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California Riding Magazine • July, 2010 Winner's Circle |
Ready, Set…NAYRC The United States Hunter Jumper Assn.’s Zone 10 has named its jumping teams for the North American Young Riders Championships, following the final trial held June 13 at the Blenheim EquiSports competition in San Juan Capistrano. Zone 10’s Junior Team consists of Alec Lawler and Live Fire, Lindsay Douglas and Pernot, Audrey Coulter and Titania and Jocelyn Neff and Gaja 220. Kendall Skreden is the squad’s alternate. The Young Rider team consists of Lucy Davis and Nemo, Saer Coulter and Chalan, Taylor Siebel and Thunderball and Richard Neal and Cavalier Tommi Tank. Anne Laurie Cook is the alternate on this team. Young eventing stars got their nod during the Area VI Young Rider camp at Twin Rivers Ranch the weekend of June 19-20. The one-star team consists of Madison Reeb and her mare Raquel and Kelly Loria on Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. The two-star team is Kelly Pugh and Copycat Chloe and Natalia Gurmankin and Tequesteris. The Area VI chef d’equipe is Shannon Lilley and the coach is Dayna Lynd Pugh. Young equestrians come from the United States, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Islands to vie for team and individual FEI medals in the three Olympic equestrian disciplines of show jumping, dressage, eventing and the World Equestrian Games discipline of reining. The competition is run under rules of the FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale), the international governing body for equestrian sport, and is the only FEI championship held annually on this continent. The dressage team for our area, United States Dressage Federation Region 7, will be named in mid-July and the eventing team for our region, Area VI, is also pending completion of the selection process. Reining participants will be named on or around July 1, after their qualifying class at the National Reining Horse Assn. Derby in Oklahoma City June 19. Marking its third year as a NAYRC discipline, reining is in a growth phase as far as number of participants at this prestigious competition. Their riders got rave reviews last year, reports the NRHA’s Brian Berdel, who is confident that more youth will target the competition this year and increasingly in the future. Sonoma Valley Sweep Ned and Hope Glynn’s Sonoma Valley Stables has been on a Derby run. Swingtime won the $2,500 USHJA International Hunter Derby at the Woodside Spring Preview, with Hope Glynn riding for Avery Hellman. She was also second on Rienzo for owner Sarah Draxton. At the Woodside Spring Classic, Hope rode Woodstock for owner Sabrina Hellman to the win, and logged a second place finish on Swingtime and third place with Chance of Flurries. At the Golden State Horse Show in Sacramento, the trainer took the top three spots in the $2,000 Golden State Hunter Classic on Woodstock, Rienzo and Chance of Flurries.
Michael Endicott and S.F. Shakira are joined by family and friends in celebrating their victory in the $30,000 Blenheim Classic Grand Prix presented by Royal Champion. Jonathan Rhymes from Royal Champion presented the award, along with Blenheim EquiSports Marketing Director Melissa Braunstein and President Robert Ridland. Photo © Flying Horse Photography. Endicott & Shakira Take Top Honors Michael Endicott and the flashy white mare S.F. Shakira turned a double clear round into a victory in the $30,000 Blenheim June Classic Grand Prix on June 13. They fended off Susie Hutchison and El Dorado 29’s Cantano and New Zealander Maurice Beatson and Apollo Van Evendael, who also had clean goes over designer Linda Allen’s first accuracy-intensive course. When “Hutch” had a rail in the jump off, Endicott followed with a relatively conservative ride. That paid off when Beatson also had a knock down.
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