2022 FHANA Annual General Meeting

2022 FHANA Annual General Meeting

 

February 24-26, 2022

Location: Mashantucket, CT

 

Host Hotel Information:  Cut off date Feb. 3, 2022
Foxwoods Resort Casino
350 Trolley Line Boulevard, P.O. Box 3777,
Mashantucket, CT 06338-3777

Hotel Booking Information: Haga clic aquí

 

Other Area Hotel Options:

Two Trees Inn

Hilton Garden Inn Preston Casino Area

AmericInn by Wyndham

Bellissimo Grande Hotel

 

Airports:  The closest airport to Foxwoods Resort Casino is T.F. Green (PVD) in Warwick, RI. The second closest airport would be Hartford’s Bradley International Airport (BDL). Warwick is just under an hour’s drive from Foxwoods; Bradley is just over an hour’s drive.  Boston International Airport (BOS) is just over 1 hour 30 minutes.

 

Can’t make it to the 2022 FHANA AGM?  Not to worry, we have you covered.  Each session will be presented virtual for you to watch from the comfort of your own home.  By registering below and paying the $ fee, you will be sent a link to watch each presentation.

Schedule of Events (tentative and subject to change):

Thursday Feb. 24, 2022

4:00pm-8:00pm FHANA AGM Registration

6:00pm-8:00pm Welcome Reception

Friday Feb. 25, 2022

7:30am-8:30am Continue Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:30am-8:50am Welcome-Dr. Rosanne Palermo, President

9:00am-9:50am Dressage Speaker

9:00-9:30am Break Out Session-Breeding Committee

10:00am-10:50am Driving Speaker

10:00-10:30am Break Out Session-Sports Committee

11:00am-11:50am Sports Medicine Speaker

11:00-11:30am Break Out Session-Education Committee

12:00pm-1pm Lunch provided with registration/Transportation to offsite facility

1:00pm-5:00pm Offsite activities:

5:30pm Chapter Show and Dinner sponsored and hosted by NEFHC “Friesian Spectacular”

Saturday Feb. 26, 2022

7:00am-8:15am FMC Chapter Meeting

8:30am-9:20am KFPS Presentation & update

9:30am-10:40am Dressage Speaker

9:30-10:00am Break Out Session-Marketing Committee

10:50pm-12:00pm Driving Speaker

10:50-11:30am Break Out Session-Inspection Committee

12:00pm-1:00PM Lunch provided with registration

1:15pm-2:00pm Round Table Discussion-Speakers

2:15PM-4:15PM FHANA Annual General Meeting

6:00pm- FHANA Awards Banquet and Auction

 

Speakers and Biographies:

Dr. José M. García-López, VMD, Dipl. ACVS, Dipl. ACVSMR

American College of Veterinary Surgeons

American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

Associate Professor Large Animal Surgery

Director of Equine Sports Medicine

Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

José obtained his VMD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and went on to complete a 1-year Equine Internship at Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center (Ringoes, New Jersey, USA) followed by a 3-year Large Animal Surgical Residency with special focus on Equine Sports Medicine at Tufts University in North Grafton, Massachusetts.  He became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2001.  Following his residency José obtained a Lecturer position in the Section of Equine Sports Medicine and Imaging at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania where he remained for 2 years.  In 2002, he returned to Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine as an Assistant Professor in Large Animal Surgery and in 2010, he was promoted to Associate Professor.   While at Tufts, he has continued to concentrate his work in the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal disorders as well as the use of advanced imaging in the equine athlete.  In 2010, he also became a faculty member of AO VET North America (AO VET NA), of which he is currently the Chair of Education.  He became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2013. Dr. García-López specializes in equine orthopedic surgery including arthroscopy and fracture repair, upper respiratory surgery, lameness diagnosis and treatment, and advanced imaging.  He regularly lectures and provides consultations at the national and international level.

Liz Austin

Liz Austin is a USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medalist. With the KWPN stallion, Olivier, bred by her mother, Madeleine Austin, Liz was long listed for the 2010 World Equestrian Games and was the reserve rider for the 2011 World Cup. Liz has been a fan of Friesians since childhood and had the distinct honor of bringing along the Jasper son, Thys of Seagail Friesians, to the highest levels of dressage. In addition to Thys, Liz has had a number of Friesians in her barn including the Grand Prix gelding Youke of High Meadow Farm, with whom she did a six-horse quadrille demonstration in 2017 under the lights at the Global Dressage Festival for the half-time show (note she didn’t choose one of her Warmbloods for this electric and demanding endeavor!) What Liz loves most about the Friesian horse is their incredibly generous character, kind, sensible temperament and tremendous aptitude for the top levels in dressage.

 

Sterling Graburn

Nacido el 20 de febrero de 1963, Sterling Graburn ha estado vinculado a los caballos toda su vida. Su madre, Sally Eastman Graburn, era una entrenadora consolidada que continuaba la tradición familiar iniciada por su bisabuelo. Creció en el sureste de Pensilvania, una zona de gran tradición ecuestre. Pasó su infancia compitiendo en doma combinada, en parte como miembro del Radnor Hunt Pony Club, añadiendo la conducción combinada en su adolescencia. Debe su sólida base de doma a su madre, que siempre fue ante todo una entrenadora de doma e hizo hincapié en que la doma es un entrenamiento continuo.

Sterling comenzó su carrera como piloto en 1978 y participó en su primer evento internacional en 1984 como navegante del cuatro en mano de Emil-Bernhard Jung, miembro del equipo estadounidense, en los Campeonatos del Mundo de Cuatro en Mano celebrados en Szilvasvarad (Hungría). En 1993, volvió a ser navegante, esta vez del varias veces Campeón Nacional por Parejas Lawrence Poulin, en Gladstone, Nueva Jersey, para el Campeonato del Mundo por Parejas. Sterling fue mozo de cuadra/navegador de Wendy Ying, DVM, en los Campeonatos del Mundo de Ponis de 2005 en Catton Hall, Inglaterra.

En 2006, Sterling compitió a título individual en los Campeonatos del Mundo individuales de Pratoni del Vivaro (Italia), donde fue cuarto en el maratón y el piloto estadounidense mejor clasificado en la general con Quincey, el caballo castrado belga de sangre caliente de Alexander Hewitt. Sterling ha ganado en tres ocasiones el FEI Top Driver Award, el North American Challenge y el campeonato Single Horse. En 2008 ganó el Campeonato Nacional USEF Combined Driving Single Horse National Championship con CS Dante of Earl, un Sport Cob del que es copropietaria la Dra. Wendy Ying. Dante también ganó el USEF Combined Driving Single Reserve Horse of the Year de 2008.

Continuando con el éxito obtenido con Quincey, en 2012 y 2016 Sterling compitió con Ulano (KWPN) y el hermanastro de Ulano, Mannkato, en los Campeonatos del Mundo de Solteros. Tras ganar otro título del Campeonato Nacional de EE. UU. con Ulano en 2012, el binomio continuó en el Campeonato Mundial de Solteros en Portugal, donde fueron los competidores estadounidenses mejor clasificados. En 2016, en Austria, Sterling y Mannkato fueron los competidores estadounidenses mejor clasificados.

Sterling sigue entrenando y compitiendo tanto en la Conducción de placer como en la Combinada, con individuales, binomios, tándems, unicornios y cuatro en mano. Desde 2010, se encuentra en los alrededores de Lexington, Kentucky.