Maybe it’s the horses. Maybe it’s the history and the diversely beautiful landscape. And maybe it’s the wine. Come to think of it, that has a lot to do with Portugal’s lure. In a week, I’ll be flying across the Atlantic with my friend and photographer extraordinaire, Meg McGuire, to head to my favorite riding…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Volunteers at WV Dressage helped unload donated hay for flood victims. They sprang into action even as dangerous flood waters continued to rise. Stranded horses and dogs needed food, water and care as the torrent swirled over roadways and seeped into homes and barns as Hurricane Harvey helped dump…
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…
July 2017 Newsletter (2)
Terri and Devon Kane engage in some friendly mother/daughter rivalry when it comes to choosing dressage horses for Diamante Farms, located in Wellington, Florida. The first year they bought foals in Europe, they purchased two at the Oldenburg auction. Of the two, one was sold and one was kept as a possible FEI-level horse for…
Pulling a horse through colic surgery is difficult enough, but when a 26-year-old gelding with Cushing’s Disease is the patient, it takes a talented surgeon and a dedicated nursing staff to have him back home 10 days later. The patient, Aladdin, and his best buddy, Whiskey, were left in the care of family while…