32 SIDELINES JANUARY 2013
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
Power to the Young People! Look at the group of talented
riders spotted at the 2012 Alltech National Horse Show in
Kentucky. From the left:
Olivier Philiappaerts, Nicola
Philippaerts, Charlie Jayne, Andrew Welles, Reed
Kessler, Saer Colter
and
Jessica Springsteen.
Big Winner!
Meg O’Mara
, who rides with trainer
Don
Stewart,
won the Pessoa/US Hunter Seat Equitation Medal
Final at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show.
Photo by Carrie Wirth
loves and hunts her horse.
Besting a feld of 221 entries and a very tight ride off of the
top three,
Michael Janson
, who rides with
David Oliynyk
, rode
away as the 2012 New England Equitation Championship Junior
Champ. The impressive equitation Medal fnal is held annually
in October at the Eastern States Coliseum in West Springfeld,
Massachusetts and brings together riders from all over New
England.
Now that
Darren Chiacchia
is recovering, his team still
can’t take a deep breath.
Alayna Pastuck
, his fabulous stable
manager, has been stricken with a brain tumor. The brain surgery
went well, now the team is waiting to hear from the doctors what
her next steps will be on her road to recovery.
A new association for amateurs has been created --
The
Amateur Rider Association of America.
The goal of this
association is to give all amateurs across the nation competing
in the equestrian sport of jumpers and hunters a voice. The
association promotes the use of consistent guidelines, including
meters for class descriptions across all similarly rated horse shows,
to avoid confusion and discrepancies in course building. Visit their
Facebook or send comments and input to amateurriders@gmail.
com.