24 The Chronicle of the Horse

IN THE COUNTRY

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SARA LIESER

USEF Names Land Rover Eventing Team For Aachen CICO***The U.S. Equestrian Federation has named the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team and an alternate for the Aachen CICO***, July 14-16, in Aachen, Germany.

The following combinations will compose the team:• Matt Brown (Cochranville, Pa.) and Blossom Creek Foundation’s Super Socks BCF, a 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding• Hannah Sue Burnett (The Plains, Va.) and Jacqueline Mars’ Harbour Pilot, a 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding• Phillip Dutton (West Grove, Pa.) and David Garrett’s Indian Mill, an 11-year-old English Thoroughbred gelding• Lauren Kieffer (Middleburg, Va.) and Jacqueline Mars’ Landmark’s Monte Carlo, a 10-year-old Irish Thoroughbred Cross gelding

The following combination was named

as the alternate:• Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp (East Sussex, United Kingdom) and Deborah Halliday’s HHS Cooley, a 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding

National Show Hunter Hall of Fame Inducts New Horses And HorsemenHumans and horses alike were celebrated with induction into the National Show Hunter Hall Of Fame on May 31 in Haverford, Pa., during the Devon Horse Show (Pa.).

Pam Baker, Leslie Howard, the O’Connell family, Elizabeth Solter and Jack Towell were the human honorees.

Baker, of Bealeton, Va., has spent her entire life teaching horsemanship to riders of all ages and levels. As a teenager, she and her brother Jimmy Cantwell ran their own lesson program in Virginia with 300 weekly students and 50 regular boarders. She owns Pam C. Baker LLC and has guided many students to championships at major equestrian events, including Devon, the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, Upperville (Va.), the Washington

International (D.C.) and the National Horse Show. She was inducted into the Virginia Horse Shows Association Hall of Fame in 2002 and earned VHSA Horseperson of the Year accolades. She also received the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.

Top jumper rider and trainer Howard is based out of Redgate Farm in Newtown, Conn. A winning equestrian from a young age, she captured the 1972 ASPCA Maclay Finals at age 15. In her senior career she was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. Equestrian Team in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and then won the FEI World Cup Final in Sweden two years later. She was also on the silver medal team at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

The late Joseph O’Connell Sr., his late son Joseph O’Connell Jr., and the younger O’Connell’s wife, Pat O’Connell, have a 75-year family history in the horse busi-ness. Joseph Sr. ran a successful show stable called Green Dunes Farm in California in the 1940s and ’50s. Joseph Jr. ran a show stable in California with Carleton Brooks.

Hunter/jumper trainer and rider Solter grew up on her mother’s Amberley Farm in Maryland. A child star in the pony ring, she made her name in the senior ranks by winning innumerable champi-onships with the great hunter Rox Dene. She also enjoyed achievements in the jumpers, winning the Grand Prix de Penn National in 1994 and 1995 with Flirtatious before contesting the Volvo FEI World Cup Final in 1996 (Switzerland). She was the first winner of the World Champion Hunter Rider Professional Finals (Md.) in 1994 and the American Grandprix Association’s Rookie of the Year in 1995. She died in 2014.

Towell owns Finally Farm in Camden, S.C., with his wife, Lisa Towell. Throughout his successful hunter/jumper training career, he has won countless awards and is the four-time trainer of the overall World Champion Junior Hunter Rider. He is also one of the few trainers in the country to have clients win champion or reserve champion in every division at indoors. His son, Hardin Towell, is a successful grand prix competitor, and his daughter, Liza Towell Boyd, is a top hunter rider and three-time winner of the USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship (Ky.).

On the equine side, Barbara Kearney’s

After jumping to first in the $10,000 National Hunter Derby during the Showplace Spring Spectacular III (Ill.) on Mimi Rothman’s Calido’s Son, Doug

Boyd decided to honor the late Russell Frey (see his obituary, p. 112) in his victory lap. Frey (right), known for his good sense of humor, usually did something a little different in the prizegiving ceremony, as he did at the Equifest II Horse Show (Ill.) in 2015, where he won the $5,000 National Hunter Derby on Nina Moore’s Kodachrome.

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GG Valentine won everywhere: Devon, the National, Washington and the Pennsylvania National, as well as claiming the USEF National First Year Green Hunter Horse of the Year honors with Jennifer Alfano riding. The mare, now 22, even has her own Breyer model. One of her career highlights was winning the $100,000 National Horse Show Hunter Championship at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2001.

Osczar, an Oldenburg stallion (Alla’ Czar—Antrim, Antritt) owned by Dawn Fogel, had a celebrated career in the regular working hunter division with Rick Fancher in the irons. The pair made history scoring the first perfect 100 in a regular working hunter class at the 1997 Capital Challenge Horse Show and was named the Chronicle’s Show Hunter Horse of the Year that year. He also accrued many accolades with Fogel in the amateur-owner hunter division and retired after winning the grand amateur championship at the National Horse Show in 2001. He died in 2015.

HALEY WEISS

Hester Announces Uthopia Will Remain At His Yard After weeks of uncertainty following the sale of Olympic gold medalist Uthopia at a public auction, Carl Hester announced via his Facebook page on June 28 that the stal-lion will remain at his yard.

“Apologies for the long wait, but it has been worth it,” he wrote. “I can now confirm that Uthopia has been secured and will stay at home where he is much loved. Those involved wish to remain anonymous, and I hope everyone will respect that—suffice to say I am enor-mously grateful to them.

“Thank you all for your support,” he continued. “It has been overwhelming to know so many people care. A very happy ending to a stressful time and will make my birthday celebrations tomorrow extra special!”

The 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood (Metall—Odelia, Inspekteur) was sold May 27 for $241,056 to an unknown buyer. The sale came about after Sasha Stewart and her father Derek Harrison, former owners of the stallion, filed for bank-ruptcy. Hester, who rode “Uti” on the gold medal-winning team at the 2012 London

Olympic Games, stated at the time that he’d hopefully arranged enough money to keep the stallion.

LISA SLADE

The Chronicle Wins 17 AHP AwardsThe Chronicle of the Horse, Untacked, coth.com and their contributors won 17 awards for excellence in equine journalism in the 2016 American Horse Publications awards contest. The awards were presented during the annual AHP seminar, held in Orlando, Fla., June 16-18.

Notably, The Chronicle of the Horse and Untacked writers swept the personality profile single article category in its circula-tion section.The awards include:•1st service to the horse industry: “The Cult Of Calm” by Lisa Slade, published in the Chronicle •1st freelance writer “Urban Legends” by Kelly Sanchez, published in Untacked•1st personality profile “All The World’s His Stage” by Marsha Hayes, published in Untacked • 1st editorial event coverage: “Smith Scores An Emotional Fair Hill CCI*** Win” by Lindsay Berreth, published in the Chronicle• 2nd personality profile: “Living Legend: Michael Poulin” by Jennifer Calder, published in the Chronicle• 2nd editorial event coverage: “Dujardin

Matt and Stephanie Petersen welcomed their first child,

son Briggs, on March 25. Matt plays polo with the St. Louis Polo Club, while Stephanie (shown) is a trainer at Dragonfly Farms, a hunter/jumper barn in Ladue, Mo., and they wasted no time introducing their son to horses. Stephanie “is hoping Briggs will ride, as evidenced by the photo,” said Matt.

Briggs’ mount, Miniature Horse Lilly, is owned by Dragonfly Farms. The Petersens, of Foristell, Mo., “will be looking for minis and a string of ponies,” reported Matt. “Hoping to have a show circuit rider soon. Leadline at Devon!”

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Brings The Crowd To Its Feet In Vegas” by Kimberly Loushin, published in the Chronicle• 2nd news reporting related feature: “Remarkable Rosie Does It Again At San Juan Capistrano” by Jennifer Keeler, published in the Chronicle • 2nd breaking news single article: “Cambridge Dies At Devon Horse Show” by Mollie Bailey, published at coth.com• 2nd editorial series: columnist Jody Lynne Werner, published at coth.com• 2nd freelance writer: “How Da Vinci’s Brainchild Became The American Horse” by Tania Evans, published in Untacked• 3rd service to the horse industry: “On The Hunt For A Couch To Call Their Own” by Erin Harty, published in the Chronicle• 3rd news reporting related feature: “The Top Two Are 19 Years Young In The Longines FEI World Cup Speed Leg” by Molly Sorge, published at coth.com• 3rd personality profile: “Undefeated” by Jennifer Calder, published in Untacked• Honorable mention personality profile: “Chester Weber: Overall Horseman of the Year” by Jennifer Calder, published in the Chronicle• Honorable mention personality profile “Rita Mae Brown: The Rabble Rouser Of Feminism And Foxhunting” by Jennifer Calder, published in the Chronicle• Honorable mention editorial event coverage: “Jenny Carol Is Conquering The ‘Pony Problem’ ” by Jennifer