Profile: Canadian showjumper Mac Cone
Canadian showjumper Mac (Malcolm) Cone has been named equally the Rolex “One to Watch” this month, later the 60-year-old moved upward the sports rankings 79 places to 220.
Cone was born inwards Memphis, Tennessee (USA), too is based inwards King, Ontario (CAN) where he runs Southern Ways Stable. He moved to Canada inwards 1979 too is i of solely 2 riders to convey always competed internationally for both the Canadian too U.S. Equestrian teams (1984 World Cup Champion Mario Deslauriers is the other). Cone has straightaway competed at 2 Olympic Games, with his well-nigh successful lawsuit coming inwards Beijing inwards 2008 where, with Eric Lamaze, Jill Henselwood too Ian Millar, the Canadian squad won the silvery medal.
Having started riding at the historic menstruum of 10 inwards his native Tennessee, Cone spent his early on career grooming inwards the U.S. where he had the chance to operate nether the guidance of renowned jumping charabanc too legendary horseman Bertalan de Nemethy.
Sharing his ain wealth of knowledge, Cone has coached several students to international marking including 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games teammate Melissa Brown; 2003 Pan American Games squad fellow member Mark Samuel; too Gail Greenough, who remains the outset adult woman too solely North American to win the World Show Jumping Championships, which was held inwards Aachen (GER) inwards 1986.
Cone is currently partnered with the 11-year-old chestnut Dutch Warmblood gelding, Unanimous, too the 12-year-old bay Belgian Warmblood gelding, Amor van de Rostal.
Cone, who has been a consistent performer on the international jumping scene for to a greater extent than than thirty years, has had a thoroughly memorable equestrian career. As good equally his squad silvery medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Cone’s lifetime highlights include winning the 1996 Olympic Selection Trials at Spruce Meadows with Elute too going on to choke the highest-placed Canadian partnership at the 1996 Olympic Games inwards Atlanta (USA). At the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games inwards Jerez, Spain, Cone was i time again the highest-placed Canadian riding Cocu. At the 2007 Pan American Games inwards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cone was a fellow member of the silvery medal squad riding Melinda.
Cone’s notable results during September 2012 include a tertiary house complete inwards the Grand Prix at the CSI2* Caledon, Ontario, too a minute house complete inwards the Open Welcome at the CSI2* Angelstone National Show Jumping Tournament inwards Rockwood, Ontario aboard Unanimous. Riding the exciting novel prospect, Amor van de Rostal, owned past times Mark Samuel’s Chadburn Holdings, Cone produced scores of iv too iv inwards the $300,000 BMO Nation’s Cup at CSIO5* Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ Tournament inwards Calgary, Alberta. Cone volition proceed to get both mounts throughout the residuum of the 2012 season.
“I am really fortunate to convey the owners that I do, namely Mark Samuel, the Kelk solid unit of measurement too the Kerr family,” said Cone, whose partnership with Samuel has straightaway spanned thirty years.
“Without owners similar them, it is impossible for a passenger to hold out potent internationally. Unanimous too Amor van de Rostal are ages xi too 12 respectively, too both are coming on strongly correct now. Amor was extraordinary at Spruce Meadows too Unanimous had about wonderful placings this yr equally well. When your horses are jumping good inwards plough over off FEI competitions, the passenger results are carried along with them. I am only lucky to convey those owners too those horses.”
Of his hereafter plans, Cone noted, “I am qualified for the international calendar week at the CSI4*-W Royal Horse Show inwards Toronto, so I volition outset gain the Canadian Championships too so march on with both horses into the international week. We dearest showing at the Royal, too it is exciting to know that I tin dismiss compete inwards all the international classes with 2 horses. Then it’s dorsum downward to Wellington, Florida for the winter. To convey both horses going good too to compete for the Nations’ Cup squad inwards Wellington is my adjacent goal.”
In add-on to his ain competitive career, Cone of late took on the usage of Assistant Chef d’Equipe of the Canadian Show Jumping Team. He is also a pop colouring cloth commentator for CBC Sports television.
The Rolex One to Watch is an initiatory which identifies the passenger who has made the biggest outpouring inside or into the Top 250 of the Rolex Rankings the previous month.
• Sweden’s Rolf-Goran Bengtsson is currently ranked number i inwards the Rolex Rankings too hence holds the Green & Gold armband which bears the words “Number 1, Rolex Rankings”. The Rolex Rankings are updated monthly too issued at the get of each calendar month.
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