The River Glen Horse Trials over the weekend of August 4-6 in New Market, TN, held one of the final United States Eventing Association (USEA)/Spalding Labs Young Event Horse competitions of the summer before the championships take place Friday, October 6, at the Morven Park Three-day Event and Advanced Horse Trials in Leesburg, VA.

Pikadilly and Dorothy Crowell, of Maplewood Farm in Frankfort, KY, dominated the five-year-old division with a score of 80.7 to take home the blue ribbon. Sired by Palladium, the handsome 16.2-hand gray Hanoverian gelding has secured a spot in the championships, having achieved two qualifying scores of 70+ this year. Royal Cross (Mr. Wizard – Eastwick), ridden and owned by William Hoos of Franklin, TN, was the runner-up with a score of 72.1. The bay Holsteiner 16.1-hand mare has two more chances to earn another qualifying score if she’s planning on attending the championships.

Hoos rode to victory in the four-year-old division, this time with Emily Rose Evan’s Read All Over (Fast Play – Log Jammer), earning a score of 78.3. The bay 15.3-hand Thoroughbred gelding looks to have a bright future ahead of him. Dorothy Crowell on Hondo completed the role reversal ribbon positions between the divisions by coming in second with a score of 71.7. Hopefully both competitors took the correct horses home as Hondo is also a 15.3-hand bay Thoroughbred gelding.

For more information on the River Glen Horse Trials, visit www.river-glen.com.

Eight hundred miles and one week later, Millbrook Horse Trials held Spalding Labs/USEA Young Event Horse Series divisions on Thursday, August 10, in Millbrook, NY. Private Eyes and Buck Davidson saw their way into first place on a score of 81.55 in the five-year-old division. Owned by Troy Glaus, the 16-hand chestnut Irish Sport Horse gelding will need another qualifying score to make it to the championships. Owner Anne Eldridge rode Thrumcap (City By Night – Linnea B) to a second-place finish, just slightly more than two points behind Davidson with a score of 79.39. Her bay 16-hand Thoroughbred gelding also finds himself poised for the championships if he can get another qualifying score.

El Paso surpassed his fellow competitors in the four-year-old division to win on a score of 79.26 with Cristen Stoop in the saddle. Owned by Darren Chiacchia, who was busy riding the second-place winner, the chestnut roan 16.1-hand Trakehner gelding is sired by Heling and out of Euphrates. Hanno and Chiacchia breezed into second place on a score of 77.51. The bay 16.2-hand Trakehner gelding is sired by a familiar stallion—Chiacchia’s Olympic partner Windfall 2, and out of the Trakehner mare Hulta. Hanno is owned by Windfall’s owners, Timothy and Dorothy Holekamp, who surely expect great things of him.

For more information on the Millbrook Horse Trials, visit www.millbrookhorsetrials.com.

All of the division winners throughout the year earn a six-month supply of Fly Predators™ from Spalding Labs as well as a Fleeceworks Complete package saddle pad. The winners of the championships in October will each receive a Stackhouse saddle, in addition to an additional six-month supply of Fly Predators.

Competitors have two more events left to qualify for the championships: Lincoln Creek Horse Trials on September 8, in Centralia, WA; and the Plantation Field Horse Trials on September 22, in Unionville, PA.


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