21 in the class!!! So many really nice horses that won’t get a ribbon in here!! I love a ladies class because they really bring out the fab outifts!!! 1 Intrepid Rock Festival and Kasey Monty (Soooooo pretty!!! Congratulations, Kasey!!!!) 2 Cavalli and Ling Fu Wylie (Gorgeous, Ling!!! Beautiful ride!!) 3 JW Sporting Victory and Jane Morrell 4 RBF Russian Roulette and Amy Bessey 5 Medowair Fire Dance and Hanna Welch 6 FCF Montego Bay and Judy Nason 7 UVM Opportunity and Chris Cassenti 8...

OMG, they look like a bag of Skittles in the line-up!! I love the rainbow of fruit flavors in these outfits!! 1 Tropic Anne’s Legacy and Madison Ater 2 Artful Image and Sophia Stillings 3 Noble Excellence and Jillian Peek 4 T-Towne Talk About Me and Anna Ryen Rowe 5 MCA Seawind Serenade and Kira Gendjar 6 Futurity’s Roman Touch and Loren Irwin 7 Batton’s Maestro 8 DVF High Chapparell and Kaydee Crow 9 Grand Cru Hollywood Wish and Haley Brooks

WC Springmill Superstition and Nikki Rae Woodworth (UNANIMOUS!!! Sooooooooo awesome!!! Congrats, Nikki!!!) RWC CN Timeless Masterpiece and Mike Goebig 3 CBMF Small Talk and Scott Neidlinger 4 Eloquent Danseuse and Damian Hyde

(Section A) Wow – this class is split and there are still 18 in here!!!!! I sooooo wish they had put them all in the ring, haha!!! 1 Paradigm Power Surge and Alyssa Wick (UNANIMOUS!!!!! Way to go Alyssa!!!!) 2 BMF Xerxes and David Knupp 3 WH Zimbabwe and Megan Evans 4 Morgan Valley Valentino and Jenny Miller 5 CPM Five O’Clock Somewhere and Stephanie Marcelonis 6 Flintlocks Grandee 7 Attention Postmaster and Morgan Zielenski 8 Arboria Ben Hur and Katie Hodges 9 Firecrest Penultimate...

Just drifted off for my first nap-during-class. Sorry, ladies/kids/youth/Generation Why Should I….it wasn’t because you didn’t look pretty (you do), but you don’t have silver on your saddle and you don’t have Swarovski, so zzzzzzzzzzz. Wow, that little 5 minute pop felt good! Phew, I just thought that I lost one of my favorite earrings, but it turns out it was stuck in my hair. That’s what I get for doing the head-snap and falling asleep, haha! 1 Gracious...

12 little peanuts in here! Everyone had a clean class, good job! WC Harlan’s Star Material and Jaden Fire (WAY TO GO, Jaden!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations, Dawn, Kristen and Phil!!!!!!!) RWC Gradell’s Wild Reflection and Kira Gendjar (YAY, Kira!! Congrats, Amy!!!) 3 MEM Indecent Proposal and Megan Richards 4 Medomak French Invasion and Nicole Kaufman 5 Briar Oaks Armani and Victoria Walz 6 Queen’s Cocoa Puff and Ariella Silber 7 Marathon’s Electrafire and Arden Larsen (YAY,...

15 in the class! Nice group of jr ex classic horses! 1 Pacific Rim Take Aim and Gabrielle Blackman (this is his second win in two days!!) 2 Merriehill Destiny Bay and Alysa Wright 3 BJB The Gambler and George Liberty 4 Sarde’s Manistique 5 Spirit Of The Heart and Hailey Perlee 6 Heyday Black Hawk and Nicole Rent 7 Stoneleigh Flair For Life and Jennifer Shubitowski 8 Festival Mariachi and Cierra Holtz 9 Highlander Tequila Chaser and Davis Shoemaker 10 MLF Caliente and Tayler Walters

1 Treble’s High End Piece and Kurt Hufferd (UNANIMOUS!!! Congrats!!) 2 CBMF Avenger and Ken Swanson 3 JW Major Impression and Bob Hughes 4 CRD Wealth Of Nations and Andy Marlett 5 Bacarrat’s Rhythmn & Blues and Gerry Rushton 6 Boxford Trumpcard and Steve DeBolt 7 CBMF Look Who’s Talking and Harry Sebring 8 Aerie’s Patton and Brian Hadley

Things are getting going now. The day started with a trip to the USOC communications headquarters at the Main Press Center - it was great to see everyone and make some plans for the next three weeks. To many of the sport people, what we do is very foreign so I did a lot of explaining about how these horses are going to get to Mexico. The USOC staff is great, I met them all in Colorado Springs a few weeks ago - it is a great reminder that we are part of something so much greater than our sport....

Lexington, KY – The United States Equestrian Federation has named the following horse/rider combinations for the 2011 Pan American Endurance Championship being held in Santo Domingo, Chile, October 22, 2011. The following horse/rider combinations will represent the U.S. at the Pan American Championship (listed in ranked order): Name/Age/Hometown/Horse/Breed/Age/Sex/Owner John Crandell III/49/West River, MD/Heraldic/Arabian/13/Gelding/John Crandell JR Meg Sleeper/43/Frenchtown, NJ/Syrocco...