Event Team Results

September 1-3 - Kentucky Classic Horse Trials - Lexington, Kentucky

We traveled to Kentucky with the hopes of qualifying Toy Story for the Radnor Hunt CCI** by competing in the CIC**. Unfortunately, he had difficulties with part of a combination on cross county and did not achieve a qualifying score. So instead of returning home, we went from Kentucky to Georgia (see below) for the last CIC** before Radnor.

Also making the trip to Lexington were Cassie's Shot competing at Training and Chocolate competing at Novice. In their first competition together, Courtney and Cassie had a good outing, placing 7th in the dressage and jumping well to move up and finish in 5th place. Chocolate and Courtney placed 2nd in the dressage, and went to do well, but had a few problems on cross country to fall out of the ribbons.

September 8-10 - Poplar Place Farm Horse Trials - Hamilton, Georgia

After spending the week in nearby Newnan, Georgia, Courtney and Toy Story began the CIC** by placing 6th in the dressage. They went on to add a clean cross country jumping round to move up to 4th and finish the stadium jumping with a qualifying score maintaining their 4th-place standing and allowing them to compete in the Radnor Hunt CCI** in October.

Moving up to Preliminary, Courtney and Cassie's Shot did very well in the dressage, placing 1st. The pair went on to jump clean in cross county adding only a little time; together with a good show jumping round they finished 5th. Chocolate also had a very good dressage test; competing at Novice, Courtney and he scored 24.7 (75.3%) and placed 1st. They added only a rail in stadium jumping to slip to 2nd, but unfortunately had some trouble at the ditch on cross country and did not finish.

Competing at the Training Level, Kathy Bell rode Toy Master. They did well in the dressage and then went on to jump clean on cross country to move into 2nd place. Finally in stadium jumping, they added a rail, as did nearly the entire division to maintain their placing, finishing 2nd.

September 20-24 - American Eventing Championships, Southern Pines, North Carolina

Kathy Bell and Toy Master competed in the Junior Training Rider division. They did well in the dressage before jumping clean on cross country and in stadium to finish 12th out of 42. Competing in the Open Training division, Emily Hamel and Grenadier Guard did well but finished out of the ribbons.

September 23-24 - Plantation Field Horse Trials - Unionville, Pennsylvania

Courtney competed with Cassie's Shot at the Preliminary Level. The pair did well in all three phases, finishing cross country with no jumping or time faults. Unfortunately, a few rails in stadium jumping kept the pair out of the ribbons.

September 30-October 1 - Middleburg Horse Trials - Middleburg, Virginia

In their last competition before the Radnor Hunt CCI**, Courtney and Toy Story competed at the Intermediate Level, starting with a good dressage test, placing 7th. They added just one rail in stadium jumping to end Saturday in 3rd place. On Sunday, the pair did great on most of cross country, but added one jumping penalty to fall out of the ribbons.

Courtney rode Cassie's Shot at the Preliminary Level. In a large division with 23 competitors, Cassie and Courtney did well in the dressage, placing 9th, less than 5 points out of the lead. They added a good stadium jumping round to maintain their placing, and then on Sunday, went clean and under time on cross country to move up and finish 6th. Courtney also competed with Hagrid at the Novice Level. Competing in his first horse trials on the East Coast, Hagrid did well in all three phases: placing 10th out of 22 in dressage, clean in stadium jumping, and only alittle time on cross country to finish in the top 10.