Maryland’s Youth Soar to New Heights, continued
Caitlyn has been a volunteer at the Chesapeake T erapeutic Riding Center since high school, assisting with barn chores, preparing horses for lessons and side-walking with riders. Caitlyn has become a key side-walker in the hippo- therapy program. She was awarded $5000 by CareFirst to be donated to CTR.
Maryland Region Wins Prince Philip Cup
T e Prince Philip Cup is an annual Mounted Games competition held at the Kentucky Horse Park during the Rolex Kentucky T ree-day Event. T e competition features four teams from around the country competing for top honors over a two-day rally. T is year’s winners hail from the Maryland Region, team Wild T ings: Abby Doud (Annapo- lis Pony Club), Courtney Swartz (Redland Hunt Pony Club), Emily Hruda (DeLa Brooke Pony Club), Tiff any T arp (Redland Hunt Pony Club) and Jamie Glueck (Redland Hunt Pony Club). T e road to get these fi ve riders and their ponies to
Kentucky and back was an interesting and fun one. Here is a recap from Courtney Swartz. T e Wild T ings is a mounted games team consisting of fi ve members. Mounted games are like relay races on horseback. T is sport helps to teach teamwork and responsibility while hav- ing fun spending time with your friends and your horse. We represent the Maryland Region and also compete in Mounted Games Across America competitions. We have an amazing coach, Lisa Stokes, who has taught us so much and helped us get to where we are now. Our road to the Prince Philip Cup started in 2010 at the Maryland Region Games Rally where we competed in the junior division. We won fi rst at that rally, giving us a spot at the USPC Nationals held in Virginia in August. We worked really hard to prepare for nationals, practicing and cleaning tack and ponies. Dur- ing the week at nationals, we tried our hardest to be the best we could, taking good care of our ponies and staying focused while playing. All the hard work seemed to pay off as we won fi rst place again. T is time,
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Teams from the Maryland Region placed fi rst and fourth at the 2012 Prince Philip Cup while teams from the Capital Region earned second and third.
win gave us the opportunity to attend the 2011 Prince Philip Cup in Ken- tucky. T at year, we had three amazing rides and earned third place. We had tons of fun not only riding, but watching the Rolex competi-
Tiffany Tharp gets a congratulatory hug from her mom Brenda after winning the Prince Philip Cup as part of the Wild Things mounted games team.
tors as well. After the 2011 Prince Philip Cup, we headed to the 2011 Maryland Region Games Rally. Two of our old members had to leave the team due to their passing the age limit for junior riders. We picked up one more rider to form a four-person team. We managed to win fi rst again and another spot at the USPC Nation- als, this time in Kentucky. Before nationals, we added another team member to get back up to a fi ve-person team. At nationals, we brought home blue ribbons again and earned a trip to the 2012 Prince Philip Cup. In January of this year, we had a clinic with
Mackenzie Taylor (international games player from Damascus). We worked on skills, speed and accuracy and then had a scrimmage with all the other teams that would be in Kentucky. T at very cold day of practicing left many great memories of running down the fi eld with snow blowing in our faces. T en in March, the Wild T ings had a great clinic with Clive Jones, the U.S. team coach for games. We accomplished continued...
2012 POINTED SHOW SCHEDULE
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July 14 – St. Alban’s Benefi t Olney Farm, Joppa, MD
July 15- Maryland Pony Breeder’s Show Tollgate Equestrian Center Bel Air, MD
August 19 - SPSNA Performance and Mountain and Moorland Show Olney Farm, Joppa MD
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