Alpharetta
GA USA May 28, 2001
The
STRIDES to 2004 event at Chastain Horse Park on May 12 was
great fun for all. We had a beautiful day, good food, good
friends, and a great show. Thank you to all who helped with
the event!
We took the dressage arena from
Applewood...
and
set it up in the Chastain arena.
We set up our sound system on the
balcony.
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Immediately
after the STRIDES show at Chastain Horse Park, Michelle went to
Germany to work out the final arrangements to ship her new stallion,
"World of Dreams" to the USA.
Michelle's
groom Kristi Livingston rode with him in the cargo plane to make
sure he had a safe trip. He arrived in New York and now is in
a special quarantine facility in Virginia where he will stay for
about 4 weeks.
At the
Greater Atlanta Dressage Southern Show the following weekend, a
delegation apparently from Athens, Greece paid a surprise visit to
the show grounds.
Closer
inspection revealed them to be Applewood Foundation volunteers
dressed in toga.
Applewood
Foundation has selected Michelle Gibson as a beneficiary of its
support and is proud to announce that it has sponsored the
transport of "World of Dreams" to the USA. Click
here to see how
you can help too. .....Brad Thatcher
Quotations...
"The only way to have a friend is
to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Joy is not in things; it is in
us."
- Benjamin Franklin
"I hope I shall follow firmness
of virtue enough to maintain that I consider the most
enviable of all titles - the character of an honest man."
- George Washington
"The supreme quality for
leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real
success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a
football field, in an army, or in an office." - Dwight David
Eisenhower
"Rotten wood cannot be
carved."
- Chinese Proverb
"Men who never get carried
away should be."
- Malcolm Forbes
"The integrity of the
upright will guide them, but the falseness of the treacherous
will destroy them." - Proverbs 11:3
"Truth never damages a
cause that is just."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"To dare is to lose one's
footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." - Soren
Kierkegaard
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We had 4
riders in the riding exhibition. Megan Garst who came in from
Minnesota to perform the first ride on Dagobert, Karen Lipp on
Wurlitzer, Courtney Raiser's musical freestyle on Our
Conversation, and Michelle's musical freestyle on Douwe. The
Chastain therapeutic riders then gave a series of demonstration
rides. All in all, it was a great show, with people stopping
on the street to watch through the fence.
Michelle
Gibson on Douwe does a warm up lap...
After
the show, Michelle signed autographs and posed for photos with fans.
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