4 Feb 2014
The Adequan® Global Dressage Festival is preparing to host the largest week in competition history, as Week 5 of AGDF will offer FEI CDI5*/3*/1* divisions along with national competition. With more than $200,000 in prize money being awarded in the CDI5* alone, Week 5 will be the wealthiest week of dressage competition in the world. Diamante Farms sponsors the CDI5*, Wellington Equestrian Realty is sponsoring the CDI3*, and Mission Control are first year sponsors of the CDI1*. All have made major contributions to ensure the success of not only the AGDF winter circuit but also the sport dressage. Competition will begin on Wednesday February 4, and will conclude on Sunday February 8. The highlight class is the “Friday Night Stars” FEI Grand Prix Musical Freestyle, presented by Diamante Farms, on Friday, February 6. Gates open at 6 pm. The week features 223 international rides, and 12 of the CDI riders are in the top 100 of the FEI World Individual Dressage Ranking.
Diamante Farms Hosts A Salute to The Olympians at
The Adequan® Global Dressage Festival CDI 5*
Diamante Farms, a founding sponsor of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival, will once again act as presenting sponsor for the CDI5* competition, held during week five of the show series. At this year’s CDI5* event, Diamante Farms will host an Olympian salute honoring each past Olympic competitor who is present.
The Olympian Salute, which will take place on February 6, will open the $200,000 FEI Grand Prix Freestyle CDI5* for Friday Night Stars. Young flag bearers from the non-profit organization Dressage4Kids will lead Olympian riders from each nation into The Stadium, and mother-daughter team Terri and Devon Kane of Diamante Farms will present the Olympians with flowers. More than twenty-five Olympians from at least eight nations will be present and invited to participate, including Olympian Team Gold Medalist Carl Hester of the UK; legendary dressage rider Robert Dover, who competed in six consecutive Olympic Games with the United States Equestrian Team; six-time Olympian Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfvén of Sweden; and Canada’s Christilot Boylen, who has also competed in six Games. Germany’s Olympic Gold Medalist Hubertus Schmidt, Devon Kane‘s trainer, will also take part in the salute.
At the end of the exciting Friday night of dressage, Terri Kane and Kevin Kohmann- co-trainer at Diamante Farms- will present the highest-scoring competitors from the CDI Grand Prix Freestyle with their awards.
Having settled permanently in Wellington with the intent of helping to grow the United States’ dressage community, the owners of Diamante Farms- USDF Gold Medalist and 2014 USDF Dressage Finals Grand Prix Champion Devon Kane, along with her parents- are proud to be some of the longest supporting sponsors of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival.
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| Devon and Terri Kane of Diamante Farms. Photo © ManciniPhotos. |
“We feel it is very important to our sport to have a first-class facility in order to bring top competitors from all over the world,” says Terri Kane. “The only way we will be able to be truly competitive is to compete against the best. At one time, the only way our competitors could do that was to go to Europe. Now, with this facility we are seeing the Europeans come here. Diamante Farms is extremely proud to have been an inaugural part of the Global Dressage Festival, and plans to be a part of it for many years to come.”
In addition to sponsoring the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival, Diamante Farms also actively supports the Florida International Youth Dressage Championships, the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center, and the Challenge of the Americas fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The beautiful ten-acre, twenty-stall estate of Diamante Farms- complete with one indoor and several outdoor arenas- currently houses twenty-seven horses, most of which are currently competing with Kane, Kohmann and their students. “There is an air of excitement around the farm, especially on the CDI 5* week,” Kane explains. For more information about Diamante Farms, visit www.DiamanteFarms.com.
Wellington Equestrian Realty – The Horse Farm Experts
Rob and Chris Desino, Craig Martin and Matt Varney of Wellington Equestrian Realty have become a valuable ally for buyers and sellers to help navigate the new real estate reality. Wellington Equestrian Realty always brings their “A” game, whether it’s a $400,000 property or one for $50 million. Matt Varney states, “All of us at WER live and breathe this lifestyle and understand it on a deep level, helping buyers, especially if they are in Wellington for the first time.”
One of the first founding sponsors of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival, Wellington Equestrian Realty continues grow their dedication and support of AGDF each year. This cohesive relationship has been a productive one and Wellington Equestrian Realty has become the top contact when searching for premier Wellington properties for many clients competing at AGDF throughout the winter season.
The Wellington Equestrian Realty Team established a new award for the 2015 season presented to the owners of winning combinations at each “Friday Night Stars” FEI Grand Prix Freestyle competition throughout the season. The “Wellington Equestrian Realty Owner Award” gives $5,000 to the owner/s of winning combinations that they may then donate to a charity of their choice. “This award gives us an opportunity to recognize the owners that make this sport possible. We thought this was a great way to highlight their importance while also providing them with a way to give back,” said Matt Varney of Wellington Equestrian Realty.
The perfect Wellington property is not only a home for you and your horses, but also a major investment. With backgrounds in the equestrian sport as well as business and property development, Wellington Equestrian Realty brings a unique ability to understand their clients’ needs and goals.
“We will do anything we can to close a deal that’s going to make our seller or our buyer happy, no matter what the obstacles are,” states Varney. That’s where their relationship with lenders and the Village of Wellington are important, as well as understanding contractual nuances, especially when it comes to local and international buyers.
And for Wellington Equestrian Realty, they don’t just talk the horse farm talk, they walk the walk, investing themselves in Wellington equestrian properties. Varney observes, “It builds the confidence in a consumer that what we’re telling them is not just rhetoric. They feel a lot more confident when we show them what we’ve invested in our sponsorship, our company, office space, and our own projects here in Wellington.”
That investment also extends to marketing, where Wellington Equestrian Realty spends an enormous amount on exposing their properties around the world, giving sellers every opportunity for their property to be seen. The entire team at Wellington Equestrian Realty is simply known as being world-class business professionals.
Wellington Equestrian Realty invites everyone to visit them at their office between the Welli Deli and Tackeria. “Walk in and say hi and ask us questions,” says Craig. “We make ourselves extremely accessible even if you just want information on Wellington. We love talking real estate and horses and the investment side more than ever.”
Mission Control Announces Sponsorship of CDI 1* at Week 5 of AGDF
Mission Control, an award winning persuasive print firm with offices in Connecticut and Washington D.C., is proud to announce their sponsorship of the CDI1* at Week 5 of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF). Mission Control, a first year sponsor of the event, is looking forward to helping grow the AGDF competition and provide an ever-expanding platform for dressage riders, both national and international, to compete in Wellington.
Ed Peavy, a founding partner of Mission Control, has close ties with AGDF, as his daughter, Angela Peavy, is a successful para-equestrian who has competed at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center for many years. “Angela rode as an individual rider for the U.S. at FEI World Equestrian Games last summer in Caen,” he said. “Through her riding we have met so many amazing people: riders, trainers, and horse owners. We realized how important sponsors are to events like AGDF and how crucial they are to ensuring the success of all of the riders.”
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| Angela Peavy competing at the 2015 AGDF. Photo © Lindsay McCall. |
Week 5 of AGDF will be the biggest so far this season, boasting the most entries in the history of the competition. Peavy is thrilled to see the show growing at this incredible rate and looks forward to contributing to that growth in the future. The motivation to provide sponsorship for AGDF was founded in Mission Control’s core values of commitment, creativity, and a passion for success, all of which Peavy believes are encompassed by the AGDF circuit, “We are very excited for the sport of dressage, not only for para-equestrians, but for the sport as a whole. Any way that we can contribute to that, we feel is a huge success for us.”
AGDF has played host to CPEDI para-competition for many years and Peavy felt the need to give back to the competition and venue that has given so much opportunity to his daughter. “We’ve been so grateful to AGDF for hosting the CPEDI 3* each winter and we are looking forward to many more in Wellington in the future,” commented Peavy.
The Adequan® Global Dressage Festival is proud to welcome these fantastic sponsors for week 5 and wish all of the competitors the best of luck. Please visit www.globaldressagefestival.com for more information.
Source: Equestrian Sport
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