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NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DRIVING SOCIETY, INC.

Judy Hoffman and her mini, Spice.

Photo by Kay Wright.

October 2017

Representing Carriage Driving in the United States and Canada

IN THIS ISSUE:

nOTES A Welcome Addition.................................... 1 nEWS • Ticket Sales Date Announced for WEG 2018 ................................................ 2 • Entries for 2017 FEI World Driving Championships for Pairs .......................... 3 • Acadia National Park Duck Brook Bridge Temporary Closure ................................... 3 OPiniOnS From Between My Blinders ........................ 4 LhP • ADS Annual Members Meeting TENTATVE Schedule of Events................................... 6 • Annual Members Meeting Agenda ........... 7

Photo by Marc Johnson.

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A Welcome Addition

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ecause these cooler days beget cooler nights, the tips of the maple trees are beginning their annual turn to blazing scarlet here in the East. That means the shows, recreational drives and CDEs are starting back up after a summer hiatus. May your drives all be steady and without the jumps and leaps of a fresh horse!

I’d like to welcome Lauren Tyner on board our team in the publications department. Lauren, who spent her childhood showing and riding in all seats, is an experienced advertising professional who has joined us in the role of ad salesperson. She has creative ideas for making your brand pop off the pages of our publications. Please contact her at lauren@americandrivingsociety.org for advertising in The Whip or The Wheelhorse.

I look forward to seeing our members at the ADS Annual Meeting October 13-15, 2017.

Held in conjunction with The National Drive, the annual meeting features social events, as well, including the wine and cheese party on Thursday night sponsored by Driving Essentials and ADS, and the Saturday evening ADS Members’ Dinner. The complete schedule of events for the week is available for download at: http://americandrivingsociety. org/AboutUs/AnnualMeeting.aspx Because our annual meeting is being held later than usual this year, I’ve made the decision to hold our November issue of The Whip open longer to accommodate coverage from Kentucky. Rather than mailing November 1, you can expect it in your mailbox in time for your turkey dinner.

Because of the augmented timing of the November Whip, I’d like to encourage you to place your end of year celebration and holiday ads with us. What better time to show our thanks for our beautiful carriage equines and our organizers? Deadline for the November Whip is October 1.

Have you checked out our Facebook page? Make sure to follow us for updates, news, and our Caption This contest! Find us online at: www.facebook.com/AmericanDrivingSociety I’ll see you in Kentucky!

Abbie

Let’s Celebrate!

Celebrate your 2017 driving highlights with a celebratory ad in the November issue of The Whip. Contact Lauren Tyner to reserve your space: lauren@americandrivingsociety.org.

Deadline October 1.

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Ticket Sales Date Announced for WEG 2018

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he one year to go countdown to the FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018 (WEG) was launched September 12. With more than 500,000 people expected to attend the 2018 Games, the 12-day spectacle of equestrian champions is one of the biggest events on the global sporting calendar and will be the largest equestrian event in North Carolina’s history. Mark Bellissimo, CEO of host venue Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in Tryon, NC, announced today that tickets will go on sale to the public on Monday, October 16, 2017. Competition action at WEG 2018 runs from September 12 through September 23, 2018, with the Opening Ceremony scheduled for September 11.

A variety of ticketing types and prices will be offered.

Ticket prices vary, but include an inexpensive Day Pass that gives attendees access to event grounds and expo only.

A complete list of ticketing options will be available online at www.tryon2018.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

In addition to announcing ticket sales, TIEC has today released a “Destination Tryon” video to showcase the region where the 2018 Games will be held. Prior to winning the bid to host WEG 2018, Polk County, North Carolina dwelt as a hidden gem, tucked away in the bucolic Blue Ridge Foothills, bordering South Carolina. Surrounded by bold mountains and scenic foothills, the area is conveniently located within an hour of top cities including Asheville and Charlotte in North Carolina and Greenville in South Carolina. The rural community now joins the league of iconic destinations around the world - like Normandy, Stockholm, Rome and Aachen - to host equestrian sport’s most distinguished championships. For WEG 2018, Mark Bellissimo is focusing on the love of horses to bring added attention to equestrian sport and touch a broader audience of horse enthusiasts globally, highlighting the important role horses have played throughout history.

“All of our nations were discovered on the back of a horse and these amazing animals continue to provide livelihood, transportation, security, entertainment, friendship, therapy, and sport around the world. The love of the horse is universal and profound. The Games is an incredible stage to show the world how important and valuable this creature is and celebrate our relationship with them,” said Bellissimo.

Fédération Equestre Internationale President Ingmar De Vos shared his excitement about the forthcoming Games at TIEC. “Marking one year to go to the FEI World Equestrian Games is always a very exciting time and we’re really looking forward to the spectacular event that Tryon will bring,” Ingmar De Vos said.

“The Games are the greatest gathering of the best athletes and horses from across the globe and hundreds of thousands of people will have the opportunity to enjoy the magic of equestrian sport as world champions are crowned across the eight FEI disciplines. The USA is renowned as a country of horse lovers and is also hugely successful in the sport so we are delighted to have this, the FEI’s flagship event, back in America once again.”

United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) President Murray Kessler is pleased that the WEG is coming back to the United States for 2018 and will be hosted all at one venue at TIEC. “We are confident that Mark Bellissimo and his team at Tryon will host an exceptional World Equestrian Games next year. Having the Games in the U.S. gives us an opportunity to celebrate the joy of horse sports with millions of Americans in a way that will help grow engagement and participation in all equestrian sports in this country.” said Murray Kessler, President U.S. Equestrian.

The Games are expected to have tremendous economic impact to both Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate. The previous WEG held in Normandy (FRA) in 2014 had an estimated economic impact of $400 million and attracted 575,000 spectators.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper praised the organizers’ success in bringing the Games to the Carolinas.

“The World Equestrian Games are an incredible opportunity for North Carolina, and we are pleased to host this event in our state,” said Governor Cooper. “We applaud the efforts of Mark Bellissimo and the organizers at Tryon International Equestrian Center to bring this global event to North Carolina and stimulate tremendous economic growth for our state as a result.”

Held every four years alternating with the Olympic Games, the FEI World Equestrian GamesTM combines the world championships for jumping, dressage and para-dressage, eventing, driving, reining, vaulting and endurance into one massive 12-day event.

Accommodations for the 2018 WEG are being managed by Connections Housing, a full-service sourcing, housing and event management company. With 30 years of experience serving events in a range of industries, Connections has two full-service, fully-owned call centers and will oversee all aspects of the housing process from contracting and room block management to reservations and post-event analysis. Accommodations will be open to the public on Monday, September 18.

For more information about accommodations, please visit www.tryon2018.com.

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Entries for 2017 FEI World Driving Championships for Pairs

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S Equestrian has named the following combinations as the definite entries for the 2017 FEI World Driving Championships for Pairs, September 20-24, in Lipica, Slovenia. Laurie Astegiano will serve as the Chef d’Equipe and Danielle Aamodt will be the Assistant Chef d’Equipe, while Thorsten Zarembowicz will serve as the team coach.

The U.S. Team will consist of: Kathrin Dancer (Woodside, Calif.) with Redford, her and Scott Dancer’s 18-year-old Hessen gelding; Watson, her and Scott Dancer’s 18-year-old Hanoverian gelding; and Joop van den Bruel, Scott Dancer’s eight-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding.

Vernon Helmuth (Lodi, Calif.) with Firminus, Erwin Gillinger’s seven-year-old KWPN gelding; Cobold 44, Rafal Wojtacha’s nine-year-old Hanoverian gelding; and Incitato Kaplar, Koch’s Torma Hung. Kft. and Attila Újházi’s 10-year-old Lippizan gelding.

Steve Wilson (Louisville, Ky.) with Endorro, his eightyear-old KWPN gelding; Mr Lindsey G, his 13-year-old KWPN gelding; and Favory Franky, his 15-year-old Lippizan gelding.

Read more at: www.lipica.org/en/world-driving-championship-for-pairs

Acadia National Park Duck Brook Bridge Temporary Closure

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AR HARBOR, MAINE - The Duck Brook Bridge will be closed to all travel on Tuesday September 26, from 6-8 am. Access to the Witch Hole Pond area carriage roads will still be available from Hulls Cove Visitor Center and the Eagle Lake parking lots. The closure is from carriage road intersection #5 to Duck Brook Road, roughly 200 feet in length.

This summer, work on the Duck Brook Bridge partially focused on understanding the movement of the stones capping off the parapet of the bridge. These stones have been sliding out of place over time. An experimental treatment is being tried on the cap stones of the southwest side of the bridge. Three stones will be set with stainless steel pins set in epoxy with the other stones mortared in place. This is a trial treatment being implemented on a small section of the bridge to see what works best to prevent the movement of the stones while still preserving the historic fabric of the bridge. The cap stones were initially removed without a bridge closure but heavy equipment

is necessary for their return to the parapet. A crane truck will be used on Tuesday to reset the two stones with pins and remove other stones to complete the treatment. The bridge will be closed again if a few weeks to reset these additional stones.

The temporary bridge closure is to protect the safety of those visiting the carriage roads and those working on the bridge deck. Each stone weighs over 1,500 pounds.

The Duck Brook Bridge was completed in 1929 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Easily reached from Duck Brook Road this bridge is especially known for its triple arch over Duck Brook, gravel surfaced deck, and semi-circular viewing balconies on both sides. Acadia National Park protects nationally significant cultural resources including the finest example of a historic carriage road system in the United States.

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From Between My Blinders In Appreciation of the Scorers

By Hardy Zantke

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s with so many things in life it is easy to take things for granted, as long as they run okay. Only when they don’t do we realize how important they are for us. We all appreciate our electricity and are thrown off when the power is off on rare occasions. More commonly in modern life we have similar experiences when our computer has problems as we all have become so dependent on our devices.

And, of course, it is not only things we take for granted, but also people! I think one of the most under appreciated and under recognized category at our driving events are our scorers. They sit all day in their often very little shacks, with little help but unfortunately often much disturbance going on around them as nobody seems to appreciate that they need quiet to concentrate. How they can function in such environment is often beyond me. They don’t even see any of their friends during the day, the horses, the carriages, the action, only the paperwork-and then they are under time pressure to crank out the results without flaws and in a timely manner.

They usually can do that despite the curve balls we throw them; the little flaws that creep in from our complicated sport; the two dressage tests where the scribe forgot to put the competitor number on it; the order of go for the marathon where folks have ever more extra requests; the Green Card that came in with some definitely wrong times entered by the volunteer section timer, at times also wrong on the back-up sheet, to be sorted out only by comparing the obviously wrong numbers to some of the others entered (You, dear competitor could help by checking the entries in your green cards right away – see my previous articles on this subject – by having a watch that is synchronized to marathon time – and politely pointing out any mistakes on your green card to the section timer right away and having it corrected right away) . The missing marathon obstacle score sheet which seems to have been lost in transit by the score collectors, or the missing or double competitor numbers on those sheets to then be sorted out by tracing the back-up sheets as well as ultimately using some good logic to try to come to the bottom of such mishaps.

And then of course, what I think at times is the biggest hiccup of them all: Computer problems, either with a home grown scoring program, or one that is not often used and now doesn’t seem to come out correctly, or even such hiccups which seem easy to the outside, but are really bringing

everything pretty much to a stop, like a printer not printing properly. That’s when the poor scorer might come close to panic mode, and I feel for them. They are absolutely vital to our events, and can make or break an event (But at times I think perhaps they should quit trying to solve the computer hiccups and instead first just bridge the one issue holding them up the old fashioned way, by hand, instead of by computer. At least we can post the scores that way timelier for the competitors.).

And when the scoring runs well, nobody notices and hardly anybody appreciates it, but when they don’t, folks grumble.

The main work with many scoring issues is the marathon.

First, putting together the order of go before the marathon where the big difficulty these days is the many extra requests of folks who share equipment or navigators, so need to be spaced far enough apart to go more than once (One event asked for a bottle of wine for any such extra request-great idea!) and then of course the scoring during and after the marathon. The marathon has the most issues for the scorer to deal with. After finally getting out the darn marathon scores, work is not over for them. Now they need to do the combination of A & B results, and then folks want to know already the order of go for cones the next day (on three day events). The organizer together with the T.D. hopefully has decided already in which order of classes cones should run, but now the scorer still has to put the order of go in reverse order of standing together, and add the axle width and cones clearance to each entry for the next day, too.

So please, friends, let’s give the scorers a break! Even if at times it takes them a little longer to get the scores out, let’s tell them how much we appreciate them. As with so many other positions too, we couldn’t do it without them.

Three cheers to our scorers!

Hardy

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We can’t wait to see you at the 2017 ADS Annual Members Meeting Held in conjunction with The National Drive. October 10-15, 2017.

Kentucky Horse Park, 4089 Iron Works Pkwy, Lexington, KY 40511

Clinicians for The National Drive: Bob Giles Amy Neary Craig Kellogg Tracey Morgan The National Drive vendors: ADS CAA Carriage Imports Driving Digest Hat’s Off Boutique Iowa Valley Carriage Pics of You Pleasurethyme

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Annual Meeting

ADS Annual Members Meeting Tentative Schedule of Events

Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY • October 13 – 15, 2017 Date/Time Thursday, October 12 1:00-4:00 pm 5:00-7:00pm

Event Location Open Discussion ADS and

Driving Essentials Wine & Cheese Party

Murphy Pavilion Vendor Area

Friday, October 13 9:00 a.m.

Registration and welcome

ADS Vendor Table

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Executive Committee Meeting

KHP Show Office

10:00 – 12:00 a.m.

Open Discussion: Board Structure

Murphy Pavilion

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

(Schedule to follow)

ADS Committee Meetings

Murphy Pavilion

4:00 p.m.

ADS Driving Derby Demo

Murphy Arena

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

Open Discussion: Future of the ADS

Murphy Pavilion

12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.

(Schedule to follow)

ADS Committee Meetings

Murphy Pavilion

Annual Members Meeting Cocktails

Cardome Center

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Annual Members Meeting

Cardome Center

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Annual Members Dinner & Awards

Cardome Center

Saturday, October 14

4:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 15 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Board of Directors Meeting

Conference Room, Carriage Association of America 4075 Iron Works Pkwy.

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Annual Meeting

Annual Members Meeting Agenda

October 14, 2017, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. • Cardome Center, Georgetown, KY Welcome................................................................................................................................................................................................ M. Arnold Secretary’s Report.................................................................................................................................................................................... T. Bron Approval of the September 24, 2016 Minutes......................................................................................................................... M. Arnold President’s Report.............................................................................................................................................................................. M. Arnold Treasurer’s Report................................................................................................................................................................................J. Rector Executive Director’s Report.......................................................................................................................................................... L. Rothery Standing Committee Reports.............................................................................................................................................................................

Pleasure Driving.....................................................................................................................................................................................J. Morse Combined Driving...........................................................................................................................................................................M. Johnson Rules............................................................................................................................................................................................................ L. Yutzy Development............................................................................................................................................................................................ N. Grigg Governance & Bylaws........................................................................................................................................................................ E. Kendig Dressage................................................................................................................................................................................................. T. Morgan Recreation......................................................................................................................................................................................... H. Ferguson Licensed Officials................................................................................................................................................................................ R. Graves Education..................................................................................................................................................................................................J. Porter Event Standards.................................................................................................................................................................................. E. Wright Unfinished Business..............................................................................................................................................................................................

WEG 2018 Update ............................................................................................................................................................................ L. Rothery New Business............................................................................................................................................................................................................

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