Daily Weakley Blog

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Kim Herslow Welcomes Jessie and Betsy Steiner to Upper Creek Farm

Wellington, Florida – March 26, 2018 – Kim Herslow and Jessie and Betsy Steiner are joining forces in a collaboration of like-minded horsewomen to provide a fun, inclusive, and knowledge-based environment for dressage people and their horses at Herslow’s Upper Creek Farm in Stockton, New Jersey. The Steiners were previously based near the farm six…

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Diamante Farms Shows Solid Support for Young Dressage Riders

Diamante Farms owners Terri and Devon Kane are passionate about supporting up-and-coming dressage riders. Devon rose up through the ranks as a Young Rider and, in 2007, she was a NAJYRC Individual Gold Medalist and Team Bronze Medalist. Now, she is unstoppable in the show ring as an international Grand Prix rider and a USDF…

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Terri and Devon Kane Lend Helping Hands at Vinceremos

Terri and Devon Kane, passionate about their work with Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center, are busy preparing for the non-profit’s Annual Dinner and Benefit Auction at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida, Friday night Feb. 2. The mother/daughter team, who own Diamante Farms in Wellington, dig in and help where needed to make…

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JJ Tate Melds Hard Work, Integrity and Honesty for the Win

JJ Tate must be one of the hardest working people in dressage. The Grand Prix rider based out of her own farm in Landrum, South Carolina, in the summer and Yellowbird Farm in Wellington, Florida, in the winter is a whirlwind of energy. She has trained 14 horses to the FEI-level, gone down centerline in…

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Diamante Farms’ Terri Kane Highlights Breast Cancer Awareness with Pink Polo Wraps

Terri Kane took an idea she imported from Europe to spread breast cancer awareness and ended up coloring the US Dressage Finals pink. Several years ago, horse show organizers in Odense, Denmark, chose to highlight breast cancer awareness month by providing pink polo wraps to the horses in the awards ceremonies at the dressage show….

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Tough Texans Take Region 9 Championships by Storm

Texans are tough. As Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters receded, the Houston Dressage Society (HDS) knew the show must go on and handily hosted the 2017 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional 9 Championships at the Great Southwest Equestrian Center in Katy, Texas, just weeks after the storm left a path of destruction. Competitors passed around stories of survival just…

Michael Schultz and Sammie Achieve Their Ride of a Century

A crowd gathered when Michael Schultz and his Dutch Warmblood gelding Nice Catch, aka Sammie, rode down the centerline at the White Fences Equestrian Center in Loxahatchee, Florida, April 9. It wasn’t because Schultz, handsome in his show coat and white breeches, was incompetent or because the gleaming Sammie misbehaved as the wind whipped his…

Dressage Sensation Kasey Perry-Glass Named Trilogy Saddle Ambassador

Kasey Perry-Glass and Goerklintgaards Dublet at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. Photo by Susan J. Stickle. April 18, 2016 – Wellington, Florida – Kasey Perry-Glass was the perfect choice to be Trilogy Saddles’ newest Ambassador. Not only has the talented rider been moving up the ranks to become one of the USA’s hottest dressage superstars…