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John Whitaker (equestrian)
John Whitaker Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 5 August 1955, Huddersfield) is a British equestrianism, equestrian and Olympic Games, Olympian who competes in show jumping. He has won numerous international medals including an olympic silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. He is the managing director of John Whitaker International Limited which produces Horse tack, tack and List of equestrian sports, equestrian clothing. Showjumping Whitaker has enjoyed success across four decades. He has competed at World and European Championships and five olympic teams between 1984 and 2016. He has won the Hickstead Derby four times. Horses He is best known for his partnership with the horse Milton (horse), Milton with whom he won the Du Maunier Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows and won over £1 million in prize money before being retired in 1994. He won an Olympic medal in 1984 on Ryan's Son who he was given at the age of 18 and had a partnership with for 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equestrianism
Equestrianism (from Latin , , , 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding ( Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises, and competitive sport. Overview of equestrian activities Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes, such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines. Horses (and other equids such as mules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Tack
Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domestication of the horse, domesticated animals. This equipment includes such items as Saddle, saddles, Stirrup, stirrups, Bridle, bridles, Halter, halters, Rein, reins, Bit (horse), bits, and harnesses. Equipping a horse is often referred to as tacking up, and involves putting the tack equipment on the horse. A room to store such equipment, usually near or in a stable, is a tack room. Saddles Saddles are seats for the horseback riding, rider, fastened to the horse's Back (horse), back by means of a ''Girth (tack), girth'' in English-style riding, or a ''cinch'' in the use of Western tack. Girths are generally a wide strap that goes around the horse at a point about four inches behind the forelegs. Some western saddles will also have a second strap known as a ''flank'' or ''back cinch'' that fastens at the rear of the saddle and goes around the widest part of the horse's belly. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or a dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with the order, but are not members of it. The order was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, who created the order to recognise 'such persons, male or female, as may have rendered or shall hereafter render important services to Our Empire'. Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. Today, the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to citizens of other nations of which the order's sovereign is not the head of state. Cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Whitaker (equestrian)
Jack Whitaker (born 9 October 2001) is a British equestrian who competes as a show jumper. Early life Whitaker grew up in Nottinghamshire, where his parents run Whatton farm. A keen footballer, he spent time in the youth academy at Nottingham Forest. Career In 2015, he won European Team Gold at the FEI European Pony Championships, riding Zodianne van de Doevenbree. The following year, he won Individual Gold and Team Bronze with Elando Van De Roshoeve at the event. In 2018 he competed at the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina where he won Team Silver riding L V Chance Luck. In 2020, he was selected to be part of the Young Riders Academy. In 2021, he won his first five-star class at the Dutch Masters, riding Scenletha. He won Individual Silver at the Youth European Championships in July 2021 on Scenletha. He also Team Bronze at the event, competing as part of the Young Rider squad under the title sponsor banner of Team NAF for Great Britain. In 2022, he missed some competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Whitaker
Michael Whitaker (born 17 March 1960) is a British Olympic equestrian rider, who competes in the sport of show jumping. He was ranked 5th by the British Showjumping Association in March 2014. Career Younger brother of John Whitaker, Michael began competing on ponies at the age of 5. At the age of 16, he made his debut in international competitions and in 1980 he became the second youngest winner of the Hickstead Derby, at the age of 20. In September 1993 he took over from his brother John as the internationally top-ranked show jumping rider. In 2009 Whitaker was banned from competition for four months after his stallion Tackeray tested positive for a synthetic hormone altrenogest during a competition in France. Altrenogest is a female hormone that Whitaker claimed was present in the sample due to a mix up in feed buckets. Whitaker was found to be negligent for the positive test. Personal life Born and raised on his parents' farm in Yorkshire. He and his three brothers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitaker (equestrian)
William Whitaker (born 26 July 1989) is an English show jumper from Yorkshire. Whitaker has represented Britain at show jumping. Son of Ian Whitaker, is from a dynasty of show jumpers and horse trainers including his uncles Michael and John Whitaker, and cousins, Robert and Ellen Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena, and Helen (given name), Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: * Elle .... In 2016 William Whitaker became the third member of his family, after uncles John and Michael, to win the British Jumping Derby at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead, having finished third and second in the previous years events. On 22 December 2018 Whitaker won the FEI Jumping World Cup at the Horse of the Year Show. Riding Utamaro D Ecaussines, the pair finished first after jumping a fast clear round in an eighteen strong jump off. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Whitaker
Ellen Whitaker (born 5 March 1986) is an English show jumping rider, currently ranked 191 on the FEI riders Longines Ranking list in July 2022. Career Competing since the age of 5, Whitaker has had much experience in the equestrian world and qualified for HOYS aged 8 years. In 2006, Whitaker and her father were involved with a legal dispute over the ownership of thirteen horses, including her top horse Locarna; a few months later a deal was agreed. In 2007, Whitaker represented Great Britain in the European Championships and helped allow Britain to qualify for the Olympics after jumping triple clear. She missed out on being selected for the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to lameness in horse Locarno 62. In 2010, Whitaker spoke to the press after refusing to jump for the British team due to a conflict with the team manager, Rob Hoekstra. She told '' Horse & Hound'': "I only have Ocolado at the moment and Rob wanted to interfere with the way I do everything." Her father, and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Whitaker (equestrian)
Robert Whitaker (born 26 January 1983) is a British show jumper who rides for the British Team. Career Whitaker has represented the British Team many times from junior pony level to the senior ranks.Robert Whitaker accessed August 8, 2009. One of Whitaker's career highlights to date was becoming the British Open Champion at the inaugural British Open Show Jumping Championships in 2003. He has since been crowned champion again in 2008 and 2009. He has now won the title a total of 3 times.Third British Open Win to Robert Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan's Son
Ryan's Son (1968-1987) was a successful show jumping horse ridden by John Whitaker. He was a bay gelding and stood . He was sired by a Thoroughbred called Ozymandias and born from an Irish Draught mare. In January 2007, Ryan's Son joined John Whitaker in being inducted into The British Horse Society Equestrian Hall of Fame. In 2020 he was named as one of the greatest horses of all time by '' Country Life'' with Ryan's Son being noted for "a distinctive white blaze, a swishing tail and a habit of bucking violently after the last fence that was beloved by the public." A crowd favourite, Ryan's Son became renowned for bucking after the final fence. On the bucking, rider John Whitaker was quoted as saying: Career Malcolm Barr gave Ryan's Son to teenager, and future son in law, John Whitaker in 1973 after buying him for £2,500. He would end up earning more than a hundred times that—winning Olympic, World and European Championship medals, the British Jumping Derby at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spruce Meadows
Spruce Meadows is a multi-purpose sports facility near Calgary, Alberta built by the Southern family which opened in 1975. The facility contains an equestrian show jumping complex that comprises . The current president and CEO of Spruce Meadows is Linda Southern-Heathcott, a former Olympian who competed in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games for the Canadian Olympic Team. The facility is also the home venue of Cavalry FC of the Canadian Premier League, a soccer team owned by Spruce Meadows Sports and Entertainment. The 6,000-seat stadium, known as ATCO Field for sponsorship reasons during soccer use, is within the facility. The field was constructed in early 2019 at the site of a modified jumping field, which gained new stands to fit the rectangular soccer pitch. Tournaments "National" Award Ceremony at Spruce Meadows There are six major outdoor tournaments and eight indoor tournaments at Spruce Meadows annually. The indoor tournaments are known as the 'Nakoda Series' and are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
