•    Tracey Corey had the lowest final score of the competition, winning the amateur training division with SuperNova on a 24.7. Corey, the chief medical examiner for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, re-ceived her Thoroughbred gelding as a gift from legendary race horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas three years ago after he incurred an injury. She rehabbed the horse and watched him place sixth in the training horse division at the 2008 AEC with her trainer, Leslie Law, but this year she made the event a personal priority.
       “I put in for vacation time back in January, as soon as the schedule came out!” she said.

•    Law, Bluemont, Va., scored his second consecutive win in the advanced division with Beatrice and Guy Rey-Herme’s Fleeceworks Mystere du Val, who began the competition in second-to-last place after the dressage. Scores were extremely tight, however, and the 9-year-old Selle Français gelding was able to move up from fifth place to lead the victory gallop again.

•    Johnstown, Ohio, rider Elinor MacPhail and Woodstock II were named to the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s Developing Rider List this year, and they put another feather in their cap with the junior/ young rider preliminary champion-ship (30.8). MacPhail, 17, posted two double-clear rounds with the 15-year-old Thoroughbred gelding, who placed fifth at the 2006 Rolex Kentucky CCI**** with Amy Tryon.

•    While a trout-shaped cross-country jump proved treacherous for dozens of horses and riders in the novice divisions, it didn’t prevent Cindy Bonamarte and Eva from winning the amateur division. After the dressage leaders were elimi-nated in the second phase, Bona-marte, Lake Geneva, Wis., moved into the lead and finished on her dressage score (29.0).