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Member Comment Period Opens April 1 for 2023 Zone Specifications
Participate on a Team in 2022!
Check out some of these great events that offer team competition across the country:
Markel/USHJA Zone Jumper Team Championships
Zone 7 & 8 riders will choose a Championship that is contiguous to their home Zone.
Provide riders with a competitive team experience and an opportunity to earn Zone Horse of the Year points in the Children's and Adult Amateur Jumper (1.10/1.15m) and 1.20/1.25m Junior and Amateur.
Zone 7 & 8 riders will choose a Championship that is contiguous to their home Zone.
Part of the USHJA Emerging Jumper Program, the 1.30/1.35m category has moved from the Zone Jumper Team Championships to the Platinum Jumper Championships in addition to the 1.40/1.45m. For Professionals, Juniors or Amateurs.
Lamplight Summertime III Lamplight Equestrian Center Wayne, Ill.
Offers a unique team experience for riders competing in the 2’-2’6” Children’s Pony Hunters, 2’6” Low Child/Adult Hunters and 3’ Children’s/Adult Amateur Hunter divisions. Riders can earn bonus Zone HOTY points in their respective divisions.
Gotham North/FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships
August 9-14
Great Lakes Equestrian Festival
Traverse City, Mich.
Championships for Children, Pre-Junior, Junior and Young Rider categories held in an international format featuring teams fielded by zone as well as individual competition.
Junior pony riders compete over multiple days of competition. Features teams fielded by zone and individual competition at a maximum fence height of 1.15m.
Join us in celebrating the true heroes of our sport! These devoted equines contribute to the development of top riders, the sport, and lifelong equestrians.
A 29-year-old Arabian, who has been giving lessons 22 years.
Favorite Treat: Peppermint candies.
If he was a famous person, he would be: Abraham Lincoln.
Sammie, aka Mr. Wonderful, has been teaching students how to ride most of his life and he loves his job. Though Sammie is in semi-retirement, he still gives a couple lessons a week to our tiniest riders to help keep him fit and carefully guide them through their first lessons. Sammie is a barn favorite and has encouraged students from all over to follow their passions in riding.
Provides Adult Amateur exhibitors an opportunity to showcase their equitation skills over a 3'3" jumper-style course and a flat phase with bicoastal finals. View the calendar.
New for Adult Amateurs in 2023! The three-round class combines the precision of equitation and handiness of hunters over a course set at 3’. Qualifying classes begin June 1, 2022 with inaugural Championship being held in 2023.
