New Heights
2007 Wrap Up
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Ryegate Show Services - Year in Review
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SUPER STAR STATS
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The accomplishment stats, from Ryegate, have
come out for last year, 2007. This list is compiled
H from all Grand Prix, both in this country and the
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world.
Our California competitor, Richard Spooner,
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appeared at the top on several of those lists, and
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needs to be recognized and applauded!! With a
special round of applause to his sponsors and
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owners, and of course the wonderful horses he
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had to ride.
S • Spooner led the “Most Rides” division, in the
USA, when he rode 114 horses in 60 classes
throughout the year.
• He led “Most Rides in a Week” category with 11
rides in one week.
• Topping the “Greatest Number of Horses During
the Year” category with 13 different mounts, the most
GP horses of all the US riders!!
• Finally, “Greatest Number of Horses in a Class”
was also won by Spooner with 7 horses in one class.
Photo © Working Lens
WORLD WIDE STATS OF INTEREST
• There were 575 Grand Prix classes in the World offering $25,000 or more. In the USA there were 255 for 2007, up from 235 in
2006 and up again from 126 in 2005.
• In the USA there were 7,235 horses entered in GP classes, again up from 6,775 in 2006 which was about double the 3,787 in 2005.
• Grand Prix entries have sky rocketed in the last three years. 20,864 in 2007 was an increase of 25% over 16,358 for 2006 which
was an astounding 300% increase from 5,681 in 2005. GRAND PRIX SHOWING IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!
• NOW PRIZE MONEY!!!
• $10,965,737.06 was paid out in 2007..thats A LOT of money!! 2006 paid out $9,598,627.00 in 2006 which was just about
DOUBLE the $4,585,000. From 1997!!
• AVERAGE Grand Prix prize money offered was $43,002.89 in 2007, a jump from 36,388.88 in 1997.
• AVERAGE entries per class for 2007 was 28.37 which was DOWN from 30.06 average entries per class in 1997.
Look back on our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to its source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse.
Anonymous
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