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Stephen Colbert Responds To Dressage Pep Rally Video

551053 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:41:00 GMT

Check out Stephen Colbert’s response to Gladstone dressage fans’ excitement over his proclamation that dressage is the “Sport of the Summer”

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415570/june-19-2012/mitt-romney-s-champion-horse---stephen-s-dressage-contribution

Dressage Pep Rally– Stephen Colbert - payback time

551053 — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:48:00 GMT

Yesterday I had the opportunity to witness a dynamite dressage competition at the coveted US Equestrian Team in Gladstone, NJ. While any final day of an Olympic Selection Final is always exciting, with the horse (Rafalca) co-owned by Ann Romney (Mitt Romney’s wife) ranked in 3^rd position and after political satirist Stephen Colbert’s video mocking the sport was bound to be a historical day for dressage. I was going to leave before the award ceremony but when they started to distribute large foam hands like ball game fans wave (used by Colbert in the video) I decided to stick around. After the riders made their victory gallop spectators chanted R-A-F-A-L-C-A waving the red hands with “Dressage is #1” as the 3rd placed combination remained in the arena. To add fuel to the fire, Budweiser beer bottles were being passed around to the spectators as they swarmed behind Rafalca ridden by Jan Ebeling with Ann Romney trying to get beside her jigging horse. All in all, it was a a great rebuttal by USEF and dressage fans to the video spoof of Colbert who declared dressage "the sport of the summer". Stay tuned to our blogs for more on that!

I was definitely pumped up afterwards and it was great to see Ann Romney up close and in person. She is surely like the rest of us equestrian enthusiasts happily jumping up & down for her mare’s spot on the London Olympic Team.

Ann Romney in London Team jacket watching the Award Ceremony

Rafalca & rider Jan Ebeling in the limelight

Stephen Colbert's dressage video spoof

551053 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:11:00 GMT

As the saying goes: ‘negative publicity is better than none at all!' Even though this recent video spoof by Stephen Colbert may insult some dressage aficionados, at least it is promoting our sport to the general public (even if it’s done in a sarcastic way)

Watch the video here:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415194/june-12-2012/mitt-romney-s-blue-collar-equestrian-pastime