Thank you for being a Zone 2 member! Apply for the Emerging Athletes Program, test your horsemanship knowledge, learn about grants and scholarships and more.
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Apply to Participate in the Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions!
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Sessions in Zone 2 include:
- June 15-19, Centenary University, Long Valley, N.J., led by Cynthia Hankins and stable manager Colleen Reed
- July 22-26, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, N.Y., led by Jim Wofford and stable manager Nanci Snyder
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 2 has grant and scholarship funds available! The EAP Grant helps members attend an EAP Regional Training Session, and the Zone 2 College Scholarships are awarded to seven members for use toward college or trade school!
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Congratulations to our 2019 Horse of the Year and Stirrup Cup Year-End Award Recipients
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Congratulations to our members who received 2019 Horse of the Year and Stirrup Cup year-end honors!
Check 2019 Zone 2 standings to see who received awards here:
Check 2020 Zone 2 standings here:
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Save the Date for Zone 2 HOTY, Stirrup Cup and Equitation Championships
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Dates and locations for 2020 Zone HOTY, Stirrup Cup, Equitation and other championships
have been announced! Mark your calendar:
Equitation Championship, Aug. 27-30
Quentin Fall Classic, Littlestown, Pa.
Horse of the Year Jumper Championship, Sept. 10-13
Devon Fall Classic, Devon, Pa.
Stirrup Cup Championship, Sept. 26-27
Swan Lake Fall Regional I, Littlestown, Pa.
Horse of the Year Hunter Championship, Oct. 18, 2020
Harrisburg, Pa.
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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 Zone 2 Sallie B Wheeler/USEF/USHJA Hunter Breeding National Championship participants on their HOTY Awards:
Yearling Hunter Breeding Champion Nikita owned by Jessica Patterson, 3 Year Old Reserve Champion Lyric, owned by Karen Raach. These talented KWPN’s were both bred by Ruth Ann Kershaw and handled by Jay Raach.
Emily Ann Belin-McDonnell had a successful year handling Yearling co-Champion Royalsport for owner/breeder Nicole Uchrin, Champion 2 Year Old Zeal for owner Dawn Taylor-Bell (bred by Lindsay Owens-Galloway) and 2 Year Old Reserve Champion, Caberneigh, East Coast Sallie B Wheeler Reserve Best Young Horse for owner/breeder Linda Mancini. 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 1 & 2 will be at
HITS-on-the-Hudson V in Saugerties, NY, July 22-26, 2020 (Qualifying Period: September 24, 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!
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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 2 Committee Members
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- Mark Leone, Chair
- Troy Hendricks, Vice Chair
- Wendy Chapot Nunn, Tresurer
- James Benedetto
- Katie Benson
- Naomi Blumenthal
- Michael Dowling
- Mary Drueding
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- Karin Immerman
- Kerry Kocher
- Claudine Liberatore
- Linda Mancini
- Tobey McWilliams
- Andrew Philbrick
- Cynthia Williams
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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: Jump Media, ESI Photography, Jump Media, Tricia Booker, Rachel Sowinski and Louise Taylor.
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United States Hunter Jumper Association | (859) 225-6700 | ushja.org
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