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October 17 – 21, 2018 Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA 2018 Program www.newenglandequitation.com Quality and Experience, Located in Pembroke Just 20 minutes South of Boston CARL CATANI Owner / Trainer — TRAINERS — Abigail Greer • Deirdre Catani • Lia Chafee • Aimee Garb 617-548-1139 www.riverwindfarm.com 43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC1 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS OFFICIAL WELCOME

Welcome to the 43rd Anniversary of the New England Equitation Championships! All of your sacriﬁ ces, success, and dedication have enabled you to join us October 17 – 21, 2018 in West Springﬁ eld, Massachusetts. This is your opportunity to be a part of one of the premier equitation events!

We are thrilled that this year marks the ﬁ rst year that New York horse shows will now be allowed to offer NEHC Hunter Seat Medals. This is exclusive to USEF horse shows in the State of New York and is effective May 1, 2018.

We would like to take a moment to recognize NEEC committee member, Joe Dotoli, on receiving the USEF Lifetime Achievement Award! We are so proud of the work that Joe has done and will continue to do, not only for the New England Equitation Championships but for the equestrian sport. Congrats again Joe!

Please remember to check our, Instagram, Facebook page "New England Equitation Championships" and our website www.newenglandequitation.com for event updates, details, and reservations for hotel rooms and the junior dinner.

The New England Equitation Championships is considered one of, if not the best, equitation ﬁ nals in the country. It is because of the hard work of many individuals and the generous support of our sponsors that we are able to hold these ﬁ nals each year. We are extremely proud of the opportunity it presents for outstanding horse-people to test themselves and take their place in NEEC history. We look forward to seeing you this October!

Enjoy the 43rd Anniversary of the New England Equitation Championships! The New England Equitation Committee

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MANAGER ANNOUNCER NEEC PAST MEMBERS Bob Crawford John Bahret COMMITTEE Debbie Hoyt Banfi eld Ipswich, MA Middletown, RI Cookie DeSimone, Nancy Ciesluk Co-Chairman Pam Hunt JUDGES SCHOOLING Vass, NC Dana Jungherr SUPERVISOR Jamie Mann Jean Marie Amy Eidson, Diane McDonald Co-Chairman Mason Phelps Dunford-Miller Lauren Stevens Keswick, VA Wakefi eld, RI SCORING John Strohmier Jenny Fischer SUPERVISOR Laurel Tinney Montgomery, NY Kristen Bumpus Julie Ulrich Lisa Tacconi Concord, MA Lynn Forgione Methuen, MA Cornelius, NC Carl Catani JUNIOR DINNER Pembroke, MA COORDINATOR Hope Glynn STABLING Penngrove, CA Armand Chenelle Jennifer Burke Patti Harnois Hebron, CT 508-954-9799 Ken Krome 561-758-5362 Westminster, MD Bob Crawford Ipswich, MA PROGRAM Brian Lenehan HAY & SHAVINGS Joe Dotoli COORDINATOR Palm Beach Gardens, FL Colleen Morrissey Chepachet, RI 813-917-6707 Jennifer Burke 508-954-9799 COURSE DESIGNER colleen.morrissey@ Kathy Fletcher verizon.net Buzzards Bay, MA Ken Krome SPONSORSHIP, Patti Harnois Westminster, MD PROGRAM, SALES VETERINARIAN Marstons Mills, MA & SILENT AUCTION HORSEMANSHIP Dr. Mark G. Holman Fred Hunt Jacquie Maggiore JUDGES Rehoboth, MA Plympton, MA 508-259-0626 (cell) [email protected] Dr. Kate Chope 508-222-4281 (offi ce) Olana Laffey 781-718-2006 Ellen Raidt Byfi eld, MA Tobi Stall Hannah Woolley FARRIER Linda Langmeier [email protected] Assistant Mike Mooney East Granby, CT 401-924-1111 West Brookfi eld, MA Jay Sargent STEWARDS 508-450-5574 Middletown, RI PROGRAM Katherine DeSantis COVER PHOTO EMT MEMBERS Erin Craig PADDOCK MASTERS Joy Wheeler AT LARGE Michael Fletcher Johanna Hyyppa PHOTOGRAPHER Jay Mullen TECHNICAL Burlington, VT Anne Gittins COORDINATOR Kellie M. Riordan AnneGittins.com SHOW SECRETARIES Jay Mullen Deerfi eld, NH 561-762-1252 Colleen Morrissey Tampa, FL SHOW OFFICE COMMITTEE VIDEO / 10/16/18 – 10/21/18 SECRETARY LIVE STREAM Cheryle Francis Centreville, MD 413-205-5084 Melissa Welch Shownet.biz

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC6 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC7 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC8 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Kelianda Farm congratulates the following riders on qualifying for the New England Equitation Championships:

Juniors: Adults: Sophia Gianoulis Amanda Groher Sara Hearn Melissa Pelton Julia Luciani Jenny Walters Olivia Markwood Jennifer Webb Rebecca Morris Tessa Queirolo Ava Strohmeyer Lilly Wolff

Good luck, everyone! Kenny & Linda Langmeier Joanna H. Seaver, Darrin Dlin and Jamie Schaefer

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC9 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY OF THE NEEC

Our Foundation Changes of Venue In the 1970s, 2015 NEEC Lifetime Achievement 1976 Award winner, Mason Phelps, moved from California Providence Civic Center “RI Horse Show” to Rhode Island. At the time, California had an equi- Providence, RI tation fi nal for just about everybody and when Mason movcd to New England he found that there were no With just 17 Junior riders, the Finals was a class held equitation fi nals – he set about changing that. during the regular show, mixed in with other classes. The specifi cations back then were that fences were not In order to start the New Horseman’s Junior Medal to exceed 3'6", there was a fl at phase and the top class, Mason had to become a board member of RIHA. four were tested. He was then able to join the New England Horseman’s Council board and get the Finals started. With the help of Liz Rooney and Gerry Reeves they started the 1977 – 1980 process to convincing the New England Horseman’s Shamrock Stables, Portsmouth RI Council that an equitation medal was needed.

In doing so they created the New England Equitation 1981 – 1983 Committee which organizes and runs the New England Flying Horse Stable, Hamilton, MA Horseman’s Council Hunt Seat Medal Finals (hereafter "the Finals"). The original Committee consisted of 1984 Mason Phelps, Jamie Mann, Joe Dotoli, Julie Ulrich and Nancy Ciesluk. Over time the Committee added Jay Shallowbrook Equestrian Center, Somers CT Sargent, John Strohmeier, Dana Jungherr, Fred Hunt, The Finals became its own event. Bob Crawford, and Carl Catani; and more recently Pam Hunt, Lauren Stevens, Debbie Hoyt Banﬁ eld, Cookie 1985 DeSimone, Amy Eidson, Kristen Bumpus, Armand Chenelle, Kathy Fletcher, Patti Harnois, Olana Laffey, Young Entry Stable, Hamilton, MA Linda Langmeier and Laurel Tinney. The Committee has always consisted of professional horsemen. 1986 Forest Hill Stable, Grantham, NH

1987 – 1992 Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Held in conjunction with the Massachusetts Junior Finals until 1988 when, because of the rapid growth of the Finals (due in part to the addition of an Adult division that year), the Massachusetts Junior Finals decided to ﬁ nd its own venue.

1993 – PRESENT Big E, West Springﬁ eld, MA

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC10 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 In 1998, Joe came up with another great class idea: How We’ve Grown The Challenge of the States. This class is held on Saturday and is open to the Junior riders with the top scores Through the years the judging panel has evolved from just one judge to six judges, working in pairs. The from the Open equitation classes who then represent scoreboard with instant running results began in 1993 their state. Trainers are not allowed to help riders – when the show moved to its current venue at the Big E they do their own course walk, schooling and planning. in West Springfi eld, Massachusetts. That same year, Riders dress up in great costumes and work as a team. the Adult division grew to the point of needing age If given the choice, many riders say they would choose groups – Younger and Older Adult riders. In 2002 the riding in the Challenge of the States over riding in growing Adult division was divided yet again into the Finals. It is a true highlight to the weekend. Younger, Middle and Older. What is likely the most anticipated event of the show The Finals have expanded to include many awards and is the Junior Party held on Friday night. This dinner is innovative events. Awards such as the Lifetime Achieve- open to all Junior riders, their families and trainers. It ment Award named in honor of A. Martin Simenson, features a professional musical video presentation that D.V.M.; the Joanne C. Corsiglia Scholarship Award ded- captures the year-long competitions leading up to the icated to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Reeve, Finals and includes photos and video clips from the lives given to both a junior and an adult proven worthy of of the Juniors who are in their last year of showing. the award; and the “Nicholas” award, which is a Career Achievement Award for horses. The New England Championships have grown from just 17 riders in 1976 to a record 253 Junior riders Creative thinker, Joe Dotoli, added the Horsemanship in 2010 and a record 208 adult riders in 2009. It’s Class in 1997. It has three sections: a written exam, competitors have gone on to become veterinarians, a practicum and the rider’s fi rst round score from the professional riders and trainers, Ivy League scholars, Finals class. It is named after the rider who won the Olympic Gold Medalists and more. What was once fi rst year, Katie Battison, who passed away at an early a single class lumped in at another hose show is now age. This class is now copied across the country and its own renowned Final held over fi ve days at its own is highly competitive. Some winners have even gone venue and is broadcast worldwide on “Shownet.biz” on to be veterinarians!

2018 Juniors In Their Last Year

Many thanks to John Bahret, Amy Eidson and Joe Dotoli for their help compiling the history of the New England Equitation Championships.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC11 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET THE JUDGES

Jeanne Marie Lynn Forgione Lynn was born into the horse Dunford-Miller industry by her parents Holly Jeanne hails from Palmyra, and Ralph Caristo, who operate Virginia where she helps run out of Glenview Stables in New and manage her family farm for York. As a Junior rider, Lynn retired horses, Roseberry Farm. qualifi ed for all the major fi nals She grew up riding at her parents’ including USEF Medal Finals, breeding farm in Petersburg, VA Maclay Finals and USET Finals. and has gone onto compete in everything from the pony Her most memorable moment as a junior rider was hunters, the jumpers, and at the Grand Prix level. As a her time competing at the fi rst USET Finals in Gladstone, Junior rider, Jeanne represented the USA in Ecuador and NJ. Lynn has been a judge for over 25 years and has was also responsible for training the Horse of the Year in judged at WEF, Pin Oak, Lexington, KY, Zone 2 and 1992. This is Jeanne’s 30th year of judging. In addition Zone 3 Finals, and many more. This is Lynn’s fi rst time to her judging role, she also has her “R” rating in Course judging the New England Equitation Championships. Design. In 2014, Jeanne judged Derby Finals and the Pre-Green Incentive and this is her second time judging the New England Equitation Championships. Hope Glynn Hope joins us from Petaluma, California where she runs Sonoma Jenny Fischer Valley Stables. Hope was fi rst introduced to the horse world by Jenny grew up on Long Island her mother, who taught 4H to where she got her start in the all the neighborhood kids. Today, horse industry working and Hope is one of the top hunter riding for Ralph Caristo. She is trainers and riders in the United a successful hunter rider and States and has been recognized as the leading Interna- trainer, having trained and tional Derby rider in the South West region for fi ve showed several IHF Hunter of the last seven years. In 2013, she was inducted into Futurity Horses, with placings the Equus Hall of Fame for Sonoma Valley. Hope is a in the Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix, and many licensed “R” judge who has been judging for 20 years. successful students. Jenny’s trainer growing up, Ralph She has judged at shows including the Pennsylvania Caristo, has been her mentor in all aspects of the horse National Horse Show, East Coast Junior Hunter Finals, industry, including when she got her judging license. and Thunderbird. This is Hope’s second time judging She has been a judge for eight years and has judged at the New England Equitation Championships. shows including WEF, HITS Thermal, Thunderbird, Saratoga, Kentucky and more. This is Jenny’s second time judging the New England Equitation Championships.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC12 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Ken Krome Custom We also built Jumps, offer a wide Ken got his start in the Tack Trunks variety of horse industry at an early age, and More! rental jumps! training with George Morris. Since his junior career, Ken has gone on to win the 5-Year-Old International Jumper Futurity and has placed in many Grand Prixes. Ken is now an FEI “III” rated course designer and a USEF “R” rated judge. He has designed courses at WEF, WIHS, Ocala, Devon, Kentucky, Vermont and many more shows around the country. In 2010, Ken received the WCHR Hunter Course Designer’s Trophy, awarded to a person who exemplifi es dedication and lifetime commitment to hunter course designing. We are excited to have Ken Good Luck To All Qualifi ers! as this year’s course designer for the New England Equitation Championships. Stefhanie Connors 508-259-6924 • SaltyDawgEquine.com Brian Lenehan Find & Like Us on Facebook Brian is a third generation horseman, and a graduate of Sewickley Academy and North Carolina State University. He is an exceptionally successful Good Luck to all trainer who has ridden and trained horses in numerous NEEC Qualifi ers! championships at the National level. A highly-regarded USEF “R” rated judge, he has offi ciated at major horse shows throughout the country including Devon, Harrisburg, Lake Placid, WEF, HITS Ocala, Vermont and the National. When not working,

Brian enjoys skiing, ﬂ y ﬁ shing and spending time with © Jess Windhurst his wife Tracy and their daughters, Jamie and Macy. Brian divides his time between his Wayward Farm in Southern Pines, North Carolina and his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. This is Brian’s second time judging the New England Equitation Championships.

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC15 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS EVENT SPONSORS

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— LIBBY — Congratulations on all that you have accomplished in your Junior years. Remember when the Bit O Straw classic was the highlight of the week! Now on to jumping the high options in the International Derbies. We cannot wait for what your Amateur years will bring you. It is always a privilege to stand at the ingate with you! XOXO, MONICA AND THE ENTIRE CORNERSTONE CREW

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC17 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS DIETRICH EQUINE INSURANCE CHALLENGE OF THE STATES SPONSORS

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC18 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC19 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS CLASS SPONSORS

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC20 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 ELYSSE RUSCHMEYER 2017 Adult 28-45 Medal Champion

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC21 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Congratulations and Good Luck to all of the 2018 NEEC Competitors!

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC22 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC23 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Monday, October 15 Thursday, October 18

Horses Allowed on Grounds ...... 12:00 pm Course Walk for Class 5...... 7:15 am – 7:45 am

CLASS 5: Tuesday, October 16 Open Adult Amateur Equitation, 22 – 27 Warm-Ups Sign Up (at in gate) ...... 6:45 am Section A ...... 8:00 am – 9:00 am Warm-Ups Begin ...... 7:30 am Section B ...... 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Younger Adult Sportsmanship Award Wednesday, October 17 Will be Given Between Rounds 1 & 2 of Finals

Course Walk for Class 1...... 7:15 am – 7:45 am Course Walk for Class 6

CLASS 1: CLASS 6: Open Adult Amateur NEHC Adult Amateur Equitation, 46 & Over Medal Final, 22 – 27 ...... 10:30 am – 12:45 pm Section A ...... 8:00 am – 8:45 am Section B ...... 8:45 am – 9:30 am Course Walk for Class 7 Course Walk for Class 2 CLASS 7: CLASS 2: Open Adult Amateur NEHC Adult Amateur Equitation, 18 – 21 Medal Final, 46 & Over...... 10:00 am – 11:30 am Section A ...... 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Section B ...... 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Older Adult Sportsmanship Award

Course Walk for Class 3 Course Walk for Class 8 Immediately Following Award Presentation CLASS 8: CLASS 3: NEHC Adult Amateur Open Adult Amateur Medal Final, 18 – 21 ...... 3:45 pm – 6:00 pm Equitation, 28 – 45 Section A ...... 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Adult High Point Rider Section B ...... 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Adult Judge’s Choice Award

Course Walk for Class 4 Course Walk for Class 9 CLASS 4: NEHC Adult Amateur CLASS 9: Medal Final, 28 – 45 ...... 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Adult Amateur Grand Championship ...... 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC24 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Friday, October 19 Sunday, October 21

Hand Walking in Coliseum...... 7:00 am – 8:00 am Course Walk for Class 15 Set Course ...... 8:00 am – 8:30 am Top 25 ...... 6:15 am – 6:25 am Remainder ...... 6:25 am – 6:45 am Course Walk for Class 10...... 8:30 am – 8:50 am (must wear Sunday’s number)

CLASS 10: CLASS 15: Open Equitation, 15 – 17 NEHC Junior Medal Final Section A ...... 9:00 am – 10:15 am Round 1 ...... 7:00 am – 2:30 pm Section B ...... 10:15 am – 11:30 am (entering at trainer’s discretion, Section C ...... 11:30 am – 12:45 pm before or after score) Section D ...... 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Silent Auction Closing, Winners Announced Junior Horsemanship Competition Written Exam (at the Sheraton) ...... 5:30 pm CLASS 12: 3’ Junior Rider Award ...... 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Junior Celebration at the Sheraton: Cocktails ...... 5:30 pm Katie Battison Horsemanship Award Dinner & Video Show ...... 6:30 pm Written Test, Practicum and First Round NE Finals ...... 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm 1st Round Horsemanship Competition Results, Junior Sportsmanship Award, Sue Brainard Award Junior High Point Rider, Junior Judge’s Choice Award ...... 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

CLASS 15: Saturday, October 20 NEHC Junior Medal Final Round 2 ...... 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm CLASS 13: (must wait for score) Junior Horsemanship Competition (practicum) ...... 7:00 am – 3:00 pm Tests & Awards ...... 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Course Walk for Class 11...... 7:15 am – 7:45 am All times are approximate. CLASS 11: Open Equitation, Under 15 There will be no additional riding in the arena Section A ...... 8:00 am – 9:00 am after the last class of each day. Section B ...... 9:15 am – 10:15 am

Sportsmanship Final Winner, Groom’s Award, Career Achievement Award, Scholarship Award, Joe Medico Grant Award, Lifetime Achievement Award

CLASS 14: Challenge of the States Pizza Party ...... 11:00 am (30 minutes after Class 11) Costume Change ...... 11:30 am – 12:00 pm Parade & Course Walk ...... 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Team Competition & Awards . . . . . 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC25 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS NUMERICAL SCORING SYSTEM

Each pair of judges will grade every round by giving a numerical score. This score refl ects the judges’ About the Scoring System opinion of the round and its relative merits compared with the previous rounds. Whether a fault should be There will be six judges scoring each round, but they considered a minor or major fault can depend on the will work in pairs. After each round, the six judges context of the situation during which it occurred score their own Judge’s Card. Each pair then enters a as well as the number of times it occurred. The table numerical score into a computer terminal at their on the opposite page is meant to be a guideline, not station. When the last pair has pressed its “ENTER” necessarily “written in stone.” Portions are included button, all three scores appear on the board. The board directly from the USEF Rulebook. instantly gives the “round average,” the “cumulative average” indicating all rounds up to that point, and a Some Scores Have Become Standardized: “rank” or placing up to that point. During the second round of competition, the board will indicate where 40 – fi rst refusal on each pair’s card that rider stands. 50 – an added stride in a combination 50 – lost stirrup or rein Round one and round two will be of equal value and 55 – trotting on course when not part of a test scores added together. All three pairs of judges scores will count as usual. Once the judges decide how many Some Scores Are More of a Range: will test (up to eight) each pair will score their own card as if judging a medal test, each pair moving 90’s – classic position and excellent style. riders up or down on their card weighing the fi rst and Correct execution of the course. second round scores as well as medal test performance. 80’s – good position and style with some When the testing is completed, each pair of judges minor faults in the execution of the course. will mark their card with how they would pin the class. 70’s – fair position, some lack of style The judges will hand the cards in to our scorers. or multiple minor faults. 60’s – poor position or style or major faults on course. Values will be entered into the computer based on the following point system:

Knockdowns: 1st Place: 10 points 5th Place: 1 points In a hunter class, where the horse is primarily being 2nd Place: 6 points 6th Place: 0.75 points judged, the standard score for a knockdown is 45. 3rd Place: 4 points 7th Place: 0.50 points In an equitation class however, since it is the rider 4th Place: 2 points 8th Place: 0.25 points who is primarily being judged, the round is fi rst Placing for those riders tested, will be determined by judged on its merits and then given a four-point total points. Ties for other than fi rst place will be broken deduction for the knockdown. by cumulative average going into the test. First place ties will require an additional work off and each judge For Example: will have one vote for the winner. Total points will be Rider A has a good position and style, has some revealed during the ribbon ceremony. minor faults on course and the horse rubs a jump and For Junior Finals only, if the difference betewen fi rst and the rail falls. The judges feel the round deserves an 83, second place is two points or less the judges must test. they then deduct 4 points for the knockdown and the fi nal score is 79. If the difference is more than two points, testing is at the judges’ discretion. Rider B has a fair position; multiple minor faults on course, misses a distance and has a knockdown. The judges give this rider a 68, they then deduct 4 points for the knockdown and the fi nal score is 64.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC26 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS TABLE OF COMMON FAULTS

GOOD MINOR FAULTS MAJOR FAULTS ELIMINATION

Legs • Close contact • Legs swinging • Insecurity • Secure • Stirrups long/short • Loss of contact with • Proper angles • Insufﬁ cient weight in stirrups saddle/stirrup • Ankles ﬂ exed inward • Too far in front/behind girth • Uncontrolled position • Heels down, • Uneven stirrups and/or spurring ball of foot on iron • Stirrup leather twisted • Loss of stirrup • Toe on stirrup

Seat • Supple, balanced • Ahead of or behind motion • Loss of contact • Close contact when called for • Off-center when needed • Proper hip angle for each gait • Rigidity, stiffness • Loss of proper rhythm • Effectiveness • Excessively rounded/ • Excessive motion swayed back

Hands • Hands over/in front of withers • Improper positioning • Roughness • Angles 30-45° inside vertical, • Rigidity • Catching horse in mouth slightly apart • Too light/loose rein • Loss of/dropping reins • Straight line from horse’s • Fall on hands mouth to riders elbow • Improper or no release • Quiet, light, elastic, with compassion for the horse • Follow horse’s mouth in the air • Demonstrate proper head carriage

Control • Maintaining horse in good form • Fussing, head tossing • Break of gaits • Demonstrating harmonious • Gapping of mouth • Incorrect lead or diagonal blending even, rhythmic gaits, • Uneven gaits • Bolting impulsion, balance and fl exion • Improper fl exion • Trotting on course (over fl exed or above bit) when not part of test

Overall • Secure, solid position • Fall on hands, opening too soon, • Unsafe fence • Fall of horse Appearance demonstrating proper angles leaning forward, swinging • Adding strides in a or rider • Even pace • Cross-cantering/wrong lead combination • Three • Flying changes a few steps • Weaving between fences cumulative • Connection – ﬂ exion and • Acceptable distance errors • Loss of stirrup or rein refusals bending • Late changes • Breaking gait • Off course • Proper number of strides • Weak/no release • Ahead of/beind motion • Riding “out of hand” • Ducking/eyes down • Legs ﬂ ying forward/back • Unacceptable distance errors • Sliding on saddle • Posting to the canter

Attire • Workmanlike appearance • Ill-ﬁ tting clothes • Inappropriate attire • Lack of • Horse clean, well-groomed, • Dirty boots, clothes (management or judge mandatory presented properly for show may eliminate rider) protective • Correct, clean, well ﬁ tted headgear hunt clothes (GR801)

Tack • Clean, well fi tted, • Ill-fi tting tack • Judge may penalize horse • Martingale use in good repair • Dirty tack with non-conventional on the fl at in • Judge may penalize horse types of bits or nosebands any class/phase with non-conventional (adding/removing types of bits or nosebands between phases is not a change) 43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC27 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS RULES & REGULATIONS

1. Show management reserves the right to cancel, HIGH POINT AWARD combine or divide classes when deemed necessary • For Adult riders, the highest individual judges to facilitate the smooth running of the show. pair’s score from the open or fi nals class (fi rst or 2. Every class offered herein which is covered by second round) count. the rules and specifi cations of the current USEF • For Junior riders the highest individual judges rulebook will be conducted and judged in pair’s score from the open, Challenge of the States, accordance there within. and the fi rst round only of the fi nals class counts. 3. Horses are allowed on the grounds Monday, • If there are riders (Adult or Junior) with tied October 15 at 12 pm and must leave on Sunday, scores, but one rider has two or more of that score October 21 within 2 hours of the end of the from another judges pair, they will be the winner. NEHC Medal Finals class. Hay, grain and bedding will be available daily on the grounds. • There will be one overall Adult winner and one Junior winner. 4. All stabling is permanent with doors. The ring is 100' x 200' with well groomed all-purpose footing. 5. Any horses in the main show ring while the ring is offi cially closed will be automatically eliminated. 6. The ring will be open for warm-ups on Tuesday, October 16 ONLY and hand walking on Friday, October 19 from 7 to 8 am ONLY. 7. NEEC reserves the right to have a restricted area for the courtesy circle which will be marked on the course diagram.

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1. Where do I park? 6. What are the lunging rules? Trailer parking map provided at arrival. Pick up Lunging rules are posted outside of each ring. passes in the show offi ce to avoid paying to park. 7. When and where is the horsemanship exam? 2. How do I fi nd out where my stall is? Friday at 5:30 pm at the Sheraton. No entry Map is located in the stabling offi ce next to the after 6:00 pm. Sign up in the show offi ce. show offi ce. Call Patti Harnois at 561-758-5362. 8. When will Challenge of the States teams post? 3. How do I order hay, grain, and/or shavings? After the last open class on Saturday is over. See form on page 26 of the prize list. 9. Where are the vendors and silent auction? 4. When is the Coliseum ticketed warm-up? They are located in a heated room Tuesday only from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm. behind the arena on the right hand side. Purchase tickets in the show offi ce for $30 each. 10. When and where is the junior party? 5. When is the back ring ticketed warm-up? Friday at the Sheraton. Cocktails are at 5:30 pm, Wednesday through Saturday, starting a half hour dinner at 6:30 pm. See page 29 of the prize list to before judging. Riders will get 5 minutes each, purchase tickets or visit newenglandequitation.com. 2 to 3 at a time. Last number is taken at 5:00 pm. Pick up in the vendor area at the Apple table. Time is at the discretion of the Committee. Purchase tickets in the show offi ce for $20 each.

While staying in Springﬁ eld, we caution New England Equitation Championships competitors and guests to be aware of their surroundings at all times. Always walk in well lit and well populated areas, and if you are out when it is dark, be sure to have someone accompany you to your destination.

Best of Luck to everyone at NEEC

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC31 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHOOLING AREA RULES

RING 1: IN GATE RING RING 3: LEFT HAND / RING 5: BACK RING NEW RING BETWEEN BARNS D & E • Tues – Sat: lunging until 7 am • • Sunday: lunging until 6 am AND Wed – Sat: 1/2 hour before judging starts in Coliseum you can school for RING 4: RIGHT HAND / 5 minutes ($20, buy ticket in offi ce) RING 2: SIDE INDOOR NEW RING (BIGGEST) • Wed – Sat: lunging until course set • Tues – Sat: lunging until 7 am • NO lunging….EVER! • Tues & Sun: lunging and fl atting • Sunday: lunging until 6 am • Jumps are fl agged at all times, only (check times) • 2 jumps fl agged at all times, must leave jumps in position must leave jumps in position • Riders showing have priority RING 6: ENTRANCE GATE 1 • Next 10 to show only when busy • Lunging and fl atting anytime

* oxers can be made into vertical in-and-outs in all rings * jumps and poles must be made in straight line, not diagonal *

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Class 1 Class 3 OPEN ADULT AMATEUR EQUITATION 46 & OVER OPEN ADULT AMATEUR EQUITATION 28 – 45 For adult amateurs who are 46 years of age or older. For adult amateurs who have reached their 28th Minimum of eight fences not to exceed 3’0”. birthday, but have not reached their 46th birthday. Minimum of eight fences not to exceed 3’0”. Trophy and Ten Ribbons Trophy and Ten Ribbons Section A sponsored by Lousia Attenborugh Section B sponsored by Charisma Farm Section A sponsored by Maplewood Farm Section B sponsored by The Poeta Family Class 2 THE NEW ENGLAND HORSEMEN’S COUNCIL Class 4 ADULT AMATEUR MEDAL FINALS 46 & OVER THE NEW ENGLAND HORSEMEN’S COUNCIL ADULT AMATEUR MEDAL FINALS 28 – 45 For adult members of the NEHC who have qualifi ed at a member show after the fi rst Sunday of October in the For adult members of the NEHC who have qualifi ed at past show season through midnight on the fi rst Sunday of a member show after the fi rst Sunday of October in the October for the current show season. All contestants will past show season through midnight on the fi rst Sunday of be required to perform over approximately ten fences not October for the current show season. All contestants will to exceed 3’0”. A minimum of 25% of the riders from the be required to perform over approximately ten fences not fi rst round will be required to return for a second round. to exceed 3’0”. A minimum of 25% of the riders from the Further testing will be at the judge’s discretion. Tests 1-19. fi rst round will be required to return for a second round. Further testing will be at the judge’s discretion. Tests 1-19. Sponsored by Herring Brook Farm Sponsored by Stargazer Hill Farm “First To Go” Gift donated by Judy Goldthwait “First To Go” Gift donated by Judy Goldthwait AWARDS PRESENTATION AWARDS PRESENTATION Perpetual Memorial “Jack Damlos” Trophy donated by Mrs. Patrick Rooney and Liz Rooney Prime Perpetual Trophy given in honor of Joanne Chope Corsiglia donated by Katherine Chope Ribbons donated by The New England Horsemen’s Council Ribbons donated by The New England Horsemen’s Council Show Coat donated by RJ Classics Show Coat donated by RJ Classics Top Ten Saddle Pads donated by Equine Journal Top Ten Saddle Pads donated by Equine Journal Coolerette donated by Boston Equine Associates Coolerette donated by Nancy de Cavaignac & Annie Connolly Eq~Teq Boots donated by EquiFit Eq~Teq Boots donated by EquiFit Ringside Back Pack, Biosecurity Stall Wash and Best Dang Boot Socks donated by Noble Outfi tters Ringside Back Pack, Biosecurity Stall Wash and Best Dang Boot Socks donated by Noble Outfi tters ACE Belt dontaed by ACE Equestrian ACE Belt donated by ACE Equestrian Flowers donated by Cedar Brook Farm Flowers donated by Windcrest Farm $50 Gift Certifi cate donated by SmartPak $50 Gift Certifi cate donated by SmartPak Trainer’s Award donated by Lori Gaudet & Oliynyk Show Stables Trainer’s Award donated by Newbury Farm

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The Walter J. Lee Perpetual Trophy is presented to the owner of the horse who, in the opinion of the judges, is the outstanding equitation horse of the present year’s New England Equitation Championships.

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made her debut in the sport on the small pony hunter Katrina Weinig circuit and bid farewell to it after winning the NEEC and 1976 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL the AHSA Zone 1 Medal Finals. She attended St. Michael’s College in Winooski, VT, and graduated with a bachelor’s The original! Weinig, the very fi rst winner in business administration in 1984. After spending seven of the New England Equitation Finals, years post-graduation as a restaurant manager in Burlington, was a student of a young Paul Valliere. VT, she moved back to the Boston area in 1991. Since then The Wellesley native, who took her earliest she has worked in human resources, staffi ng and training. riding lessons at the Dana Hall School, is Her current passion is in learning and development, with a graduate of both Northwestern University and Northwestern a focus on instructional design, managing, coaching and Law School. Katrina had been practicing law for 15 years mentoring. She received a graduate certifi cate in instruc- when she and her husband re-located to Europe. It was there tional technology design from UMASS Boston in 2009. She she returned to riding and began competing again. Katrina now works as an Associate Director Training, Learning & went on to own and operate a successful show barn in Virginia Development at Tufts University and resides in Beverly, MA. for several years and now manages and judges shows in the mid-Atlantic. Katrina, who has three children, was thrilled to return to NEEC and reconnect with many old friends in 2010, Lisa Castelucci when her daughter Grace came to compete, and has been 1980 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL honored to serve as a Horsemanship judge. Lisa Castellucci was the equestrian world’s “It” girl of the early 80s. Featured in count- Sarah (Edwards) Norfl eet less equestrian magazines (as well as the 1978 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL New Yorker) and even Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” feature, this 1981 After years of residing in Bermuda, Sarah Maclay Champion (as well as two-time reserve champion) recently returned to Kingston, MA. She pioneered the Acres Wild dynasty of the 80s and early ’90s. began riding at age eight at Little Forge Farm In the junior hunters Lisa was unstoppable as well, earning in Plymouth, MA with Lalla and Spencer scores of championships with her legendary Touch the Sun, Brewster, showing LFF ponies locally and who was recently inducted into the National Hunter Hall of regionally for many years. During her junior years, she received Fame in PA. After graduating from Rollins College, “Casty” training from Sarah Brewster, Carolyn Weeks, Paul Valiere/ worked 10 years for her dad Ken, a subcontractor in RI and a Jamie Mann/Acres Wild Farm, and Bill Cooney/George Morris/ fi xture at horse shows in the early 80s. For more than 20 years, Hunterdon. Sarah was the Zone 1 Medal Champion in 1977 Lisa has worked for Stone Source, working with architects and winner of the 1978 NEEC. A Wheaton college graduate, to specify natural stone for building projects. She splits her she is currently Director of Marketing & Program Development time between the East Village and her weekend home in at the F.L. Chamberlain School. Although she missed the Narragansett, RI. She hopes to one day take up riding again… opportunity to be a horse show Mom, she IS a Sailing Mom, “This time strictly for pleasure!” as her son Johnny grew up sailing in Bermuda and competing for their national team in international regattas as well as being a member of the St. Georges School Sailing team. Peter Wylde 1981 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Mary Anne McInnis 2004 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL 1979 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL As a student of Fran & Joe Dotoli, Peter won the NEEC and then the ASPCA Maclay Mary Anne began riding at the age of fi ve Finals. The Tufts University graduate rode and rode only until she was 17 and headed intercollegiately as well, winning the off to college. For her entire riding career Cacchione Cup. Peter’s reputation clearly precedes him, and he she was a student of NEEC co-founder, needs no introduction! Peter is an olympic gold medalist and Julie Ulrich, and Friar’s Gate Farm. “I grew winner of countless top tier Grand Prix classes. He is actively up with Julie and I owe a lot to her for the learning oppor- involved in the leadership of the USHJA Emerging Athletes tunities she gave me that have continued to be instrumental Program. Peter’s biography, Wylde Ride: A Horseman’s Story, in my life even outside of the equestrian world.” Mary Anne was authored by Joe Dotoli and received rave reviews!

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC62 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Stacie (Fluke) Turtledove Kate Chope 1983 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 1986 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 1986 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Stacie won the NEEC at the age of 15, after being the reserve champion at the age 12. An inspiration to all, Kate Chope is one of In addition to qualifying for the national the best role models in our sport, proving equitation fi nals each year beginning at that you can excel in both the classroom age 11, she was also a 6th place fi nisher at and the show ring. She is a Brown University the USET Finals. The Skidmore College graduate rode on her graduate who later went on to the University of Pennsylvania intercollegiate team during her junior and senior years. In 1990 for veterinary school. Along with her formidable partner, she was a member of the National Champion Skidmore team, Hearsay, they formed one of the winningest partnerships ever as well as the Silver Individual Medalist in the Cacchione Cup. in the A/O Jumper division, with victories throughout the Stacie returned to the Intercollegiate Nationals in 1991 and country. She represented the US at the European Young Riders made a sweep of the Alumni division, winning both the fl at Championships in England, won the Show Jumping Hall of and fences. After college she headed to NYC where she worked Fame East Coast Amateur series and fi nished 2nd in the country for Conde Nast Publications for six years and ultimately as a in the High A/O division that same year (all while in her Merchandising Editor at Glamour magazine. She then moved 2nd year of vet school!). Currently Kate’s a clinical assistant on to the Pepsi-Cola Headquarters working for Tracy Locke, professor at Cummings/Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, an Omnicom Promotion and Marketing Agency, as the Account focusing primarily on equine ultrasound and cardiology and Director on all Brand Marketing. In 1998 Stacie married Robert has been a judge for the practicum portion of NEEC horse- Turtledove and has since become a full-time mom to son manship class for several years. She has recently become Nathan and daughter Ally. They reside in Leawood, Kansas. board certifi ed in The American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. She’s married to Jose Garcia- Lopez, a large animal surgeon at Tufts, and they have three Linda (Kossick) Langmeier children. These days you can fi nd her ringside, grooming 1984 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL for her middle daughter, who has become an avid eventer! 2006 & 2015 ALUMNI CLASS Linda is one of three NEEC winners to have Kathy (O’Keefe) Ni Keefe won the ASPCA Maclay Finals. After her start at Shallowbrook Stables in her home- 1987 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP town of Somers, CT, she teamed up with Kathy was a top NE junior in the trainer Paul Valliere who guided her to big wins during her fi nal mid-80s as a student of Bob Crawford. junior years and made her a household name in the sport. She then took a year off before college Along with her national championship win she was also 5th working and riding for Gary Duffy and at the AHSA (USEF) Medal Finals and 9th at the USET Medal Danny Robertshaw in Florida, New York Finals. She turned professional in 1987 and went to work at and South Carolina. She graduated magna cum laude from Acres Wild Farm. In 1989 she opened her own Kelianda Farm Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, in 1992 with a major in (now in East Granby, CT), which has been wildly successful political science and a minor in French. Kathy worked in with strong contenders each year at the fi nals. Linda is married Greenpeace’s national offi ce in Washington, D.C., where she to renowned horseman Kenny Langmeier and is the proud could be found in the donor or campaigns divisions. She mother of Tyler, Nathan, and junior riding sensation McKayla, worked regularly out in the fi eld participating in climbing our 2014 Junior Champion. She has coached multiple riders to and boating actions designed to bring national attention NEEC victory as well. Linda returned for our ’15 Alumni class, to environmental issues. She presently resides in Santa Fe, and narrowly beat out daughter McKayla for a repeat victory! New Mexico doing bodywork: Polarity, Craniosacral and Massage Therapy. She also has served on the Board of Directors and been a trainer of nonviolent direct action campaigning Kara (Flynn) Baer for the organization Students for Free Tibet, where she has 1985 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL further pursued her political activism. 1989 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Kara raised eyebrows when she showed up Schuyler Riley to compete at her fi rst NEEC as a 12 year 1987 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL old on a pony. She took home a 10th place ribbon that year and returned the follow- A graduate of Tufts University, Schuyler ing year on a horse to win. She remains the youngest rider to was a student of Paul Valliere during her ever win the NEEC, at age 13. As a student of Fred Hunt & Holly junior years, competing in all the national Brewster she was also the youngest ever to win the MHC Junior equitation championships. At age 19 she Finals at age 12, was 4th at the AHSA (USEF) Medal Finals at was the fi rst female winner of the Rolex/ 13 and is the youngest rider, at 14, ever to win the coveted USET Show Jumping Talent Derby and that was just a glimpse USET Gold Medal for 20 USET wins. She also had wins in the of things to come. Some of Schuyler’s grand prix wins include USEF Medal and ASPCA Maclay at Devon and victories in the American Invitational, the AGA Championships, the the High Junior Jumpers at WEF. Kara, a University of Tampa American Gold Cup, Grand Prix of Boston, de Penn National, graduate, was the 2002 World Champion A/O Hunter Rider Sugarbush, the Catskills and a two-time winner of the North and has earned circuit championships at the HITS winter American Championships. She was an 8th place fi nisher at horse shows as a student of renowned horseman, Don Stewart. the World Cup Finals and in 2005 represented the US on the Kara and her husband Matt happily reside outside of Tampa Samsung Super League Tour while showing in France, Italy with their future Rays players: Matthew, Jr., and his brother, and Switzerland. Schuyler owns and operates Wolfstone Stables Ryan, as well as their little sister, Amelia Evelyn Baer! out of New Hope, PA and Wellington, FL.

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Hillary (Vars) Whelan Kristen Bumpus 1988 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 1989 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Hillary is presently living in San Francisco Under the guidance of Paul Valliere, and rides for one of the top horsemen in Kristen took home the win in the 1989 the country, John French (she loves her job!). MHC Finals, NEEC, and the Zone 1 Medal As a successful junior who qualifi ed for all Finals. Later that year, she was Reserve the national equitation fi nals Hillary rode Champion at the AHSA (USEF) Medal Finals with her mom, Beverly Vars, and Tim Kees. A graduate of and 10th at Maclay Finals. She went on to become one of Trinity College, Hillary was a co-founder of Equisearch.com the top hunter riders in the Northeast, with countless hunter where she worked for six years. Hillary and her surfer hus- tricolors and top derby fi nishes to her name. She has since band Dan (with whom she once embarked on an eight-month piloted her ever speedy jumper “Sparky” to numerous wins, journey around the world) have two sons, Finn and Noah. most recently the 2017 Fieldstone Speed Derby and the CMJ She is the proud sister of 2008 RIHA Adult Reserve Champion Sporthorse Cup. Kristen began working at Martha Curran’s and horse show judge, Elizabeth Vars. Dan and Hillary enjoy Arrowhead Farms in Concord, MA in 2006 and her students taking the boys camping, including to Yosemite! have met much success at both the local and national level, including win at MHC and NEEC. She is a longtime member of the New England Equitation Committee and, in the past Andrea (Moore) Ice years, has added Grand Prix commentating to her resume! We are always thrilled to hear her voice on TV! 1988 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Andrea is a graduate of Drew University, where she was a 4-year member of the Tammy Walsh varsity lacrosse team. Under the tutelage 1989 ADULT MEDAL FINAL of Fran and Joe Dotoli, she competed in the Medal, Maclay and USET Finals Tammy has made several trips to Harris- during the years of 1986-1988. A former Director of Hunter burg, Washington and the Garden, fi rst in & Collegiate Activities at the USEF, she and her family are the equitation division as a junior and now living in Malawi for two years for her husband’s job later in the A/O Hunters. She’s been a circuit with the U.S. Department of State. She has two daughters, champion at the Vermont Summer Shows Providence and Liberty. While living in Southern Africa, and a two-time circuit champion at the HITS Ocala shows, her family looks forward to going on safari and learning where she was also a two-time Best Amateur Rider circuit about the Malawian people. championship winner. A former Florida State Adult Medal Champion, Tammy also competed multiple years in the M&S Finals and the NAL Finals, as well as being a Zone 4 Cham- Lou Barnicle pion in both the Adult and A/O Hunters. Tammy is now an assistant trainer at Ravenwood Farm in Palm Harbor, FL. 1988 ADULT MEDAL FINAL Lou holds the distinction of winning the very fi rst New England Adult Equitation Julie (Taylor) Calder Championships, held in a fi eld in Ports- 1990 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL mouth, RI. She is a California native who began riding at the age of 3, growing up After a successful junior career, Julie gradu- with horses in her backyard. Lou got serious about the sport ated from the University of Richmond and under the tutelage of trainers John Turner, Linda Allen and then George Washington University with Ken Nordstrom. A graduate of Fresno State, she holds a degree a MBA and MA in Economics. She moved in graphic communication and is “one of the lucky ones who to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1997. She is does what they went to school for! Been a graphic designer the Marketing and Reservations Director for the Jackson Hole ever since!” Lou has freelanced almost all of her career, other Mountain Resort and Lodging. Julie and her husband Andy than when she worked at a TV station art department in have two daughters: Avery Elizabeth (8) and Hannah Louise Florida during the days her husband was a professional base- (6). Julie continues to ride and train with Heather Haubrich, ball player (SF Giants #1 draft pick). After settling on Cape Annie Dotoli and Tricia O'Connor. Julie placed 6th in the Cod she found her way to Holly Hill. Paired with her hunter, NEHC alumni class in 2015 with great thanks to team Tibri. Society Rose, she took the A/A Hunter division by storm with Avery Calder is now involved in the horse 4H program in many tricolors and a AHSA (USEF) Zone 1 Championship Wilson, Wyoming, and is learning to ride western. to their credit. Lou and her husband Ted have two children. Lou’s daughter, Erin, was also a student of Holly Hill and a top junior in New England.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC64 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Alexander Von Bismarck Annie Dotoli 1990 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 1992 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 2001 ALUMNI CLASS Sascha, a 1994 Harvard University graduate, was a popular choice for winner As a student of her parents, renowned of the Sportsmanship Award. A student horsemen Joe and Fran Dotoli, Annie was of Lauren Stevens, he competed at all the the 1992 NEEC Junior Reserve Champion national equitation fi nals. Today he is and Sportsmanship Award winner. That a senior investigator with the Environmental Investigation same year she also placed 3rd in the ASPCA Maclay Finals. Agency, residing in London, England. After graduating with a degree in psychology from Boston College in 1996, Annie continued training and riding at Benchmark Farm in Stamford, CT and later at Ox Ridge Hunt Kathy (Bell) DeLuise Club in Darien, CT. In 2002 she moved to Belgium with husband Aster Pieters. Together they own and run Tibri Breeding 1990 ADULT MEDAL FINAL and Sales (tibrihorses.com) an enormously successful sales, With her beautiful position Kathy was a training and breeding operation. Two of her success stories: natural for the equitation division and the 2006 Pony Medal Finals winner and also Opportunity, well-educated by the likes of Sue Brown, the 2007 NEEC Junior Finals winner as well as 2006 NEEC Beverly Vars, Fred Hunt, Paul Valliere Judges Choice award winner for outstanding equitation horse. and Karen Quirk. As a junior she was the Annie is the NEEC 25th Anniversary Alumni Class winner! winner of both the MHC and RIHA Equitation Champion- She resides with husband Aster and their two children, Nora ships and as an adult captured the RIHA Championships and Carsten, at their beautiful new farm in Chepachet, RI. again and was victorious at the NEEC. She also won scores of year-end high-point awards as both a junior and adult. She presently resides in Hope Valley, RI, and works for an McLain Ward insurance company that specializes in farms. She isn’t riding 1992 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL at the moment but keeps busy with her two sons and three 2004 & 2008 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL step-daughters. She attends lots of baseball and basketball 2016 OLYMPIC SILVER MEDAL games as the boys are very into sports. Nineteen years ago under the guidance of Paul Valliere, McLain Ward triumphed as Bill Lowry the New England Jr Equitation Champion. Since then he has become the winningest rider in the history 1991 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP of the United States. His resume is synonymous with winning: 1991 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL USET Medal Finals, AGA Rookie of the Year, four-time AGA Since winning the NEEC Bill has contin- Rider of the Year, two-time USET Show Jumping Champion, ued his riding career in the International American Invitational Champion, two-time $500,000 WEF Grand Prix ring. He has gone on to Finale winner, SIX-time Hampton Classic GP champion and numerous grand prix wins throughout winner of the $1million Pfi zer Grand Prix. The crown jewels the country, from Mississippi to Florida to Vermont. Bill has on his resume would be the back-to-back Olympic team gold won WEF Challenge Cups, Just World Grand Prix of Tampa, medals in Athens and Beijing, as well as the 2017 World Cup as well as grand prix at HITS and many others. Under the Championship. McLain is married to Lauren Amsterdam and owns and operates his horse import and sales business, guidance of Paul Valliere, Bill got off to a great start with a McLain Ward, Inc. out of Castle Hill Farms in Brewster, NY. reserve championship at the AHSA(USEF) Medal Finals and He is the proud father of daughter Lilly. top ribbons at both the Maclay and USET Finals. In 1994 he opened his own business, Winsor Farm Sales, Inc, in North Scituate, RI and began importing sale horses. Bill operates a CEM Quarantine at his farm in RI. He also owns and operates Linette (Laroque) Dooley a successful footing business designing and installing riding 1992 ADULT MEDAL FINAL arenas. He’s married to 1993 NEEC Reserve Champion Abby 2007 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 35+ Shaw and they are the proud parents of son, Jack! Linette was the 2006 National Ariat Adult Equitation Champion! In 2007, over 20 years after her 1985 Junior NEEC reserve Vanessa Waltz championship, Linettey won her second 1991 ADULT MEDAL FINAL Adult NEEC (as well as winning the High Point Adult Rider award with an 86.7)! As a junior and a student of Fred Hunt Vanessa credits her riding with a list of and Holly Brewster she competed successfully throughout the trainers that includes James Lala, Bob East Coast and indoors in both the equitation and with her Crawford, Ken Edwards, Paul Valliere, and two junior jumpers. She earned a berth on the Zone 1 Prix de Fran & Joe Dotoli (the latter three helping States team and was also 8th at the USET Finals. As an adult her to her NEEC win). For several years she continued her winning ways, winning the MHC and the she competed in the Medal, Maclay, and USET fi nals with her NEEC twice. Although not riding at the moment, Linette has wonderful partner, The Citadel (“Cecil”). She currently owns been a student of Armand Chenelle for several years and they’ve and operates Grandabon Farm just outside of Santa Fe, New formed a winning partnership – posting one of her NEEC wins Mexico, and has reconnected with some other NEEC alums and her National Ariat Championship. She lives in CT with when a Grandabon student competed at USEF Medal Finals her husband and son Jack and is a business analyst at fi nancial last fall. She has also rediscovered her passion for jewelry services company, ING. What does she want to be when she design, with local galleries selling equestrian-themed works grows up? “Personal Assistant to the Zac Brown Band!” Adult from her two collections, “Ristra Ranch” and “Molly & Scout”. equitation Hall-of-Famer. Part-time resident of Margaritaville.

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Lawrence “Rooster” Yacubian Jennifer Markee 1993 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 1993 ADULT MEDAL FINAL After completing his junior career, Rooster Jennifer has been well-educated in horse- later attended and graduated from Boston manship over the years by the likes of University, where he rode intercollegiately. George Morris, Chris Kappler and Margie As a trainer Rooster coached the Salve Engle, to name a few. Growing up on Regina riding team from 1996-1998, as well Long Island learned to ride with the help as students from his parents’ Quansett Farm. He completed of George Lukemire and then went on to work with Cynthia a tour in Afghanistan in 2005 and a tour in Iraq in 2008. Williams. She is now a trainer living and working out of He will always be our hero. Wellington, FL. “My greatest accomplishment is that I am a good horseman. That seems to be growing more and more unusual today. Winning is fl eeting; the respect of your peers Adam Ottomanelli is honorable.” Jennifer graduated from Manhattanville College with degrees in fi nance and political science and also 1993 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL started their IHSA riding team. She is currently the director In 1993 after winning the NEEC, Adam of the North American Riders Group, which advocates for placed third at the USET Finals and was riders, trainers and owners. In her leisure Jennifer likes to a ribbon winner at the Medal & Maclay play golf and work in the garden. Her travels have taken her Finals as a student of Paul Valliere. He to much of Western Europe, as well as Argentina, Colombia continued his winning ways as an adult and Mexico. Spain and Holland are her favorites to date. with numerous wins in the A/O Jumper division, including In 2007 Jennifer became a mother and her life veered off the American Invitational A/O Classic in Tampa, Florida. on a new and exciting adventure. He then started a professional career. He has had numerous grand prix placings in addition to many hunter championships over the years. Adam is a Somers, NY, native currently Amy Betuker Brooks residing in California, where he teaches, rides and shows. 1994 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL When not riding he enjoys motorcycles, sports and cars. Amy, a Boston University graduate, is a successful professional rider and trainer Elaine Bianco who hails from Ridgefi eld, CT. Under the tutelage of renowned horsewoman 1993 ADULT MEDAL FINAL Kip Rosenthal, Amy became one of the Elaine grew up in Melrose, MA, and now top juniors in the country with a reserve championship resides in Arlington, MA. She started riding (as well as 3rd and 4th place fi nishes) at the USET Finals and at about age eight and as a junior competed the 1995 Best Junior Rider title at Devon. As an amateur she in the saddle seat divisions with Red Oak earned tricolors up and down the East Coast on her junior Farm in North Andover. For most of her jumper, Impeccable, ultimately representing the US Zone 1 at riding career as an adult she competed in the hunters and the NAYRC. Amy spent many years after college running her equitation with Pam & Monica Hunt. She mentions winning own operation here on the East Coast, training horses and the NEEC has the highlight of her years in the sport, as well riders of all ages. In 2007 she trained the winners of both the as winning the 2005 Zone 1 Finals aboard Spoken For. Elaine CHJA Junior and Master’s medal fi nals as well as qualifi ers of graduated with a degree in nursing from Boston College in all major equitation fi nals. Amy married in 2011 and she and 1978 and after working in the fi eld for a few years developed her husband live in Baltimore, MD, where she is working in an interest in the application of computers in the medical fi eld. the equestrian world as well as the jewelry industry. She made the career switch and has been working as a software developer for a large medical center ever since, where she’s been lucky enough to have worked for some of the Julia (Hardy) Bryant pioneers in the fi eld. She is now retired from riding, “except 1994 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-30 for occasional trail rides with friends who generously offer their horses”! In her leisure she’s done some choral singing, From walk-trot to turning professional, played classical guitar (“badly”) and is “enough of a geek Julia spent 20 years with Holly Hill Farm. that working on iPad apps is becoming a hobby”. She’s now a mom to her two children: Jagger and Jayden. For the past 15 years Julia has worked in the special education fi eld, as a Behaviorist. Julia and her family reside in Mashpee, she enjoys spending her time watching her children play baseball and soccer.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC66 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Johnna (Bate) DeSantis Karla Galasso 1994 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ 1995 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 1995 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-30 Johnna began riding at age nine, and owned her fi rst horse at 12. She competed It is appropriate that “Vanna” was the fi rst in the junior jumpers and qualifi ed for the ever adult sportsmanship winner because Medal, Maclay and USET Finals her fi nal for years she has been one of the most two junior years. During a 20-year hiatus beloved fi gures in the New England horse from riding she graduated from Vassar College, received show community and known as one of the hardest workers an MBA from the Wharton School and worked for General in the industry. She is currently the barn manager at Holly Foods Corp, which included the test marketing and national Hill Farm in Marstons Mills, where she is responsible for over introduction of Jell-O brand Pudding Pops. Johnna has two 50 show horses and ponies. As an adult equitation rider Karla daughters, Jordi and Kendall, both of whom have become raised the bar and was nearly unbeatable, winning the RIHA accomplished horsewomen themselves, as well as on the way Equitation Finals, the NEEC and later the National Ariat to earning PhDs and MDs! After her return to riding Johnna Adult Finals in 1998. Karla still enjoys riding and training teamed up with Lauren Stevens and won the NEEC on a students at Holly Hill. Adult equitation Hall-of-Famer. horse she bought as a 3-year-old and brought along herself. She then bought another young horse, Eliot, that took her all the way to Madison Square Garden in the A/O Hunters Melanie (Dorf) Brown in 2001. These days, Johnna spends her time volunteering 1995 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ at the Endeavor Therapeutic Riding Program, tutoring in the Mercy Learning Center for Women, and at her church. Melanie began riding at the age of eight in Johnna’s favorite accomplishment? Her daughters! the Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania area, later showing in the hunters and equitation as a child and teenager. Over the years she’s Elizabeth (Addlesberger) Crannell learned from top horsefolk including Kate 1995 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Oliver, Fran & Joe Dotoli, James Lala, Ken Whelihan, Ray Texel and Lucie McKinney. One smart cookie, Melanie received her As a student of Lauren Stevens and BS from Duke University, studied at Oxford University and Stepping Out Farm, Beth competed in the the London Business School in the UK and received her MA in national equitation fi nals as a junior and Clinical Psychology in 2009. She is currently in her fi nal year of then later in the adult divisions as well. doctoral training in Clinical Psychology and works at Mt. Sinai She is a 1999 graduate of Wheaton College Hospital in NY. A force in the adult and amateur hunter rings who after graduation went to work in sales for an IT consulting for years, Melanie has won Zone 1 USEF Adult Hunter Horse fi rm and a software company. She currently is a sales director of the Year honors, as well as Best Adult Amateur Hunter Rider managing a business development team at Forrester Research in and Best Amateur-Owner Hunter Rider at various shows. As a Cambridge, MA and resides with her husband in Beverly, MA. student of Kate Oliver and CEO Stables she currently shows in Although she has not been riding competitively she hopes the Adult Jumper division aboard her horse Arville. The duo to return to the show circuit in the near future! were Champion at WEF, Old Salem, Fairfi eld, and the Hampton Classic this year. She has three sons: Alexander, Nicholas, and Jaime (Weight) Joros Charlie, along with stepson and stepdaughter Greer and Skyler. 1995 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Steven Violin Congratulations are in order as Jaime 1996 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP married in December of last year! As a junior rider wanting to train full time 2016 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP with Paul Valliere, Jaime uprooted from A two time NEEC Reserve Champion(!), Jacksonville, FL, and moved to RI at age 15. Steven began riding at the Dana Hall The plan paid off and with her equitation partner, the amaz- School when he was 7, and has many ing Flamingo, she won the MHC Finals and the NEEC Finals, fond memories of the trainers, staff, and was Reserve Champion at the AHSA (USEF) Medal Finals, fellow students while he was fi rst learning what horseman- and 5th at the Maclay Finals. Jaime moved to the grand prix ship was all about. He is married to fellow NEEC competitor division with ease. Under the watchful eye of Norman Dello Abby Violin, (also a veteran of the Dana Hall Riding Center!), Joio she was in the ribbons on countless occasions, including and has three children to whom he hopes to pass on the a 2nd place fi nish at the Catskills GP and a 3rd place fi nish crazy horse bug! He and Abby recently bought their fi rst at the Fidelity Jumper Classic. Presently she has taken a break horse together and take turns showing him. When he’s not from riding to enjoy her fi ve children and two step-children. in the ring, Steven enjoys many outdoor activities, including She and her family happily reside in West Palm Beach, FL. skiing and hiking, and has climbed the 46 high peaks of the Adirondacks. He serves on the board of a local land trust to ensure that these outdoor activities remain available to his community. Bonus fact: Steven loves music and played the French Horn in an orchestra during college!

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Erica (Keany) Blob Melissa Mastroni 1996 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 1997 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Erica is a summa cum laude graduate from An equestrian since the age of seven, Duke University and earned her MBA from Melissa rode her entire junior career with Harvard Business School. She was also an the Fairfi eld County Hunt Club. Along overachiever in the show ring, winning the with her NEEC win, she was also 4th at the Grand Pony Hunter Championship at the CHJA Finals and 4th at the PHA Finals. 1993 Pony Hunter Finals. On horses she was equally impressive, While in college, she represented the US at the AIEC in Holland with wins at the MHC Finals, the NEEC, the ASPCA Regionals where she was the silver medalist in individual show jumping. and a berth on the Zone 1 Prix de States team, to name a few. Melissa graduated from Sacred Heart University with a BS in Erica is a director at New Mountain Capital in New York. history and minor in business. Her current position is VP of She also writes about the New England Patriots for the NFL Client Relationship Management and Investment Product website Her Game Life. We’re in awe of Erica’s accomplish- Development for the Tailored Portfolio Group, an asset man- ment of seven marathons! She is the proud daughter of adult agement boutique within Citigroup. Melissa’s other full time amateur superstar Vanessa Symmons. Erica and her husband, job (and passion in life) is working to rescue Labradors and Jonathan, reside in Connecticut. “One of these days I’m Pit Bulls from high-kill shelters so as to place them in loving going to make it to the fi nals again!” homes. In addition, she works to continually advocate, educate and raise awareness for Pit Bulls as well as being heavily involved in dog obedience training and behavior modifi cation. Patty Phelps She is an advocate for chinchilla rescue as well. 1996 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP After growing up riding in various Sarah (Katz) Fostello disciplines Patty switched to hunters 1997 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP and equitation as an adult. There she had much success, as Reserve Champion Sarah is happily married to James Fostello at both the MHC and NEEC Finals and has a wonderful stepson, James, and (two-times), as well as winning adult hunter championships a beautiful daughter Caroline. One of the at horse shows like St. Clement’s Saratoga on her former most popular adults to compete at the partner, Expertese. She works in printing management and NEEC, this former barn manager for Phyllis lives at Charisma Farm in Plympton, MA, with her hubby Cervelli’s Holly Hill Show Stable is now a Northeast Applica- and NEEC committee member Fred Hunt. tions Team Leader for GE Healthcare and is busier than ever, but loving it! In the adult equitation division Sarah was an accomplished rider, winning the MHC Equitation Finals, the Suzanne Guerette Powell MHJ Medal Finals and the SSHC Championships. This summer she returned to riding and we hope to see at the NEEC again 1996 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP soon! An avid birdwatcher, she loves to take walks with her 1999 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-30 family and dogs and just simply loves the outdoors! As a student of Holly Hill, this Lenox, MA, native was one of the top juniors in New England, qualifying for the AHSA (USEF) Anne Holman National Medal Finals, ASPCA Maclay 1997 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP Regionals, WIHS Equitation Classic and USET Finals. She was 2003 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 35+ a winner of the coveted USET gold medal for 20 USET wins, as well as the Governor’s Cup Equitation Classic at Saratoga and Anne has been riding since the age of Ralph Symmes Medal Finals. In the jumper ring she scored a fi ve beginning in Pony Club and 4-H and big victory in the M&S $10,000 Children’s Jumper Prix at the eventually moving up to advanced level Washington Intl Horse Show. As an adult rider Suzanne con- 3-day eventing. She took up hunters and tinued her winning ways, posting wins at the MHC Finals and equitation after marrying equine veterinarian Mark Holman. the NEEC as well as a reserve championship at the National In 1998 Anne was Reserve Champion at the MHC Equitation Ariat Medal Finals! In the jumpers she returned to the WIHS Finals and won the championship in 1999. She rounded out and fi nished 4th in the M&S $10,000 Adult Jumper Prix. her equitation career by placing 3rd in the Hermes Palm Suzanne is a Dickinson College (3 years!) biology graduate and Beach Adult Medal in 2009. These wins were on horses that has been a meeting planner for over 14 years. After over a Anne and Mark purchased as youngsters and brought along decade, she returned to riding and showing last year and really themselves. Anne works as offi ce manager of her husband’s enjoyed the whole horse show experience all over again! veterinary practice and currently shows in the Adult Hunters. (“Thank you Phyllis Cervelli!”) Suzanne and her husband She is the proud mom of rising junior star Miles. Andrew now live in Hawaii with their son.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC68 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Amanda Starbuck Jenna (Kieley) Teeson 1997 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-30 1998 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Amanda is a UVM graduate hailing from Although Jenna burst onto the national Ridgefi eld, CT, where she comes from stage at a young age with her win at the a family of equestrians. She has enjoyed M&S Children’s Hunter Championship, success in both the hunter and jumper it was in the equitation where she’d make divisions as both an amateur and profes- her mark. Jenna was a winner of both the sional. In the years of 2002 and 2003 she and her toe-pointing MHC and NEEC Junior Finals. She was also Reserve Champion superstar, Rio Bronco, were not only the A/O Hunter 18-35 at the Maclay Regionals, 5th at the WIHS National Equitation Champions at the National Horse Show but they were also Finals and a ribbon winner at all the major horse shows USEF National Champions in the division as well. In the A/O throughout the East Coast. In the High Junior Jumpers she jumpers Amanda won several classes at the National Horse was also successful with numerous victories including earning Show, earned tricolors in Palm Beach and topped the A/O a berth and competing for the Prix des States Zone 1 team at Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic at the Vermont Harrisburg. At Ohio University Jenna pioneered a riding team Summer Festival. She turned professional in 2007 and with that won the Intercollegiate Nationals in 2002. Jenna now sister Juliana has opened Starbuck Equestrian in Ridgefi eld, works as an artist agent, representing commercial photog- CT. She is a winner of the NJ $25k Horse Park Grand Prix, raphers, working on national ad campaigns. Jenna and her the $5000 Devoucoux Hunter Derby at Old Salem Farm and husband Nick reside in Dover, MA, with their son Chase and was a top 25 fi nalist in the inaugural $500,000 Hunter Derby. daughter Hanna who already love horses as much as their mom. Amanda is currently bringing along many young mounts to the Grand Prix level. Sally (Violin) Thayer Katie Chester 1998 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP 2000 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 1997 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ After a successful junior career, Sally Katie, a Manhattan native, is an award- graduated from Duke University in 2002, winning graphic designer with degrees then with an MBA from Vanderbilt from UVA and RISD. After much success in University in 2009. The former NEEC the adult equitation and hunter divisions horsemanship winner has had the honor of being invited she moved to Charlottesville, VA in 2001, back to the NEEC to serve as a judge for the horsemanship where she continues those winning ways in the A/O hunter practicum. Sally now lives in Houston, TX with her husband division. Katie owns and operates a graphic design company, Ed and is Director of Product Management for Phreesia. Chester + Hound, in Charlottesville, VA. She has continued to ride since her junior years and currently competes in the AO Hunters and the occasional International Emily Birdwhistell Hunter Derby, if the jumps don’t look too big. 1998 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Dixie deKoning As a student of Fred Hunt and Holly Brewster, Emily was successful in both the 1998 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP equitation and hunter rings as a junior rider, Dixie is a New Canaan, CT, native now qualifying for Harrisburg and Devon. The living in NYC. She graduated from Briar- Vassar College graduate was also a member cliff College with a BA in English and of the women’s varsity rugby team that competed intercolle- has worked in public relations and school giately and in England, Ireland and Australia. After living in admissions. She plays lots of tennis and NYC post-graduation, Emily returned to academia and in 2006 loves to travel (her favorites are to the Bahamas and her graduated from Georgetown Law School. When in New England husband’s native land, the Netherlands). Her two daughters, Emily is a student of River Wind Farm. Currently, Emily lives Liska and Daria, both rode competitively and enjoyed in Los Angeles where she is employed as an intellectual property competing at the NEEC. Dixie began riding at the age of 12 and entertainment litigation attorney at the NBC Universal as a student of the Ox Ridge Hunt Club and has ridden with Television Group. Emily is a member and captain of the Santa Otto Heuckeroth, his daughter Patty, Lucy McKinney and Monica Women’s Rugby Club, which fi nished 4th in the coun- Fran Dotoli. A successful junior rider, she was a 4th place try this year. She and her boyfriend Chris, also an attorney, live fi nisher at the Maclay Finals at MSG. When her daughters with their adorable black lab-mix rescue, Cole Porter, in their left for college she kept the horses and took up the sport LA home. Emily is also the proud godmother to 1998 Junior again after a 12-year hiatus. She was a winner of the CT Adult NEEC Champion Jenna Teeson’s children, Chase and Hanna. Medal Finals and competed in the A/O hunters and Adult Jumpers. Although she no longer rides she misses the sport and especially the NEEC. She is the proud grandmother of Liska’s three children who live in England, all of whom love to ride the pony her English Granny keeps in the backyard.

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Mary Beth McGee Sarah-Ki (Tomasi) Rice 1998 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 1999 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Mary Beth has been a fi xture in the New Synonymous with nerves of steel, Sarah-Ki England equestrian community for years. competed in the equitation at Harrisburg As well as training horses and riders to and Madison Square Garden from 1997- success at all levels of our sport, her wildly 1999. During that time she was the Equita- successful sales operation is often the fi rst tion Classic winner at the Maclay Regionals place people look for horses when fi nals time comes around. all three years, while fi nishing in the top 10 in each of those She’s been educated by some of the best in our sport: River Regionals. A WIHS Jumper Phase winner at Devon, she also Wind Farm, Mark Jungherr, Emil Spadone, Aaron Vale and Don fi nished 6th at the junior NEEC. At the University of South Stewart. Her Herring Brook Farm (www.herringbrookfarm.com) Carolina, Sarah-Ki was a 3-year captain of the riding team and in Pembroke, MA, is where she runs her operation, as well was a bronze medalist representing the US at the International as hosting horse shows throughout the year. Mary Beth is a Riders Cup in Rome, Italy. Sarah-Ki purchased a beautiful farm Boston college graduate who enjoys tennis and running. in Shelburne, Vermont in the fall of 2007 and re-established Summerwood Farm – the name of her mom’s (renowned VT horsewoman, Judy Shailor) original barn – established in 1971. Megan Black In 2010 she moved to Charlotte, NC, where she does some freelance teaching and riding. 1998 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-30 2003 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 25-34 Megan, a Boston University graduate, Sarah B. Willeman was a student of Holly Hill Show Stable 1999 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL for over 10 years and is one of only three riders ever to win the Adult NEEC twice. A student of Missy Clark, Sarah was one “I love following the NEEC shenanigans via Facebook – of the most successful riders of her gener- am still planning to come back as a 46+er”! Megan recently ation. She won the USEF Medal Finals, relocated to San Diego working as the Media Capability Lead WIHS Equitation Finals, USET Finals, and at digital ad agency Piston. She is a two-time Chicago mara- numerous hunter championships and thoner competing as a charity runner for the Alzheimer’s Open Jumper Grands Prix; received sportsmanship awards Association, bringing awareness to the disease and its impact at the National Horse Show and Maclay Regionals; and was not just on patients but caregivers and families. Megan the named US Equestrian Federation Junior Equestrian of the explorer has travelled recently to Thailand, Cambodia and Year, Chronicle of the Horse Hunter Horseman of the Year, Ireland. She has won FAR too many adult equitation fi nals to and Stanford University’s Club Sports Athlete of the Year. list and quite frankly she’s too modest to allow us to anyhow. She holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Education from “Good luck to all at this year’s NEEC. I miss everyone so much”! Stanford and an MFA in Fiction Writing from NYU. In recent 2015 was a big year for Megan…she not only got married, years, she has become a prominent breeder of reining horses, but also returned to the saddle after a 10 year hiatus! partnering with Tom McCutcheon in Texas. Her new lifestyle blog, GrappaLane.com, covers horses, healthy living, style, and renovating an old Connecticut farm with her husband, Jill Valliere Philip Richter. She is working on a collection of stories about characters whose lives intersect through the world of horses. 1998 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ Jill won both the NEEC and the MHC Medal Finals, was Reserve Champion at Justine (Powers) Jarvis the National Ariat Adult Medal Finals and 1999 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP a two-time National Masters Ariat Award winner. She also led the country in Ariat Justine is a graduate of Clark University points for two consecutive years with her great horse, Southern with a degree in ancient civilizations. She Lights. Jill has been riding since the age of seven and loves to was a riding instructor at the Dana Hall travel, read, cook and garden. She is married to Paul Valliere. School Riding Center but returned to her After competing, Jill returned to her passion of photography family’s Highgarden Farm in Poolesville, and is running her production company “Billy Martin Pro- Maryland. There she has been riding and coaching, as well as ductions Inc”. Jill is the house photographer for Live Nation’s freelancing between barns. Justine has been riding and com- Xfi nity Center in Mansfi eld, MA and also the staff photogra- peting since she was 12 in the hunter, jumper and equitation pher for the equestrian magazine “Above The Rail”. rings. She is married to Michael Jarvis, and the two recently bought a new farm in Frederick, Maryland where they are now operating Highgarden Farm.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC70 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Nicole (Gokey) Oliynyk Emily Zildjian-Bickford 1999 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2000 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Nicole began her riding career as a Congratulations to Emily on her marriage successful junior under the tutelage of to Lawrence Hill of Lawrence Hill Horse- Lauren Stevens, with whom she rode with shoeing! Emily is a 2004 graduate of Lehigh for nearly 10 years. Nicole graduated from University. As a student of Carl Catani UMASS Amherst with a bachelor’s degree and Abby Greer, Emily qualifi ed for all the in zoology in 1995. Returning to the show ring as an adult junior national equitation fi nals and was one of the most top she was a two-time Reserve Champion at the NEEC, was 3rd junior jumper riders in the nation with her partner Mandela, in the MHC Finals and 3rd at the National Ariat Medal Finals. fi nishing 5th nationally in the AHSA (USEF) standings. Emily Known for her humility and graciousness, she was also the had major wins in the high junior jumpers at Saratoga and NEEC Sportsmanship winner. Nicole is employed as a Director Lake Placid and then went on to a reserve championship fi nish of Regulatory Affairs at Genzyme Corp. where she has worked in the Calvin Klein Junior Jumper Classic at the Hampton for 16 years. In 2002 she walked down the aisle with long- Classic, as well as being a member of the Zone 1 Junior Jumper time love, David Oliynyk! We have our fi ngers crossed she’ll return to the NEEC someday…we sure do miss her! National Championship team in the Prix de States. In the equitation she was a 4th place fi nisher in the USET Finals, Reserve Champion at the CT Medal Finals and the MHJ Junior Medal Champion. In 2006 her hunter Amir was Zone 1 Horse of the Deirdre (DePrisco) Radler Year in the A/O’s and in 2007 she took the same honors with 1999 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP Amelia. She is now an employee of Lawrence Hill Horseshoe- 1999 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ ing and running Bickford Show Stables out of Loxahatchee, FL with plans for a barn in Hingham, MA soon! Dee, a resident of Wellesley, MA, and Boca Raton, FL, was a 2008 and 2009 qualifi er for the National Ariat Adult Finals. Known for her textbook position and soft and fl uid Laena Romond rides she was the winner of both the 2000 MHC Equitation 2000 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Finals and the 1999 NEEC under the watchful eye of Cookie 2001 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-24 DeSimone. Recognized by all for her humility she also won the 1999 NEEC Adult Sportsmanship Award. Over the past few Laena grew up in Colchester, VT and rode seasons Dee has shown successfully during WEF each winter. as a working student with Fran, Joe and A graduate of Babson College, she is a certifi ed gemologist/ Annie Dotoli. She later graduated cum diamontologist at DePrisco Jewelers in Boston. In addition to laude from Mt. Holyoke College in 2005 riding, Deirdre is an accomplished classical pianist and ball- with a degree in biochemistry. While at Mt. Holyoke she room dance competitor, as a founder and CEO of Ballroom rode intercollegiately and won the Cacchione Cup in 2002. Dance New England, Inc. Some of her more notable recent wins Laena works for Heritage Farm, where she has helped coach were the North American Ballroom Championship, the World numerous junior superstars, as well as ridden to victories Masters Ballroom Championship, US National Showdance in the professional hunter divisions at indoors. In 2008 she Championships and the North American Salsa Championship! returned to the NEEC and coached Matt Mettell to his NEEC She is married to hunky Dan Radler, a US professional ball- junior win. Outside of the barn, Laena is competitive long room champion (as well as winner of ‘Boca Raton’s Hottest Husband’ contest) and the two were featured on the television distance runner and lives in Somers, NY. show ‘2009 America’s Ballroom Challenge!’ Deirdre has remained passionately involved in the riding world and lately has been enjoying purchasing and sharing beautiful hunters Karen Clark and equitation horses with the lucky riders of Woodridge Farm. 2000 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2007 SUE BRAINARD TROPHY Sara Wytrzes As well as her 2000 Adult Sportsmanship win, Karen was awarded the 2007 Sue 2000 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Brainard Trophy for her years of contribu- A student of Grazing Fields Farm, Sara was tion to the NEEC. She owns and operates the 2000 ASPCA National Maclay Reserve The Horse Works, a mobile saddle fi tter as well as saddle and Champion as well as the 1999 Maclay sales that travels to 28 commercial barns in northern Vermont Regionals winner. She also won the RIHA and specializes in fi tting equipment to her customers’ horses Finals, the MHC Finals, the NEEC and was right at their farm. She’s added a magnetic therapy machine Reserve Champion in both the R.W. Mutch- WEF Equitation to her offerings as a complement to saddle fi tting. Karen Finals and Kathy Scholl Lake Placid Equitation Classic. Sara is is also a member of the Education Committee of the VHJA. a graduate of NYU where she majored in art history and mi- A student of Tara Valade and StoneHaven, Karen purchased nored in Italian and is employed at Sand Hills Productions. her current horse Cavanaugh from Annie Dotoli. Karen and After 15 years away from horses, Sara came back with the sole her husband, Lanny, have been married for over 40 years intention of competing in the NE fi nals 40th anniversary and have two daughters, Rosalind and Jessica. She is a proud alumni class. Unfortunately, she underestimated how much she grandmother to Jessica and Roz’s children. truly missed the horses, and the entire horse show world. Sara then uprooted her entire life, purchased a young horse, and moved back to MA to ride. She can be found at almost anytime wandering around Grazing Fields Farm, or more likely, in her horses stall. She now serves as a full time cautionary tale to anyone who “used to ride” and “kind of misses the horses.”

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Caitlin Venezia Sophie (Coppedge) Walker 2000 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-30 2001 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Caitlin was one of the top juniors in the As a student of Grazing Fields Farm, nation winning everywhere from Palm Sophie won the junior NEEC in 2001 at Beach to Devon in the hunters, jumpers the young age of 15. Since her win she and equitation. She was Reserve Champion has graduated from New York University at the Maclay Finals at Madison Square in 2008 with a BFA in art history and Garden, 6th in the AHSA (USEF) Medal Finals and 5th in married Brian Walker, 2000 NEEC Reserve Champion. the USET Finals. She is also a winner of the coveted USET Together they founded Woodside Farm Inc. based between Gold Medal for 20 USET wins and was twice the NEEC Junior Wellington, FL and Lexington, KY. Sophie competed suc- Reserve Champion. Caitlin excelled in the classroom as well, cessfully in the A/O jumpers and was a tireless crusader as a graduate of Boston University. A trainer at her family’s for all animals, large and small. Sophie was beloved by all Holly Hill, she was able to teach by example as a winner of who knew her, and her infectious laughter and contagious the equitation portion of the USEF judge’s clinic held during smile will be remembered as we rename the Younger Adult WEF. She made a successful jump to the Grand Prix ranks Sportsmanship trophy in her honor. with numerous placings. Away from horses she’s extremely well-read and is known to fi nish off a book a day. Sister of skydiving/triathlete/paddleboarder Charlie V. Today, she is Jamie Peddy married to Chuck White and a has a son and a new daughter. 2001 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP She lives in Oklahoma but still rides and trains with Holly Hill! Jamie hails from Oyster Bay, NY. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Kamala Grasso biology from Brown University where she captained the Varsity Equestrian Team, 2000 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ she attended the University of Pennsylvania Kamala cites winning the NEEC as a School of Veterinary Medicine, graduating with honors in student of Lauren Stevens the highlight large animal surgery, sports medicine and imaging. She joined of her riding career. She began riding at Manor Equine Hospital in Monkton, Maryland for a yearlong the age of 10 in the footsteps of her older internship in 2010, and has since stayed on as an associate sister. As a child, she stuck to pony club veterinarian, providing the majority the ambulatory services competitions, small 4-H shows and lots of trail riding. It wasn’t for the practice. We’ve been thrilled to have Jamie return to until she started riding with Lauren that she had the chance the NEEC to help judge the Horsemanship class. to compete in equitation. In 2001, she started riding her NEEC partner French Cuffs, leasing him for six months and then buying him four days before the fi nals. She went on to compete Nicole (Simkins) Nichelmann in the adult jumpers with him as well. Since 2006 she has 2001 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP taken some time off from riding to be a mom to her 14 year 2008 & 2010 NEEC RESERVE old son and 12 year old daughter. One day she hopes to get back to riding but for now she spends her free time watching The Boston Bruins fan that all others will her kids play soccer, basketball, and baseball instead. forever be measured by! Along with her NEEC reserve championships Nicole was a Zone 1 Adult Equitation Finals Champion. Jenny Durkin A student of Olana and Scott Laffey for over a quarter of 2001 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP a century, this will be Nicole’s 27th consecutive trip to the NEEC and it remains her favorite fi nal. She was the 2003 Known for her contagious smile and bub- MHC 18-30 Medal Champion and 2010 and 2012 MHC 30+ bly personality, Jenny was a popular choice Reserve Champion, as well as a three-time fi nalist at the for the Sportsmanship award. As a student National Ariat Finals. Nicole is the owner of the beloved The of Holly Hill Farm she placed 4th in the Grog restaurant. She is happily married to Bill Nichelmann, 2001 NEEC Junior Medal Finals and 10th in who cheers her on from the stands at the NEEC each year. the North American Equitation Championships at the Capital Challenge. She also was the winner of the 2001 RIHA Equita- tion Finals and the 2001 SEHA Equitation Finals, and topped off her career with the prestigious NEEC Junior Sportsmanship award. Jenny was a 2006 graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans. Jenny works as an Americorps VISTA at New Orleans Outreach, a nonprofi t organization with the mission to improve public education in New Orleans by bringing volunteers and other community resources into the schools.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC72 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Leslie Prinz Laura Faulkner 2001 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2002 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 2002 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Leslie grew up in a horse-oriented family and began riding with the Jericho Forrest After a successful junior career competing Pony Club and local 4-H groups. After in the hunters, jumpers and equitation with college she took a ten-year hiatus from trainers Cookie DeSimone and Greg Prince, riding while working for the American Laura attended Stanford University for col- Hospital Supply, Proctor & Gamble and several large offi ce lege and the University of Pennsylvania for veterinary school. supply companies. After years of leading the Northeast sales Graduating in 2011, she did an internship at Fairfi eld Equine team as the Regional VP for the Contract Sales Division of Associates in Connecticut, followed by a fellowship in large Staples, Inc, Leslie discovered her entrepreneurial spirit and animal ultrasound and cardiology at the University of Penn- reopened the Horseman’s Exchange, an equine consignment sylvania’s New Bolton Center. She currently works for Miller shop that her mother Barbara Stevens started over 30 years & Associates in Brewster, NY doing sport horse medicine. She ago to help pay for her horses and showing. While still op- still rides her jumpers as much as she can, and has enjoyed erating the tack shop she has also returned to the corporate returning as a judge in the horsemanship competition. world as the VP of strategic initiatives at Offi ce Max. In her leisure she plays in several USTA tennis leagues. With the encouragement of her sister, trainer Lauren Stevens, Leslie Whitney Hollinger returned to riding, and currently rides at Fair Harbour Farm 2002 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL with Dina Mazzola in Acton, MA. What began as a pony ride at a fair has turned into a successful career. Whitney Adele Einhorn holds the coveted achievement of having 2001 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 30+ won ribbons at all four of the national equitation championships. She was the Adele rode extensively as a junior and winner of the Jumper Phase at the 2002 Washington Inter- while attending Skidmore College. After national Equitation Finals (5th overall), 10th in the 2002 graduate school, she took a hiatus from USAEQ Medal Finals (Harrisburg), 10th in the 2001 ASPCA riding/showing and spent time living and Maclay Championships and 8th at the 2004 USET Finals. working abroad. Adele is currently the She also won the Sportsmanship Award at the 2002 ASPCA Director of Special Projects and the Executive Director of the Regionals and in addition to her NEEC tricolor was the Skidmore College Saratoga Classic Horse Show, of which she gold medal individual rider in the Challenge of the States. co-founded sixteen years ago. Her return to the show ring Whitney graduated from Emory University in 2007, major- has included winning the Ariat Adult Medal Masters Award, ing in business and psychology. This hard-working young the CDHJC Adult Medal Finals, the 2001 Adult NEEC, as well professional recently opened a new venture this year with as high score awards in the hunter and equitation divisions. Katherine Bobola. Autum Mist Farm is currently operating Adele still rides with Bob Braswell and recently purchased out of two locations: Warren, RI and Plainville, MA. a young pre-green horse named SOCHI whom she now shows in the 3’3” A/O Hunters. When not riding, she enjoys long walks with her dogs, spending time with her husband and Sean Rogers family and hitting the Vermont slopes on her snowboard. 2002 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2008 SUE BRAINARD TROPHY Gina Marie Ciccotelli As a student of Woodridge Farm Sean 2002 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP enjoyed wins at the SEHA, MHJ, NEHJ, MHC and Zone 1 Equitation Champion- Gina was one of the best pony riders in the ships, as well as a 2nd place fi nish at the sport during her early junior years, with a NEEC. He’s also earned championships in Palm Beach, Ocala, reserve championship at Harrisburg in the Vermont, Saugerties, the Big E and the USHJA Zone 1 Hunter hunters and a reserve championship at the Finals. A three-time HITS Ocala Best Adult Rider winner, he’s WIHS Pony Medal Finals. After graduating also collected a HITS Ocala Adult Eq Circuit championship to horses she won just about everything in sight. The equitation and the NAL Adult Hunter Classic at Saratoga. He loves Star- fi nals winner of the SSHC, SEHA, MHJ, Kingston, CC Hunter bucks, skydiving, rowing, competing in triathlons and since and East-West Finals, Gina was also Reserve Champion at the 1996 has volunteered at the MA Special Olympics. A friend NEEC and RIHA Finals. She qualifi ed for Harrisburg and the and cheerleader to everyone in and out of the ring, he is with- Garden her fi nal two junior years and was a team gold and silver out a doubt the most beloved NEEC Adult rider of all time! medalist at the NEEC Challenge of States. She received her President of the Adult Equitation Hall of Fame. bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University with a double major of criminal justice and psychology. Gina is married and works as the General Manager of Coppa in Boston’s south end.

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Laura (Littlechild) Seele Audrey Banks 2002 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 2003 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Laura graduated in 2005 from Emory Audrey capped off her fi nal junior year University in Atlanta, GA, with degrees in winning the NEEC Sportsmanship award, both English literature and psychology, fi nishing in the top 10 at the NEEC, following which she founded and managed placing 2nd in the Katie Battison Horse- Tesorino Gallery, a contemporary art manship Class and winning the MHC gallery and luxury goods boutique in Boston’s Beacon Hill Medal Championship. Since graduating from Princeton, she neighborhood. Laura received her MBA in May, 2011 from has worked for the UN and humanitarian aid organizations the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Thailand and Jordan. She is in Wellesley, MA, graduating with magna cum laude honors. currently working for the International Rescue Committee She is currently married and living in New York City, where in New York while she fi nishes her fi nal year of law school she works for Steinway & Sons as Global Manager of the at the University of Pennsylvania. Custom Pianos Department. Georgina Coolidge Sloan Sherman 2003 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 2002 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 25-34 2005 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Before the age of 12 Sloan had already She is a legend at the NEEC – the fi rst accomplished big things as a student of rider ever to win both a junior and adult Paul Valliere. At age nine she was cham- NEEC championship! Nina, a native pion at the National Pony Finals and at Bostonian, competed all over the country age 11 she was 2nd in the open class at as a junior rider under the tutelage of Grazing Fields Farm the Maclay Finals at Madison Square Garden. She competed and won the 2003 Northeast Maclay Regionals, was 3rd in the in the Maclay Finals for seven consecutive years during her 2003 WIHS Equitation Finals (where she scored a 97 in the junior career and with her junior jumper, Jet Steam, she also 3rd round) and was the winner of the RI Equitation Champi- captained the Zone 1 Prix de States team at Harrisburg. Sloan onships. She graduated from Washington and Lee University was educated at Tulane University where she coached the and then earned her masters of science in public policy and riding team throughout her years there. In 1996 she success- management at Carnegie Mellon University. She’s currently fully started her own company as a real estate developer and living in DC and working in public sector consulting. Known purchaser. Sloan also returned to the show ring and won the as an example of humility and sportsmanship, Nina wishes RIHA and NEEC Adult Equitation Finals. Sloan resides in West the best of luck to all NEEC competitors! Palm Beach where she has become an environmental activist and has focused real estate endeavors on building “green” – “I believe it’s extremely important and I’m trying to do my part.” Whitney Keefe 2003 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Marge Sidman Whitney recently graduated from Harvard Business School, following two years at 2002 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 35+ Bain & Company in Boston and New York. Marge has established herself as one of She received an M.D. from Tufts Medical the top amateur adults in New England, School in 2012 and a BSc from Brown with winning track records in the hunters, University in 2008. She is engaged and currently lives in New jumpers and the equitation. After com- York. In 2003, she placed 6th in the Junior NEEC and in 2005 pleting her formal education as a research she placed 4th in the Adult 18-22 NEEC. Competing for Brown chemist and then a physician’s assistant, Marge pursued in the IHSA, Whitney served as captain of her team and was her passion for riding during her mid-twenties and began awarded the prestigious Academic All-Ivy Award for excellence competing. She won the MHC Medal Finals, was the NEEC in athletics and academics in 2007 and 2008 based on her Champion and this year won the inaugural NESC Champion- contributions to the team – Ivy League Champion 2005, 2006, ships and its Horsemanship award. Marge, her husband and 2008 and Individual/Team placings at IHSA Championships. black lab are now Florida residents in their house near Naples. They spend six months in Florida and six months on Cape Cod. Marge continues to have a blast with all of the adults at Grazing Fields Farm and also enjoys riding in the “mature” adults each winter in Florida.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC74 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Deirdre Catani Ruth Drumm 2003 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2004 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP 2003 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-24 Ruth hails from Lenox, MA, and is a 2008 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-35 UMass-Amherst graduate in legal studies. As far as the adult equitation division, she She wowed judges with her horsemanship was fl awless…simply one of the best ever. skills in 2004 as the winner of the Katie For years she wowed this competition with Battison Horsemanship Award. As a junior some of the most breathtaking trips ever seen at the NEEC! Ruth was a student of her mother, Cathy Drumm, and Bob She’s a favorite of everyone and her classic riding ability has Braswell. She was a 5th place fi nisher at the MHC Medal Finals raised the bar in adult equitation to the credit of trainers Carl and a 3rd place fi nisher at the HBO Medal Finals. On a national Catani and Abby Greer. Dee is a former winner of the MHC level she was 6th at the Victor Hugo-Vidal National Horse Show Finals, MHJ Finals, NEEC, the Ariat National Adult Equitation Equitation Championship, 10th at the Bates/Syracuse Equi- Finals and the Ocala Adult Equitation Circuit Championship. tation Finals and 4th in the USEF Medal Finals at Harrisburg! In the hunter ring she tells us she tries to capture the same Ruth and her husband reside in Newton and she works in timeless style of her trainer, Abby Greer, and it’s worked. With Corporate Human Resources at Liberty Mutual Insurance her hunter Nevada she was A/O Circuit Champion at the 2005 Company. We were pleased to have her back as a judge of the Spring HITS series and Summer Vermont Horse Show series. Horsemanship competition! Ruth has recently found herself In the jumper ring she’s equally as keen¦ galloping to victory back in the saddle with the wacky adults of Woodridge Farm, in the $15,000 Children’s/Adult Jumper Challenge at the 2004 and is looking forward to welcoming a daughter into her life Capital Challenge. Dee is a 2005 graduate of Curry College this fall. Stay tuned for a 2017 Adult debut! and a trainer at her father Carl Catani’s River Wind Farm. Kendall Bate Marie McCoole 2004 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2004 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Marie enjoys her job as a R.N. working Winning at the national level is nothing as the Assistant Nurse Manager for the new for Kendall...she’s been doing it Developmental Disabilities Unit at Bradley since her pony days. She was the National Hospital in East Providence, RI. She also Pony Medal Finals Reserve Champion, cares for developmentally delayed chil- the AHSA National Horse of the Year dren who are diagnosed with psychiatric illness. Her passion Champion with her green pony Rollingwood’s L on Wheels is caring for and riding horses as well as caring for the kids and National Horse of the Year Reserve Champion in the she works with. In 2004 Marie had a fantastic year as the Under 15 Small Junior Hunters with Silhouette. Kendall was Adult MHJ Champion and NEEC Reserve Champion. She also also the MHC Mini-Medal Champion. She trained initially at Dana Hall, subsequently with Lauren Stevens and fi nally enjoys dining out, sailing and her pets. As one of the most with Geoff Teall and has always cared for her own horses. well-liked riders in the amateur adult division, Marie was a Kendall graduated from Hamilton College and is currently in popular choice for the 2004 Sportsmanship award. her fourth year of Tufts University Medical School. Last year, Kendall was married…fi rst here in the US, and then later in India! She recently gave birth to a beautiful son. Kelly Cavanaugh-Messier 2004 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Julie Welles After successful junior years this student of Linda Langmeier established herself as 2004 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL one of the top adult riders in the Northeast. Julie is a resident of Wellington, FL and Kelly purchased her horse Bravour as a attends Lynn University in Boca Raton, 3-year-old and after overwhelming success FL. As a student of Linda Langmeier at in the adult divisions moved up to the A/Os with equal success. The Ethel Walker School and Missy Clark/ He was fortunate to live out his days with her. Kelly has been North Run, Julie became one of the most competing at the NEEC since the age of 16 and after a reserve respected young riders in the history of the American junior championship result in the adults in 2003, she returned in program. Her resume is impressive: Devon Equitation Cham- 2004 to earn the top nod. Kelly is also a CHJA Adult Medal pion, USET Talent Search Champion, WIHS Equitation Finals Champion and was third at Ariat National Adult Medal Finals. Champion, two-time ASPCA Maclay Reserve Champion, USEF In 2007 she spent two weeks in Germany taking lessons at Medal Reserve National Champion, USEF Talent Search gold the farm of Bravour’s breeder. The trip was a success and the medalist (for 20 USET wins) and the Kathy Scholl Equitation talented young jumper prospect she brought back as a souvenir Champion at Lake Placid. In the jumper division she was also became her A/O jumper. Kelly graduated from Quinnipiac one to beat: three Prix de States team reserve championships, University on a full scholarship with a degree in science Leading Junior Jumper Rider at the Devon Horse Show (via specializing in Ultrasound. She is employed at Middlesex winning all four Junior Jumper classes, the championship Hospital in Middletown, CT, and married to Josh Messier, AND reserve), the Shalanno Style of Riding Award winner at a total catch – he sets jumps, clean stalls and grooms! the Hampton Classic, the William Steinkraus Style of Riding Award winner at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show and a North American Young Riders team gold medalist. Since graduating from the junior division she’s worked for Olympians Lauren Hough and Laura Kraut and has returned to Missy Clark’s North Run where she works presently.

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Hally (Phillips) Trementozzi Lucy Coolidge 2004 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-34 2005 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP As a junior Hally rode with the likes of Both earnest and genuine, Lucy is one Judy Shailor, Steve Heinecke, Missy Clark of the most well-liked riders to have and Holly Hill. Along with winning the competed at the NEEC. She got her start VT Medal Finals she competed both at in riding thanks to tagging along to the Harrisburg and Madison Square Garden. A barn with her big sister, NEEC Champion graduate of Tufts in 2002 with a BS in mechanical engineering, Nina Coolidge. Lucy has been a student of Kathy Fletcher and she was captain of the equestrian team there. Hally topped her the trainers of Grazing Fields Farm. While at boarding school collegiate career by winning the Cacchione Cup in 2000 and in Virginia, The Madeira School, she rode on the varsity later competed in International Student Rider competitions equestrian team and served as captain. As a junior rider she held in Switzerland, Rome, Amsterdam and in NY, where they competed at Harrisburg in the USEF Medal Finals and also at were overall champions! As an adult she rode with Holly Hill the ASPCA Maclay Regionals. She considers the NEEC Sports- and won the RIHA Finals, South Shore Finals, SEHA Finals and manship Award her biggest achievement as a junior rider and was Reserve Champion at the National Ariat Adult Finals. Hally the accomplishment she is most proud of. Lucy is a Rhodes was employed for three years as a Medical Device Engineer at College alum, having majored in history while minoring in Alkermes, a pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, MA. French, and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. In 2008 she earned her MBA from Emory University Business She graduated from Ole Miss Law School and is fi nishing up a School in Atlanta, GA. Hally and her husband, Jon, reside judicial clerkship at the US District Court before moving back to in Lexington, MA, with their daughter Clara and son Lucas. the East Coast to be closer to family! While not currently riding, she looks forward to an opportunity to get back in the saddle. Kim Jungherr 2004 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 35+ Annie Connolly For years Kim has had overwhelming 2005 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP success competing at the top of the sport 2006 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 on every horse she’s campaigned as a student of Starlite Farm. In the hunters A graduate of the Savannah College of she competed in the A/O’s at Harrisburg Art and Design, Annie now splits her time and Washington with ‘Trading Places’ and later collected between Stow, MA and Ocala, FL, while A/O tricolors throughout the East Coast with her beloved operating her equestrian-inspired brand, Roxanne, who was also her winning mount at the 2004 ACE Equestrian. She has been part of the Red Acre Farm NEEC. In the jumper ring she’s always the one to beat, win- family with Mitch and Kathy Steege for the past 24 years ning the $25,000 HITS Adult Jumper Classic and the Adult and credits them for her and her horses’ continued success. Jumper championship at the M&S National Indoor Finals. She had the opportunity to show New England favorites, Kim is happily married to top judge and grand prix star Kahlua and One in a Million as a junior, and was champion Mark Jungherr. She has also stepped into the judge’s booth at most major shows with her “horse of a lifetime”, Unlisted, herself, as she enjoys judging local shows with her NEHC on whom she also won the 2006 NEEC Younger Adult card. She resides at Starlite’s Williston, FL, location in winter Medal Finals on. You will most always fi nd her with her and Amesbury, MA, location during the rest of the year, two canine sidekicks, Daisy and Jackson. employed as their barn manager and bookkeeper. Still loves showing her horse Dixie when she gets the chance. Jeanine Cash Chris Ewanouski 2005 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-34 2005 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Jeanine won the 2005 Charles Owen 2005 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Medal Finals, 2005 NEEC Adult Finals and in 2009 won the Ariat Medal Finals. Thanks to his mom’s interest in horses, Jeanine is a student of Holly Hill. In 2014, Chris began riding at age six. As a junior she placed 5th in the WCHR A/O Challenge rider he became the textbook example of held at the Capital Challenge HS on her Catalyst and was 3rd the rewards for hard work and persever- overall at PNHS A/O 36+ Hunters. Her most recent purchase ance. As a working student for Kathy Fletcher, he was the fi rst “Wally” has been champion or reserve all season in the rider ever to win both the NEEC and NEEC Horsemanship adult equitation division and just recently was Champion in competitions. After a late start competing on the A circuit, he the Cape Cod HS Equitation Championships and won the qualifi ed for all the national equitation championships and SEHA 35 and over Adult Equitation Finals. She works for her was the Reserve Champion of the 2004 MHC Finals. After family’s Atlantic Equipment as the credit manager. In her free several years of working for renowned horseman Geoff Teall time, Jeanine enjoys spending time with her family, her three and his successful show stable, Montoga, Chris has now rescue dogs and helps out with horse rescue organizations. joined Federico Sztyrle’s Napinday Horse Sales, Inc., based out of Wellington in the winter and Lexington, KY in summer. Chris won his fi rst grand prix in Vermont in 2010!

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC76 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Karen DeTemple Danielle Stacy 2005 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 35+ 2006 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Karen did not begin her riding career until Following in the footsteps of her mother the age of 22, fi rst in dressage and then (former Maclay Finals competitor and turning her focus to jumping after moving current adult jumper superstar Michelle to Chicago, then San Francisco, and ulti- Stacy), Danielle was one of the top juniors mately Boston. After six years of successful in New England. As a junior and student equitation training with Kathy Fletcher and Grazing Fields, of Holly Hill, this Ipswich, MA, resident won the SEHA Junior including the 2005 NEEC championship and MHC Reserve Medal fi nals and competed at the national equitation cham- Championship, Karen moved to Woodridge Farm in 2007 to pionships. She has now moved on to the grand prix ranks focus on the jumpers with Greg Prince. Karen is currently a and earned prizes at Saratoga and Vermont with Golf 96. yoga teacher and teaches at several studios in the Boston area Danielle is a Dartmouth College graduate and is currently and runs a non-profi t fundraising consulting business while a student at Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine. keeping up with her son Morgan. Mary Davis Sarah Puckhaber 2006 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2006 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Mary grew up outside of Syracuse and was Sarah hails from Concord, NH. Through- a student of Billy Glass throughout her out her junior career she rode at the Ethel junior years. While at Skidmore College Walker School in Simsbury, CT, with train- she was a member of the equestrian team ers Linda Langemier, Jo Holdelridge and and also competed in the A/O hunters. She Rick Caldwell. She says they taught her the relocated to Massachusetts and after a 14-year sabbatical rekin- importance of hard work, sportsmanship and responsibility. dled her interest in riding. Mary married renowned hairdresser Sarah graduated from Saint Lawrence University, and is excited Ken Davis and together they opened their Davis Hairdressing to fi nish up her law degree this year at Florida Coastal Law in Newton, MA (since voted as one of the top salons in the School. In her leisure she enjoys running and riding when US and featured in magazines such as Allure) and now have a she can. She tells us that the lessons she learned in riding have new location in South Boston. A four-time Ariat National Equi- prepared her for law school and she knows it’s a longtime tation Finalist (2007-2010), Mary fi nished as the high point passion that will stay with her for the rest of her life. rider in 2007 of Zone 1. She is the 2007 MHC Adult Equitation Champion, 2007 NEEC Reserve Champion and 2011 MHJ 30+ Adult Champion. Mary and her husband enjoy summering Sara Green at their beach house on Cape Cod with their two sons, Gavin and Clive. Mary is a student of Kristy McCormack Hererra at 2006 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL Oasis Show Stables and is developing a young hunter. Sara is the winner of the 2010 North American Amateur Equitation Champi- onship at the Capital Challenge. At age Genna Ruschmeyer Arango 14 She was one of the youngest riders 2006 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP ever to win the NEEC. She is a student of Emil Spadone and her young resume is impressive. As a 13 Genna is a Fairfi eld University graduate who year old she piloted Saxon Hill to Reserve Champion honors rode intercollegiately and studied abroad in at the National East Coast Junior Hunter Finals while leading Australia. As an amateur Genna rode under the country in the national standings. Aboard Wellington Armand & Martha Chenelle of Windcrest Sara was the 2006 WIHS Grand Junior Hunter Champion Farm and was the winner of the 2003 RIHA and Reserve Champion at Harrisburg. She’s earned a USEF Medal Finals, several horsemanship awards, and a 6th place Talent Search silver medal, was the winner of the inaugural fi nisher in the National Ariat Medal Finals. These days Genna President’s Cup Equitation Classic at the Skidmore Classic travels the world working for US Nations Cup team member and and was the 2007 ASPCA Maclay Southeast Regional winner. Pan American gold medalist, Christine McCrea, and her hus- She was also the 2008 Reserve Champion of the Kathy Scholl band John of Windsor Show Stables. Her travels have included Equitation Classic at Lake Placid and winner of both the Hickstead, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Switzerlan, Sweden, and ASPCA Maclay and USEF Talent Search at the 2009 Devon Spruce Meadows. One of her favorite highlights was the 2011 Horse Show. No slouch in the jumper ring, she was a mem- PanAm Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Chris was winner ber of the 2008 Zone 1 Prix de States team at Harrisburg. of both the team and individual gold medals. Genna is married Sara is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and to Juan Arango and enjoys traveling; she is currently trying to is now fi rmly back in the show ring! collect Starbucks mugs from as many cities as possible! Genna is currently enjoying life as a mother and working as realtor at Berkshire Hathaway, so her horse time is limited to pony rides and catching the occasional live-streamed class. Right now she enjoys yoga and spending time outdoors with her son when she fi nds some free time, but she hopes to ride again soon! As always, she looks forward to making an appearance at NEEC to cheer on her sister and connect with old friends.

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Dyanna Rucco Lindsey deMont 2006 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-34 2007 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Before turning professional DeeDee Lindsey hails from Littleton, MA, and was one of the most respected amateur is the daughter of trainer Lauren Stevens. adult riders in the country, as a student Lindsey and her aunt, Leslie Prinz, are of Acres Wild. She was the adult equita- both winners of the NEEC Sportsmanship tion fi nals winner of the NEEC, MHC, award. Along her riding journey she’s MHJ, RIHA, SEHA and Charles Owen. A graduate of Stonehill ridden with her mom and benefi ted from the help of Grazing College, she was a member of their 2003 IHSA National Fields, Holly Hill, David Oliynyk and Kristen Bumpus. As a Championship team and skippered the team her senior year. junior she was a ribbon winner at the MHC Finals and NEEC Humility has long been her trademark as she’s always quick and qualifi ed for the Medal & Maclay fi nals. Lindsey was also to credit her horses and parents for her amazing success. Her a star on the soccer fi eld, earning a scholarship to Merrimack folks, Domenic & Jeri Rucco, are two of the most beloved College, where she graduated with a BA in art history and horse show parents in the NE community and when she BS in fi nance. After graduate studies in Italian Renaissance speaks of them you can certainly hear the admiration in Art History at Syracuse she currently is working on a MA her tenor. Her dad and his DARE Builders built DeeDee a in museum studies at Harvard University. Lindsey turned gorgeous stable where she runs her operation, Nevaeh Farm, professional in 2008 and occasionally commutes to New as a very successful professional rider and trainer, with her Mexico to ride for her mom’s successful show stable there. students always competitive at fi nals time. DeeDee and her husband reside in North Easton, MA, with their rescue pup. Adult equitation Hall-of-Famer and was quite simply one Eileen McNamara of the best adult equitation riders ever. 2007 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Eileen is a two-time national equitation champion! In 2003 she was the State Line Barbara Spizzirro National Children’s Medal Champion at 2006 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 35+ the Capital Challenge and in 2008 she returned there to capture the Ariat Adult Barbara is one of the most well-liked National Equitation Finals. She has ridden with Holly Hill all riders in our sport and has established her life and is easily one of the most popular and friendliest herself as one of the top amateur riders in amateur riders in our sport. En route to qualifying for the big the Northeast as well. The Harrison, NY, eq fi nals her last four years as a junior she was a ribbon winner native gained a love for horses from her at every local fi nal as well. Her determination is notorious… mother who grew up in England competing in gymkhanas she placed 6th at the 2006 NEEC fi ve days after breaking her and cross country. With her admired horse Beach Boy she foot (she had to walk the course on crutches)! Eileen is a 2011 has gone places…from winning the NEEC, to being a multi- cum laude graduate of Wheaton College, where she captained ple ribbon winner in the A/O hunters at the Devon and the the equestrian team and competed at IHSA Nationals in the National Horse Show, as well as qualifying for Devon and Cacchione Cup. She currently lives in Glastonbury, CT work- Harrisburg for EIGHT years. She was also a 3rd and 6th place ing as the Residential Operations Coordinator at Wesleyan fi nisher of the Metropolitan Cup at the NHS. There’s a new University. Eileen generously volunteers her time as a beloved horse in her life now – Hundred Acre, who fi nished 5th in the couch of the Boston University Equestrian Team. She has a PreGreen Incentive in KY last summer. Barbara’s 2013 banner husky/cattle dog mix named Cody, who loves winter, snow, season included tricolors at Old Salem-May, Fairfi eld-June and squeaky toys, and she recently purchased a new home! and Ox Ridge; hunter classic wins at Ox Ridge, Fairfi eld and Forever and ever one of our favorites. Vermont (twice); a Vermont Circuit Championship, a Best Adult Rider award at Fairfi eld, Reserve Champion at Capital Challenge in the WCHR Adult Challenge and winning the Jenny Walters NAL Adult Hunter Final at Harrisburg. Away from the show 2007 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL ring Barbara earned her Advanced Certifi cation in Wine & Spirits Education and is pursuing her master’s diploma. Jenny is the fi rst Vermonter to win the Barbara, her husband (high school sweetheart) and three Junior NEEC. Hailing from Shelburne, she children reside in Mamaroneck, NY. was educated at the Ethel Walker School, where she graduated cum laude. After getting her start as a young student of Judy Shailor and Sarah Ki Rice, she then joined Kenny and Linda Langmeier as a 12-year-old. Walters became one of the top juniors in the country with consistent placings at WEF, Devon, Lake Placid and the Hampton Classic throughout her junior career. At the Maclay fi nals she torpedoed from 25th to 9th to end her junior career in style. Jenny turned her interest towards the jumpers and has enlisted the help of Darragh Kerins.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC78 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 After a successful season in the high A/O jumpers she moved up to the grand prix ranks. Jenny spent a year abroad in Dublin, Abigail Crowell Ireland, and returned to Boston College to graduate as an 2008 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP economics major. She is currently pursuing her masters of accounting at UNC Chapel Hill. Although all her horses are For as long as we can remember this East sold, she continues to train with Darragh at Innisfree Stables. Dennis native has been winning. Thanks to her grandfather’s gifts of a hunt cap and a riding lesson she picked up riding at Elysse Ruschmeyer the age of fi ve. As a student of Holly Hill for 10+ years she had a successful junior career, qualifying for 2007 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP all the national equitation fi nals and winning both the SEHA 2017 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 28-45 and CCHHS Medal Finals. Abby also was a USET silver medalist, Elysse was the second Ruschmeyer sister was 7th at the NEEC, 9th in the Monarch Intl Eq Champi- in as many years to win the coveted NEEC onships and High Point Rider for the Show Circuit National Adult Sportsmanship award. She hails from Children’s Medal. Abby graduated from Boston College in South Glastonbury, CT, and is a student of 2012 and currently lives in Boston working for a health care Armand & Martha Chenelle’s Windcrest Farm. After watching company. Hard worker, great rider and simply one of the her sister’s (fellow sportsmanship winner Genna) interest in nicest kids to come out of the New England junior program. the sport she also caught the riding bug. Elysse was the 2004 RI Junior Medal Finals winner and Reserve Champion of the 2007 Adult NEEC. At Fairfi eld University, she qualifi ed for and Matt Metell competed at the IHSA Nationals in Los Angeles, CA, fi nishing 2008 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 4th in the Open Fences. Elyse was the 2011 M&S Adult Medal Finals winner, and was Reserve Champion of the 2012 Ariat Along with his NEEC win Matt was the National Adult Medal Finals. Today, she operates her own 2009 USEF Talent Search Finals Champion! doggie daycare company, known as Canine Campus! In 2008 he was one of the top junior riders in the nation. After a win in the North American Junior Equitation Champion- Amanda Powers Harris ships at the Capital Challenge he went on to notch reserve championships at both the USEF Medal Finals and the USEF 2007 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Talent Search Finals, as well as a 3rd place fi nish at the WIHS Amanda had an incredibly successful Finals. Hailing from Falmouth, MA, Matt began as a student junior career with trainer Kristen Bumpus, of Kathy Fletcher and Grazing Fields. He then began as a placing 11th at Maclay Regionals, win- working student for Andre Dignelli and Heritage Farm and ning MHC Finals, showing at Harrisburg, later joined the team at Heritage Farm, working for Dignelli Syracuse and the NEEC. In her fi rst year as as a professional. When not riding he enjoys skiing, snow- an adult she won the MHC Finals again as well as the NEEC mobiling and snowboarding in the winters and dirt-biking, Finals aboard her junior partner and 2010 Nicholas Award target/skeet shooting and boating during summers on the recipient, EQ! After graduating cum laude from Union College Cape. Matt is a Sacred Heart University graduate with bache- in 2011, where she trained with Peter Van Guysling and Nora lor’s degrees both in fi nance and economics. He is currently Hanlon of Dutch Manor Stable, Amanda spent a year working employed with professional Teddy Demetriou. with the Dobbin Group, a strategic public relations and marketing fi rm specializing in the equine industry. Amanda then spent two years in San Diego working in communica- Jackie O’Connell tions and marketing for multiple companies and riding at 2008 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP Newmarket Farm in Del Mar and Albert Court Ltd. in Rancho Santa Fe. Currently, Amanda is an Account Coordinator at Jackie hails from Saunderstown, RI, and is KCD Public Relations and resides in Beaufort, South Carolina. a graduate of Texas A&M where she was a She is now married to her longtime boyfriend Drew Harris, 4-year member of their Division 1 National a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Champion equestrian team and served as the fence captain for two of those years. As a junior rider she qualifi ed in the hunters for indoors and Jean Sheptoff the National Junior Hunter Finals and in the equitation she qualifi ed for the Medal, Maclay and USET Finals multiple years. 2007 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-34 As an adult rider she’s won championships in adult equita- In recent years Jean has had success in tion at WEF and was victorious in the Low Junior/AO Jumper the grand prix ring as well as the A/O Classic at the Skidmore Classic Show. Outside of horses, she jumpers and hunters with wins at shows ran the Blessing of the Fleet: a 10 mile run in RI for charities such as WEF, Old Salem, Lake Placid and and has been involved in community service such as the RI the Hampton Classic. Jean, a Glastonbury Animal Rescue League. After beginning her career in sports, CT native, was one of the top juniors in the nation under she recently began a new role at Morgan Stanley and returned the tutelage of Tim Kees, earning ribbons at the USEF Medal to the world of horses as well. After a seven year hiatus, she Finals and USET Talent Search and was also the Reserve even stepped into the ring at Ocala this winter! Champion of the Zone 1 ASPCA Maclay Regionals. One smart cookie, she earned both a BS in marketing and a MBA from Bentley College. She works as a barn manager at trainer/ husband Cory Hardy’s Newbury Farm. One of our favorites, we love her beautifully classic style on a horse!

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JoJo Gutfarb Samantha Smith 2008 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 2009 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 2011 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 As a junior JoJo earned the reserve championship in the MHC Finals and was a top Sam hails from Wakefi eld, RI, and is a 25 fi nisher at the USEF National Equita- graduate of South Kingstown HS. She is a tion Finals. Her junior career was capped student at the University of South Carolina by a trip to the ASPCA Maclay Finals in and rides for their winning NCAA team. Syracuse. As an adult she’s been equally as impressive, placing A pony ride at the age of fi ve began Sam’s winning journey 7th in the MHC Medal Finals and winning the NEEC. JoJo is that lead to big success on a national stage with a reserve a graduate of Mount Holyoke College where she captained the championship at the 2006 National Children’s Medal Finals, varsity equestrian team and rode in the Cacchione Cup class at IHSA Nationals representing Zone 1, Region 3. JoJo interned a 4th place fi nish in the 2009 Capital Challenge Equitation for the New England Patriots and Sports Illustrated in college Classic, 5th in the 2008 ASPCA Maclay Finals and a 10th doing public relations. She is now Vice President at Goodwin place fi nish at the 2009 USEF Talent Search. Sam also has Group PR and continues to work for the Patriots during the wins in the MHC Medal Finals and CHJA Finals Masters and football season. JoJo returned to the show ring to compete in is a two-time HITS Ocala Circuit Equitation Champion. She the 2015 Alumni Class, showing for the fi rst time since 2008! also has a USEF Medal win at the prestigious Devon Horse Naturally, she rode her winning junior and adult equitation Show and is a winner of the prestigious USET silver medal mount Star, who recently retired at the age of 20. (and aiming for the gold). In her leisure she enjoys hanging out with friends, going to the beach and watching movies. She knows for sure that she’ll always be involved with horses, Bonnie McCabe whether it be showing, training or just riding for pleasure. 2008 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 36+ After a successful junior career in the Cynthia Stiglitz 3’6” equitation she continued her winning ways in the amateur adult ring winning 2009 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP the 1987 CT Adult Medal Finals under the Cynthia is a Simsbury, CT native who tutelage of Becky Andrews and Hillfi eld Farm. It was then that she took a 10-year hiatus to pursue splits her time between Berkley, MA and a career in fl oral design and now runs Floral Accents of seaside Onset, MA. Training with Kathy Glastonbury (if you haven’t seen her beautiful work, head Fletcher and the Grazing Fields staff, she to the NEEC vendor area now!). Bonnie resides with her has become a force in the adult equitation husband Michael, their two children: Jaclyn and James, and division with a victory at the 2006 MHC Adult Medal Finals a bevy of Jack Russells. When her daughter began riding in and top ten fi nishes in other fi nals. She holds a Bachelor of 2003 at Windcrest Farm with Armand & Martha Chenelle, Science degree in agricultural economics from Virginia Tech Bonnie decided to return to the sport as well. Her competitive and is Vice President of Farm Credit East, an agricultural bank. edge took over and the rest is history – the 2008 NEEC title! In addition to riding, Cynthia enjoys spending her free time She has also won a Palm Beach Adult Medal at WEF, an with her husband Chris and their daughters Brooke and Lucy, adult hunter championship and Best Adult Rider award at and swimming with their dog Hokie. St. Clement’s Saratoga and qualifi ed for the National Ariat Adult Equitation Finals. She always has great travels to report and a recent voyage to Holland was our favorite because she returned with a fancy youngster that she’s already winning on. Kelsey Landrigan 2009 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Larissa Laffey A working student for years, Kelsey worked her way to the 2009 New England 2009 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Equitation Championship. She hails from 2009 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Marshfi eld, MA, and after a start riding a We have nothing but respect and admi- pony as a 4-year-old in her grandparents’ ration for the individual who not only backyard she began her horse show pursuit. As a junior she exemplifi es sportsmanship but also leads qualifi ed for the national equitation fi nals but began winning by example in the knowledge of quality big as an amateur adult. In 2009 along with her NEEC win horsemanship. This Byfi eld, MA, resident has been riding she won the MHJ Adult Championship, was 3rd in the MHC since the age of two, when she wanted to spend as much time Championships and was the HITS Ocala Reserve Circuit down at the barn as possible “because I wanted to be just like Champion in the younger adult equitation. She is also a two- my mom”. (Her mom is the ravishing trainer extraordinaire time qualifi er of the USEF Talent Search. Kelsey hopes to one of the North Shore, Olana Laffey, owner of Evenstride Farm). day ride in the grand prix division. As a young professional After a successful junior career she competed for the Kansas she has earned a HITS Ocala Circuit Championship in the State Equestrian Team, earning 1st team Academic All-American jumpers, the 2011 Zone 1 Performance Horse 3'6"-3'9" Horse and Honorable Mention All-American Flat honors. Larissa of the Year honors, won the 5k Devocoux Hunter Prix in graduated from Kansas State University in 2014, majoring in chemical engineering and minoring in French. She currently Ocala and qualifi ed for the Hunter Derby Finals. works as a design engineer in Tulsa, OK.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC80 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Ellie Knight Maggie McManus 2009 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-40 2010 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Amazingly, Ellie didn’t begin riding until This horsemanship champion hails from Topsfi eld, MA. the age of 27! She’s made up for lost time After graduating from high school Maggie took a year off with success in both the equitation and from academia to be a working student for trainer Shane jumper rings. Along with her NEEC tricolor Powell of Evermoor, LLC. With his help she earned a top ten she’s had lots of success in the jumper ring placing at the MHC Championships, won the NEEC Horse- with Rascal, a horse her trainer Linda Langmeier brought along manship and was a Harrisburg and Regionals qualifi er aboard from a 6-year-old. Over the past three seasons Ellie has won her horse, Campidano, whom she still owns. Though currently top ribbons throughout the east coast including WEF, Old Salem, laid up, Dano is enjoying life in the fi eld and occasionally Lake Placid, Hampton Classic and the Fidelity Classic. She’s jumping out of his paddock! Maggie recently graduated enjoyed much success at WEF, with an A/O Jumper Classic win Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA and continues to work and a championship this past winter in the medium A/Os. for Shane during the summers. Ellie holds both bachelors and MBA degrees. She tells us she mostly owes her riding success to Kenny and Linda Langmeier. “They are true horsemen, incredible riders, and exceptional Kristin Amichetti teachers who have helped me become the rider I am today.” 2010 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP Ellie lives in Marlborough, CT with her wonderful husband, three dogs, and son Gavin, and rides when she can. Kristin is from Townsend, MA, and is a student of Cory Hardy and Newbury Farm. As a junior she qualifi ed for the Carly Corbacho USEF Medal Finals and Maclay Regionals and at the NEEC she was in the top ten 2010 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP in the Horsemanship competition for two years. Academically Carly hails from Boston, MA and is a Kristin graduated top ten in her high school class and was graduate of Boston University, where she accepted into a 5-Year MBA program at Bentley University, captained the BU Equestrian Team. Carly where she will be a junior this year. Outside of riding she enjoyed a successful junior career as a enjoys going out with her friends, running, and “relaxing on student of Woodridge Farm’s Cookie the rare occasions when I’m not crazy with work and school.” Desimone, Greg Prince and Sarah Summers (“the best trainers She looks forward to graduating from college and hopes to in all the land!”), qualifying for both USEF and Maclay Finals. get back into the saddle ASAP! As an amateur adult she continued her winning ways. She was a two-time Reserve Champion at MHJ Adult Medal Finals, third in the 2013 NEEC, and in 2014 was third at Ariat Finals Tobi Stall as well as Reserve Champion in the IHSA Cacchione Cup. 2010 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP These days, Carly has traded in her amateur card and is employed by the Dana Hall School in their riding center. She Tobi, one of the most popular adults com- still owns her horse of a lifetime, Comet, and is bringing peting in the NEEC, resides in Portsmouth, along another sales prospect as well. RI, with husband Bill and son, Bennett. In the 70’s as a junior she rode with Fred & Pam Hunt at Charisma Farm (“Monica Sylvia DeToledo was a baby in a crib in the tack room!”). Tobi has won three sportsmanship awards over her riding career: as a child she 2010 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL won the award at Briggs Stable in Hanover, MA; as an adult Sylvia is from New York City and was rider she won the Sandy Point Stables award; fi nally she won a winner of the 2010 NEEC junior title the NEEC’s coveted sportsmanship award. Tobi is a ten-time under the tutelage of Jim Toon and (October) Boston Marathon fi nisher, raising money for the Holly Brewster. As a child she learned Jimmy Fund. The Babson College graduate works in real to ride at Topping Riding Club near her estate, is a wedding consultant and runs parties at the Brick home in Bridgehampton, NY. It wasn’t long before Sylvia Alley Pub. In her leisure she enjoys working out and loves made a name for herself nationally as the winner of the THIS her English Bulldog, Mater. She returned to the sport of riding National Children’s Medal Finals at the Capital Challenge because of her dad, Dick Stall, who was a longtime supporter Horse Show. She went on to several top equitation fi nishes of the NEEC (he made the NEEC’s fi rst banner!) and although including a third place fi nish in both the 2012 USEF Talent has since passed, continues to be an inspiration in her life. Search Finals and 2012 Sam Edelman Equitation Champi- onships, the reserve championship honors in both the 2010 ASPCA Maclay Regional and OSF Governor’s Cup, and the sixth place award in the 2010 North American Equitation Championship. Sylvia is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, where she rode on the NCAA equestrian team and was a four year NCEA All-American. Of her riding career she’s quick to praise: “Thank you to my friends, family, and trainers, without whom none of this would have been possible.” Sylvia now works as an Investment Banking Analyst at Moelis & Company in New York, NY.

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riding stable in New Canaan, CT, where both her daughters Mariel Saccucci ride, and she recently became the Development Director of NCMT to expand their fundraising efforts. Jenny co-founded 2010 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Equestrian Neightion, an equestrian lifestyle brand for kids 2014 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-45 who are passionate about horses. She and her husband Kevin Mariel is a two-time winner of the NEEC reside in Darien, CT, have been married for over 20 years, Adult Amateur Finals and 40th Anniversary and have three children: Amanda, Jamie, and Stephanie. Alumni Class participant. Under the watchful eye of Amy Eidson, Mariel won the 18-22 division (2010) as well as high point adult rider award out of Nikki Ayoub over 200 riders. Four years later, she was victorious in the 23-45 2011 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP division (2014) riding with Annie Dotoli & Aster Pieters of Tibri while her mount, Gandhi owned by Caroline Calhoun, As a student of Grazing Fields’ Kathy won best adult equitation horse. Mariel is also the 2012 CHJA, Fletcher and Laurel Tinney, Nikki was a MHJ, and RI Adult Amateur Medal Finals Champion, winning successful junior who competed at the high score award at CHJA Finals and RIEC under the tutelage USEF Medal and ASPCA Maclay fi nals. of fellow NEEC alum, DeeDee Rucco. Professionally, Mariel is a She also was a MHC Finals top 20 fi nalist Customer Operations Manager at Retail Solutions Inc, a soft- and a member of the silver medal winning NEEC Challenge ware company based in Mountain View, CA. Mariel works out of the States team. Nikki is a graduate of Thayer Academy, of the Customer Operations hub in Providence, RI and hopes where she was an honor student all four years and also ski to travel to London for work! In her leisure time, Mariel enjoys raced competitively. She is currently studying engineering yoga, reading and is an avid Patriots fan. She wants to send a at the University of Colorado at Boulder. special thank you to her parents, Mike & Bonnie Saccucci, and Amy & John Eidson for their continued support over the years. Charlotte Keesler Kara DeLaurentis Golden 2011 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 2010 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-40 Charlotte hails from Concord, MA, and is a student at Washington & Lee University A three-time winner of the Best Adult in Virgina. She caught the riding bug Rider award at St. Clement’s Saratoga, from her mom, Anne, who is a top adult Kara was also a winner of both the rider in MA. As a student of Stoneymeade’s NEEC and CHJA Medal Finals. Kara has Joyce Mersereau and Sarah Tyndall, Charlotte successfully earned ribbons at both the National Ariat competed at the USEF Medal, ASPCA Maclay and USEF Talent Equitation Finals and the M&S Finals. In the hunter and Search Finals. While at college she won the Rookie of the jumper rings she’s made her mark as well, winning tricolors Year award for team riding in the ODAC League, won one of throughout the east coast. In July, 2013, Kara married Erik the scholar athlete awards and was top 20 percent of her Golden and moved to a new home in Fairfi eld, CT. A Skidmore freshman class. She was also inducted into the Phi Eta Sigma graduate, she works as a Director of Business Development honors society! In her leisure she loves to ski, play tennis and Marketing for Tiger Home & Building Inspections, where with her dad, hang out with friends, “and go to horse shows she’s been employed since 2003. Her other interests include with Momma Kees, of course”. yoga, skiing and running – has run three half marathons! Recently, she has taken a break from showing, but still rides once a week with Jen Hinman at Sweetwater Farm. “NEEC is my favorite horse show” and she looks forward to returning Kate Stento in the future to compete in the older division! 2011 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Kate grew up in Wellesley, MA and is Jenny Iverson Schwartz the oldest of four children in her family. Since the age of 11 she’s ridden under 2010 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 41+ the watchful eyes of Woodridge Farm’s Jenny is originally from Rancho Santa Fe, Cookie DeSimone, Greg Prince and Sarah CA, and had an illustrious junior career as Summers. As a junior rider Kate competed in the USEF Medal a student of Hap Hansen, Sandy Aston and Finals and ASPCA Maclay Finals (after fi nishing in the top Tim Kees. She was 2nd at the 1984 ASPCA 15 at the ASPCA Regionals). She’s most proud, however, to Maclay Finals at Madison Square Garden be the recipient of many sportsmanship awards, including and was also a 5th place fi nisher at the USET Finals. She the prestigious NEEC junior sportsmanship and various IEA competed in the junior hunter divisions at indoors from 1981 sportsmanship awards. She was also the two-time recipient to 1984 and was also a contender in the junior jumper ring, of the Marsman Award in high school as well. Kate is a grad- securing championships at Devon, Southampton, Killington, uate of the Dana Hall School, where she captained their IEA Tampa and the Washington Intl Horse Show. Most notably, team for three years. At Boston College, Kate was the Captain in 1984 Jenny captured all three blues at Harrisburg, winning and President of her IHSA team. Kate graduated in 2015 with the Individual, Speed and Team championship, a feat still yet a major in English, and will begin her Masters in Education at to be repeated. Jenny has served as the President of the Board Boston College this fall. These days, you’ll fi nd her in the of Directors of New Canaan Mounted Troop, a nonprofi t Adult Jumper ring on Bixby Way.

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC82 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Lizzie Kenny Alex Carlton 2011 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 2012 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP 2011 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Thanks to her mom’s lifelong love of In 2011, Lizzie emerged the winner of the horses Alex has ridden for as long as she NEEC Junior Medal, the Horsemanship can remember, residing at their farm in Trophy, and the High Score award. She was Madison, CT. As a student of Kristi Smith also a national fi nalist of the EAP and an and Mark Jungherr, she has had well- 11th place fi nisher in the USET Finals. Lizzie graduated from rounded success. She competed at all the indoors in the junior Bowdoin College and is currently completing the masters hunters from 2008-2012, as well as earning prizes at Devon. program at Lesley University and the Teacher Training Course In the equitation she qualifi ed for the Medal & Maclay Finals at Shady Hill School in order to get her Masters of Education from 2008-2012, was a three-time Talent Search qualifi er and and teaching license. She hopes to become a middle school competed at the WIHS Equitation Finals as well. She posted science teacher and is an avid outdoor adventurer. She recently wins at the M&S Junior Medal Finals as well as a reserve cham- returned to competing after a six year break, and we hope to pionship at the PHA Medal Finals and had top ten fi nishes see her back in the NEEC ring soon! at the Maclay Regionals, Junior NEEC, RW Mutch Equitation Championship (4th twice!). We also love that she was a four- time NEEC Horsemanship fi nalist (twice the reserve champion). She’s been sterling in the classroom, with four years of high Amanda Groher school high honors and dean’s list honors at UVM, where she 2011 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP presently studies and competes on the Equestrian Team. Last year, she was IHSA Cacchione Cup Champion. She was Amanda is a CT native living in NYC where our NEEC Younger Adult Reserve Champion in 2014! she is pursuing a career in the fashion industry. Along with her NEEC sportsmanship award she is a former winner of the CHJA Junior Medal Finals and was Reserve Michael Janson Champion of the NEEC in 2010 and 2011 under the tutelage 2012 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL of Linda Langmeier, Joanna Seaver and Kyla Makhloghi. 2013 JUNIOR SPORSTMANSHIP A Fairfi eld University graduate, Amanda studied abroad in Madrid, Spain for four months and traveled all throughout Michael Janson from Berkley, MA, has been Europe. In her leisure she enjoys running, reading traveling a student of Paul Valiere, David Oliynyk and going out with friends. “I thank my parents and sister and his mom for years. Michael had his for their continued support over the years, and a huge thanks start on a saint of a pony named Sugar at to the Langmeier family and all of Kelianda Farm for the age four. As a junior rider Michael has been the Equitation amazing opportunities they have given me!” Finals winner of the NEHJA, MHJ, RIHA, SEHA and our very own New England Equitation Championships. He’s qualifi ed for the USEF Medal, ASPCA Maclay and USEF Talent Search Finals fi ve years in a row. He’s fi nished in the top ten at the Julia Gildea North American Championship (Capital Challenge), PHA 2011 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-40 Medal Finals, Maclay Regionals and USET Talent Search Finals, not to mention callbacks at the Maclay Finals, the George Julia hails from Lexington, MA, and is a Morris Excellence in Equitation and Kathy Scholl Equitation student of Holly Hill Farm’s Cathy Grady, Championship. He was selected for the Emerging Athletes Patti Harnois and Caitlin Venezia. Her Program. Michael won his fi rst grand prix in June, 2013. mother was an equestrian and passed her Michael is known for his great character and sportsmanship. interest on to Julia, bringing her along Outside the show ring he has been equally successful. He was for lessons at age seven. She is a University of Connecticut selected to be part of an emerging leader group hosted by graduate who rode on the IHSA team there all four years Congress, selected because of his academic success and leader- and in 2008 qualifi ed for the IHSA Nationals in Los Angeles ship potential, and attended President Obama’s Inauguration where she fi nished 6th. Julia is a graduate of Bentley College with this group. A lover of football, he played for seven years and currently works for Deloitte and Touche as an Audit and was on two New England Championship winning teams Senior. She recently bought her fi rst home in Waltham, MA. before devoting himself fully to riding. He is currently a student This summer, she moved into the jumper ring aboard at Boston University, where he competes on the IHSA team. Golf 96 and won multiple classics! Meredith Lipke Nicole Stamm 2012 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2011 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 41+ Nicole is from Framingham, MA and a Riding has been a part of Meredeith’s life student of Carl Catani and Abby Greer at since age ten with the good fortune to River Wind Farm. Nicole has been riding learn from many talented trainers including since the fourth grade and hopes to one Francis “Butch” Manley, Charles P. Graham, day compete in the amateur-owner hunters Doris Clark, SBS Farms, Kristy McCormack aboard her horse Cool Aid. She graduated from Brandeis Herrera, David Oliynyk and Louise Serio. Wonderful horses University in 2013 and is now living in Dublin, Ireland while and ponies have taken her from the Erie County Fair riding completing veterinary school at University College Dublin. large pony Bobby Sox to the National Horse Show Amateur Nicole credits her continued pursuit of riding to the support Owners with Once And Again and The Specialist, to the of her amazing mother, brother and nana. A testament to NEEC Finals aboard Accomplice, and USHJA Hunter Derby her priorities and personality, Nicole cites her 2011 MHC Championships High Point Amateur with Sundance. She is Sportsmanship and 2012 NEEC Sportsmanship awards as currently competing with new mount For Love and Eleventh her greatest riding accomplishments. She wishes all the Hour in the Amateur Owner division. competitors the best of luck!

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Melissa Welch Amy Cooper 2012 ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP 2012 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 40+ After years of begging, Melissa fi nally Amy grew up in Wellesley, MA, where she wore her parents down and began riding fi rst learned to ride with Cookie DeSimone. lessons at the age of eight at the Weston She later enjoyed a successful junior career Riding School. From that day on, she with Nancy Ciesluk, competing at one of babysat, braided, and did all she could the fi rst NEEC and all the big eq fi nals for to fund her obsession. Melissa rides with Cookie DeSimone, several years. She went on to win in the A/O hunters with Greg Prince, Alixe Schwartz and Sarah Summers at Woodridge her young horse Seville. After a 15-year hiatus, Amy returned Farm and with them has had great success as an amateur to riding and showing. Her recent accomplishments include adult, winning the SEHA, MHJ and Cape Cod Hunter Adult winning the MHC, SEHA and MHJ Finals. She is a six-time Medal Finals, as well as the MHC Reserve Championship. qualifi er for the Ariat National Adult Finals, fi nishing in the Melissa is the renowned ringleader of adult mischief and good- top ten at fi nals several years. In 2014, Amy was the Ariat natured pranks at NEEC and has deeply enjoyed the relation- Reserve Champion, as well as Adult Eq Champion at WEF. ships she has forged with fellow competitors along the way. Amy had a blast in the 2015 Alumni class, where she fi nished By day, she is Executive Assistant to the President of Rocket third. She and her husband Joe currently enjoy wintering in Software, where she also serves as Operations Manager for Wellington and spending the summer on Martha’s Vineyard. corporate events. Melissa would love to travel more, ride more, Amy shares her love of riding with her daughters Ali, a former and fi nd a way to combine the two. As to whether she dreams NEEC competitor, and Liza. Amy rides with Kristy McCormack of winning NEEC, the jury’s still out – she would hate to not Herrera and is excited to compete at WEF on her young horse! be able to come back and ride each fall! John Porter Colin Quinlan 2013 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 2012 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 John Porter hails from Somers, CT and is a Colin hails from Cohasset, MA, but student of Norfi eld Farm and Timmy Kees, currently resides in Chestnut Hill, MA, as Molly Ashe Cawley, Chris Cawley and Rory a member of the class of 2015 at Boston Lenihan. He began taking riding lessons College, studying marketing and fi nance. at the age of four after years of playing with Through his mom’s encouragement he his neighbors’ horses. John counts winning New England was enrolled in riding lessons at a young age and fell in love Finals and Taylor Harris National Children’s Medal Finals as with the sport. Aside from his NEEC adult championship he his greatest riding accomplishments thus far, and hopes to also fi nished 4th here as a junior. Colin has earned ribbons at have a successful showing at indoors and USET Finals this year. Devon, Lake Placid, Saugerties and Ocala, qualifying for the Outside of riding, his interests are swimming and skiing, and USEF Medal Finals and the ASPCA Maclay Finals. In his leisure he has made the honor roll each semester of high school so far! he enjoys skiing, surfi ng, going to the beach and spending time on his boat. He’s also interested in photography. As for riding goals, Colin looks to return to the sport after entering Abby Bertelson the “real world” and hopefully buy his own horses. 2013 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP 2014 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Gwen Goodwin Weston resident Abby Bertelson enjoyed 2012 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-40 a successful junior equitation career under the guidance of Cookie DeSimone Gwen is from Candia, NH and has been and Greg Prince at Woodridge Farm. In riding with Gretchen Anderson of Apple her last junior year, Abby ribboned at both USEF Medal and Knoll Farm since she was 14 years old. WIHS Equitation Finals and was third in the Hunterdon Cup. She loves the barn so much that she Abby also won the MHJ Junior and Adult Medal Champion- recently bought the property across the ship. At 2013 NEEC, she not only won the Horsemanship, street and built a new home! Gwen teaches AP Chemistry but also the Judge’s Choice Award, and the Open Eq for at a large urban high school. She loves the kids and enjoys the second year in a row. The following year, she rode her their sense of humor. Most days consist of “Yo Miss G, junior eq horse Brody to a decisive victory in the Younger how you doin’?” and pretending to be angry that they have Adult Medal. These days, Abby attends Stanford University, zip-tied one another to their chairs. Gwen is recently engaged where she is the Captain of the IHSA Equestrian Team, and planning a wedding for 2017. In the ring, she hopes to and is spending a semester abroad in Sweden. qualify her young jumper for Young Jumper Finals, and she is competing in the Grand Prix aboard Fedel!

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC84 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Gareth Benshoff Kristi Lyons-Kwon 2013 YOUNGER ADULT 2013 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-45 SPORTSMANSHIP Kristi Lyons-Kwon fell in love with horses Gareth Benshoff started begging for riding riding in the apple orchards of her home- lessons after a pony ride at age four, and town, Wilbraham, MA. Today, she lives in hasn’t looked back since! She has been Boston, MA and rides with Kathy Fletcher. riding with Kristen Bumpus at Arrowhead Her proudest riding achievements include Farm since she was 11, and credits Kristen with much of her winning NEEC, winning MHJ Finals, and winning the High success. A successful junior competitor in the hunters and the Amateur Jumpers at Fidelity, Saratoga, HITS and Florida. equitation, Gareth’s proudest moments occurred in the NEEC These days she rides for fun, showing a few times a year and ring, where she made the top twelve in the horsemanship making a point to get down to WEF for a week in the winter. test, earned a junior sportsmanship nomination, and watched This year, she qualifi ed for Ariat Finals. She was a Math and her horse, EQ, win the 2010 Nicholas Award. She still owns Econ Major at Wheaton College and earned her MBA from EQ and loves traveling to visit him in Virginia where he is Babson. She is a medical device sales rep and enjoys running retired. Gareth graduated from Endicott College in 2016, and and working out in her spare time. Kristi recently ran the is returning there to pursue her MBA. She loves the outdoors, Boston Marathon in a qualifying time of 3:23:30! spending time at Arrowhead, and taking her leash-trained(!) scottish fold cat wherever she goes. She hopes to one day compete in the A/O hunters, but tells us, “New England fi nals Laura Kadane will always be my favorite horse show/fi nal. So many of my 2013 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 46+ best memories as a junior/adult happened [there].” Originally from New York, Laura Kadane has been in the Boston area for 35 years. Kim Miller As a junior, she competed at Medal and Maclay fi nals under the tutelage of Mark 2013 OLDER ADULT Jungherr, then took a whopping 27 years SPORTSMANSHIP off before returning to ride with Olana Laffey. Her horse, Kim Miller grew up in Weston, MA with Upper Ten, was found by Olana when he was a mere four horses in her backyard, thanks to her years old. Eight years later, and with the help of Andrea Mank, mom’s passion for riding. She is incredibly he has emerged as a “once in a lifetime” partner for Laura! grateful to her mother, who gave up Together they won both MHC and NEEC Finals, along with everything so she could ride as a junior. “It changed my life the Zone 1 and NEHC Championships several times in the forever!” She currently lives in Westborough, MA and rides Adult Hunters and 3'3" A/Os. This past summer, they added a with the Holly Hill team: Cathy Grady, Patti Harnois, Caitlin Derby win to the list! Laura believes she is the oldest NEEC Venezia, Jesse Vannucci and Sussudio York. She also gives Champion to date (though you’d never know by looking at a special thank you to Wendy Palmer for keeping everyone her!), and she says the community of women and friend- organized and healthy! Her proudest riding achievement was ships she’s gained through competing at NEEC has enriched her entire 2013 show season – “I won more in that one year her life immeasurably. In her non-riding world she holds than I had the previous 30 years. Good boy Vincent!” She an MSW from BU and is a professional singer. We have had purchased Vincent to segue into the hunters; as it turns out, the good fortune of hearing her sing the National Anthem he’s a pretty excellent equitation horse as well. Kim holds a at NEEC for the past several years. BS in Business Management and is currently writing a book about consulting skills based largely on what she learned from a lifetime of riding applied to business. She is a proud mother Caroline Johnson of son, Ryan, who just began college at Westfi eld State. 2014 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Caroline grew up in Grafton, MA, with Kelly Lively horses in her backyard. Caroline has been not only demonstrated exceptional 2013 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 sportsmanship but horsemanship as well, Kelly Lively, from Holliston, MA, was and was the 2013 NEEC Practicum winner introduced to riding at age 5 by her mom, as well as a National Finalist in the 2012 and 2013 USHJA who grew up with horses in the back- Horsemanship Quiz Challenge. She was also a National yard and who often rides together with Finalist for the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program in 2014. Kelly now. With trainers David Oliynyk Caroline rides on the reigning SEC championship University and Paul Valliere, Kelly’s top accomplishments in the ring of Georgia NCAA Equestrian Team. Caroline continues include winning New England Finals and placing third her horsemanship journey with her two horses, George and in the 2013 $250k Hunter Derby Finals. Currently, Kelly is Morris, and despite a bad fall resulting in a broken femur, enjoying the process of bringing along her young horse. she looks forward to returning to the NEEC! Outside the ring, Outside the ring, Kelly is an MBA student at the Yale School Caroline is working towards becoming an orthodontist and of Management and lives in New Haven, CT. Previously, has completed several internships in the Boston area. she was working as a medicinal chemist at a pharmaceutical company. She graduated magna cum laude from Haverford College in 2013 with a degree in chemistry.

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Mckayla Langmeier Cindi Boudreau 2014 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL 2014 OLDER ADULT SPORTSMANSHIP The daughter of renowned riders Linda and Kenny Langmeier, Mckayla says she Cindi grew up in Wellesley and now lives “got into riding for my mom and dad.” with her husband on a golf course in Mckayla competed in her fi rst NEEC at the Hingham, where she dabbles in her other age of nine, and won in 2014 at the ripe passion-golf! She rides with the Grazing old age of 14. She and Linda are the fi rst mother/daughter Fields team and is proud to say she owns THE most wonderful duo to claim victory in the NEEC Junior Finals! This 15 year adult horse Church Road, also known as Buddy Boudreau. old superstar from East Granby, CT has made quite a name Cindi began riding as a teenager in Dover, MA, but didn’t for herself in the junior ring, winning Maclay Finals, Team own her own horse until Carl Catani sold her a little grey Gold at Young Riders, Reserve Champion at USEF Medal Finals, OTTB named Sparky whom he allegedly won in a card game. third at WIHS Finals, countless Devon and Indoors wins, She trained under Kathy Fletcher, who eventually became her and tricolors at virtually every major show up and down the roommate, along with Mike Fletcher. After a considerable hiatus East Coast. Mckayla attends East Granby High School, and from the riding world, Kathy reeled her back in and Cindi has fi nished second (to her mom!) in the 2015 Alumni Class. never looked back. She is so grateful for all the friends she has In 2017, Mckayla won USET Finals and was second at WIHS made throughout the New England riding community. When Finals. This year, she is competing in Grand Prix classes she’s not at the barn or on the golf course, Cindi can be found and won the Bronze medal at Young Riders. at Boston Financial Data Services, where she serves as the Managing Director of the Proxy Solutions business. Although she has served on numbers boards and committees and won Sunny Drescher awards for her work, she says, “no honor eclipses hearing 2014 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP your name called for the NEEC Adult Sportsmanship Award.” 2015 JUNIOR SPORTSMANHIP Sunny Drescher, of Hinesbury VT, is a Mindy Whitman student of Annie Dotoli and Aster Pieters. She began riding at the age of seven with 2014 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 46+ Mindy Hinsdale of Charlotte, VT. She Mindy grew up in Sherborn, MA, show- counts her greatest riding accomplishments as: EAP Champion ing in the Pony Hunters in the 60s. She 2013, 7th place in the NEEC 2013 and 2014 Junior Finals, moved on to the Junior Hunters and HITS Ocala Equitation Challenge Winner 2015, and, of course, equitation with Jay Sargent before mov- winning the 2014 NEEC Horsemanship Challenge. In her ing on to Colorado while in College. She spare time, Sunny likes to run, hike, and ski, and hopes one then spent 15 years raising her children Courtney, Anna, day to be a professional rider and trainer. Sunny is currently and Georden in Colorado. Daughter Anna became a rider studying at Dartmouth College and hopes to attend law and the mother daughter duo successfully showed together school upon graduation to pursue a career in public service. throughout the south, but always returned to Cape Cod in the summers to show with Grazing Fields. She won last year’s fi nals aboard Herrold, and now shows him in the Alexa Bayko Derbies and the 3'3" A/O Hunters. Mindy lives on the Cape, 2014 YOUNGER ADULT but has the good sense to spend her winters in Ocala, FL! SPORTSMANSHIP Salisbury, MA native Alexa Bayko has been Olivia van der Meer riding with Monica and Pam Hunt and Triston Smith at Cornerstone Farm since 2015 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP she was fi ve years old. Her aunt gave her a Born and raised in Medway, MA, Olivia gift certifi cate for one lesson at Cornerstone, and the rest was is the daughter (and student!) of Cyndi & history! These days, Alexa has been riding in the Adult Hunters, Frake van der Meer. Her successful junior Hunter Prixs, and the Ariat aboard whichever leased horses career included two top three fi nishes she can get her hands on. She recently purchased a fi ve-year-old at MHC Finals, a fi rst place fi nish in the named Carero who she is bringing along, and she can’t wait National Hunter Derby, winning Cape Cod Hunter Finals, and to get him into the show ring next year. As for her greatest numerous tricolors in the junior hunter ring. Olivia is now riding accomplishments, Alexa cites: winning Junior Hunter a sophomore at UMass Dartmouth, where she competes on Finals aboard her own Crespo, winning the MHC Mini and the equestrian team and hopes to one day win the Cacchione Adult Medal Finals, two top 10 Ariat Finals ribbons, three (!) Cup! She also works at a hospital in the anesthesia depart- NEEC ribbons, and 7th and 8th place fi nishes in the $250,000 ment and loves dancing, meeting new people, taking exercise HITS Hunter Prix Finals, and her Ocala Circuit Championship classes, and nannying. We love seeing her smiling face at aboard Monica’s Blue Shamrock. NEEC, and look forward to seeing her in the Adult ring!

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC86 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 most tragic losses out of it as well. She is so grateful for the Falvey Brennan support of the New England trainers and feels blessed to be 2015 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP a member of this community. While she doesn’t know what life after graduation will hold, she does know that it will Falvey grew up riding with Tina Talbot, always involve riding and showing! who took her from Short Stirrup all the way through her junior years. After graduating high school, she became a working student Karen Salon for Greg Prince and Cookie DeSimone 2015 OLDER ADULT at Woodridge Farm. She looks forward to attending Stonehill College, where she may compete on the Equestrian Team. SPORTSMANSHIP Karen grew up in Allentown, PA and Grosse Pointe, MI, progressing from Short Samantha Cohen Stirrup through the Junior Hunters. She 2015 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL worked as a groom and braider during her college years, spending the summers living in the cab of a Sammy lives in New York City and attends twelve-horse rig. A graduate of Bucknell University and Boston the Trinity School. An accomplished junior University School of Law, Karen practiced law for 20 years already, she rides with Stacia Madden in the before deciding her days would be better spent in the company equitation and Laura Kraut in the jumpers. of horses. These days, Karen operates Clip Equine, a grooming Some of her riding highlights include win- a body clipping service based in her hometown of Hingham, ning the NEEC and the Kathy Scholl Equitation Championship, MA, where she lives with her husband Jon and their three as well as top ten fi nishes in the Zone 2 Regionals, USET Finals, (non-riding) teens. Karen rides at River Wind Farm with Carl and the Hunterdon Cup. Sammy has recently been focusing on Catani and Abby Greer, to whom she is eternally grateful for the jumper ring, and has been selected to represent the USA at helping her fi nd her way back to the show ring as an “older” the FEI Nations Cup Youth Final in Belgium after winning the adult. Karen hopes to return to the Equitation ring soon, team gold and individual silver medals at the NAYC. She was but for now she is having a blast in the Adult Jumpers with a high junior jumper champion at WEF in 2018, won the 2017 her fast-footed little mare, Carinthia. Junior Jumper Welcome Stake at Harrisburg, and has had top placings in U25 and 2*/3* Grand Prix. She also participated in the 2018 George Morris Horsemastership program in Wellington. Lauren Henry When she’s not riding, Sammy likes to hang out with friends and family and play volleyball. 2015 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-22 Lauren hails from North Kingstown, RI and is a student of Tibri, Inc. These days, Claudia Tarrant Lauren is a student at the University of 2015 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Rhode Island where she competes on the riding team. She was a top ten fi nisher in Hailing from Colchester, VT, Claudia is the Cacchione Cup this year! She credits her grandfather for a student of Ashley Conway and Annie instilling the riding bug in her mom, who passed it on to her. Dotoli. Claudia graduated from high school Some of her proudest riding accomplishments include quali- in 2016 on the high honor role, and was fying multiple years for the Medal, Maclay, and USET Finals, VP of her school’s National Honor Society winning Gold in the Challenge of the States, and of course, chapter and captain of the lacrosse team. Outside the barn, winning the NEEC! She is so grateful to Annie and Aster, as she volunteers in the Pediatrics department of UVM and well as her ride, Queso, for helping her accomplish so much. enjoys running, indoor cycling, waterskiing, and time with This year, she is bringing along a young jumper and looks friends and family. She is passionate about caring for her forward to Young Jumper Finals this fall. horses on the ground, and loves nothing more than to spend time on the ground with them. She currently attends Colgate University, where she is a Division 1 Crew Team member. She is Devon Poeta forever thankful for the incredible horses she has been able to work with, and the entire Tibri team for taking her in and 2015 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 23-45 helping her achieve her dreams in her last junior year. Devon grew up in Old Lyme, CT and currently lives in Attleboro, MA. She began riding with Terry Schreiber, spent her Hayley Anderson junior years with Martha and Armand 2015 YOUNGER ADULT Chenelle, then rode with Kathy Fletcher SPORTSMANSHIP and currently Tibri as an adult. As a junior, Devon was on two gold medal winning Challenge of the States teams, and Hayley has grown up riding with her won the CHJA Finals. She also took the CHJA Adult Finals trainer mom Gretchen Anderson at her victory, as well as the MHC and RI Finals, and was Reserve family’s Apple Knoll Farm. She is a biol- Champion at Ariat Finals. Devon graduated from Stonehill ogy major at Delaware State University College and earned her Masters degree in Biotechnology at where she competes on the NCAA Equestrian Team. She was Brown University, where she is currently employed in a neuro- an NCEA All American both athletically and academically, science research laboratory. Devon enjoys playing the piano, and spends every minute of free time at the barn riding kickboxing, lacrosse, and her two chinchillas, Oliver and and helping around the barn. Growing up in the industry, Twister. While she’s focused primarily on the equitation, she Hayley has had her most shining moments in the ring and looks forward to trying her luck in the hunter and derby rings.

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Tracy Hart Hannah Woolley 2015 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 46+ 2016 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP Tracy grew up in Madison, CT and now Hannah Woolley got an early start riding... lives in Stamford, CT. She grew up riding at and we mean early! She fi rst sat on a horse Mountain Valley Equestrican Center and when she was two weeks old, and grew up now rides in the Adult eq and hunters with with horses in her backyard. She still has her Christina and Fred Schauder. With her su- fi rst horse and pony at her home, and she per partner, In the Loop, Tracy fi nished 3rd in the CHJA Finals loves spending time with them on the ground. Hannah showed and was Champion in the Adult Hunters at Lake Placid. She in the 3’6” equitation with much success, but she is most proud would love to move up to the 3'3" hunter division and compete of ribboning in the NEEC Horsemanship class three years in a in more derbies. Outside the ring, she works at a hedge fund row! She hopes to continue riding in college and continue to in New York and counts raising her sweet, fun, kind daughter compete at NEEC as an adult! In high school, Hannah was the Maddie as her greatest accomplishment, along with balancing president of several clubs and she enjoys running, skiing, family life, work, and riding. When asked what she would like and volunteering. She graduated Medfi eld High School in 2017, to share with her fellow riders, she quoted her trainer Christina: and now attends Brown University. Hannah feels so grateful “it is about the journey, not the three minutes you spend in for her amazing horses and the whole team at Woodridge Farm the ring. Celebrate and be proud of the journey.” for teaching her how to ride, and so much more beyond that. We look forward to seeing her in the adult ring! Katherine Bundy 2016 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Rebekah Chenelle 2016 ADULT YOUNGER Kate fell in love with riding by watching SPORTSMANSHIP the Hampton Classic with her mom when she was as little girl. She began lessons Rebekah began riding at her parents’ at the age of seven at Two Trees Farm in farm in Hebron, CT. She currently attends Bridgehampton, NY. She had a hugely Texas A+M, where she is a communica- successful junior career, winning ASPCA Regionals two years tions major and rides on the equestrian in a row and fi nishing in the top 15 at equitation fi nals. team. Her proudest riding accomplishments include her She counts her proudest riding accomplishments, however, seventh place fi nish at Maclay Finals 2014 and her team’s as winning the 2014 USHJA Youth Leadership Award and, win at the 2017 NCEA Nationals. Outside the ring, she loves “of course”, the Sportsmanship Trophy at NEEC. Kate is to hang out with her friends, shop, and visit new places. currently attending Colgate College, where she is loving Her future goals include making lots of money so she can being a part of the IHSA team. While she would love to ride ride as an amateur after college! 24/7 and compete in the Grand Prix/at the international level, she recognizes that she needs to focus her time on making the most of her college education. She does, however, Rebecca Zimble aspire to win the Cacchione Cup! Kate still owns Levkoi, 2016 ADULT YOUNGER her equitation horse, who is very special to her and near to her heart. Kate is involved in student government, as well SPORTSMANSHIP as the history and planned parenthood club, and hopes to Rebecca began riding before she could explore human rights law as a career path. even walk! Coming from a family with a passion for horses, she began lessons at age three with June Gillis Ahern, and by Abigail Brayman four she owned her fi rst pony, Ladybug. Of her many accom- 2016 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL plishments in the ring, she is most proud of her Sportsmanship win: “it meant a lot to me to be recognized for my early As the daughter of trainer Wendy Brayman, mornings, long days, and dedication to this sport.” Rebecca Abigail can’t even remember the fi rst time currently owns Condi, who she will show in the A/O Hunters she rode a horse. For all we know, she was and Derbies. Out of the ring, she played lacrosse in college, born riding! She rides as a working student dabbles in western riding, and is an avid snowboarder. If she’s with John Brennan and Missy Clark of not busy in the ring or on the mountain, she can be found North Run, and won the 2016 Junior medal aboard Cassini. adventuring with her dog, Izzy. Known for her work ethic, Abigail counts her win at NEEC as her proudest riding accomplishment to date. As for her future riding goals, she is taking one year at a time and hopes to have a consistent and successful year at indoors this fall. Abigail is a freshman at Oklahoma State University and looks forward to being a key contributor to their riding team!

43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC88 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 Haleigh Landrigan Raleigh Hiler 2016 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-23 2017 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Haleigh began riding at the ripe old age Raleigh rode with Holly Hill for years of four. When Haleigh began riding as an before recently moving to Max Amaya at adult, she set two goals for herself: to win Stonehenge Stables, where she is now NEEC and Ariat Finals, her two favorite focusing on her jumper career. She was fi nals, and to jump bigger than 3’ with third in her fi rst Grand Prix, so she is off confi dence. It is safe to say that she has accomplished both! to a great start! She hopes to be competitive in the U25s and After winning the NEEC, Ariat Finals, SEHA, MHJ, Zone 1 to qualify for indoors in the jumpers next year. Previously, Equitation Championships, the Adult Equitation tricolor at she was Champion at Harrisburg aboard her Large Junior Capital Challenge, not to mention fi nishing second in the Hunter Chapman ET. Since graduation high school early to HITS $250,000 Platinum Derby Finals, Haleigh has moved focus on riding, Raleigh spends most of her time on the road on to the jumper ring. She currently has a recently imported competing. She would like to thank her parents for being her six year old project horse, and she aspires to move up to the biggest supporters, and she is forever grateful for their love high A/O jumpers. Haleigh is never found without her trusty and support: “I am reminded everyday that I am the luckiest chihuahua sidekick, Newtie! A little known fact about Haleigh girl in the world to have such amazing parents who have is that she loves to cook. In fact, she was supposed to attend worked so hard to make me happy and successful”. Raleigh culinary school and made it as far as orientation before realizing has a special talent – reading lips! Born profoundly deaf, that she missed the barn too much to continue. She acknowl- she now has two cochlear implants that allow her to hear. edges that her successes have taken a village to accomplish, and none of them would be possible without the amazing group of trainers and horses that have gotten her to this point. Nicole Lindquist 2017 JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP Natalie Hartley A student of Grazing Fields Farm, Nicole 2016 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 24-45 cites NEEC as her favorite fi nal, and loves coming back to it year after year. She Natalie began riding at age six, and spent hopes to one day place in the Adult Final! most of her childhood riding at Norfi eld Since graduating high school, Nicole has Farm. She attended Roger Williams moved on to Lake Erie College, where she competes on their University and holds a Masters in Special IHSA team, while still coming back to work at Grazing Fields Education from American International in the summers. She hopes to turn professional, and someday College. She is married to Stephen Hartley and has two own her own facility. She is off to a great start, as she minors daughters, Isabel and Amelia; the 2016 NEEC was the fi rst in both business and equine studies, and plans to graduate in night she ever spent away from Amelia! Natalie is a literacy just three years! Her proudest riding accomplishments include coach and provides professional development for teachers of being part of the winning IEA National Championship Team English Language Learners. She loves spending as much time in 2017, and helping to rehab a very special horse, Reno, from as possible with her girls and she hopes to share her passion a serious injury over the course of 18 months. She saw this for horses with them as they grow up. In her free time, she project all the way through to his return to the show ring at enjoys pilates and reading. Winning the NEEC is her proudest Lake Placid, where they earned ribbons together. riding accomplishment, and it has been her favorite show since she was a teenager. She was also the winner of the RI Finals, IHSA Regionals in Open Fences twice, and was the Captain of her college equestrian team. While she doesn’t Emma Fletcher have her own horse, she has been fortunate to ride and care 2017 JUNIOR MEDAL FINAL for Thea Chaffee’s Galliard, and she is so grateful to the Emma grew up on Grazing Fields Farm in family for letting her ride this once in a lifetime horse. Buzzards Bay, MA. Although surrounded by the sport and the daughter of trainer Kathy Fletcher, it wasn’t until her fi rst pony, Haruko “Yukie” Banks Ivy Green, that she began to ride. Under 2016 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 46+ the tutelage of her mother and the support of her father and now honorary sister Sara Wytrez, Emma worked her way Yukie’s fi rst experience on a horse was at towards winning the MHC and RIHA fi nals. The year after, the age of ten when she accompanied a she achieved her goal of winning the New England Finals at friend to a riding lesson. She promptly fell 15 years old under the training of Linda Langmeier. Following off. Her real love of riding came fi ve years her win, she placed seventh at the Maclay regionals and was later during an exhilarating gallop, as she called back in the top 25 at the USEF Medal Finals. Emma held on for her dear life, on a pony named Heathcliff as it attends Falmouth Academy where she enjoys studying took off with her across Dartmoor. This time she did not fall off. German and creating pottery pieces. As an adult, she began taking lessons and showing with her two daughters, Audrey and Emily who quickly surpassed their mother’s limited ability. For the last few years, Grazing Fields Farm has become a place where she fi nds friendship and encouragement from fellow riders. She enjoys testing her limitations and conquering challenges there with the help of a dedicated team of trainers and knowledgeable professionals. In her spare time Yukie spends her time in the kitchen, garden, on the tennis courts and traveling with friends.

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Clara Bechtold Rhian Murphy 2017 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP 2017 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 18-21 Clara is a student of Kristi Smith and Mark A student of Stacia Madden and the Jungherr and has found success in both Beacon Hill Show Stable team, Rhian was the equitation and hunter rings, winning especially proud to win the Adult Medal both the CHJA Junior and Master’s Medal Final, citing it as one of her favorite horse Finals, ribboning at Junior Hunter Finals as shows as a junior rider. In fact, it is one well as the HITS Equitation Championship, and earning the of her proudest riding accomplishments, along with making 2017 Zone 1 Junior Hunter Championship. She hopes to move the Texas A+M riding team. When she’s not in the class- into the jumper ring in the future and one day aspires to room or the ring, you'll fi nd her playing with her dog Souki compete at the Grand Prix level. An incoming Freshman at or eating queso. She’s also found time to log a few hours University of Connecticut, Clara spent the summer working on foot, completing in the Camino de Santiago, a 500 mile in a lab at a biotech company, and hopes to fi nd a career in backpacking trek across Spain! the world of pharmaceutical drug development. Her biggest riding infl uences have been her trainers, who have not only pushed her to become a better rider but also taught her the Allison Joyce importance of prioritizing her horse’s welfare above all else. 2017 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 22-27 They’ve also instilled in her the value of having a strong foundation in the basics of riding. As she says, “you are never Allison grew up riding with Kathy Haas too good to drop your stirrups or trot some jumps!” Ognowski at Rising Star before moving over to Kathy Fletcher and Grazing Fields Farm for her junior and adult equitation Jackie Arakelian careers. She feels fortunate to still ride with both of these women and counts them as mentors both 2017 YOUNGER ADULT in and out of the ring. Her greatest riding accomplishments SPORTSMANSHIP include qualifying for and riding in the USEF, ASPCA, and Jackie fondly recalls NEEC as the special USET Finals as a junior, winning the Ariat Medal Finals in place where she fi rst tried her horse of a 2015, and winning the $250,000 Hunter Prix Final in 2016. lifetime, Fred, four years ago. Together Winning the NEEC was a dream she held since her fi rst time with Fred, she has competed in the Junior attending at the age of 12, and she is proud to have won Hunter Finals and also won several Adult Hunter Classics. her favorite fi nal. A graduate of Oklahoma State, where she She would love to one day compete in the adult hunters at captained their NCAA Division I Team, Allison now works indoors or at Ariat Finals. She has ridden with Kristen Bumpus for Equifi t, Inc. She is working to get back into the jumper at Arrowhead Farm since she was 12 years old. Her barn ring aboard her horse Loreta. Outside of the ring, she is a family has played a large role in shaping who she is today, “crazy sports enthusiast” about anything Red Sox, Patriots, and she counts Kristen as her biggest riding infl uence. Her or college football and baseball! biggest supporters are her parents, who come to almost every show and never fail to encourage her. Jackie is currently attending Suffolk University, studying business management. Brenda Tananbaum Outside the ring, she loves to exercise, run, hang out with 2017 ADULT MEDAL FINAL 46+ friends and family, and cheer on Boston sports teams. Brenda has been a student of the Fairfi eld team for over 30 years! Her successful Anne Keesler adult equitation career includes a win in the 2014 CHJA Medal Finals and multiple 2017 OLDER ADULT ribbons in past CHJA, NEEC, and Marshall SPORTSMANSHIP and Sterling Finals. She hopes to someday qualify for Ariat Since winning her award, a “huge honor”, Finals and the new adult fi nal in Kentucky. Outside the ring, Anne has kept herself quite busy with her you can fi nd her skiing slopes from Alaska to Chile, or job as a veterinarian, helping her parents, raising money riding as a cyclist in charity events. In 2017, spending time with family, traveling, she completed her fi rst century ride! She recalls winning the running in the woods with her dogs, skiing, and, of course, NEEC as an almost out of body experience as she returned riding. She rides with Joyce Mersereau at Stoneymeade Farm. on top in round two and somehow managed to contain her She has a NEEC Reserve Championship under her belt, as nerves! She “absolutely loves coming to the fi nals” and plans well as a Zone 1 High Point award win with Huckleberry to return as a spectator and also to compete in the alumni Finn. Her (modest) riding goal is to ride like Victoria Colvin, classes! She is thankful for the great job the committee does and to keep improving her riding in general. She has two in producing such a wonderful show. She was kind of sad grown daughters, Ginny and Charlotte, both of whom used to win it but says she still wouldn’t change it for anything! to show with her, and she misses having them at the shows!

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Class 10 OPEN EQUITATION 15 – 17 YEARS For juniors who have reached their 15th birthday, but have not reached their 18th birthday. Minimum of eight fences not to exceed 3’3”. Trophy and Ten Ribbons in Each Section Section A sponsored by Fairfi eld County Hunt Club Section B sponsored by Wolf Creek Stable Section C sponsored by Limelight Farm Section D sponsored by Ethel Walker School Class 13 JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP WRITTEN EXAM Open to all junior exhibitors competing in the New England Horsemen’s Council Hunt Seat Medal Final. This award is intended to identify from among our many competitors the all-around horseperson; those who can “do it all.” Young horsemen who not only ride well, but understand the great importance of quality horse care. The top ribbon winners will be determined by adding together scores in the three competition areas; a written test, followed by a “hands on” practicum in the stable area offi ciated by three judges and the average fi rst round in the New England Finals. All practicum fi nalists are required to provide a grooming box. Practicum fi nalist can dress in show or grooming attire. The written test will be on Friday, October 20th starting at 5:30 pm at the Sheraton Hotel in West Springfi eld. There will be no admittance after 6:00 pm. Those taking the test will not be able to leave the testing room before 6:00 pm. First place awards will be given to the highest score for: written test, practicum and fi rst round NE Finals. Written Exam sponsored by Zone 1 USHJA Junior Celebration Sponsored by HorseWorks Insurance Specialists LLC 1ST ROUND HORSEMANSHIP RESULTS JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD SUE BRAINARD AWARD

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43RD ANNIVERSARY NEEC95 OCTOBER 17 – 21, 2018 NEW ENGLAND EQUITATION CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIOR SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD In Memory of Lawrence “ Rooster” Yacubian

In 1986 the New England Equitation Committee established

the Perpetual Sportsmanship Award. It is presented to a junior

rider in their last year whose character best exempliﬁ es the

deﬁ nition of sportsmanship. Their conduct and attitude

considered as beﬁ tting participants in sports, especially fair

play, courtesy, putting the horse’s welfare ﬁ rst, striving spirit

and graciousness in victory or defeat. The Sportsmanship

Trophy is awarded to the young rider who, in the opinion

of the Committee and the Juniors in their last year, best

represents all positive aspects of horse showing; a junior rider

in his or her last junior year, who is not only an effective

rider, but more importantly, a good horseman, one who cares

for their horse and about their horse, a young horseman

who is competitive, yet gracious in defeat as well as in victory; Nicole Lindquist & Raleigh Hiler and someone who demonstrates a sincere interest in their 2017 Junior Sportsmanship Award Recipients family, friends and fellow exhibitors.

— PAST RECIPIENTS —

2016 Katherine Bundy 2010 Carly Corbacho 2002 Gina Ciccotelli 1994 Megan Miller & Laura Faulkner 2015 Falvey Brennan, 2009 Larissa Laffey 1993 Lawrence Yacubian 2001 Jennifer Durkin Sunny Drescher & 2008 Abigail Crowell 1992 Annie Dotoli Olivia van der Meer 2000 Emily Bickford 2007 Eileen McNamara 1991 William Lowry 2014 Caroline Johnson & Lindsey Stevens 1999 Sarah-Ki Tomasi 1990 Alexander 2013 Michael Janson deMont 1998 Emily Birdwhistell Von Bismarck 2012 Alex Carlton 2006 Sarah Puckhaber 1997 Abby Holstein 1989 Kara Flynn 2011 Nikki Ayoub, 2005 Lucy Coolidge 1996 Steven Violin 1988 Hillary Vars Charlotte Keesler 2004 Kendall Bate 1987 Kathy O’Keefe & Kate Stento 1995 Elizabeth Addlesberger 2003 Audrey Banks 1986 Kate Chope

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Perpetual Trophy in Recognition of Those Who Have Dedicated Themselves to the Continued Success of the New England Equitation Championships

John Bahret 2017 Sue Brainard Award Recipient

Beginning in 1984 and ending in 1989 with a Junior Medal win by her daughter, Kristen Bumpus, Sue Brainard quickly became an important part of the New England Equitation Championships. Well-known for her horsemanship and sportsmanship, Sue returned year after year cheering on adults, juniors and even the horses from her favorite “spot” in the grandstand. Sue’s dedication to kindness, knowledge and continued support of this very special Finals week served as an inspiration to many, including her daughter Kristen, who donated this award in memory of her mother.

— PAST RECIPIENTS —

2016 Joan Violin 2012 Terry Gibbons 2008 Sean Rogers 2015 Walter “Jimmy” Lee 2011 Nicole Nichelmann 2007 Karen Clark 2014 Mindy Hinsdale 2010 Liz Moakley 2006 Liz Rooney 2013 Jennifer Stiller 2009 Ed Nowak 2005 Kate Chope & Joanne Chope Corsiglia

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It will be the chef’s responsibility to give the events Class 13 in-gate starter the teams order of go. Riders must have a minimum score of 55 to make a team. The top four JUNIOR HORSEMANSHIP PRACTICUM scores will count for the team total. Number of teams See full class description on page 126. for each state will be determined as follows, with management reserving the right to change: Trophy and Eight Ribbons • 4 – 25 riders will be one team Sponsored by Dana Hall School • 26 – 50 riders will be two teams • Flowers donated by SEHA 51 – 75 riders will be three teams • 76 and more riders will be four teams • An additional team of the next six highest Class 11 scores of juniors in their last year will be added, score must be a minimum of 55. OPEN EQUITATION UNDER 15 • If a junior in their last year is a Chef d’equip but has a For juniors who have not reached their 15th birthday. score high enough to ride on the Graduate team, that Minimum of eight fences not to exceed 3’0”. junior will be moved to the Graduate Team as a rider. The rider with the next highest score will move up to Trophy and Ten Ribbons in Each Section be the Chef d’equip on the team that just lost its Chef. Section A sponsored by Charlie & Caitlin Venezia • States with fewer than four riders will be combined, Section B sponsored by Cornerstone Farm as the All American Team where the top six scores from these states will become the Team. If there are GROOM’S AWARD not four of these riders they may then compete as CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD individuals. Teams work together, without the help SCHOLARSHIP AWARD of trainers, walking the course and working out their JOE MEDICO GRANT AWARD strategies. Only the Chef and one rider from the team will be allowed in the schooling area to help its LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD rider school. Once a horse has gone it can go back to the barn, there is no further testing. Riders must be Class 14 NEHC Medal qualifi ed riders or past winners of the New England Finals in order to qualify for this class. DIETRICH EQUINE INSURANCE Horse must be unbraided. CHALLENGE OF THE STATES INVITATIONAL Costume Rules: Teams may dress up their riders and Philanthropy is an important part of the mission of horses in costume. Costumes must be safe in manner. the New England Equitation Championships. Thus, the Costumes may not obstruct the vision of either horse Challenge of the States winners will work together to or rider and must not impede movement on course. choose an organization that they feel will benefi t from No objects may be placed in horse’s tail or on or around a donation, made possible by an anonymous donor. horse’s face that could potentially spook or distract the This component was developed to encourage our young horse. Competition management will be the deciding people to learn the importance of giving back. The factor should a team’s costume be in question. Medal winning teams will each donate a minimum of There will be eight to ten jumps, not to exceed 3'0". $1,500 (Gold Team $750, Silver Team $500 and Bronze Two tests (1-19) will be built into the course. The Steward Team $250) to the top three charities that will be chosen will supervise the schooling area. Jumps cannot be by the riders before the start of the class. There will be higher than 3'0" and they will be fl agged. Trainers are additional opportunities to donate to these charities not allowed in the schooling area. during the horse show. A rider’s USEF address determines the state they represent. Open to Junior riders, who will represent their state, Presenting Sponsor: Dietrich Equine Insurance with the top six scores from the open equitation classes. The top fi ve riders with the highest scores will ride Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal recipient prizes and the sixth highest score will be the chef d’equipe. donated by ACE Equestrian

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