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C H R O N O F H O R S E . C O M M AY/J U N E 2 017 31 On Deck Mark your calendar with these upcoming important dates. SARA LIESER PHOTO MOLLY SORGE PHOTO MEG SELVIDGE ARTWORK Competition venue: e Adequan Global Dressage Festival and Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, N.J. Place to shop for non-horsey items: e internet App: Netflix. "I'm always watching something." Mad Men is part of her current binge. "Six-and-a-half years too late, I know! But it's great because they have every episode—I can power through season after season." Quality in a person: Compassion or sense of humor Workout: Yoga or running Family activity: "My family and I sail. It's our family vacation every year; we go sailing in the British Virgin Islands. It's been 20 years or so—my parents have been going since before then. I've been invited along in the last 20 years." Season: Fall Emoji: e monkey with the hands over the eyes Famous person: e Obamas Song: Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" TV show: Grey's Anatomy. "[I'm a] very loyal fan. I've been doing it for 12 years, and I will keep going. I can't stop at this point." Most embarrassing horsey experience: Competing at the AGDF a couple of years ago in the CDI Under-25 Grand Prix. "Halfway through the test, the judge rang the bell to tell me that I was going off course. But I was so sure I wasn't that I just kept riding. She had to ring it three separate times. And finally I'm like, 'What?'—and then it turns out I actually wasn't off course, and she had made the mistake. I was confident that I wasn't going off course. She basically had to come out into the ring and wave her hands at me to get me to stop." u May 18-21 After a year away and a year off, the U.S. Dressage Festival Of Champions is returning to the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation's famed headquarters at Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, N.J. e top U.S. pairs at Grand Prix, Under-25 Grand Prix and the small tour level will vie for championships. Spectators are welcome. Learn more at usef.org. u May 20-24 If you're a dressage enthusiast in the Colorado area, you don't want to miss the first Dressage Symposium In e Rockies, taking place at the Colorado Horse Park in Parker. is year's program features clinicians Lars Petersen, Axel Steiner, Steffen Peters, Michael Klimke, Jane Weatherwax, Jane Savoie and Scott Hassler. ere will also be a trade fair and other exhibitions. Learn about auditing opportunities at chp.coth.com/page/dressage-symposium-in-the-rockies. u May 28 is year's Devon Horse Show in Devon, Pa., features all the usual excitement—the $225,000 Sapphire Grand Prix, the country's top hunters and jumpers in all divisions, and of course famous fudge, lemonade and cucumber sandwiches. But competitors and spectators have a new class this year in the $50,000 Arena Eventing class, which will take place at 7 p.m. Forty eventers and jumpers will tackle a Mark Phillips-designed course of solid obstacles in a linked Dixon Oval and Gold Ring. Learn more at devonhorseshow.net. u June 7 Don't miss the deadline to submit artwork for the Chronicle's Junior Gallery in the annual Junior & Pony Issue, which will be published July 3. Readers 18 and younger may submit entries for consideration. Artistic submissions must be related to sport with either horse or hound. ey can be any medium except photographs. Horse-related essays and poems by juniors will also be considered. All submissions—art and writing—must be original creations by the artist or writer. Email submissions (300 dpi at 4"x 6") to Lfoley@coth. com. Include artist's/writer's full name, age and hometown. Original artwork can be sent via regular mail to: P.O. Box 46, Middleburg, VA 20118. If sending by courier, the address is 108 e Plains Rd., Middleburg, VA 20117. If sending original artwork that cannot be returned in a 9"x 12" envelope, please include paid return postage in order to have your art shipped back to you.

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