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There are about 50 members on the University of Florida's equestrian
team participating in shows in and out of state. Six of these members are ranked nationally.
Team Coach
Denna Johnson
Team Captain
Courtney Petersen
The members of the University of Florida Equestrian Tean will
kick off the intercollegiate competition season with a horse show at Full Partners Farm, located several miles west of Gainesville.
The show will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and continues through Sunday afternoon, will include teams from
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
This is the Thoroughbred I usually ride. He's about twenty years old and his show
name is Ramming Charger, or Rambo for short.
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Mark Your Calenders
June 7 - The Belmont Stakes
Take A Closer Look:
Pato, a national sport of Argentina, is a cross between polo and basketball played on horses first played by the Gauchos.
Pato means "duck" in Spanish. The game Pato
was originally played with two teams riding horseback using a duck in a leather pouch with handles. Two of the players would
grab the handles and pull until one was forced to let go. The winning team would ride away, while the opposing team tried
to grasp the pato and/or stop them. Pato became dangerous and it was banned in 1882. In the late 1930s, the sport was brought
back but with new rules. Now two teams consisting of four men on horseback attempt to throw the modern pato, a leather ball
with six handles (no duck included), into one of two baskets at either end of a large field.
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Since I'm not on the UF Equestrian team I just
ride for fun. I take lessons at Sandbar Horse Farm. I have been riding for about two years now and found how much fun I really
have just being around the horses. My favorite things are trail rides and dressage (actually, I've even been on trail rides
in a dressage saddle). This picture (below) is me on Honey, a horse out on the farm. This is one of the few times where I
was on another horse, in an all-purpose saddle, jumping; which happend to be the day my dad had the camera. For all you nit-pics
(like me) I was just warming up. : 0 )
It's A Girl!!
Just two weeks ago Gala, a mare at Sandbar horse farm,
had her baby.
The top photo shows baby Alice in her stall. The bottom picture shows her and Gala,
her mother, in the pasture.
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