HJN Content posted on March 23rd, 2006

Aaron Vale and Artur Score Key Win in $25,000 WEF Challenge Cup Thursday Night at Tampa

Aaron Vale and his mount Artur outraced a jump-off field of ten on Thursday night to capture the top prize in the $25,000 WEF Challenge Cup at the Winter Equestrian Festival at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center in Tampa, Florida. With the win, Vale took a giant step toward securing one of those coveted spots in the line up for the $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational, under the lights at Raymond James Stadium on Saturday, April 1st, 2006. (Read on…)

Atlanta Spring Classic Week One Highlights

Conyers, GA –Thunder is shaking the ground daily since over 1000 horses stormed into the Georgia International Horse Park for two weeks of USEF AA rated events hosted by the Classic Company. Kicking the event off was legendary Grand Prix rider Joe Fargis on board Edgar 12 for owners Mary B. Schwab and Oeji Farm winning the first Lucky Sevens Welcome Stake sponsored by EMO Insurance. (Read on…)

Engle and Hough Still Neck-in-Neck after Trial #3 at the World Equestrian Games Selection Trials in Wellington, FL

Despite faults for both riders today, they’re still on top

The order of finish from day-to-day at the World Equestrian Games Selection Trials changes about as quickly as the weather has through the three trials, yet one thing remains the same…Margie Engle continues to shine. Currently Engle and Lauren Hough are tied for first place with five total faults while Engle is also a close second place with nine total faults on her second mount, Hidden Creek’s Wapino. Engle took home top prize money again today, having the fastest no-fault round on her second mount, Wapino, at 79.94 seconds. (Read on…)

First Hunter Championships Awarded at Winter Equestrian Festival in Tampa

The Tampa Bay Classic kicked off competition yesterday on the second leg of the Winter Equestrian Festival at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center. Three hunter divisions had classes on Wednesday and Thursday, and they rode for tricolor ribbons. (Read on…)

Hunter Jumper News Site Development

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Hunter Jumper News:

For those of you visiting us for the first time, we at HorseSports Media are very proud of the development effort behind the creation of Hunter Jumper News. The site you see today represents thousands of man hours of development from a truly global development team.

The site itself is based upon Open Source Code. The essence of the Open Source development model is the rapid creation of solutions within an open, collaborative environment. Collaboration within the Open Source community (developers and end users) promotes a higher standard of quality, and helps to ensure the long-term viability of both data and applications.

At HJN, we owe a debt of gratitude to a worldwide community. The site itself is an integration of three Open Source Code Systems:

• WordPress forms the basis of the blogging system
• PbpBB2 is the basis for the forum section
• Gallery2 software forms the basis for the gallery management system

The three of theses systems have been integrated into a single system at HJN. A single login system was developed so that users could register and the applications have been embedded in each other. As an example, the Photo System will allow individuals to view the various Albums as a collection, yet at the same time an Author can choose a photo in the gallery to display with his article.

We particularly want to thank the following groups:

• Joff Redfern at Yahoo.com for his development teams encouragement in creating a multiple author content management system
• Greg Oz in Melbourne, Australia headed up the embedding of the Gallery software into the Content Management System.
• Kirk Steffensen of Springfield, VA headed up the image chooser development effort. This allows images to be selected from the gallery system and displayed in the authoring system
• The entire phpBB Bulletin Board Team. The management team is truly international and is headed up by Edmonton, AB, Canada’s James Atkinson and Jonathan Stanley from Northampton, UK. Nils Aderman from Essen, Germany and Graham Eames from the UK are part of the Development Team. While support comes from the Netherlands.
• The Gallery software was originally developed by Bharat Mediratta. Today, the development is a distributed effort, with collaboration from around the globe. The team is well organized, with weekly meetings, and constant communication. According to Bharat’s son Cole, he is the nocturnal part of the team. He never sleeps.
• The Content Management System is based upon WordPress. WordPress started in 2001 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing on the web and fewer users than you can count on your hands and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by millions of people every day. The lead developers on the project are Ryan Boren and Matthew Mullenweg.
• A huge thanks goes out to Owen Winkler who developed HJN’s Role Management System that allows registered subscribers, press agents and authors all to create their own articles.

We hope that you have as much fun using HunterJumperNews.com, as we had in creating it for you.

Ours is a new systems integration and as with all new systems, we anticipate minor problems. Please use the Feedback Section in the Forums to list any problems that you uncover.

Sandy Point Stables - Riders and Activities

I wanted to share with you some of the activities of Sandy Point Stables Barn Riders and also point out some of our “Other Activities”. (Read on…)

West Coast Active Riders Announces Recipients of WCAR Meritorious Riders Scholarships

The West Coast Active Riders (WCAR) organization has announced two scholarship winners for the WCAR Meritorious Riders Scholarship Program. Carly Anthony and Lauren Hester were chosen as this year’s scholarly West Coast equestrians. (Read on…)