After Lucy Davis competed at last year’s Capital Challenge she made a decision to make riding in and winning the 2007 WCHR Junior Challenge her year-end goal.

She fulfilled that accomplishment and even more on Sunday, the final day of the show, when she captured the class, earned the WCHR National Junior title and the Stewart-Warner Cup for up-and-coming junior riders who exhibit the best hunter style and show potential as a junior hunter rider.

“I came here last year and I really had fun, and I said, ‘Hey, I want to win that next year.’ It’s one of the things I really wanted to win,” said Davis.

Davis, Los Angeles, Calif., trains with Archie Cox, and also earned the small junior, 15 and under, championship aboard Stephanie Danhakl’s Scout.

Last year she won the trip of the show with Harmony, and this year she earned the same honors with Scout.

“I’ve been riding him for a month. He’s a really amazing horse,” said Davis. “I feel really privileged to ride him. Since I don’t know him very well I wouldn’t say it’s more rewarding, but it’s rewarding to me as a rider that I could succeed on a horse that I’d only ridden for a month and one I’d ridden for two years.”

Harmony is especially fond of the Capital Challenge. Prior to Davis purchasing the dark brown mare, she earned the 2003 grand amateur-owner hunter championship with Betty Oare.

Oare’s former mount Red Dragon also made his presence known at the Capital Challenge when he won the WCHR Children’s Final with Phoebe Robinson and the children’s, 14 and under, championship.

Robinson, 12, who trains with Heritage, has been riding the 10-year-old, chestnut gelding since May.

“He’s really fun to ride,” she said. “I really like him.”

This was Robinson’s first big win at Capital Challenge.

“I’m really excited about it because I didn’t really expect it,” she said. “In the class today, Red Dragon’s energy level was good, so it helped with the courses. This is a really big, important show, so I was very excited to win here.”

Like Robinson, Olivia Kohan was thrilled with her victory at the Capital Challenge in the WCHR Pony Challenge aboard Simply Henry. And her blue ribbon was even sweeter since a jumping accident this year kept her on the injured reserve list for 5 ½ months.

“I fell off my bed,” said Kohan laughing.

“She was jumping on the bed,” said trainer Kate Considine of Willow Brook Stables, Inc. “We only did two [WCHR shows] because she broke her foot so that’s why she had to qualify here. All she said the last two weeks before coming here was ‘Can I do the Sunday class? Can I do the Sunday class?’ I said, ‘Get in the top four over jumps and you can do it.”

Kohan did just that with top ribbons in the large pony division and scored 87.41 in the one-round challenge class in just her third show back in the saddle.

Schaefer Raposa, who earned the WCHR National Pony title, placed second aboard Party Till Dawn with 86.33 points. Children’s hunter rider Kristen Mohr, 10, of Long Valley, N.J., younger sister to Ariat Adult Medal winner Lindsey Mohr, won the Stewart-Warner Trophy after she impressed the judges with her rounds aboard Marvel.

Pony rider Shawn Casady placed ninth in the WCHR Pony Challenge and with top ribbons in the large pony division aboard Showboat earned the Stewart-Warner Trophy for pony riders.

Grand championships were also awarded to Due North and Clementine Goutal in the junior hunters, while Sam Schaefer earned her fourth pony hunter grand championship at Capital Challenge, this time with Love And Laughter.