EB-Boarder & Trainer, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 9, 2003
Devon Horse Show Features 10 Days
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU
Lancaster Fanning Staff
DEVON (Chester Co.) Ten
days of competition between top
riders and their elite horses, 235
classes, and more than $316,000
of prize money is nothing new to
the Devon Horse Show and
Country Fair, May 22-31.
The event, which benefits the
Bryn Mawr Hospital (it has do
nated more than $10.4 million to
the hospital over the past eight
decades) was first conducted in
18%.
That one-day show included
29 classes and a first-prize offer
ing of $lO. By 2003 the show
drew the entries of 2,500 horses,
however only those animals that
qualified could compete.
Conducted in the town of
Devon, the event would not be
complete without the fair adja
cent to the Dixon Oval. The fair
features rides, prizes, and food,
Quarter Horse Auction Goes ‘Live’
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Sale.
Ben Nolt, Grantville, donat
ed his auctioneering services for
the event at the Ag Arena at
University Park, which show
cased Penn State’s
equine science and
breeding programs.
The horses were bred,
raised, and trained at
the university horse
farm. The sale catalog
is available on the web
at http:/
www.das.psu.edu/
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2. The auction was ac
companied by a day
full of demonstrations
and exhibits.
This year’s quarter
horse auction was a
watermark of sorts,
notes Nancy Diehl, as
sistant professor of
equine science. “For
many years, the annu
al sale of Penn State’s
2-year-old quarter
horses was carried out
by interested buyers
submitting letters of
offer,” she said. “But
this year, the sale was
conducted as a live
auction that was the
culmination of a day
meant to promote the
entire equine science
program.”
Students taking the
spring semester equine
and livestock mer
chandising class, who
learned about mer
chandising livestock
through guest speak
ers and class discus
sions, got hands-on ex
perience preparing for
and participating in
the sale.
“Students were in
volved in promotion,
advertising, prepara
tion of the horses,
maintenance on the
facilities and handling
many of the sale-day
responsibilities, in
cluding presenting the
horses to potential
buyers,” said Diehl.
“Students in the
horse handling and
training class line
drove, lunged, and
rode the auctioned
horses during the
High-stepping Hackney ponies also competed during
the event.
plus boutiques that offer clothing amateur owner jumpers. New
or home decorations to fair-goers, this year to the jumper division
The open jumper division of was the pony jumper classes,
the show, with classes almost The carriage pleasure driving,
every evening of the event, at- ladies’ side saddle, local hunters,
tracts leading riders from a„ d caching competitions were
throughout the U.S.A. Junior
jumpers also compete, along with (Turn to Page 11)
morning, offering a unique op
porunity for potential buyers to
observe the temperament, ath
letic ability, and training of the
horses being offered.”
Though the sale horses were
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highlighted, equine staff and
students also provided tours of
the Penn State Horse Farm and
made available for inspection
the sires, dams, and siblings of
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Of Diverse Competition
The event also included a ladies’ side saddle over
fences class.
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