Los Angeles-based concert promoter Goldenvoice has initiated purchase of the 200-acre Eldorado Polo Club in Indio, CA. The parcel is the site for the music company’s annual Coachella Music Festival, which kicked off April 13-15 and continues April 20-22. The company had been leasing the land from Eldorado Lake Farms, a consortium of 19 player-owners [...]
The North American Rider Group (NARG), a professional association of high-performance hunter-jumpers, has issued its second annual list of the continent’s top horse shows as voted by membership. The “Top 25 of 2011” is topped by two West Coast venues―albeit in Canada; Spruce Meadows is No. 1 and Thunderbird No. 2. Three California shows made [...]
The FEI is putting a damper on helmet cam use. Today it issued the following statement, which seems to indicate that while the primary concern is safety, it is equally focused on potential infringement of previously contracted video rights. The statement reads as follows: Further to the new provision in article 140 of the General [...]
While the concept of the “flash sale” is not new to regular readers of Vogue and WWD, it’s still somewhat novel in the equestrian world, where LA Saddlery owners Tabitha Knaub and Renee Spurge have made it a centerpiece of their newly relaunched online store, www.lasaddlery.com. More than just an electronic presence for their brick-and-mortar [...]
Equine enthusiasts from all disciplines gathered at the inaugural Pomona Horse Expo Feb. 2-4 at the Fairplex, to take in a wide array of clinics, classes and “shopportunities.” More than 100,000-square-feet of trade show in three buildings showcased wares from saddles to clothing, art pieces to feeding supplements. “It’s a horse lover’s dream,” All Star [...]
Always looking for ways to improve his circuits, HITS president and CEO Tom Struzzieri has unveiled a major upgrade to his HITS-on-the-Hudson: a charming 30-room luxury hotel and tavern that is sure to be the hot place to call home in the late summer. The namesake of the HITS Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix lives [...]
In today’s economic environment, retail is a battlefield. But if it’s true, as Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi once said, “life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can,” then Larry Lumsdon has a few things going in his favor. The [...]
Miki Cohen, the force behind the Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento, is launching Horse Expo Pomona, February 2-4, 2012 at Fairplex in Pomona, California. The event fills the void left by Equine Affaire. In June the Massachusetts-based firm behind that expo announced it was cancelling the event, which had been held at the Fairplex [...]
If you’ve ever been sued by Frank Sinatra for $20 million, spent years traveling the world as a correspondent for news mogul Rupert Murdoch, worked as a Las Vegas entertainer, or spent your formative years rounding up wild cattle in the remotest regions of the Australian outback, your name must be Colin Dangaard. And we [...]
Anyone in the business of horses will want to be aware that a potentially advantageous provision of the 2010 Small Business Act expires on Dec. 31. Whether it’s a new saddle or a new truck or trailer, business equipment purchased before the new year will be eligible for a full write-off. That’s an unusual option. [...]
