August Zone 3 News 

📅Don't Miss Deadlines

September 1 - USHJA 3’3” Hunter Seat Medal Final East qualifying ends 

Platinum Performance/USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championships 

3'0''/3'3''

🥇Florian owned by Dr. Betsee Parker and ridden by Scott Stewart

3'6''/3'9''

🥇McQueen owned by Strasburg Morin Inc. and ridden by Nick Haness 

Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship

Section A

🥇Paradigm owned by Meredith Lipke and ridden by John French

Section B

🥇Drumroll owned by Meridian Farm LLC and ridden by Geoffrey Hesslink

👀ICYMI👀 Catch up on all of the highlights ⤵ across USHJA social channels to see behind-the-scenes, rider interviews, rider course reviews and so much more! 

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🏆Upcoming Championships

USHJA Young Jumper Championships

Traverse City Fall Horse Show

Williamsburg, Michigan
September 5-10

USHJA Adult 3'3" Jumping Seat Medal Finals - East

HITS on the Hudson VIII
Saugerties, New York
September 5-9

USHJA Gladstone Cup Equitation Classic for Amateurs - East

HITS on the Hudson VIII
Saugerties, New York

September 6-9

USHJA International Hunter Derby Regional Championship - South

Aiken Fall Festival II

Aiken, South Carolina 
September 13-17

EMO Insurance/USHJA 3'3" Jumping Seat Medal Finals - East

Capital Challenge Horse Show
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
September 27-30

🚨Last Chance for USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Challenge

📅Closes September 1

✅Put your horsemanship knowledge to the test for a chance to win great prizes in the USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Challenge.

✅Two levels of online horsemanship quizzes.

✅Compete for a chance to be eligible for selection to the HQC Nationals. 

💸 Grants Available

Alvin Topping Governance Grant

$500 is awarded to assist one USHJA member 25 years of age or under with funding to support their attendance at the USHJA or USEF Annual Meeting.

Naomi Blumenthal Memorial Training Grant

$1,500 is awarded to a USHJA, Professional Horseman’s Association or Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association member to further their equestrian education.

USHJA Instructor Credential Grant

Up to $1,000 per Zone to assist members in attending an Instructor Credential Live Workshop and Examination location to earn the USHJA Instructor Credential.

🎉Recent Results

USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Stable Challenge

Zone 3: Tara Best, Stonehouse Stables

The highest pointed Gold level rider in each Zone will earn the Golden Backstage Pass to participate in USHJA National Championship Affiliate Sections, course walks and educational sessions.

Check Your Points

⭐USHJA Recognized Riding Academy Spotlight 

Full Moon Farm

📍Finksburg, Maryland

📞Christine Hryzak at (410) 795-8371

✅IEA Team On Site

✅ Full-service barn offering: lessons, leasing, boarding, summer camps, birthday parties, clinics and youth programs

Affiliate Spotlight - Virginia Pony Breeders Association

Virginia-bred ponies had an impressive showing at the USEF National Hunter Pony Championships held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, August 8-12.

The highest scoring of the Virginia-bred Champions in the Regular divisions and the winner of the VPBA Grand Championship was DF Crush, a 12-year-old purebred Welsh competing in the Small Pony section. 

He placed 6th Overall out of 113 ponies. Owned by Cumberland Acres (Jen Rossano) and ridden by daughter Sienna, of Noblesville, Indiana, the chestnut gelding (Land’s End Monarch x Brookside Make Believe x *Duntarvie Janus) was bred by Jessie Sarver. 

Woodlands ponies, bred by Bo and Kay Randolph of Brodnax, Virginia, earned multiple tri-colors. Woodlands Hope was named VPBA Champion in the Large Green
Pony section; Woodlands Blossom, VPBA Reserve Champion in the Large Green
Pony section; and Woodlands Simply Southern, VPBA Reserve Champion in the
Large Regular Pony section.

Susan K. Shotwell bred two of this year’s VPBA Champions: Covenant Top
Secret in the Large Regular Pony section and Covenant Beau’s Secret in the Medium
Green Pony section. These two are maternal half-siblings, both out of the Anglo-Arab mare Tiffany’s Secret Lacy.

A complete list of VPBA Champions can be found on the VPBA’s website and social media.

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