Red Hills Horse Trials is preparing to host a major international event with an FEI World Cup Qualifier as well as being part of the USEA Gold Cup Series at the Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park near Tallahassee, FL, March 11-13, 2005. A total of seven divisions will be held during the three days with prize money reaching $20,500.

Now in its eighth year, Red Hills welcomed over 37,000 visitors to the event in 2004 to watch some 200 competitors and is anticipating another hugely successful event. Over the past seven years, Red Hills has generated in excess of $500,000 in sponsorship and donated more than $273,000 to local beneficiaries. In addition to the international and national qualifying classes, the event will feature Advanced, Open Intermediate, Intermediate, Open Preliminary and Preliminary divisions.

Red Hills Organizers Sylvia Ochs and Sally Ausley feel extremely fortunate to have such generous sponsors to underwrite the event, which has enabled the event to achieve international status and provide some breathtaking competition. The event is now recognized as the first major competition of the year on the East coast in the horse trials calendar, and Ochs and Ausley look forward to welcoming many national and international visitors.

Red Hills, host to an FEI World Cup Qualifier for the past two years, is one of only four FEI World Cup Qualifiers in the country in which riders will be vying for a place in the final to be held in Malmo, Sweden, August 11-14, 2005.

As well as being an FEI World Cup Qualifier, Red Hills joins an elite selection of nine venues nationwide, which are part of the USEA Gold Cup Series and is one of just four in the Atlantic Group. The Gold Cup Series presented by the United States Eventing Association (USEA), offer competitors an opportunity to earn points towards the title of Gold Cup Champion at intermediate and advanced level.

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