Tim Bourke and Quality Time compete in Dressage at the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill’s test event in August. Amy Dragoo Photo.
The Fair Hill Organizing Committee (FHOC), an affiliate of the Sport and Entertainment Corporation of Maryland (The Sport Corp.), today announced the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill has been granted official CCI5 -L status following support from the Board and the Eventing Committee of the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI), the international governing body for equestrian sport. The inaugural Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill CCI5 -L is entered in the FEI Calendar for October 14-17, 2021. The formal ratification was received following the FEI’s evaluation of the host venue at a test event in August 2020 held at the newly constructed Fair Hill Special Event Zone in Cecil County, Maryland.
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Removing long facial hairs that help horses “see” their close surroundings could deprive them of a safety mechanism and possibly make them feel disoriented. As such, the recent decision of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) to ban removal of horses’ “sensory hairs” the whiskers around the mouth and eyes constitutes an important move to safeguard equine welfare, according to equine veterinary researchers and industry leaders.
“The move by the FEI to ban the trimming of equine whiskers is to be applauded,” said Roly Owers, MRCVS, CEO of World Horse Welfare, in Norfolk, U.K., an international charity partnering with the FEI on welfare matters for more than 30 years. “Whiskers, or vibrissae, play an important sensory role in protecting the muzzle and eyes of the horse and, hence, removing them because it looks neat is completely unjustifiable.”
Horse show season shaping up for a big winter
The Marion County winter horse show season will look a lot different this time around, with two major hunter/jumper events scheduled to begin in January.
A couple of warm-up events are on tap this week at both HITS Post Time Farm and the new World Equestrian Center.
HITS ushers in its 40th annual Ocala Winter Circuit with a couple of preliminary hunter/jumper events starting on Wednesday. At the WEC, a Western pleasure and hunter under saddle show kicks off on Sunday. Both shows run through Dec. 20.
The events are a prelude to January and what is shaping up as an unprecedented winter season with the two multi-week hunter/jumper horse shows competing at the same time.