Notoriously busy East Coast professional riders Boyd Martin and Buck Davidson both brought just one horse each for this weekend’s Galway Downs. But they’re once again proving they’re masters of quality as well as quantity, and at the end of the dressage, those two are tied in the CCI*** on Trading Aces and Copper Beach, respectively, with 44.4 penalties.
This California rider has already surpassed her dreams by completing the Rolex Kentucky CCI****; now she's headed back to Galway Downs hungry for a win.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as Hawley Bennett-Awad walked into the main ring at Galway Downs for the final time on her four-star veteran Livingstone.
Buck Davidson traveled a long way from his home base in Riegelsville, Pa., to Galway Downs, and he made sure to make it count by holding onto the lead in the CCI*** with Petite Flower.
A month ago, Liz Halliday-Sharp would never have imagined she would have a horse competing at Galway Downs. Now, 14 years later, she’s back at her old hometown event with HHS Cooley, who’s contesting his first CCI***.
Gina Miles sat down with the Chronicle in between rides on her CCI* horse, Haley Dwight’s Jameson, to talk about the past, the future and what it’s like to have that one special horse.
Buck Davidson brought three horses to the Galway Downs CCI***, and while they’re relatively inexperienced at the level, he didn’t come across the country for the fun of it.
