Wellington, FL (February 4, 2015)— Diamante Farms, a founding sponsor of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, has been an integral part of the show series’ success since its inception. Diamante Farms is excited to once again act as presenting sponsor for the CDI5* competition, held during week five of the festival. To kick off this year’s CDI5* events, Diamante Farms will host an Olympian Salute honoring each past Olympic competitor who is present.
The Olympian Salute, which is set to take place at 6:45 PM on February 6, will open the $200,000 CDI5* Grand Prix Freestyle Friday Night Under the Lights. Young flag bearers from the non-profit organization Dressage4Kids will lead Olympian riders from each nation into The Stadium, and mother-daughter team Terri and Devon Kane of Diamante Farms will present the Olympains with flowers. More than twenty-five Olympians from at least eight nations will be present and invited to participate, including Olympian Team Gold Medalist Carl Hester of the UK; legendary dressage rider Robert Dover, who competed in six consecutive Olympic Games with the United States Equestrian Team; six-time Olympian Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfvén of Sweden; and Canada’s Christilot Boylen, who has also competed in six Games. Germany’s Olympic Gold Medalist Hubertus Schmidt, Devon Kane’s trainer, will also take part in the salute.
At the end of the exciting Friday night of dressage, Terri Kane and Kevin Kohmann— co-trainer at Diamante Farms— will present the highest-scoring competitors from the CDI Grand Prix Freestyle with their awards.
Having settled permanently in Wellington with the intent of helping to grow the United States’ dressage community, the owners of Diamante Farms— USDF Gold Medalist and Grand Prix trainer Devon Kane, along with her parents— are proud to be some of the longest supporting sponsors of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival.
“We feel it is very important to our sport to have a first-class facility in order to bring top competitors from all over the world,” says Terri Kane. “The only way we will be able to be truly competitive is to compete against the best. At one time, the only way our competitors could do that was to go to Europe. Now, with this facility we are seeing the Europeans come here. Diamante Farms is extremely proud to have been an inaugural part of the Global Dressage Festival, and plans to be a part of it for many years to come.”
The Kanes’ dedication to their dressage community is impressive. In addition to sponsoring the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, they also actively support the Florida International Youth Dressage Championships, the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center, and the Challenge of the Americas fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Their beautiful ten-acre, twenty-stall estate— complete with one indoor and several outdoor arenas— currently houses twenty-seven horses, half of which are currently competing. Devon Kane, head trainer at Diamante Farms, is dedicated to achieving the best performance possible in her horses; often working up to twelve horses a day.
The ambitious, goal-driven Devon Kane has worked with some of the top professionals in the industry. She spends her summers training in Europe with Germany’s Olympic Gold Medalist Hubertus Schmidt, and has also trained with Olympic Bronze medalist and USEF Developing Coach Debbie McDonald. Her hard work has paid off with an impressive record of victories. Last November, Kane and her Danish Warmblood gelding Destiny took first place in the U.S. Dressage Finals Grand Prix Championship Open in Lexington, Kentucky. “Devon will be competing her self-trained Destiny in the Grand Prix ring and during the Friday Night Lights at the 2015 Adequan Global Dressage Festival,” shares Terri Kane. “We will also be showing several of our younger horses this year. This is very exciting for us— especially since it is basically in our backyard!”
For more information about Diamante Farms, visit www.DiamanteFarms.com or call 561-307-2831.
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Photo: Head trainer Devon Kane, along with her team at Diamante Farms, will host an Olympian Salute before the CDI5* Grand Prix Freestyle Friday Night Under the Lights (Photo courtesy of Jack Mancini)
