07.01.13
Posted in 2018 Games, World Equestrian Games at 9:04 pm by Thomas
Breaking News: The announcement has just been made in the last couple of hours that Bromont Canada’s bid for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games has been turned down as it currently stands. With this decision the FEI has been forced to re-open the bidding process for the 2018 Games but did strongly request that Bromont resubmit a bid which they said they would.
It all came down to the public financing of the Games. “The Bromont/Montreal bid was very impressive on all technical aspects and it is hugely disappointing, both for the bid team and for the FEI, that the Bureau was unable to allocate the FEI World Equestrian Games 2018 today”, FEI President HRH Princess Haya said, “but unfortunately, without the necessary financial support, the FEI and the organisers would be exposed to an unacceptable financial risk”.
No specifics were given on the new timeline for the re-bidding process. So we will be keeping our ears to the ground to see what we hear through both the official and unofficial information channels.
Kentucky Colonel
Thomas P. Demond
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07.09.12
Posted in 2018 Games at 8:25 pm by Thomas
It became official today, though the writing had been on the wall for some time, Wellington, Florida has announced their intention to drop a bid to be host city for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games. We are disappointed but it is hard to be surprised by this outcome considering the political in fighting that had been on public display for the last couple of months. Actually our primary disappointment is the with how this was handled and some feelings that Wellington should not of even submitted a bid in the first place because the dynamics that caused this failure were in place prior to the bid being submitted.
I realize my group and maybe more importantly myself will draw some fire for publicly making that statement. I am not trying to indite the good intentions of certain individuals in Wellington, but it would seem there was a sense the other side would raise up to prevent this bid from being successful. I have a pretty good sense of why that is, but that is totally unimportant to me, what is important, where the 2018 Games finally land and the impact that has on Kentucky pursuing either the 2022 or 2026 Games.
Currently the favorite to win the bid is Vienna, Austria for the simple fact, its Vienna. With Wellington out though Bromont, Canada picks up some support with those wanting the Games in North America. However Vienna effectively received the same boost when Budapest, Hungary withdrew their bid a few weeks ago. Rabat, Morocco is the other city via for the Games, but it seems hard to in-vision them beating out Vienna.
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06.25.12
Posted in 2018 Games, Weather at 8:53 pm by Thomas
We hope everyone is staying cool and safe, seems we maybe paying for our mild Winter with a hot-dry Summer. Thankfully hay production was well advanced in Kentucky by our Spring weather so hay supplies should hold up. The hope now for our pastures will rest in a tropical system coming up through Texas to provide a significant rain event through the Central U.S.
On another hot topic, the Hungarian Federation has withdrawn the Budapest bid for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games stating their support for neighboring Vienna Austria’s bid. This leaves four(4) competing sites, Rabat (MAR); Bromont (CAN); Vienna (AUT) and Wellington (USA). We will start our countdown for the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games after the Olympics.
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