2001
In the Pages of Horse Illustrated In what is perhaps the first sighting of the now-ubiquitous skunk helmet, we featured International’s Advance Tech Helmet in our Hat to Hoof column. Previously, show helmets were designed to look as much as possible like the traditional hunt caps. The new styles with the ventilated stripe down the middle were a bold move that left many riders wrinkling their noses and laughing that the trend would never last. Who’s laughing now?
By 2001, you could go to horseillustratedmagazine.com (which redirected to our AnimalNetwork home) and weigh in on our poll question, just like you can on HorseChannel today. In fact, in the April 2001 issue, we published the results of a poll question asking readers which international discipline they’d like to see added to the Olympics. Back then, 36% of you voted for endurance and 29% for reining. We asked the same poll question this month, and reining now comes out on top with 35%. Endurance dropped down to 20%.
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