Today’s guest blog comes from Abbey Dale
and first appeared on the ezinearticles.com website.
There are many reasons to visit the impressive Bluegrass State of Kentucky, and most of them have something or other to do with our most cherished four legged friend, the horse. Nowhere else in America do the legends, traditions, cultures, and legacies of so many breeds mean half as much as they do here, making the FEI’s choice to allow Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park to host the 2010 World Equestrian Games an easy and steadfast one indeed. We have the Smokey Mountains and the dewy Appalachian mornings, the famous pottery and the world renowned cuisine, the most important thoroughbred racing roots in the world, and now this opportunity to welcome a world class, 16 day event to America for the first time. Have you made your travel arrangements?
The home rental option seems to be one of the most favored, and unfortunately one of the least plentiful, modes of lodging for the upcoming world games, so the sooner you can get your bids and contracts in the better. An estimated 600,000 plus visitors will be descending from all over the world to capture the exhilaration and electricity of this prestigious event, so those who are best and earliest prepared will undoubtedly receive the best of all worlds come opening ceremonies.
The games will begin on September 25th, 2010 and carry on until the closing of the championship on October 10th. During these two weeks, spectators will watch such events as dressage, jumping, endurance, eventing, reining, para dressage, vaulting, and driving. The Warmbloods will dominate all events, save for the reining portion of the competition which is reserved for America’s own quarter horse. Reining, also referred to as cowboy dressage, was only accepted as a discipline at the FEI World Equestrian Games 6 short years ago, making this the second contest for the title in world games history.
Para dressage is new to the roster just this year, and offers a huge opportunity for the physically impaired the entire world over to prove their worthiness and horsemanship alongside their able bodied peers. Horse riding has made gigantic strides over the past ten years in the ways of medical and mental therapy for the disabled and impaired, and this new event hopes to bring forth an even greater increase in confidence for those who stand by the principals and hard work that the equestrian world is known for. As one beloved competitor suggests, “Who needs two legs when you can have four?”
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You can get more information about the games by clicking HERE