July Zone 8 Update
Thank you for being a Zone 8 member! Check out Championships results, see who won the HQC Stable Challenge, see upcoming events and more. 
Congratulations to Members who Participated in Late Summer EAP Regional Training Sessions!
Congratulations to our Zone 8 member Katie Pelzel, of Fort Lupton, Colorado, who participated in the Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program late summer training session at HITS Balmoral Park.

Read more about the session. Check out the USHJA Facebook page to see more photos.
Zone 8 Members Bring Home Medals from the USHJA Zones 7 & 8 Jumper Team Championships
Congratulations to our members who competed in the USHJA Zones 7 & 8 Jumper Team Championships at HIPICO Santa Fe in New Mexico! See who participated. Special congratulations to our Zone 8 medalists:
1.10/1.15m Children's/Adult Amateur Team Championship

  • Silver: Betsy Checchia, Andrea Russell and Emma Rymarcsuk
1.20/1.25m and 1.30/1.35m Junior/Amateur Team Championship

  • Silver: Lilly Hackbarth and Kiley McCullough were part of the combined Zones 7 & 8 team
Special thanks to our Chefs d'Equipe Jenny Paisley and Laurie Grayson for leading teams at the Championships. Read more about the team competition.
1.10/1.15m Children's/Adult Amateur Individual Final:
  • Silver: Lucy Shapiro
1.20/1.25/1.30/1.35 Jr/Am Individual Final:
  • Bronze: Kiley McCullough
Read more about the individual competition.
Entries Open for the AON/USHJA National Championships
Entries are now open for the AON/USHJA National Championships, which will be returning to The Las Vegas National CSI3*-W November 11-17. Click here to read more! 
Congratulations to our HQC Stable Challenge Winner
Congratulations to Kristin Jacob and Blue Star Farms, LLC, winners of the 2019 Horsemanship Quiz Stable Challenge in Zone 8.

The Stable Challenge is designed to engage a trainer's entire barn as a team. At least three students per trainer had to complete the USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Challenge Practice Quiz between June 15 and July 15.

Each of the high scoring trainers will be receiving a USHJA backpack with a brush, hoofpick, and TCP manual; a helmet from Charles Owen; a one-year membership to Equestriancoach.com; a $200 Parlanti gift certificate; a grooming bucket with supplies from Shapley's; a $100 FITS Breeches gift card and a $100 gift card from State Line Tack.
USHJA Platinum Jumper Championships Held in Zone 8!
Congratulations to our members who competed in the USHJA Zones 7 & 8 Platinum Jumper Championships at HIPICO Santa Fe in New Mexico! See who participated.

Special congratulations to our Zone 8 team Karen Banister, Sarah Invicta Williams and Ashley Stannard, who earned the bronze medal in the team competition!

Read more about the team competition. Read more about the individual competition.
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Good Luck to Riders Headed to USEF Pony Finals
USEF Pony Finals, presented by Collecting Gaits Farm is just around the corner and will be held August 6-11 at The Kentucky Horse Park.

Good luck to our riders participating, including our Zone 8 riders who will be competing in the USEF Pony Jumper Championships.

USHJA will again host educational clinics during Pony Finals. Click here for more info.

Catch all the action on USEF Network.
Sport History: Fun Facts from the USHJA Wheeler Museum
Getting to Know EAP Clinician Cynthia Hankins 

Cynthia Hankins, one of this summer’s clinicians at the Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions, is widely recognized for winning the AHSA Medal finals in 1977 and for her national and international success with jumpers. Did you know that Cynthia’s winning record in the show ring started at a much earlier age? Cynthia took top prize in Leadline at Devon two times, at ages three and four. Her first Medal class win came at age 12 on a 13.2 1/2 hand pony, and she qualified for the Medal and ASPCA Maclay finals that year, finishing fifth in the Maclay. Cynthia’s story was featured in ”Equitation: A Foundation for Life” at the USHJA Wheeler Museum.

Photo courtesy of Cynthia Hankins.
Mark Your Calendar for the Zone 8 Stirrup Cup Championship
The Zone 8 Stirrup Cup Championship will be September 27-29 at HIPICO Santa Fe Fall Fling in New Mexico.
Zone 8 Clinics
Mark your calendar for clinics coming up in our zone this year!

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