New Heights
Will Simpson
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by Kristin Kenney
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ill Simpson’s
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appointment
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to the USA Olympic Show Jumping
Team is an outstanding accomplishment
for the West Coast, and is breaking
ground for the next generation of riders. The West Coast has
an arsenal of talented and dedicated riders, yet before Will
Simpson, only one other rider from our coast had made it to
the Olympics...Robert Ridland was the last West Coast rider
to compete in the Olympics 32 years ago.
Will is definitely well-known on the West Coast, and the USA Show Jumping Team. Will’s performance,
while he has competed extensively in International coupled with a number of clean rounds at those trials
competitions, this is helped the US Team
his first opportunity remain high in the Su-
to prove himself at per League standings.
the Olympic level. Will and his Olym-
He has earned an pic mount, Carlsson
excellent chance to vom Dach, stepped
confirm that he be- up again in Aachen,
longs in the Olym- Germany, replacing
pic arena when he Jeffery Welles when
joins three other his horse, Armani,
top US riders to was injured and had
compete on a world to be pulled from the
stage in the 2008 competition.
Beijing Olympics. Carlsson, Will’s
Will was initially mount since late
named to the “short 2007, has carried him
list” in March 2008 to victory in a num-
after a successful ber of competitions,
run at the Olym- including the $50,000
pic Trials in Wellington, Florida, where he won three International Grand Prix and the $100,000 Zada En-
qualifying classes. Then being placed on one of the terprises Masters Cup at the Winter Equestrian Fes-
two US teams that flew to Europe to compete for tival. A 12 year-old Holsteiner gelding, owned by El
final selection. Campeon Farms, Will describes the horse as being
Following competitions at La Baule, Rome, and “very comfortable in his own skin and happy being a
St. Gallen, Will was officially named by the USEF to horse on this earth.”
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