PLEASE VOTE, yes AGAIN

COURAGE TO LEAD HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR HORSE OF THE YEAR BY THE USEF. PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE FOR "Katy" Follow link below:

http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/hoty/hoty.aspx

PLEASE VOTE

Suzy Stafford has been nominated for Equestrian of the Year by the USEF. Please take the time to cast your vote for Suzy. Follow link below:

http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/eoty/Eoty.aspx

KATY IS NATIONAL CHAMPION

The beautiful National Champion Courage to Lead and Suzy Stafford

"Katy" and I were unbeatable at the Kentucky Classic and the National Championship! What a fabulous show we had together. Our marathon on Saturday made me grin from ear to ear. What a ride!

Katy's special day

I would like to invite all of Katy's friends, family and admirers to her retirement ceremony to be held at the Lexington Classic CDE on Sunday October 4th after the awards for the National Single Pony class.

All Results

To view all the results from the dressage, marathon and cones visit: (click on the British flag in the right hand corner for English) Go to recent news or results.
http://hoefnet.nl
You will also find the results from the World Pairs Championships here as well.

News release from the USEF about the Pony Championships click here.
http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/newsdisplay/viewPR.aspx?id=4748&star=true

BRONZE MEDAL FOR SUZY STAFFORD

After moving from 2nd to 3rd to 4th and to 3rd I am happy to say I have come home with a Bronze medal for the United States!

The Team came in just shy of a medal in 4th place. We as a team had a few hick ups along the way but overall I think we gave it our all and everyone gave 100 % to the effort.

As a Team we will work on weaknesses and play on our strengths. We will be back in 2011!

Cones Day

As usual, they gave all the drivers 1 hour to walk the cones course. The course was very technical in spots with some big runs in between. It had 2 zig-zags back to back and a double box of minimum width.

It was extremely hard to make the time AND keep all the balls up. There were no double clean round in the single class. There was one almost with 2 sec. time penalty driven by the Dutch driver Melanie Becker.

I hit part of the double box and hit a cone when Katy slipped and lost her footing. The only way to describe the feeling I had during the course was that I felt like my pants were on fire!

Sara Schmitt had one ball after Batman jumped out of the box and she had some time penalties. Sherri Dolan opted not to drive when Smoke has a bit of a swollen leg. She didn't feel it was necessary to risk it. FYI- he is fine now. False alarm. Better safe than sorry.

Tracy Morgan had an awesome round in cones!! She was nearly double clear when she hit the 19th cone. We all thought she had it in the bag! She certainly brought her A game on Sun. Individually she moved up to 5th because of it.

Randy and Katie also had respectable rounds. Laurie and Lisa both had a few balls and a few time penalties.