Friday, April 8, 2011
Area VI Young Rider Raffle
We are nearing the end of the "Year of Eventing in Area VI Raffle" in support of the Area VI Young Riders. Every organizer in Area VI donated an entry resulting in a retail value of approximately $2500. Raffle tickets are $10 each or 6 for $50. Certificates are transferable. There are 1500 tickets available. The raffle ends on April 24th. Tickets are available from all Area VI Young Rider program members. Feel free to contact us if you need to get in touch with them.
THE FORK
After the first day of dressage at The FORK- SCES riders are shining. In the Advanced-Heather Morris is in 1st place with a 28.3 and Tiana Coudray is tied for 2nd with a 29.3. In the CIC3*-Kelly Prather stands in 3rd with a 51.9. Go SCES riders!!!!!
Busy Spring for SCES
It has been a busy spring for Southern California Equestrian Sports. We ran our Horse Trials the weekend of March 19-20, concluded the West Coast Fundraiser last week in conjunction with the Elite Event Horse Auction held during the Galway Downs competition and are running the "Year of Eventing in Area VI Raffle" benefiting Area V Young Rider program. SCES rider's are on the road-Jennifer Wooten and Hawley Bennett-Awad are headed to Badminton. Jil Walton, Martha McDowell, Tiana Coudray, Frankie Thierot, Heather Morris and Kelly Prather are all enroute to Rolex. It's exciting to see all of the competitors pursue their goals. Keep in mind these journies all come with a big price tag-so your continued support is always needed and appreciated. Special thanks to Wendy Wergeles and the Elite Event Horse Auction. SCES is the beneficiary of this event and we look to improve our prescense and assistance for this important event. Also a big thank you to Rose Sullivan for her donation of a breeding to Clair de Lune SE and to Vickie Koss for being the Buyer. More thanks are owed to The Michel's of Jackson Hole, WY for their donation of a one week stay at a luxury 2 bd condominium at The Teton Club. Dayna Lynd-Pugh was the lucky winner. All donors (over $50) to the West Coast Rider Fund from January 1 thru April 4 were included in a drawing . Riders-keep this in mind for next year. As you may have noticed we have a new website guru-Lisa Thomas. Riders, we are still looking for website links and photos. Thank you to all of our supporters. We are always looking for people to help us continue to raise funds for our riders so please don't hesitate to contact us.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tiana Coudray Awarded Lionel Guerrand-Hermes Trophy!
USET Foundation Will Award 2011 Lionel Guerrand-Hermes Trophy to Tiana Coudray
Release: January 13 2011
Author: Rebecca Walton/Phelps Media Group, Inc. Internatio
Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister.
Photo by Stock Images.
Photo by Stock Images.
"When the USET Foundation told me that I was the winner of this year's award I went and looked it up," commented Coudray. "I was pretty honored to look at the other names on the list throughout the years and think of what those people have gone on to do later in their careers."
Over the years, Coudray has consistently shown her talent as a young rider. She won Team Gold at the North American Young Riders Championships in both 2004 and 2008, and took home the Individual Silver Medal in 2004. She has won the United States Eventing Association Young Rider of the Year Award an amazing three times in 2005, 2007, and 2009.
Today, Coudray is successfully competing with Ringwood Magister, a nine-year-old Irish Sport Horse that she trained herself. Coundray noted, "I have had him his whole life and this year was the first time he really put all the pieces together and consistently had fantastic results."
Coudray added, "Everyday is a new day and I think that it's easy to get caught up in what's gone well, but there are no guarantees for the future. Certainly I am honored to receive the award and the opportunities that I had in 2010, like going to Holland. Hopefully it will help open the door to even more opportunities but I still have to go out and earn good results year after year. "
Coudray will be presented with this prestigious award at the USET Foundation Reception on January 28th, in Wellington, Florida.
Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy Winners
Patrick Guerrand-Hermès established the Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Memorial Award in 1983 in memory of his son, Lionel, who was tragically killed in an automobile accident in 1981 at the age of 18. Lionel trained with the United States Equestrian Team and was talented enough to be considered an Olympic hopeful. A perpetual trophy designed by Patrick Guerrand-Hermès is inscribed annually with the winner's name and permanently displayed at the USET Foundation headquarters in Gladstone, New Jersey. Previous winners are:
1983 - Mark Leone
1984 - Jeffery Welles
1985 - Holly Mitten
1986 - Gregory A Best
1987 - Susanne Owen
1988 - Christopher Kappler
1989 - Mollie Bliss
1990 - Kim Keenan
1991 - McLain Ward
1992 - Abigail Lufkin
1993 - Mark Combs
1994 - Gabriella Salick
1995 - Megan Johnstone
1996 - Jonathan Elliot
1997 - Alison Firestone
1998 - Bruce Davidson Jr.
1999 - Chad Geeter
2000 - Elise Haas
2001 - Marilyn Little
2002 - Clark Montgomery
2003 - Will Faudree
2004 - Kristin Schmolze
2005 - Brianne Goutal
2006 - Katie Hamilton
2007 - Carolyn Kelly
2008 - Hillary Dobbs
2009 - Laura Noyes
2010 - Jennifer Waxman
ENDS
The United States Equestrian Team Foundation (www.uset.org) is the non-profit organization that supports the competition, training, coaching, travel and educational needs of America's elite and developing international, high-performance horses and athletes in partnership with the United States Equestrian Federation.
For more information on the USET Foundation, please call (908) 234-1251, or visit USET ONLINE at www.uset.org.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Our First News Post!
Welcome to the new SCES blog, designed to keep our fans & competitors up to date on SCES news!
We're in the midst of updating the website & creating this blog, so please join us in following our riders & their accomplishments, as well as updated events via this blog.
The following news item on Jennie's Victory at Galway is compliments of California Horse Trader.
Special to the Horsetrader - November 18th, 2010 - Cover Story, Show & Event News 
We're in the midst of updating the website & creating this blog, so please join us in following our riders & their accomplishments, as well as updated events via this blog.
The following news item on Jennie's Victory at Galway is compliments of California Horse Trader.
Cross Country flight
Jennie Brannigan returns to Temecula, wins first CCI3* ever on West Coast
TEMECULA – Something new visited Galway Downs Nov. 4-7 — the first CCI3* event ever held in the western U.S.
Someone familiar went home with the title.
Jennie Brannigan, who as a Temecula teenager learned under Susie Hutchison just a stone’s throw from Galway, returned to win the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event CCI3* on Cambalda. It was the first trip to the venue in years for the rising eventing star who works under Olympian Phillip Dutton in Avondale, Pa.
“It meant a little more to come back here and win,” admitted Brannigan, 23. “I was saying to everyone that I was more nervous to do this event than I was to compete in Europe. It was cool.”
Alexandra Slusher rode Juicy Couture to the CCI2* championship.
A high finish in dressage and also on a tough 10-minute, 17-second cross country effort positioned Brannigan well for the final day’s stadium jumping. Cambalda, an Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by Nina Gardner, overcame a miscommunication at fence 4 in the show jumping before making a spectacular effort to leave the rails up. The clean round—finishing exactly on the optimum time—gave them the victory over Alexandra Slusher on Last Call (49.2) and James Alliston on Jumbo’s Jake (55.8).
“I always struggle with keeping him in front of my leg, and the mistake at fence 4 was my fault. He’s only 8, and I can’t imagine what he’ll be like next year, because of how much he’s improved this year. He’s won four FEI events this year. He proved he’s a good horse.”
Amy McCool photo
Kristi Nunnink of Auburn and R-Star took fourth in the CCI3*.
Brannigan also thinks the Galway Downs has proved itself too. “Galway Downs is just as good—or better—as any place else,” said Brannigan, who competes every weekend nine months of the year. “I think this three-star is going to show that eventing is not all about the East Coast. I think the West Coast deserves more credit than it gets.”
The winning performance earned $7,000 of the $21,000 purse in the Galway Downs CCI3*. All told, the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event offered $33,000 in prize money and more than $50,000 in total prizes.
Show Director Robert Kellerhouse, a Southern California native, was pleased by the show’s outcome.
Amy McCool photo
Alexandra Slusher and Last Call finished on the heels of Jennie Brannigan and Cambalda in the CCI3* at the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event on Nov. 4-7.
“In the context of California, it’s a little bit of the icing on the cake for event riders,” said Kellerhouse. “Gina Miles won the individual Silver Medal individual at Beijing two years ago –- first time ever a California rider’s gotten an Olympic Medal. And, in the last three years, our California Young Rider team ages 16-21 have gone back to Kentucky to compete at the North American Young Riders and have won gold medals all three years. In my whole life we’d only won the Gold Medal twice before the last three years.
“So, there’s a crop of great, talented riders who now have a place to play –between the events here at Galway, the events at Twin Rivers, the events at Woodside and Copper Meadows and other places here in California. It’s giving people all the levels they need to be successful, and in turn the organizers running relevant courses that are getting people prepared to compete, whether it be here, Kentucky or Beijing, Europe or wherever.”
Slusher moved into top contention after Tamra Smith didn’t present second-placed Corner Street at this morning’s final horse inspection. Slusher and Last Call put in a lovely double-clear round to take home the red ribbon and a check for $5,250.
“I’ve got a good vibe going with this place,” said Slusher, 23. “I have a lot of confidence here, and I needed this to be my last event of the year. I couldn’t have asked for my year to end any better. “To finish in the 40s in a three-star—I couldn’t have dreamed this week could go so smoothly,” she added.
Alliston, who lives in Castro Valley, Calif., but represents Great Britain, and Jumbo’s Jake moved up steadily all weekend, and added only 1 time fault to their score today, to take third. The bay Irish Sporthorse is owned by Alliston’s girlfriend, India McEvoy.
“This is my biggest result for sure. I’m stoked,” said a happy Alliston, 26. “It was really exciting to finish clean yesterday on both horses.” He also finished seventh on Parker II.
Slusher’s great weekend continued when she and Juicy Couture won the CCI2*. They dropped one rail in today’s show jumping, but they had it in hand and finished on a score of 53.2. “It’s really special to me to win on her, because she’s been the most difficult horse to ride,” she said. “It’s been such a long process, and it all came together this weekend.”
Jolie Wentworth and GoodKnight continued their upward mobility by jumping clean today to finish second in the CCI2*, on their dressage score of 58.1.
“I thought it was a very difficult course,” said Wentworth, 29, of the show jumping. “There wasn’t much let up; it was boom, boom, boom. I think I really had an advantage because I had a clean round on my one-star horse, so I knew what to expect.”
GoodKnight is a recent purchase for Wentworth, who said that one of the main reasons for purchasing him was his clean jumping technique and history of clean rounds. She had hoped to ride him in the CCI3*, but they lacked one of the necessary qualifiers. “I would have really liked to have ridden in the three-star,” she said. “I’ve been coming to Galway Downs since it started and I was a young rider, so nothing would have made me happier than to do the three-star. But now I’ll have to do it next year.”
Amber Levine and Nantucket Red (58.2) lowered one rail to drop behind Wentworth by just .1. They had a an awkward moment in the triple combination, and then lowered the jump that followed it as Levine struggled to regain her reins and composure.
“He jumped in [to the triple] great, and then he thought too much about it—he thought he needed [to add a stride] to jump it well,” she said with a laugh.
Still, she was thrilled to finish third in their first start at the CCI2* level. “It will probably hit me on the ride home,” she said. “He was plenty fit. He looked great this morning, and he felt great this afternoon. Now I hope to do the three-star next year.”
Show jumping caused only minor shuffling in the CCI1* standings. Overnight leader Lindsay Connors and Balingowan Pizazz lowered one rail to drop to second (49.6), while a clean round vaulted Maxance McManamy and Project Runway (47.5) to the top of the leaderboard.
MORE RESULTS: See website http://bit.ly/011BGalway
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