Gladstone, New Jersey – February 25, 2002– Eventing rider Clark Montgomery of Bryan, TX has been honored by the United States Equestrian Team (USET) with the Lionel Guerrand-Hermes Trophy.

The trophy is awarded to a Young Rider (age 16 – 21) who exemplifies the USET’s ideals of sportsmanship and horsemanship.

Montgomery has established an impressive record as an Eventing rider. In 2001, he was a team Gold Medalist at the North American Young Riders’ Championships for the second time, having first won team Gold in 1999. He also won his first event at the two-star level in 2001 when he rode Cape Town to victory at the Radnor Hunt CCI**.

A native Texan who became a student of David and Karen O’Connor, Montgomery won the USET Markham Trophy as the highest placing Young Rider in the USET Three-Star Fall Championship at the Fair Hill International in 2000. In 1983, Patrick Guerrand-Hermes, of the Paris based saddlery and fashion company, presented a trophy to the USET in memory of his son, Lionel, a talented young rider who was killed in an automobile accident in 1981 at the age of eighteen.

In addition to having his name engraved on the Hermes Cup, Montgomery receives a Hermes saddle.

The United States Equestrian Team is a non-profit organization that selects, trains, equips and finances equestrians of the highest possible standard to represent our country in major international competition, including the Olympic Games and the World Championships. To accomplish this the USET seeks out and nurtures the development of talented athletes - riders, drivers and horses - and provides the support and guidance they need to help them attain their fullest potential. For more information on the USET, please call (908) 234-1251, or visit USET ONLINE at www.uset.org.