Thank you for being a Zone 8 member! Apply for the Emerging Athletes Program, test your horsemanship knowledge, learn about grant opportunities and more.
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Applications Open for Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions
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Sessions near Zone 8 include:
- June 8-12, Great Southwest Equestrian Center, Katy, Texas, led by Julie Winkel and stable manager Nanci Snyder
- July 8-12, Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Burbank, Calif., led by Joe Fargis and stable manager Colleen Reed
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The Horsemanship Quiz Challenge is Open
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Registration to the USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Challenge is open!
Exciting changes being implemented for 2020:
- Updated free online HQC study guide with new sections added covering saddle fitting, teeth and more
- The program will open to adult amateurs ages 21 and above later in 2020. More information to be announced.
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Congratulations to Horse of the Year and Stirrup Cup Year-End Award Winners
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Congratulations to our members who received 2019 Horse of the Year and Stirrup Cup year-end honors!
Check 2019 Zone 8 standings to see who received awards here:
Check 2020 Zone 8 standings here:
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Zone 8 HOTY and Stirrup Cup Championships
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Stirrup Cup Championship
Sept. 25-27
New Mexico Hunter Jumper Association Fall Festival, Santa Fe, N.M.
Horse of the Year Hunter and Jumper Championship
Nov. 18-22
Arizona Season Finale II, Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Mark Your Calendar for the Sallie B Wheeler/USEF/USHJA Hunter Breeding National Championships
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Special congratulations to these Sallie B Wheeler/USEF/USHJA Hunter Breeding National Championship participants on their HOTY Awards:
- 2 Year Old Hunter Breeding Reserve Champion Coronet’s Daffodil and 3 Year Old Reserve Champion Coronet’s Begonia, both owned, bred, and handled by Rachel Jones. Rachel was the West Coast Sallie B Wheeler Junior/Amateur Handler Reserve Champion!
- Bradley Cooper, 3 Year Old Hunter Breeding Champion owned by Roseanne Land and bred by Gerd Folkers Nordergarms.
Check out the graduates page
here.
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Early Application Deadline for USHJA Platinum and Zone Jumper Team Championships is April 10
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The Championships for
USHJA Zones 7 & 8 at Hipico Santa Fe Summer Series - Sonrisa Week in Santa Fe, N.M., July 22-26, 2020 (Qualifying Period: August 27, 2019 - June 7, 2020).
*Early application deadline for the $75 rate is April 10. Starting April 11 until applications close, the price increases to $150.
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USHJA Affiliate Member Organization News
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American National Riding Commission
The ANRC National Equitation Championships are coming up April 9-11 at Swan Lake Stables in Littlestown, Pennsylvania.
The championships will now include adult amateur and ANRC alumni divisions, in addition to the traditional junior and college divisions.
Entries for the Championships are due March 1!
The Championships will be livestreamed on USEF Network.
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Sport History: Fun Facts from the USHJA Wheeler Museum
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The Caprilli Revolution
American hunter/jumper equitation developed from new ideas introduced by Italian Cavalry officer Federico Caprilli in the early 1900s. His “forward seat” changed forever ideas about the safety and comfort of the horse and rider over fences.
When foxhunters and military riders began jumping fences cross-country in the 1800s, they rode in a “chair” seat with legs pushed forward because sitting vertical in the classical (dressage) seat was tiring, and they leaned back over fences in case the horse stumbled. Horses instead were struggling to keep their own balance, let alone that of the rider. Caprill’s method of sitting forward with shorter stirrups to rise out of saddle created angles in the rider’s hips, knees, and ankles that act as springs and allow the rider’s arms to follow the motion of a horse’s head and neck over jumps.
A hundred years later, Caprilli’s principles to help riders perform “with safety and dispatch” and horses to “respond to what is required of them quietly and smoothly with the minimum possible wear and tear” still hold.
Pictured above: Left: Caprilli's Forward Seat. Right: Hunting Chair Seat
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Know Your Zone 8 Committee Members
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- Laurie Grayson, Chair
- Jenny Paisley, Treasurer
- Betty Beran
- Betsy Checchia
- Chris Collman
- Michael Dennehy
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- Lisa Hooper
- Marion Maybank
- Beth Nielsen
- Jill Pelzel
- Danine Summers
- Allison Wicks
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Special thanks to these members who serve our zone! For more information about the committee and contact information,
click here.
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Upcoming Events and Deadlines
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USHJA Sponsors & Partners
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Photos by: Tricia Booker, Jump Media, Rachel Sowinski
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United States Hunter Jumper Association | (859) 225-6700 | ushja.org
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