Derek Peterson and Cassevel compete in the popular $10,000 Six Bar Class offered Friday night Week I.
Next up on the Classic Company calendar of events is the Atlanta Summer Classic, scheduled to gallop into the Olympic venue at the Georgia International Horse Park, June 15 through the 26th. The Atlanta Summer Classic is the first leg of the Great Magnolia Show Jumping Tour that spans three classic show destinations: the home of the 1996 Olympics at the Georgia International Horse Park, Brownland Farm located outside of Nashville, Tennessee and the Charleston Summer Classic, located on Johns Island, South Carolina. Points will be earned and tallied and Champions will receive a silver trophy the final week of the Charleston Summer Classic.
The Atlanta Summer Classic offers more than $350,000 in cash and awards and classes for everyone! As host of the USHJA Children’s/Adult Regional Championships, the Atlanta Summer Classic will also produce the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program and the Emerson Burr Program for Pony Riders which awards scholarships for equestrian youth.
The Emerson Burr Horsemanship Fund was created in 2002 by friends and family of the late Emerson Burr to promote and perpetuate proper horsemanship in equestrian youth. Emerson Burr served the horse industry tirelessly as he balanced the acts of leading young pony riders to victories and serving as Chairman Emeritus of the USA Equestrian Hunter/Jumper Pony Committee. Emerson won countless honors throughout the years including the 1998 AHSA Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Emerson Burr Horsemanship Grant is awarded at the Zone and National level. Each winner at the zone level will received a $100 grant to be used towards educational or equestrian related expenses. Each Emerson Burr winner during Pony Finals will receive a $500 grant to be used towards educational or equestrian related expenses.
Riders competing in Regular Hunter Pony, Green Hunter Pony, Pony Medal, Pony Jumpers or Children’s Hunter Pony are eligible to participate in this program. Participants are divided into four age groups: 8 and under, 9-11, 12-14, and 15-17. Each participant will take a short, written multiple choice test on horsemanship, which contains no more than 20 questions. At the Zone level, individuals will be awarded the grant based on the results of the exam and their response to a short essay question. The US Pony Finals, however, will continue to host the second phase of the test – the hands-on portion. The four individuals in each age group which score the highest on the written test move on to the hands-on horsemanship test. The hands-on portion consists of a series of questions in which the participant is asked to demonstrate various skills and knowledge ranging from how to brush a horse to deciphering signs of colic. After the hands-on test, a winner will be chosen from each age group based on his/her horsemanship skills and knowledge.
In addition to the great equestrian programs, the Atlanta Summer Classic will also offer the $25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Week II, the $10,000 Six Bar Class Week I and weekly $35,000 Grand Prix and $15,000 Horseflight Open Welcomes. From Pony Jumpers to Grand Prix and Hunter and Breeding classes, the Atlanta Summer Classics offer it all!
Get a leg up on the Great Magnolia Show Jumping Tour competition and enter for no additional fees at horseshowsonline.com then email jonathan@classiccompany.com to reserve your stalls now.
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