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• Special May 13, 2020

  CH CH-EQ CF First Light Of Dawn Was The Best Equine Partner

  What makes a great partnership? If you were asked to name your best equine partner, how would you narrow that down? Would your decision be based on the number of wins you achieved together? The hurdles you overcame?The length of time you were together? Would it perhaps be something not tangible, not easily described? 

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• Special May 13, 2020

  CH Cash Back Was One of a Kind

  Sired by Merchant Prince and out of the Hall of Fame Broodmare More The Better, CH Cash Back was five years old when he made his show ring debut with Peter Cowart to win the Novice Five-Gaited class at 1995’s Pro Am Benefit Classic.

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• Special April 27, 2020

  Turning 20 in 2020: Cartier

  Many of our industry greats have spent a large portion of their lives in the show ring. Some boast show careers that span well over a decade, traversing multiple divisions with a myriad of different riders. These horses happily enter the ring at the start of each season, oblivious to their increasing age...

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• Special April 27, 2020

  Jennifer Dixon: An Asset to the Industry

  Jennifer Dixon is one of those horsewomen that makes an impression on you from the first moment you meet her and it is interesting that her friends and colleagues, whether they’ve known her for 20 years or 20 minutes ,all describe her as “dedicated, hard-working and deeply committed to the horses and ponies in her charge.”

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• Special April 27, 2020

  Creating The Positives

  Here we are, hunkered down with mandated lock downs while horse show date after horse show date passes us by, and in the big picture those are trivial with all the sickness and death that has escalated across the world. Uncertainty is still one of the few things that is known for sure at this point...

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• Dedication April 04, 2020

  The 2019 Year In Review is Dedicated to Anna Marie Knipp

  Anna Marie Knipp has long been a strong force in the equine world, fueled by her deep passion and pride for both the American Saddlebred and Hackney Pony breeds. Her talents in the show ring, her efforts to promote the industry, and her achievements as one of the main faces associated with her High Spirits Farm have made her a prominent member in this community of show horse competitors. 

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• Special March 24, 2020

  The View from Atop at HighVeld Farm

  Burlington, Kentucky, located just south of Ohio, in Boone County (home of the Boone CountyFair), is growing by leaps and bounds with new housing construction and warehouses being built by the retail mogul, Amazon. Amidst all the commercial growth, there is HighVeld Farm, a gorgeous new facility that Cydni Simmons-Meintjes and Francois Meintjes, proudly call their home.

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• Dedication March 20, 2020

  The 2019 Year In Review is Dedicated to: Smith, Alexandra and Sandy Lilly

  Mercer Springs Farm has been at the helm of success in the Saddlebred industry for a myriad of years. Smith, Alexandra, and Sandy Lilly have been at the forefront of this West Virginia based establishment, carrying on a family tradition steeped in a rich history of over 100 years in the equine world. 

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