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Intro: The relatively unknown town of Wellington, Florida, located in southeast Florida has established itself as a place for work and play for the nations and world elite. Of those elite Microsoft mogul Bill Gates as well as the late Steve jobs daughter and granddaughter are among those who own and compete in Wellington Florida.

The Winter Equestrian Festival is known for its sprawling grounds and horse themed streets. Grand Prix village is known to house the most elite competitors and for its exclusive location just walking distance from the festival. As well as the Grand Prix Village the grounds of the festival consist of 18 competition arenas as well as 256 permanent horse stalls.

The competition has a wide range of divisions for people of all skill level. It offers competitions for children, junior, adult amateur, and professional equestrians in over 70 different divisions. (link :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Equestrian_Festival)

The competitors aren't the only elite ones attending the festival, the horses are among the best money can buy and with more than 5,000 horses on property their net worth totals well over half a billion

Participants range from two to seventy years old and bring with them an estimated 6,000 horses. Among these people and horses are some of the best riders for each division. In the course of three months, this largest and longest running horse show sees only the best riders of their class- Olympians, adult amateurs, juniors, and children from more than 42 different countries. (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Equestrian_Festival)

For four decades the Winter Equestrian Festival has had a reputation of having one of the most competitive equestrian shows in the world, as well as being the pinnacle for equine competition.

This year, the Winter Equestrian Festival is poised to have more than $9 million in prize money that will be rewarded to top athletes through out the intense competition.

The competition at the World Equestrian Center is promised to have top athletes from around the world. Of those athletes the United States and World #1 Kent Ferrington, World #2 Mclain ward, Canada's prize rider and also ranked 8th in the world Eric Lamaze are promised to be staples during the winter months of the World Equestrian Center.

Work Cited:


 * 1) "Winter Equestrian Festival". The Palm Beaches Florida. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2018-04-16.

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