2021 Region 12 - Classic Egyptian Championships

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REGION 12

World Equestrian Center

STORY

BY

ALLISON

MEHTA

Ocala, Florida

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PHOTOS

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May 8, 2021

SUZANNE

STURGILL

his was year five for the Region 12 Classic Egyptian Championships…and we’ve come a long way from 2016 when we showed a very small group of Straight Egyptian and Egyptian-related horses in the cavernous Reeves Arena in Perry, Georgia. The next three years in Perry were better in an outside warm up arena—but this year we experienced a quantum leap. In January 2021, the Show Committee of Region 12 made a very courageous decision to move Region 12 to the newly opened World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida, and invited us to move our “show within a show” with them. And so, on Saturday morning, May 8, our feng shui flags were flying over the beautiful, brand new, outside Hunter Arena #4 at the incredible WEC facility, with patrons and spectators already filling the tables, viewing pavilions, and red sponsor tents surrounding the arena. The result of our endeavors was an almost

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