Live Audio Webcast Available At USA Equestrian Board Meeting

A live audio webcast will be available of the USA Equestrian Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, July 9, 2002. The meeting will be held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky at 12 Noon (EDT). The webcast can be reached by visiting the USA Equestrian web site at www.equestrian.org and clicking on the link.

Media representatives interested in attending the board meeting can contact USA Equestrian via email at sholt@equestrian.org or by telephone at 859-225-6974 to request a media credentials form. Media representatives who wish to participate in the meeting and cannot attend in person may arrange for access to a special, accredited-media-only, toll-free conference call by contacting the USA Equestrian office at the email and phone listed above.

USA Equestrian Inc., as the National Equestrian Federation of the U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show jumping, and vaulting, as well as 19 other breeds and disciplines of equestrian competition. As
the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation has over 80,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including educating and licensing all judges, stewards, and technical delegates who officiate at these shows.
VISION STATEMENT
The vision of USA Equestrian is to provide leadership for equestrian sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian federation in the world.

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