Jaime Azcarraga and Presley Boy Win Highlife Farms Grand Prix Conformation and Style Award At Winter Equestrian Festival

Wellington, FL (March 16, 2010) - Mexican Olympian Jaime Azcarraga's first trip to the Winter Equestrian Festival has proven to be a successful adventure, with the talented rider landing in the winner's circle several times with his gorgeous black stallion Presley Boy. Azcarraga and Presley Boy finished sixth in the $150,000 CN U.S. Open Grand Prix, CSIO 4* at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center and also captured the Highlife Farms Grand Prix Conformation and Style Award.

"Horses as beautiful and athletically talented as Presley Boy are what breeders strive for," said Joan Sims, who owns Highlife Farms with her husband Kenny. "We were in complete agreement with the judges that Presley Boy was the perfect candidate to win the Grand Prix Conformation and Style award."

Azcarraga owns Presley Boy, a 1997 KWPN Stallion, and the two have been a team for the past eight years. In addition to placing in the ribbons at the $150,000 CN U.S. Open, the pair won the $30,000 WEF Challenge Cup Round Eight, CSIO.

Sponsored by Highlife Farms, a world-class sport horse and breeding farm, the Grand Prix Conformation and Style Award is part of Highlife Farms' ongoing desire to recognize top sport horses. Highlife Farms is well known for producing top quality sport horses and for offering horse owners the chance to buy European quality sport horses in the United States.

"We will be offering a European-style auction on March 28 at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, featuring over 35 horses and sport ponies with exception Highlife Farms bloodlines," Sims said. "Bidders will be able to purchase their next great star sired by Highlife's famous stallions including Highlife, Pilox, Highlife's Diamond Stud, Der Dollar and Connecticut."

Highlife's Diamond Select Sport Horse Sale promises to be an exciting and star-studded event, with George Morris, the founding father of Hunt Seat Equitation and the current chef d'equipe for the USEF Show Jumping team, providing the commentary for a demonstration by Olympic show jumper Lauren Hough who competes Highlife's Prezioso OLD. The opening ceremonies will feature a dressage stallion showcase with Olympian Lisa Wilcox, who is also Highlife's head trainer, and Robert Dover and Ernst Hoyos.

Highlife's top quality sport horses feature exceptional European pedigrees and bloodlines from Oldenburg, Holstein, Hanoverian and Westphalian lines, many of which have earned elite status with the German Oldenburg Verband. For more information on Highlife Farms, visit their website at www.highlifefarms.com.