Lipizzans & Olympic Hopes Flying High at Tempel Farms

Dancing White Stallions Launch Summer Performance Season

WHO/ The high-flying Tempel Lipizzan stallions may have an extra
WHAT: spring in their steps this summer, as they celebrate Tempel
Farms' selection as the equestrian event site in Chicago's
2016 Olympic bid and await the International Olympic
Committee's October announcement.

In addition to the seemingly gravity-defying leaps and lifts
called "Airs Above the Ground" for which the Lipizzans are
famed, a new performance segment will be added to showcase one
of the most popular phases of Olympic dressage competition -
the musical freestyle or Kur. In the Kur, the horse and rider
present the highest level dressage moves in original
choreography to their own musical selection (similar to the
freestyle competition in ice skating).

Following the performance, guests will be invited to take a
self-guided walking tour of the grounds that includes Tempel
Farms' current competitive arenas, as well as mapped locales
and renderings of the proposed 18,000-seat stadium and more
than 30 additional equestrian complex buildings covered in
Chicago's Olympic bid.

WHEN: 10:30 a.m. - Noon Wednesday, June 17, 2009

WHERE: Tempel Farms, 17000 Wadsworth Rd., Wadsworth, Ill.

NOTE: Tempel Farms is one of few places in the world where rare
Lipizzan horses are bred, trained and perform. Summer
performances will be held every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. and
Sunday at 1 p.m., June 17 - Aug. 30 and Sep. 6. Olympic venue
tours will be offered free-of-charge to all performance
ticket-holders following every show. The Kur segment will be
performed on Sundays only (and opening day, June 17).

CONTACT: Bonni Pear or Amy Goetz, Miller-Pear Public Relations
(312) 674-4566 office; (219) 730-5042 on-site cellular

/PRNewswire -- June 16/

SOURCE Tempel Farms