Live Oak International is back, bigger and better than ever! L
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| FEB 2022 | OCALAMAGAZINE.COM
Chester Weber
Photos courtesy Live Oak International
ive Oak International, the nation’s only equine event featuring both combined driving and show jumping, is returning March 3-6, 2022, with its biggest show ever, along with a record amount of prize money in both disciplines. Held at the pastoral Live Oak Stud Farm, located on State Road 40 west of Ocala, the Live Oak International tournament was canceled in 2021 due to the pandemic. That year off gave the organizers a chance to expand and improve the event. Now in its 31st year, Live Oak International is indisputably one of the nation’s premier equine events. Running Live Oak International is a team effort by the Weber family – and is the one time of the year that the public can enter and see the magnificently beautiful Live Oak Stud property. Family matriarch Charlotte Weber opens her farm for the event, and son Chester Weber, daughter Juliet W. Reid, and granddaughter Chloe D. Reid all play integral parts in planning and putting on the tournament together. The event started as a way for Chester Weber, co-president of Live Oak International, to promote the sport of combined driving in America. The holder of 18 U.S. national combined driving championships, Chester competes extensively in Europe, where the sport of combined driving is more in demand. His goal is to raise the profile of the equestrian discipline in the U.S. to where it is comparable to Europe. Live Oak International is the largest CAI-3* combined driving tournament in North America, and the Ocala competition
Chloe Reid
offers the most prize money of any driving tournament in the United States. The combined driving competition includes three phases – dressage, marathon, and the cones obstacle course and is held over three days,
March 4, 5 and 6. Chloe D. Reid said the marathon portion of the event is a must-see sport at its highest level with extreme entertainment and will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March
