Thank you for being a Zone 3 member! Apply for the Emerging Athletes Program, test your horsemanship knowledge, learn about grants and scholarships and more.
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Applications Open for Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions!
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The session in Zone 3 is:
- July 27-31, Tryon International Equestrian Center, Mill Spring, N.C., led by Julie Winkel and stable manager Tracy Forman
Scroll down to learn about the EAP Grant that can help pay for attending a Regional Training Session.
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Let Us Help You Accomplish Your Goals
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Zone 3 has grant and scholarship opportunities for members including EAP grants to assist with attending an EAP Regional Training Session and the Zone 3 College Scholarship for education!
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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 3 standings to see who received awards here:
Check 2020 Zone 3 standings here:
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Save the Date for Zone 3 Championships
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Dates and locations for Zone HOTY Championships and other special classes
have been announced. Mark your calendar:
L.M. “Sandy” Gerald Zone 3 Equitation Championship
July 23-26
Rose Mount Farm Summer, Spotsylvania, Va.
Horse of the Year Hunter and Jumper Championship
Oct. 16-18, 2020
WIHS Regional Horse Show, Upper Marlboro, Md.
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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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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:
- Co-Reserve Champion Hunter Breeding Yearling Soiree 18, bred by Rachel Kane, owned by Frederick Cooper, and handled by Billy Howland
- Yearling co-Reserve Champion Alls Well, owner/breeder/handler Jamie Sullivan
- 2 Year Old Hunter Breeding Champion Cabalero, owner/breeder Elizabeth Capor, handled by Charlie Brown.
- 2 Year Old Hunter Breeding Reserve Champion was Will Fanzy, bred by Hil Cat Farm, also owned by Frederick Cooper
- 3 Year Old Hunter Breeding Champion Rotiyas, owned by Susan Tice-Grossman, handled in 2019 by Richard Taylor & Oliver Brown, and bred by High Point Hanoverians. Mr. Taylor also handled Rotiyas to Overall Grand Champion at 2018 Sallie B Wheeler National Championship. (pictured above)
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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 3 & 4 will be at Tryon Summer 6, Mill Spring, NC, July 15-19, 2020 (Qualifying Period: August 13, 2019 - May 31, 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!
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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 3 Committee Members
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- Oliver Kennedy, Chair
- Streett Moore, Vice Chair
- Diane Tate, Treasurer
- Andrew Ellis
- Rachel Howell
- Brooke Kemper
- Alan Lohman
- Tracy Magness
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- Alden Moylan
- Deloise Noble-Strong
- Gordon Reistrup
- Mike Rosser
- Sandra Ruiz
- Catherine Schlaeppi
- Cricket Stone
- Eric Straus, non-voting advisor
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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 Zone 3 eNews Sponsor
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USHJA Sponsors & Partners
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Photos by: Tricia Booker, Jump Media, Rachel Sowinski and SAS Equine Photography.
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United States Hunter Jumper Association | (859) 225-6700 | ushja.org
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