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Sep 13, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Rose Keller |Stinna Tange |Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker
When freshman Bradley Shepherd first joined the Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia) Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association team, he didn’t realize how much the team would positively affect his life, both in and out of the saddle. Shepherd, who said he didn’t know what breeches and show coats were before joining the team, grew up in North Wales, Pennsylvania, and Montreal, and while his father and sister rode casually, he had very little riding experience.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Tricia Booker
The other nations must be nervous seeing the strength of the para-dressage team that the United States is bringing to the Paris Paralympic Games, held Aug. 28-Sept. 8. Will this be the year Team USA finally harvests the fruits from all the hard work they have been doing the past years? Will the 2024 Paralympics be the golden year for U.S. para-dressage? A lot points in that direction.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker |Alexia Rule
For Shanette Barth Cohen, it’s easy: When you see a problem, you solve it, even if it’s outside your usual responsibilities. Back in 1997, for example, shortly after she was hired by the American Horse Shows Association (now the U.S. Equestrian Federation) to work as the director of marketing development, the association’s magazine editor quit. Cohen stepped up to put out the magazine that month, despite having no real magazine experience.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 16As Nick Haness headed into the ring for today’s championship for the 3’/3’3” Platinum Performance/USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championship aboard Odette, the sky darkened and lightning flashed in the distance, but he didn’t notice any of it. “As you know horses can change their temperament regarding the weather, so that was in my mind for a brief moment.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 16Amanda Steege and Cheryl Olsten’s Lafitte De Muze rose to the top of 92 of the nation’s top hunters in the first round of the Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championships. The pair put in a brilliant classic round to score a 92, 95 and 95 from judges William Sparks, Brian Lenehan, Bob Crandall, Shane George, Rob Bielefeld and Mark Jungherr.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker |Nicole Mandracchia
Nick Haness wasn’t so sure about being the first Tier I rider to enter the ring for the championship round of the 3’6”/3’9” Platinum Performance/USHJA Green Incentive Championship. “I doubted myself and secretly told my friend Kate Conover that going first you can’t win,” he admitted afterwards. But the Temecula, California, rider was wrong. He and Glade Run Farm LLC’s with Circa set a standard that proved to be unbeatable in the clean-slate championship round.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker |Nicole Mandracchia |Kimberly Loushin
Now that the snack-sized ponies are headed home after USEF Pony Finals and their riders off to prepare for the start of a new school year, it’s time for the best full-sized hunters in the country to take over the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championships and the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship begin Tuesday and run through Saturday, Aug. 17.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker |Nicole Mandracchia |Alexia Rule
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 10Grace Stenbeck-Werner’s grand pony hunter and large pony hunter titles with Prestige at USEF Pony Finals were a long time coming. “I remember when I was younger, I’d always watched Pony Finals and I’d always dreamed of winning it,” she said. “So it’s a really big deal for me.”Stenbeck-Werner came back on top with her own Prestige, a 13-year-old Belgian Riding Pony (Ive Van De Delthoeve—Bichette Du Moulin De Pierres) for the jumping phase.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Tricia Booker |Nicole Mandracchia |Alexia Rule
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 9Two weeks ago, So Dashing’s owners weren’t sure that the pony was ready to show at USEF Pony Finals. “The owners [the Zandri family of Sprucedale Inc.] were on the fence now that you can do the green year again,” trainer Patricia Griffith said.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Tricia Booker |Mollie Bailey |Nicole Mandracchia |Alexia Rule
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 8Bellvue, Washington, is a long way from Lexington, Kentucky, but Lillian Thomas made the trip to USEF Pony Finals count when she rode Sun’s Up to the top of the small pony division for Maureen Mooney. “It’s really fun and exciting,” said Thomas, 13, of winning her first Pony Finals title. Thomas and the 10-year-old Welsh Pony (Laithehill Oberon—Moelgarneed Rhiannon) came into the over fences round in fifth.
