DRESSAGE OFF CENTERLINE You’re never too young to volunteer! It takes an army of enthusiasts to run  the Rolex CCI**** at Kentucky Horse Park. These horse-crazy kids were  part of the arena crew during dressage, braving rain one day and chilly winds  the next: front to back, l-r: Anna, JT, Hannah, Leela, Brook, Emily, Eastyn,  Becky Liz, Anna, Gabi, and Tillie. To find out how you can help, visit www.rk3de.org Photo by Lauren Giannini Green Mountain Horse Association will hold Chef’s Night – Courses with Horses July 30th at its South Woodstock facility. The event will feature participation of area restaurants offering samples of their culinary talent. Local microbreweries and wineries will also provide tastings of their distinctive beverages. Guests will enjoy watching international-level dressage freestyles. Dressage riders include: Blue Angel Drill Team, Deb Dean, Pam Goodrich, Ruth Hogan-Poulsen, Sue Jaccoma, Emily Kannenstine, Jane Karol and Sharon McCusker. Tickets for Chef’s Night and Dressage performance are $65.00 each and are limited. Tickets for the Dressage performance only are $20.00 each. Contact GMHA at 802-457-1509 for tickets and questions. Aikenite Valerie Sweigert says she’s taking clinics with Gunnar Ostergaard every couple months, and riding with Amy McElroy and keeping her head under the radar! Valerie just got her USDF Bronze and recently imported a horse from Holland. Next goal? Silver, of course! Birthday Girl Karin Offield celebrated by cooking dinner for her friends, all hard core Palm Beach Polo Club residents that stay in Florida after the season. Robert Dover, Milo Mott and husband David, Jon Grimes and fiance Tara, Johnny and Jackson Robb and Nan Sexton were among those helping Karin blow out the candles. Karin admitted that she had spent time at a cooking school while training in New Jersey with Robert last summer. Hopefully she will augment her talents this summer. Her Dressage buddies can’t wait for her next effort! And speaking of Amy McElroy, if you saw a rowdy crowd of DQs at the Bowery in Aiken toward the end of May, well . . . somebody had a birthday! Trainer’s Conference: The USDF announced October 27-28, 2007 as the new dates for the 2007 FEI-Level Trainers’ Conference to be held at Starr Vaughn Equestrian Center in Sacramento, CA. The conference will feature Jan Brink who is currently ranked sixth in the world for FEI dressage riders. All eligible trainers’ conference attendees and their guests, up to a maximum of three, must be USDF participating members.  For more information and a list of eligibility requirements for the 2007 Succeed/USDF Trainers’ Conference please visit www.usdf.org  or contact Kathie Robertson at (859) 971-2277 or via e-mail at trainersconference@usdf.org . Carol Cohen test rides a camel at the Veigaard Sport Horse Sale in Denmark!  Happily she bought two horses instead of this guy who simply got her over the hump! . . . If half is not enough subscribe on line for home delivery  and/or an On Line subscription. News to share: New baby, engagement, pickup truck? On the move, having parties, falling off horses? Share what’s happenin’ with your dressage friends by e-mailing us at people@sidelinesnews.com . Be sure to put "News Off Centerline" in the subject line. SUBSCRIPTIONS Gigi Harris Toll Free 1-877-966-2289 gigi@sidelinesnews.com Just $29.95 US, $39.95 Canada, $49.95 Foreign for one years subscription We accept VISA, Mastercard, American Express, Discover

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