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California Riding Magazine • July, 2009 Flying Changes
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Farewell Bobby Kadowaki Bobby Kadowaki will be remembered with fondness for his quick grin and work ethic. He spent years helping run the St. Louis National horse show as stabling superintendent, course builder, ring preparer and anything else that needed to be done including volunteering as ringmaster. Bobby kept the show on track and was everywhere all the time. San Diego hunter/jumper trainer Nancy Reed first met Kadowaki in 1971 shortly after his return from Vietnam. “He just sort of appeared at the barn in St. Louis and started helping out right away. The next thing I knew, he was going to all the shows with us,” says Reed. “He was always entertaining and happy to help out anyone.” Chris Shy, son of the late Don Shy, recalls spending his high school years driving in horse vans hauling horses with Kadowaki. “He was a great guy,” says Shy. “Bobby called me after my father’s death and we had the greatest conversation. He was a real comforting man, a good soul.” Kadowaki spent a lifetime working around horses. He spent some time working for Boots Parker in Texas. The owner had some wonderful amateur horses and he prepared all of them for the ring. Fast forward several years and Kadowaki showed up again in the San Diego area working for Bill and Twinkie Nissen and then for Dianne Grod.
After a few weeks of love and nutrition,
3-month-old Chilly Pepper is now a thriving 250 pounds. Mustang Filly Rescued and Thriving In March, Palomino Armstrong and Tara Cooper discovered and rescued a three-day-old filly whose mother had died giving birth on the 5,000 acre Wild Horse Sanctuary in the Redding area’s Shingletown. Cooper found the filly in freezing conditions and clinging to life and carried the 70-pound foal to warmth in Armstrong’s home. It was touch and go for weeks as Armstrong nursed the baby, who she named Chilly Pepper, back to health. The now 250 pound young Mustang is thriving and greeted her fans at the Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento in June. Dianne Nelson, co-founder of the Sanctuary, said wild horses are generally healthy and hardy. While volunteers try to keep track of the roughly 300 horses on the ranch, its size makes it impossible to see everything. “That’s why it’s pretty miraculous that they came along right when they did,” she said.
Cancer unexpectedly takes 17-year-old dressage champion More Magic. More Magic Loses Cancer Battle More Magic, a successful mount for Bethany Peslar in Brentina Cup and Grand Prix dressage competitions in the United States, died unexpectedly of cancer at age 17. The Westfalian gelding by Maraschino xx was owned by Everglades Dressage, LLC. Peslar and More Magic were reserve champion in the 2006 USET Foundation Festival of Champions National Young Adult “Brentina Cup” championship. The pair placed second in the Grand Prix Special at the highly competitive Palm Beach Derby this year. Hobby Horse Clothing Company Robbery Hobby Horse Clothing Company of Chino was robbed last month and chaps and apparel valued at approximately $400,000 were stolen. Suzi Drnec is appealing to the horse industry for tips that might lead investigators to the thieves and the recovery of the stolen items. A reward is being offered. “I am asking for the help of horse community members in advising me if they come across any strange offers on Hobby Horse apparel,” says Drnec. No items had yet been recovered as this issue went to press. Anyone with information please call 800-569-5885 or e-mail suzi@hobbyhorseinc.com.
Photo: Laure Capozza Equestrian Emily Esau to Marry Nick Williams in San Diego Emily Esau grew up showing horses and ponies in San Diego and now owns and operates EE Show Stables, Inc., a successful hunter/jumper barn in Del Mar. On July 10th Esau will marry Nick Williams in a romantic setting along San Diego Bay at sunset. Though originally from Texas, Williams has called San Diego home for ten years. While he’s not involved in equestrian sports, Williams supports Esau’s love for horses and horse shows. The wedding party consists of bridesmaids Nicole Bloom and Lindsay Archer, both hunter/jumper trainers from Northern California, LeeAnna Esau, her sister-in-law and the maid of honor, and her sister Erin Esau, also a trainer from Wellington, FL. The groomsmen are his son Nolan, Charlie Esau, Greg Covington and best man David Garza.
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