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Nov 29, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett |Laura Lemon
Five-time Olympian Michael Plumb spotted 6-year-old Emily Grace Swinson peeping over the rail and gave her a proposition: If she could get a particularly tricky horse he’d been working with to rein back, he’d train her. Swinson had been horse-obsessed for a while before he made that offer, thanks in large part to her aunt, Cynthia Peterson, who operated Cricket Lane Farm LLC in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 5We’re here in Lexington, Kentucky, for the ASPCA Maclay Final where 228 of the country’s top junior riders aspire to win one of the most elusive equitation titles. We’ll try and post every 10 riders or so, with updates on how the course is riding, who has done well, who hasn’t, etc. Please don’t expect an account of every rider’s trip, but we’ll try to keep you up-to-date. Scroll down to see the most recent posting.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett
The 2023 ASPCA Maclay Fiunals kicks off this morning, with the first competitor stepping foot in the ring at 7 a.m. It is estimated that the final round will start at 6:15 p.m. Rachel Kennedy, Wendy Peralta, Tamara Provost and Danny Robertshaw are judging the class of 229 competitors. Bobby Murphy and Kevin Holowack designed the course. The Chronicle will be blogging ringside all day. You can follow along here.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Erin Harty |Anabel Barnett |Melissa Wright
Seven riders made it to the jump-off for the $450,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Washington CSI5*-W, held Oct. 28 at the Washington International Horse Show in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. But it was the last to go, Katie Denan aboard Brego R’n B, who turned in the blazing fast time to earn top honors.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 28The Washington International has always been a special horse show for Maddie Tosh. Two years ago Tosh won the WIHS Pony Equitation Finals, and earlier this week she rode Twain to a junior hunter title. She finished up this year’s edition of the horse show in style, winning the WIHS Equitation Final. She jumped to third in the hunter phase, and moved up to the lead in the jumper phase.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsay Berreth |Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett |Hannah Sherk
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 27Ariana Marnell was wiping away tears as she led Babylon to center ring at the Washington International to accept the grand junior hunter championship, and it’s easy to understand why. A few hours earlier she had decided to forgo the National Horse Show (Kentucky) with that horse and Ocean Road and make Washington her last horse show with both small junior hunters.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett |Hannah Sherk
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 26At the end of October plenty of people take the opportunity to put on a costume, and grand prix riders are no exception. At the Washington International Horse Show, 19 riders put on their scariest—or silliest—outfits, and grooms got in on the fun decorating their mounts for the annual costume class.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Ann Glavan |Lindsay Berreth |Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett
Stephanie Danhakl had a banner day Wednesday at the Washington International Horse Show, winning the grand amateur-owner 3’6” hunter championship with Bright Side and the grand amateur-owner 3’3” hunter championship with Austen, and being named leading amateur-owner rider. It was a triumphant return to the show ring for Danhakl, who has not competed or seen her horses since the Devon Horse Show (Pennsylvania) in May due to welcoming her second child just seven weeks ago.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett |Hannah Sherk |Laura Lemon
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 24While a technicality at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show last week meant that Walkenbach Equestrian’s McQueen didn’t earn the grand championship in the professional hunters, this week the gelding capitalized on his next chance to shine, earning the green conformation championship, the grand green championship and the grand hunter championship at the Washington International Horse Show. “That horse is a winner,” said Haness, Temecula, California.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Anabel Barnett |Hannah Sherk
Thirty-three rule change proposals—six fewer than last year—are up for discussion during the upcoming U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Annual Meeting, which takes place Dec. 4-7 in Concord, North Carolina. Rule change proposals that are approved by the USHJA board of directors will go to the U.S. Equestrian Federation, where they must be voted on by the USEF board of directors before being enacted.
