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Three Wins in a Row Earn Courtney Carey and Love Notes the Pine Hollow Adult Amateur Hunter 3'3” Championship

January 15, 2010

Wellington, FL --- The first week of competition of the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival continued today at the Palm Beach International

Equestrian Center. The final championships were awarded today in some of the Adult Amateur divisions, while many of the junior hunters just began their first day of competition for the weekend.

The Pine Hollow Adult Amateur Hunter 3'3" division wrapped up its competition for the week, and emerging victorious with the championship was Love Notes, with owner/rider Courtney Carey. Carey, originally from Cockeysville, MD, is currently a senior at the University of South Carolina and plans to commute back and forth from South Carolina almost every weekend to compete at the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival.

Carey bought Love Notes, or "Lovey," in the beginning of the year, and her trainer, Jen Bauersachs, showed him throughout 2009 in the Pre-Green Hunter and First Year Green Hunter divisions. Carey describes her 6-year-old Oldenburg as a "really sweet horse with a good temperament."

Carey could not compete yesterday due to school obligations, but it did not stop her from bringing home the tri-color. "They rode really well," Carey said of today's courses in the Rost Arena. It was clear that the courses suited both Carey and Love Notes when she won all three classes today, earning her the championship, while both of the blues yesterday went to Georgia Dillon with her mount, Leonetti, which secured the reserve championship ribbon for them.

In order to prepare for this year's FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, Carey spent much of her winter break riding and taking lessons, as well as some last minute preparations when she arrived yesterday.

This was the first time Carey had ridden on the new GGT all-weather footing, and she was very pleased, commenting, "It felt great." Carey hopes to move up to the Amateur-Owner Hunters with Love Notes in the coming weeks of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. She also has her sights set on qualifying for the indoor competitions at the end of the year.

This week's events, which will feature more Amateur, Junior, Children's, and Pony competition, will end on Sunday, January 17. The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of competition that conclude on April 4.

For full results, please visit www.shownet.biz or www.equestriansport.com.

The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of top competition running from January 13 through April 4. WEF is run by Equestrian Sport Productions, LLC, and Wellington Equestrian Partners and held at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. All 12 shows are "AA" rated and Jumper Rated 6, and more than $5.5 million in prize money will be awarded.

WEF is proud to be supported by their title sponsor, FTI Consulting, Inc. FTI Consulting, Inc. exists to help companies and their stakeholders protect and enhance enterprise value in an increasingly complex economic, legal and regulatory environment. FTI is the trusted advisor entrenched in many of the game-changing events that make headlines, move markets and create business history. For more information, please visit www.fticonsulting.com.

During the 12 weeks of WEF, "Saturday Night Lights" headlines the entertainment each Saturday night where spectators not only enjoy the Grand Prix class, but a street carnival, live music, and numerous dining options with box seats, sports bars, and the famed Tiki Hut for front row fun.

Please visit www.equestriansport.com or call 561-793-5867 for more information.

Photo Credit: Georgia Dillon and Leonetti finished as reserve champions in the Pine Hollow Adult Amateur Hunter 3'3" division in the first week of the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Photo © 2010 Randi Muster/Mustphoto, Inc., Official Sport Photographer of the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival.

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