszak, comment entry No. 110.
Meagan said in her entry: “I compete in Three Day Eventing at training level, and I am looking forward to doing a Training Three Day (long format) next season! I would love to use Flair Nasal Strips to improve my mare’s performance during cross country, as well as to make her more comfortable and to make cooling out easier. I heard about the contest on USEA’s website!”
Many thanks to the USEA Blog, where Meagan heard about our latest contest!
Meagan’s winning number was randomly generated, as you can see by this screen-shot of the generation process.
THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO TOOK THE TIME TO ENTER!
Recently, our FLAIR Facebook Page reached 1000 Likes — and we were thrilled! Therefore, in honor of the occasion, and as a BIG THANK YOU to all our Facebook fans, FLAIR users, and folks that want to be users — from all over the world — we’ve decided to give away one one-hundredth of that Facebook Like number in FLAIR® Equine Nasal Strips to one lucky person from anywhere in the world! And we’re making it really easy to enter!
To enter our November contest for a prize package of 10 FLAIR Strips, please leave a comment and answer at least ONE of the following questions:
- What is your riding discipline?
- Why do you use FLAIR Strips?
- Why do you want to use FLAIR Strips?
AND, while it’s not a requirement — if you don’t mind, please tell us where you heard about the contest. – we’d just like to know ;-)
That’s all there is to it! Unless you…
*Want to DOUBLE your chances to win?? Share our contest post on your Facebook page, telling your friends about the contest! Then come back here and add another comment for your second entry.
**Want to TRIPLE your chances to win?? Just Tweet this page and come back here to add a third comment, telling us you tweeted. That’s your third entry!
That’s it!! We’ll use a random number generator to draw the winning number after the contest ends at 12:01 a.m. CT Tuesday, November 15, 2011 and announce the winner later in the morning of November 15 CT. So enter early!
Sterling Graburn Leads After Dressage Phase at USEF National Championship
Posted on Saturday, November 5th, 2011 at 1:42 am.
Sterling Graburn Leads After Dressage Phase at USEF National Single Horse Championship at Katydid
USEF Communications Department
Lexington, KY – An exciting day of dressage in Aiken, SC, showcased some of the very best in the U.S. vying for USEF National Single Horse Championship honors at the Katydid CDE.
After all but one of 19 horses passed inspection – Wilson Groves’ UVM Worthy was deemed unfit to compete – Sterling Graburn (Georgetown, KY) drove to the lead in Friday’s dressage competition phase, on a score of 43.09. Kate Shields (Middleburg, VA) was in second on a score of 45.87 followed by Olof Larsson (Ocala, FL) who finished on a score of 46.72.
A fairly new event in the growing driving community of Aiken, this marks the first USEF National Championship held at Katydid.
The drivers will now turn their focus to Saturday’s marathon which begins at 9 a.m. ET.
Complete results are available at: http://drivingnews.us/results/results2011/Katydid/KD11-Dressage100.pdf.
Visit www.USEFNetwork.com for photos, articles and information about the U.S. drivers throughout the event.
Are there any supplements or treatments to prevent bleeding in racehorses?
Posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 2:36 pm.
TT October 19, 2011 page 8
Thoroughbred Times| October 19, 2011| page 8
By Nathan Marc Solvis, DVM, nslovis@hagyard.com
Bleeding in racehorses is a term used by horsemen to describe Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage (EIPH). EIPH is hemorrhaging that originates from small pulmonary vessels associated with strenuous exercise.
The development of effective therapies for EIPH has been difficult given the various factors that can cause a horse to develop EIPH including airway obstruction, existing airway inflammation, increased vascular pressure in the lungs, and cardiac arrhythmias. Read more>>
For more information about EIPH please click here.
