Kentucky Summer Shows next up on extensive coverage agenda

Kentucky Summer Shows next up on extensive coverage agenda Wellington, FL – July 15, 2010 — The summer tour on PhelpsSports.com, the nation’s most popular and dynamic equestrian news website, continues with on-going coverage from two locations, Traverse City, Michigan, for the month-long Horse Shows by the Bay festival, and north of the border in Blainville, Quebec, Canada for the Classique Internationale De Blainville (Jumping Blainville) for one week. The second week of Jumping Blainville is currently underway and continues through July 18, 2010. The event is held at the renowned Equestrian Park of Blainville and features $295,000 in total prizes, including the all important $60,000 World Cup Qualifier as this year’s extravaganza draws to a close.  Meanwhile, at Flintfields Horse Park, in Williamsburg, Michigan, Horse Shows by the Bay is well underway as well. Dressage kicked off the month long affair last week, and now the highly popular Hunter-Jumper shows are in gear as well, drawing over fifteen hundred horses to this gorgeous resort area, just 10 miles east of Traverse City, Michigan. Over $400,000 in total prize money will have been awarded once the record books have been written on this year’s edition.  Beyond these two exciting events, PhelpsSports.com will be in Kentucky for the Kentucky Summer Horse Shows, the North American Junior and Young Rider Championships, the USEF Junior Hunter Finals – East Coast, the USEF Pony Finals, and the USHJA International Hunter Derby Finals in the weeks ahead.  Additionally, PS.com continues to provide special reports and photos from the shows at HITS Saugerties in New York, and at HITS Culpeper in Virginia.  The HITS coverage will be highlighted by detailed, on the grounds reports, when the inaugural Pfizer $1 Million Dollar Grand Prix makes United States show jumping history in September.  PhelpsSports.com will also provide coverage from Traders Point, the Fidelity Jumper Classic, the Hampton Classic and much, much more.  California reporting includes in-depth coverage from the series of events offered by Blenheim EquiSports and from the Menlo Charity Horse Show in Northern California.  Internationally, PhelpsSports.com’s popular coverage of the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup series and reports from the final events on the Global Champions Tour continues as the summer draws to a close. And, we’ll make one final 2010 tour stop at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Canada, for the all important Masters Tournament. We’ll be there when the Meydan Nations Cup tour decides the final team members for this year’s World Equestrian Games. Speaking of the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games, as you might expect, PhelpsSports.com will have every angle covered from the Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.  The fall tour as always, starts with the Capital Challenge, and includes Washington, the Syracuse Sporthorse Tournament and National Horse Show, Harrisburg, and winds up at the Royal in Toronto. Other fall show coverage includes the Showplace Fall Classic Championship Horse Show in Wayne, IL, the 2010 GAIG/USDF Region 2 Dressage Championships in Traverse City, MI, and the Buffalo International Horse Show in Buffalo, NY. All of this is in addition to the wonderful line-up of thought provoking columnists including the highly popular writer Bjorn Van Bunder who will continue to provide his unique outlook, reporting from the heart of the horse world in Europe. Buffy and Nell bring you the latest and greatest horse show gossip, plus the works of Fred Glueckstein, C.J. Cohick, Cooky McClung, Krysia Nelson and many more make PhelpsSports.com the most talked about and fastest growing web site in the equestrian world.  With thousands of members based in 68 different countries around the globe, PhelpsSports.com has risen to the top of the charts of popularity among knowledgeable equestrians worldwide and has become the high performance home page for high performance equestrians worldwide.  You can join the best equestrian news website today for an amazingly low cost of only 22 cents a day, less than the cost of your daily newspaper.  Visit us at www.PhelpsSports.com and find out what everyone is talking about!