Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 19 It’s no easy feat getting on three unfamiliar horses and showing off your best equitation skills. But that’s what you’ve got to do if you want to win the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East. Elli Yeager earned the title this year on her 18th birthday thanks, in part, to […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 18 As it came down to the final two riders to be pinned in this year’s Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East, Elli Yeager and Ava Stearns chatted amongst themselves. They’d both been here before: the endless wait to see how you stacked up against the best young riders in the […]
After Day 2, Ivan and I are sitting in the 29th spot. We had a great gymnastics round, which moved us up 18 places. For this final, riders walk the course without trainers. After walking the course there was one big question about striding that nobody really knew the answer to. In an outside line, […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 17 37.52 seconds. That was the time to beat when Karl Cook headed into the Tryon Stadium for the $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix held during Tryon Fall 5. That time was set by Kent Farrington and Kaprice—a pair that’s known for their footspeed and impossibly tight turns. Cook’s horse Caillou 24 was […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 17 Coming into the second day of the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East, Ava Stearns knew she had some ground to make up. She sat eighth following the flat phase, but she wasn’t too worried about that. She had plenty of opportunities to make up that ground. “Personally I think […]
Day 1 of the competition is complete! Riders started off their day with the 90-second training round in the Tryon Stadium, where the jumping phases will take place. At 2 p.m., Phase 1, the flat, began. There were a total of eight groups, and I was in the sixth group. My morning started with a […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 16 Ask Dominic Gibbs where he lives currently, and he has to take a second to answer. The 17-year-old originally hails from Colorado Springs, Colorado, but over the last year he’s lived a bit of a nomadic lifestyle. “I’ve been all over the country living in a camper this year, and I […]
I am currently in Tryon, North Carolina, for the 2020 equitation finals and will be staying until after the Washington International Equitation Classic next weekend. After that I will head to Kentucky to close out the 2020 season at the ASPCA Maclay Finals. Last weekend I competed in the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final […]
Gladstone, N.J.—Oct. 16 The United States Equestrian Team Foundation has awarded the Jacqueline B. Mars National Competition & Training Grant to Liz Halliday-Sharp, and her mount, Cooley Quicksilver, a 9-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by The Monster Partnership. As the recipient of the grant, Halliday-Sharp, who is an athlete on US Equestrian’s Eventing High […]
The Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East kicks off today, Oct. 16. Like the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final, the Talent Search has relocated and is taking place at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The first class is the flat phase, which will begin at 2 p.m. in the covered […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 19 It’s no easy feat getting on three unfamiliar horses and showing off your best equitation skills. But that’s what you’ve got to do if you want to win the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East. Elli Yeager earned the title this year on her 18th birthday thanks, in part, to […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 18 As it came down to the final two riders to be pinned in this year’s Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East, Elli Yeager and Ava Stearns chatted amongst themselves. They’d both been here before: the endless wait to see how you stacked up against the best young riders in the […]
After Day 2, Ivan and I are sitting in the 29th spot. We had a great gymnastics round, which moved us up 18 places. For this final, riders walk the course without trainers. After walking the course there was one big question about striding that nobody really knew the answer to. In an outside line, […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 17 37.52 seconds. That was the time to beat when Karl Cook headed into the Tryon Stadium for the $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix held during Tryon Fall 5. That time was set by Kent Farrington and Kaprice—a pair that’s known for their footspeed and impossibly tight turns. Cook’s horse Caillou 24 was […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 17 Coming into the second day of the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East, Ava Stearns knew she had some ground to make up. She sat eighth following the flat phase, but she wasn’t too worried about that. She had plenty of opportunities to make up that ground. “Personally I think […]
Day 1 of the competition is complete! Riders started off their day with the 90-second training round in the Tryon Stadium, where the jumping phases will take place. At 2 p.m., Phase 1, the flat, began. There were a total of eight groups, and I was in the sixth group. My morning started with a […]
Mill Spring, N.C.—Oct. 16 Ask Dominic Gibbs where he lives currently, and he has to take a second to answer. The 17-year-old originally hails from Colorado Springs, Colorado, but over the last year he’s lived a bit of a nomadic lifestyle. “I’ve been all over the country living in a camper this year, and I […]
I am currently in Tryon, North Carolina, for the 2020 equitation finals and will be staying until after the Washington International Equitation Classic next weekend. After that I will head to Kentucky to close out the 2020 season at the ASPCA Maclay Finals. Last weekend I competed in the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final […]
Gladstone, N.J.—Oct. 16 The United States Equestrian Team Foundation has awarded the Jacqueline B. Mars National Competition & Training Grant to Liz Halliday-Sharp, and her mount, Cooley Quicksilver, a 9-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by The Monster Partnership. As the recipient of the grant, Halliday-Sharp, who is an athlete on US Equestrian’s Eventing High […]
The Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East kicks off today, Oct. 16. Like the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final, the Talent Search has relocated and is taking place at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The first class is the flat phase, which will begin at 2 p.m. in the covered […]
