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Fundraising Efforts for Irish Olympian Kevin Babington

ne of the training articles featured in this issue is with Irish show jumper Kevin Babington (page 58). Shortly before we went to press, Kevin suffered a spinal-cord injury in a catastrophic fall while competing his grand prix mount Shorapur at the Hampton Classic in Bridgehampton, New York.

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