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Articles: Press Release
USEF Names Show Jumping Short List for the 2008 Olympic Games
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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 10, 2008
By Joanie Morris
Lexington, KY -- Following the completion of the USEF Selection Trials
for Show Jumping in Wellington, FL, the United States Equestrian
Federation's Ad Hoc Committee on Selection has approved naming the
following ten horse/rider combinations to the Show Jumping Short List
for the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong August 8-24, 2008.
As per the Selection Procedures, the top 6 horse/rider combinations are
named according to their Final Ranking in the Selection Trials. The
remaining four horse/rider combinations may be discretionary choices
recommended by the Selectors. In this case, the Selectors exercised
their option to use four discretionary choices. In addition, the
Selectors name and rank ten substitute horse/rider combinations to the
Short List.
The combinations are as follows:
1. Laura Kraut/ Cedric (Wellington, FL)
2. Nicole Shahinian-Simpson/ SRF Dragonfly (Thousand Oaks, CA)
3. Anne Kursinksi/ Champ 163 (Frenchtown, NJ)
4. Charlie Jayne/ Urbanus (Elgin, IL)
5. Kate Levy/ Vent Du Nord (Wellington, FL)
6. Anne Kursinksi/ Roxana 112 (Frenchtown, NJ)
7. Beezie Madden/ Authentic (Cazenovia, NY)
8. McLain Ward/ Sapphire (Brewster, NY)
9. Jeffery Welles/ Armani (Wellington, FL)
10. Will Simpson/ Carlsson Vom Dach (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Substitute horse/rider combinations in this ranking order:
11. Christine McCrea/ Vegas (E. Windsor, CT)
12. Kent Farrington/ Up Chiqui (Chicago, IL)
13. Lauren Hough/ Quick Study (Wellington, FL)
14. Chris Kappler/ VDL Oranta (Flemington, NJ)
15. Georgina Bloomberg/ Curius (New York, NY)
16. Todd Minikus/ Olinda (Loxahatchee, FL)
17. Cara Raether/ Ublesco (North Palm Beach, FL)
18. Brianne Goutal/ Onira (New York, NY)
19. Ken Berkley/ Carlos Boy (Flemington, NJ)
20. Beezie Madden/ Judgement (Cazenovia, NY)
The horse/rider combinations named to the Short List have been divided
into two groups of five riders each who will participate in the
following two European Tours before Selection for the 2008 Olympic Games
is finalized in early July:
Tour 1 - CSIO's La Baule, Rome, St. Gallen
Charlie Jayne/ Urbanus
Anne Kursinski/ Roxana 112
Kate Levy/ Vent du Nord
Nicole Shahinian-Simpson/ SRF Dragonfly
Will Simpson/ Carlsson Vom Dach
Tour 2 - CSIO's Rotterdam and Aachen
Laura Kraut/ Cedric
Anne Kursinski/ Champ 163
Beezie Madden/ Authentic
McLain Ward/ Sapphire
Jeffery Welles/ Armani
For more information please contact Lizzy Chesson, USEF Director of Show
Jumping, High Performance Programs at 908.326.1166 or lchesson@usef.org.
The vision of the United States Equestrian Federation(r) is to provide
leadership
for equestrian sport in the United States of America by promoting the
pursuit
of excellence from the grassroots to the Olympic Games, based on a
foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare
of its human and equine athletes.
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