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QUICK AND CLEAR 😎 Tanner Korotkin and “Etonemoi Del Cabalero”, owned by Lanes End Showjumping, fly to the top of the $24,999 IDA Development Regional Grand Prix with a 36.422 second jump off!
🥈Ali Wolff and “Grazina Comme Il Faut”
🥉Cormac Hanley and “Santiago VH Netehof”
📸: Wellington International // Cassidy Klein
Around the Showgrounds, we found that the best coaching doesn’t always happen in the ring - sometimes, it comes from mom. Listen to hear everyone share the best advice they’ve received from their mothers 🎤
Happy Mother’s Day from Wellington International! 💐
This IS the best part… 💖
Sofi Beccar Varela aboard “HH Over the Moon,” owned by Leah Patipa, captured TOP HONORS in today’s $1,000 2’6” USHJA Jr/Am Hunter Derby presented by Hemp Bedding with a score of 172! 💫
📸: Wellington International // Grace Klement
Geoffrey Hesslink secured the VICTORY 🏆 Aboard his own “Plot Twist,” the pair earned impressive scores of 89 and 90 for a winning total of 179 in today’s $2,700 USHJA National Hunter Derby presented by Arthramid 💫
📸: Wellington International // Grace Klement
MAKE IT TWO IN A ROW 🔥
Ariana Marnell 🇺🇸 and her own “Navaar” claimed yet another WIN in the $10,000 Bainbridge Companies 1.40m Open Stake, stopping the clock in a blazing 44.3 seconds to secure their SECOND consecutive win 👏
📸: Wellington International // Cassidy Klein
At ESP Spring V, Ashlee Bond and her own “Belle De Muze” rose to the TOP in the $5,000 4EverYoung 1.35m Stake 🏆Delivering a winning time of 42.194 seconds - nearly TWO seconds ahead of the pack 🔥⏱️
📸: Wellington International // Cassidy Klein
We are honored to be a part of @vanityfair’s upcoming sports issue.
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“There are the worlds we live in, the worlds we wished we lived in, and the worlds we never even knew existed. For most of us, Wellington, Florida belongs to the last.
In fact, if you ever randomly found yourself there—which is unlikely, as it’s smack-dab in the middle of swampland and 40 minutes inland from the ritzy, ocean-breezed boulevards of Palm Beach—you probably wouldn’t know it. There’s no main street, only a series of shopping centers with stores you could find in Anytown, USA: Lowe’s, TJ Maxx, Starbucks, Whole Foods. The nicest hotel is the three-star Hampton Inn & Suites. Yet for a small, small circle—those on the elite international horse show circuit—Wellington isn’t a drive-through town. It’s a mecca.
Behind gates (and gates behind gates) are green, swamp-drained pastures housing mansions, polo fields, stables, and horses that can cost up to seven figures. They can be owned by wealthy people indulging in an expensive hobby or an Olympic athlete talented enough to make a living from this niche sport. “The Wellington world is a very insular, small world. It’s a very specific asset class—and people of ultrahigh net worth don’t want to have their asset class exposed,” Kelly Killoren Bensimon tells VF from West Palm Beach, where she’s currently filming a forthcoming E! show, ‘The Golden Life.’ “Who wants to have what they’re doing and how they’re doing it exposed on the world stage?”
For Vanity Fair’s upcoming Sports Issue, @ejtay goes inside the winter equestrian capital of the world.”
Photographer @tinatyrell
Hair, Makeup, Grooming @natashasmee
Production @wynnorlose
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