EQluxe Magazine Fall 2019

EQ’s finest

The Cup Runneth Breeders’ Cup Galloping through time

Hermès

Ride of a lifetime

MACHU PICCHU

Barn ENVY with TREVOR BRAZILE Georgina BLOOMBERG ZENYATTA Barn envy Bulgari in Bali Cross Country with BLACKBURN

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HERMES arpege dressage saddle $8,100 www.hermes.com | LASADDLERY giddythefup long sleeve $69 www.lasaddlery.com | CELERIS cici custom polo boot $850 www.celerisuk.com ARIAT ashley vest $70 www.ariat.com | MAJYK Equipe ergonomic impact non-slip saddle pad $140 www.majykequipe.com | SAMSHIELD shadowmat shimmer top helmet $635 AMERICAN EQUUS cool-flow riding gloves $39 www.americanequus.com | RUESPARI equestrian hip clutch $70 www.ruspari.com

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fEATURES The Cup Runneth BREEDERS’ CUP

24 Finding CASANOVA Lena Saugen cover Story featuring 32 ICONS Mike Smith, Georgina Bloomberg Trevor Brazile and Zenyatta

82 LRF Cares OTTB Aftercare

64 FALL Fashion VINE COUNTRY 90 BLACKBURN Architects 99

On the cover Triple Crown winning Jockey Mike Smith photographed at Santa Anita for PDJF fundraising promoter Jockeys & Jeans.

Photographed by Shelli Wright.

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EQ’s finest

The Cup Runneth Breeders’ Cup Galloping through time

Hermès

Ride of a lifetime

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EQluxe| iconic STYLE Galloping through time HERMES Fall 2019 VINE COUNTRY Fall Fashion Editorial

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REGIME hop to it products for you and your horse Well PLAITED braids for days

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Get your beatuy and grooming regiment on point because Autumn and Winter are marching in like a team of draft horses.

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Editor’s note

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s we headed into our 2nd Fall issue we wanted to concentrate on delivering a publication that people had come to admire over the last year but also keeping it creative and dynamic. In April we came up with the idea to maybe combine disciplines in such a way that everyone found it readable and enticing. We came up with the plan to include a special group of inspirational Equestrians who excelled beyond their peers and ask them what their secret is. Hence, the ICONIC issue was born. Once we started down the path, it didn’t stop at just exceedingly inspirational equestrians. The issue feathered out to powerhouse fashion brands, epic events, bucket list excursions, groundbreaking Architects, notable polo playing Vintners, supportive aftercares and success story horses.

We hope you enjoy our first and probably not our last Iconic issue.

Special thanks to everyone who joined in to help us gather the interviews we needed, our supportive readers, emerging clothing and equestrian brands for their support, and of course to our returning sponsor The Breeders’ Cup for their help in bringing this issue to the elite racing audience.

So much gratitude to everyone.

Cheers!

A big thanks to everyone!

Shelli Wright & Christopher Bredesen Editors | Co-founders

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© 2019 EQluxe MAGAZINE

SHELLI WRIGHT Editor-in-Chief

CHRISTOPHER BREDESEN Executive Editor

CAPTAIN BUDDY LLC Publisher

LILA JOY GINSBURG Art Director

SHELLI WRIGHT Creative Director

JOHN PIERCE Art Department

MADDY PASQUALINI Senior Lifestyle Editor

SEBASTIANO MARINO Web Master

JAIN WILSON SILVA Advertising

KASSEY RICH Fashion Consult

EMILY MATTISON PR / Marketing

NATALIE DE GROOT Fashion Consult

JODI VAUGHN Beauty Consult

LOU ANDREA GOSS Editorial Assistant

CONTRIBUTORS Gerard Apadula, Mike Smith, Bob Baffert, The Stronach Group, Maddy Pasqualini, Lila Ginsburg, Jain Wilson-Silva, Cindy Gellerson, Chris Bredesen, Stacey Adams, Erin Shea, Erica Hess, Kelli Seliger, Michelle Dick, Patti Davis, Karen Perlow, Nancy Lasala, Nancy White, John Blackburn, Billy Koch, Georgina Bloomberg, Erica Hess, Trevor Brazile, Kassey Rich, Yulia Bratkovskaya, Michaela Kleba, Lusitano Horse Finder PHOTOGRAPHERS Roberto Rodriguez, Shelli Wright, Lena Saugen, D Moss, Four footed photos, Pat McDonough, Eclipse Sportswire, Gary Bogdon, Rodney White, Chris Bredesen, Geoffrey Tischman, Jump Media, Ariat Equestrian, Cheryl Quigley, Mark Wyville

EQLUXE is a registered trademark and is the sister publication of BISOUS Magazine distributed by Captain Buddy LLC of Los Angeles. All Eqluxe sponsorship or submission inquiries please contact director@eqluxe.com www.eqluxe.com

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fashion

compiled by EQluxe Hermès will forever be a label that combines chic utility and style to the highest level of fashionable acceptance. The A/W 2019 collection, Urban Rider, implements a jockey-inspired blouse featuring the Couvertures et Tenues de Jour scarf, a riding jacket, or a jacket whose buckle resembles a stirrup bar to create a crisp look.

Cockades and equestrian browbands become part of the Hermès woman’s wardrobe “It has been said of Hermès,” The New York Times reported in 1940, “that it is perhaps the only establishment in the world in which one cannot buy a single article that is not in perfect taste.”

Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, who designs womenswear for the house prefers to define Hermès as

“classicism as a modern way of seeing life”

In the latest collection the designer has once again transported the codes of presences into the Hermès wardrobe with an obvious chic that will stand the test of time.

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