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From the publisher of EQUUS, Dressage Today, Horse & Rider, Practical Horseman and Arabian Horse World
2008 Week with the Maddens Contest Official Rules
The official full rules of the 2008 Week with the Maddens Contest.

1. Introduction: Practical Horseman (a publication of Source Interlink Media, Inc.) is offering the Week with the Maddens Online Contest ("Contest"). NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

2. Eligibility: Entrant must be eighteen (18) years of age or older as of Wednesday, January 23, 2008, and a resident of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia. Employees of Sponsor, the Sponsor's parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and agents and the immediate family (defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings, grandparents) of each such employees, and all those with whom such employees are domiciled, are NOT eligible.

3. Timing: Contest begins at 12:00:01 a.m. E.T. on Wednesday, January 23, 2008, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. E.T. on Thursday, July 31, 2008.

4. How to Enter: Visit www.EquiSearch.com and enter the Week with the Maddens Contest. In the entry form, include a 200 word (1500 characters including spaces) or less essay answering the prompt "Why I would like (love!) to spend a week with Frank Madden and/or John and Beezie Madden." Contestants may enter once during the Contest period. More than one entry from any person or email address during the Contest period will void all entries from that person or email address.

5. Judging Criteria Each entrant selected as a potential winner must comply with all terms and conditions set forth in these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all such requirements. Two (2) grand prize winners will be selected on the interest and uniqueness of the essay, in equal measure. The Contest will take place under the supervision of Sponsor. Participants agree to be bound by these rules and the decision of the judges, whose decisions are final. Potential winners will be notified by email and phone seven (7) days after contest period closes. If a potential winner cannot be contacted within seven (7) days after the first attempt to contact such potential winner, an alternate entrant will be selected in his or her place from all entries received.

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6. Prizes: The following four (4) prizes will be awarded: Grand-prize: One (1) grand-prize winner will receive a Bates Elevation Saddle from Bates Saddles and a week with John and Beezie Madden of John Madden Sales (ARV: $2450). One (1) other grand-prize winner will receive a Bates Elevation Saddle from Bates Saddles and a week with Frank Madden (ARV: $2450). Activities during week will be based on winner's level and involvement in horse sports at the time. Weeks must be used by December 31, 2009, either at John Madden Sales in Cazenovia, NY, Beacon Hill Show Stables in Colts Neck, NJ, or at a mutually-arranged location between Maddens and winners. Includes maximum of six (6) nights of housing (hotel or staff housing, depending on location) and all meals. Winners are responsible for any costs associated with transportation, phone calls and all other expenses not specifically listed herein.

Total Approximate Retail Value of All Prizes: $4,900.00. Sponsor is not responsible for lost or mutilated prizes and none will be replaced. Prize is nontransferable and must be accepted as awarded. No cash or other substitution may be made, except by Sponsor in the event that the prize cannot be awarded for any reason, in which case, Sponsor will award a prize of equal or greater value. All taxes, fees and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of winner.

7. Other Terms and Conditions: All entries must be original, may not have been won previous prizes and must not infringe on any third party rights. Submission of entry constitutes entrant's consent to irrevocably assign to Sponsor any and all rights to their entry including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights. Potential winners will each be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity Release, within seven (7) days of notification, failing which the potential winner will be disqualified and another winner selected in the place of the disqualified person at random from all entries received. If any prize or prize notification is returned as non-deliverable, the potential winner will be disqualified and another potential winner will be selected in the original potential winner's place. By accepting the prize, the winner agrees that the Sponsor and those acting under the Sponsor's authority, may use winner's name, picture/portrait likeness and/or voice, for advertising and promotional purposes without further consideration, unless prohibited by law. BY ACCEPTING THE PRIZE, THE WINNER AGREES THAT THE SPONSOR, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES, AND ALL OF THE SPONSOR'S OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR, AND WILL BE HELD HARMLESS BY WINNER FOR ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND TO PERSONS, INCLUDING DEATH, AND PROPERTY, DUE IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM THE ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF THE PRIZE OR PARTICIPATION IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY CONTEST OR PRIZE RELATED ACTIVITY. Subject to all federal, state and local laws. Void where prohibited.

8. Miscellaneous: All entries become the sole property of Sponsor and none will be returned. In the event of a dispute, entries made by Internet will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. The "authorized account holder" is deemed the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, service provider or other online organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. A potential winner may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the winning entry. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure, human error or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsor that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Sponsor is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site, any combination thereof, or otherwise, including any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Contest. Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, illegible, incomplete, stolen, or misdirected entries. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

9. Winners List: A complete list of prizewinners will be available at www.EquiSearch.com by October 1, 2008, or by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Week with the Maddens Contest, Equine Network, 6405 Flank Dr., Harrisburg, PA 17112.

10. Prize Providers: Bates Saddles, John Madden Sales and Frank Madden.

11. Sponsor: The Sponsor of this Sweepstakes is Practical Horseman Magazine (a publication of Source Interlink Media, Inc.), 6405 Flank Dr., Harrisburg, PA 17112.


 
 
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