As we enter the giving season, The Tech Equestrian would like to recognize the following the charities that give back each and every day to the horse world in many different ways. I hope you take a moment to review their websites and donate this year to a worthy cause or at least share and follow to keep up-to-date on how you can influence and help in your own way. Feel free to DM with others you’d like me to feature!
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Competing in the equestrian world involves large amounts of time with horses and offers little time left to work on anything else, let alone a widely popular barn management and community app called PonyApp. And conventional is not how to describe Lindsay Douglass or Lucy Davis both highly accomplished grand prix riders and talented entrepreneurs. To learn how they compliment each other from riding to app demands and what makes it all work, The Tech Equestrian caught up with them at the riding headquarters of Old Salem Farm in picturesque North Salem, NY.
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The years, months, weeks and hours planning and training for this event are immense, but what made it all worth it was that this event brought together some of the most talented and experienced equestrians and their equine athletes from around the world in a quest for the top of the podium and the admiration from their country’s fans. The Tech Equestrian had the opportunity and pleasure of experiencing this moment to cheer on the USA team and watch in amazement how each horse and rider team executed technical and some of the biggest jumps known to the sport at 1.65m in height.
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From living across the street from a premier Quarter Horse ranch, McCloud Quarter Horses as a young boy in Minnesota to building his own Quarter Horse ranch as an adult, Patrick Husting, software developer, Internet entrepreneur and horseman is on a journey to give back to the horse world by introducing a full featured digital horse care and community app named The Equestrian. “I’ve had a very rewarding career with creating and building businesses in the tech space to now afford to live a balanced and horse-filled life,” said Husting in a recent phone interview with The Tech Equestrian.
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Spending much of his youth on a dairy farm in Vermont, Bob Valentine, creator of equineGenie, can’t remember a time he wasn’t around horses. Fast forward to present day, Valentine lives in Fort Collins, Colorado and has recently downsized his Arabian breeding operation. “The market is not like it used to be for Arabians, or many other breeds for that matter,” stated Valentine. The one demand that is starting to grow is the digital recordkeeping and better management tools for horse businesses.
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The Tech Equestrian had the pleasure of attending the Hampton Classic the last weekend of the event and captured some of these amazing young equestrians and their mounts in the highly-contested $10,000 Hampton Classic Equitation Championship (blue ribbon went to Mimi Gochman) and the $15,000 Carolex Junior/Amateur Owner Jumper Classic (top place was Sloan Hopson). Congratulations to all!
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Four years ago, Daniel and Steven Bluman, international professional equestrians saw an opportunity that grew out of the struggles of transporting their equine athletes. It was a painful process, calling each of the large shipping companies to get a quote, waiting a day or so for a quote and then when you thought you were all set, they changed the schedule on you. “They wanted to change that process, because the only thing that was changing was the equipment to transport horses, nothing else,” said Juan Palacio, CFO and CMO of Equo.
At The Tech Equestrian we know there is so much innovation and technology that is transforming the horse world and it is not just a phenomenon in the US, but worldwide. For today’s blog post, I’m happy to feature breakthrough software that was developed in Colombia. I recently had the opportunity to gain more insight on this exciting product that Matias Gamarra, CEO and Founder of CRIO Online shared with me and I bet you (like myself) weren’t too sure what CRIO stands for.
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What started as a university project in digital communications studies back in January 2011 is now a full-time job and wildly-popular international equestrian lifestyle blog and app for Roxanne Legendre, founder and editor of PegaseBuzz. The focus of the blog is to provide equestrians their daily dose of equestrian culture and horse fashion. “In order to be successful I knew I had to cover both the riders' lifestyle and integrate how media is consumed on smart phones by introducing an app,” said Roxanne.
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“In 2015, I was trying to figure out when one of my horses had his Coggins and thought to myself with so much technology available, there ought to be a better way to keep track of my horses’ healthcare records,” said Ellen Eakin, Founder and President of EquestFile.
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If you ever want to experience the 'best of the best' in the world of highly competitive Grand Prix show jumping, I strongly recommend attending a Longines event. As I made the hour long drive from my home (which was so nice to be close by) and not sure what to expect...
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