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USEF Names Nominated Entry for U.S. Para-Equestrian Dressage Team

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Rebecca Hart and Lord Ludger. Photo © Lindsay Y McCall

Gladstone, NJ – June 19, 2012 – Following the approval of the USEF High Performance Working Group and the USEF Executive Committee, the FEI Nominated Entry for the U.S. Para-Equestrian Team for the 2012 Paralympic Games is as follows.

Athletes and horse are listed in ranked order based on the results from the 2012 USEF Selection Trials & National Para-Equestrian Championship:

1. Rebecca Hart and Jessica Ransehousen’s Lord Ludger
2. Jonathan Wentz and Kai Handt’s NTEC Richter Scale
3. Donna Ponessa and Wesley Dunham’s Western Rose
4. Dale Dedrick and her own Bonifatius
5. Donna Ponessa and Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center’s PG Ganda
6. Jonathan Wentz and Michele Miles’ Silvano
7. Mary Jordan and Deecie Denison’s Sebastian
8. Rebecca Hart and Jessica Ransehousen’s Carlingfords Taldi
9. Wendy Fryke and her own Lateran
10. Elizabeth Pigott and Regina Cristo’s One Night Stand
11. Mary Jordan and her own P. Sparrow Socks
12. Robin Brueckmann and her own Radetzky

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Competitions, Dressage, Eventing/H.T., Events, FEI, Olympic Games, Show Jumping

Nominated Entries for London 2012 Olympic Equestrian Events Announced

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Lausanne (SUI), 20 June 2012 – The FEI has today published the list of nominated entries for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The list is now available on the FEI website here.

The list details the athletes and horses that have achieved the minimum eligibility standards required for London 2012, and qualified National Federations will make their final selection of teams and individuals from this list.

Athletes and horses had from 1 January 2011 to 17 June 2012 to achieve the minimum eligibility standards in the three Olympic disciplines.

The deadline for the National Olympic Committees to submit definite entries to the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is 9 July. The definite entries will name the 200 athlete/horse combinations that will compete at Greenwich Park in the 2012 Olympic equestrian events – 50 in Dressage, 75 in Eventing and 75 Jumping.

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UPDATE: U.S. Dressage Team

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Gladstone, NJ – The following change has been made to the USEF Nominated Entry for the US Dressage Team:

Owner Cherry Knoll Farm and rider Todd Flettrich made the decision to withdraw Otto from the selection process and no longer wish to have him considered for the team.

As a result, the updated ranked order of eligible combinations is as follows:

1/3. Steffen Peters and Four Winds Farm’s Legolas 92 AND Ravel*

2. Tina Konyot and her own Calecto V

4. Jan Ebeling and Ann Romney, Beth Meyers, Amy Ebeling’s Rafalca

5. Adrienne Lyle and Peggy Thomas’ Wizard

6. Heather Blitz and her own Paragon

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USEF Names Show Jumping FEI Nominated Entries for the 2012 Olympic Games

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Gladstone, NJ – The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) approved the Show Jumping FEI Nominated Entries for the 2012 Olympic Games. From the Nominated Entries, the team of four and a traveling reserve will be entered on the Definite Entry on July 6th.

The ranked order of the athlete/horse combinations for the FEI Nominated Entries is as follows:

  1. Rich Fellers and Mollie and Harry Chapman’s Flexible
  2. Beezie Madden and Coral Reef Ranch’s Coral Reef Via Volo
  3. Reed Kessler on her own Cylana
  4. McLain Ward and Grant Road Partners’ Antares F
  5. Charlie Jayne and Pony Lane Farm’s Chill RZ
  6. Beezie Madden and Abigail Wexner’s Simon
  7. Reed Kessler and her own Mika
  8. Laura Kraut and Cherry Knoll Farm’s Cedric
  9. Margie Engle and Greise, Garber, Gladewinds and Hidden Creek’s Indigo
  10. Kent Farrington and RCG Farm’s Uceko
  11. Christine McCrea and Windsor Show Stables’ Romantovich Take One
  12. Lucy Davis and Old Oak Farm’s Nemo 119
  13. Mario Deslauriers and Jane Forbes Clark’s Cella
  14. Katie Dinan and Grant Road Partners’ Nougat du Vallet

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Competitions, Eventing/H.T., Events, Olympic Games, USEF

UPDATED: Remington XXV Added to US Eventing Short List for 2012 Olympic Games

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Gladstone, NJ – The following change has been made to the USEF Short List for the US Eventing Team:

Henley House Stables’ Remington XXV, ridden by Boyd Martin, was added to the Short List and will ship to the England on Sunday June 17th with the 11 other horses previously Short Listed by the USEF.

The Updated Nominated Entry in Alphabetical Order (the shortlisted combinations are designated below with a star next to their names):

Will Coleman on Jim Wildasin’s Twizzel*
Tiana Coudray on Jaital, Inc’s Ringwood Magister*
Buck Davidson on Carl and Cassie Segal’s BallyNoe Castle RM
Phillip Dutton on Team Rebecca’s Fernhill Eagle
Phillip Dutton on Bruce Duchossois’ Mighty Nice*
Phillip Dutton on Jim and Arden Wildasin’s Mystery Whisper*
Will Faudree on Jennifer Mosing’s Andromaque*
Will Faudree and Jennifer Mosing’s Pawlow
Sinead Halpin on Carraig, LLC’s Manoir de Carneville*
Boyd Martin on the Neville Bardos Syndicate’s Neville Bardos*
Boyd Martin on the Otis Barbotiere Syndicate’s Otis Barbotiere*
Boyd Martin on Henley House Stables’ Remington XXV*
Clark Montgomery Holly Becker and Kathryn Kraft’s Loughan Glen*
Karen O’Connor the Mr. Medicott Syndicate’s Mr. Medicott*
Allison Springer Carole and William Springer’s Arthur*

Ranked Substitute to the Nominated Entry:

Becky Holder on Phil and Melissa Town’s Can’t Fire Me

Follow the 2012 Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team at http://usefnetwork.com/featured/2012Eventing/.

Competitions, Events, Olympic Games, Show Jumping, USEF

Fellers Doubles Up at Spruce Meadows by Winning $200,000 CN Performance Grand Prix

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Lexington, KY – The fourth and final USEF Observation Event for the US Show Jumping Team for the 2012 Olympic Games wrapped up a selection process that started with the Selection Trials in March. The $200,000 CN Performance Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows in Calgary hosted 12 Long-Listed American combinations out of the 37 starters who took on Bob Ellis’ course. At the culmination of the class, Rich Fellers (Willsonville, OR) took top honors again; he was fastest of the seven which jumped first round clears.

Fellers’ effort on Mollie and Harry Chapman’s 16-year-old Irish Sport Horse stallion reinforced his win in Thursday’s Husky Energy Cup (the first part of the Observation Event). The 2012 Rolex/FEI World Cup champions returned to form after a hiatus from competition since the Del Mar Horse Show in May.

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Steffen Peters Wins Sixth USEF National Grand Prix Dressage Championship

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Steffen Peters and Legolas 92 (Susan J. Stickle)

Gladstone, NJ – Four years ago, Steffen Peters and Ravel, then an inexperienced 10-year-old, won the 2008 Grand Prix National Dressage Championship at the Festival of Champions in California. That performance earned the pair a trip to the Olympic Games where they were fourth. Four years later, an FEI World Cup title, a CHIO Aachen victory and two Bronze medals at the FEI World Equestrian Games later – Ravel was granted permission by the USEF selectors to not attend the 2012 USEF Dressage Festival of Champions which was also serving as the USEF Selection Trial for the 2012 Olympic Games.

So Peters (San Diego, CA) brought Four Winds Farm’s Legolas 92 to the USET Foundation Headquarters instead. The result was the same. The 10-year-old Westphalian gelding, who was imported in December, has won his first National Championship. It is Peters’ sixth, tying the record previously set by Robert Dover.

Their score of 77.956% was enough to give them a four day average of 77.653% and left them less than one point clear of the runners-up Tina Konyot and Calecto V. They had the ride of their lives in Friday’s FEI Grand Prix but settled up second today and overall. Peters knew what he had to do to take the National title and he succeeded.

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USEF Names Nominated Entry for U.S. Dressage Team

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Gladstone, NJ – Pending the approval of the USEF High Performance Working Group and the USEF Executive Committee, the FEI Nominated Entry for the U.S. Dressage Team for the 2012 Olympic Games is as follows.

Athletes and horse are listed in ranked order based on the results from the 2012 USEF Selection Trials & Grand Prix National Championship:

1/3. Steffen Peters and Four Winds Farm’s Legolas 92 AND Ravel*

2. Tina Konyot and her own Calecto V

4. Jan Ebeling and Ann Romney, Beth Meyers, Amy Ebeling’s Rafalca

5. Adrienne Lyle and Peggy Thomas’ Wizard

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Rebecca Hart and Lord Ludger Win 2012 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championship

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Rebecca Hart and Lord Ludger. Photo © Lindsay Y McCall

Gladstone, NJ – June 14, 2012 – Rebecca Hart of Unionville, PA captured her fifth United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championship on June 13. Hart, aboard Lord Ludger, owned by Jessica Ransehousen of Blue Hill Farm, inched out 2011 National Champion Jonathan Wentz of Richardson, TX with their Freestyle performance on Wednesday. Athletes from the high performance Para-Equestrian discipline presented their top mounts at the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation headquarters in Gladstone, NJ, June 10-13, 2012. It was befitting to be at one of the most historical locations in equestrian history for the 2012 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships and 2012 USEF Paralympic Selection Trials. With the nominated entries waiting to be named for the 2012 Paralympics, four athletes prevailed topping the field of twenty-three horse and rider combinations.

The 2012 USEF Paralympic Selection Trials and Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships was a week of environmental changes including high temperatures one day, a downpour the second day, and a breezy but exceptional weather pattern on the final day. Para-Dressage athletes Rebecca Hart, Jonathan Wentz (Richardson, TX), Donna Ponessa (New Windsor, NY), and Dale Dedrick (Ann Arbor, MI) kept the competition interesting posting scores only thousandths of a percentage point different at times.

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Rich Fellers and Flexible Return to the Top at Spruce Meadows

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Lexington, KY – The 2012 Rolex/FEI World Cup Champions have not been in the ring in six weeks – but based on their performance in the Husky Energy Classic on Thursday night at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, it didn’t make any difference.

Rich Fellers and Flexible bested a field of 19 and made it look easy, stopping the jump-off clock at 51.237 to score victory by just less than a second over Beezie Madden and Coral Reef Via Volo. This class serves as the first half of the final Observation Event for the US Show Jumping Team for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Fellers and Flexible jumped one of only three first round clears over the 1.60m track designed by Bob Ellis, and scored their third consecutive victory in a USEF Observation Event. With Harry and Mollie Chapman’s 16-year-old Irish Sport Horse stallion, Fellers took top honors at two classes at Del Mar in May, but since then Flexible has been waiting for Spruce Meadows to return to the ring. It was a detour from his normal schedule but with selection for the 2012 Olympic Games on the line, so far for Fellers, it has paid off.

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