Maryland’s Youth Soar to New Heights
From Pony Races to the Kentucky Oaks At this year’s Kentucky Oaks Grade 1 race
at Churchill Downs (May 4), Maryland’s own Rosie Napravnik raced into the history books as being the fi rst female jockey to have ever won the race. Rosie was aboard Brereton C. Jones’ fi lly Be- lieve You Can, who edged out Broadway’s Alibi to win by 3/4 lengths for trainer Larry Jones.
Rosie got her
racing start right here in Maryland as a junior pony jockey, as well as a pony clubber. Her fi rst race was a fourth place fi nish aboard Sweet Sensation at the 1996 Brandywine Hills Point-to-Point Junior Flat race. T e following year, Rosie and Sweet Sensation fi nished fi rst or second in sev- eral small pony races. Rosie moved up the racing ranks through the North American Point-to- Point program moving on to Junior Field Mas- ter Chases on the horse French Revolution. Her passion was always the fl at races and she gained experience at the point-to-points before switching over to the fl at tracks. T ere she con- tinued to excel, being nominated for an Eclipse Award in 2009. In 2011, she became the fi fth female jockey in history to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
resenting 719 teams from across the country traveled to Syracuse, New York to compete in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association’s Hunt Seat National Finals, April 20-22. T e IEA off ers classes in Hunt Seat, Western and Saddle Seat with the fi nals being held at dif-
Rosie Napravnik (orange/green silks) winning the 2012 Kentucky Oaks aboard Believe You Can
ferent locations. T is year, Maryland riders and teams earned several special awards as well as top placings in various divisions. In the fi nal team placings, Garrison For- est earned third place for the Up- per School and fi fth place for the Middle School. Full Moon Farm was awarded the Team Spirit Award for their “Harry Potter”- themed team. Cody Wooten of
Full Moon Farm earned the Vic- tor Hugo-Vidal Sportsmanship
Award and one of the Zone 3 $500 scholarship awards. John Carroll School’s Kelsey LeBuhn also earned a Zone 3 scholarship. Jacob Pope, representing
Marylanders Shine at IEA Champs Over 500 middle and high school riders rep-
Greenway at Featherdown, earned fi fth place in the Holy Innocents Horseman- ship Award. He also placed third in the Varsity Open Championship and second in the Varsity Open Over Fences individual class. Winning the Varsity Intermediate Flat Team championship was Gabbie Steinhardt of Garrison For- est. Fellow Garrison Forest rider Jackie Watts earned the championship for the Future Intermediate Over Fences Team class. Reserve championship honors went to Jo
The Equiery’ Mary Lentz
and Alexandra Ashman earned top-10 placings for Garrison Forrest.
Equiery’s Western Winner T e Equiery’s fi rst winner of the Western
Award, Mary Lentz, shared her thoughts on the new award and what it is like to compete on Maryland’s western circuit. I think I was more excited that T e Equiery decided to have a Western award winner [than actually being the winner]! Western pleasure and horsemanship classes are more diffi cult than they look. T e horse has to maintain a quiet, consistent way of going while staying round and collected; all this with one hand and a drape in the reins. I am glad that I was the fi rst winner and it will be nice to see many more people win in the years to come. My plans for 2012 will be to continue to show
s fi rst Western Award winner:
my very favorite horse, Stait To You, a sorrel Quarter Horse gelding. I just hope to improve on my riding and showing skills and that my success in 2012 is equal to or greater than 2011. We have started off the year well with points in Western Pleasure, Showman- ship and Equitation. We even earned an All-around Reserve Champion ribbon in the Novice Youth division at my last show. I just want to thank my parents and trainer for help- ing and supporting me along the way!
College Student Wins CareFirst Award
Phippin (Varsity Intermediate Flat Individual) and Taylor Ziegelf ( Junior Varsity Novice Over Fences Individual) of Garrison Forest, and also to Rory Davis (Future Beginner Flat Individual) of Full Moon Farm. Full Moon
Farm riders Molly Gaskin,
Savan-
nah Fulton, Zel- lie Wothers, Em- ily Arches, Morgan Wooten,
Megan
Full Moon Farm’s team at the IEA championships
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Darby and Alyssa Kelly each earned top-10 placings. Laura Straus, Gabi Sorrentino, Catherine DiPi- etro, Kaela Harvey, Danielle Ziegeld
Caitlyn McSorley of Forest Hill, a freshman at McDaniel College, wrote one of fi ve winning essays in the Compassionate Marylander con- test. T e offi ce of Governor Martin O’Malley and the Maryland Stronger Together initiative sponsors the contest.
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