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had this wonderful site and would I be interested in designing the course.
I had been doing courses in the UK and jumped on the opportunity,” adding,
sounded very exciting and promising.” T e Fair Hill property was
basically virgin soil at that point in terms of building jumps and complexes, giving Michael and crew a chance to plan from the ground up. “I remember we were beating away the bushes to fi nd everything we needed and then the challenge was linking it all together,” Michael stated. At the time, Michael said they did not realize just how much the undulating ground at Fair Hill would impact the course. At fi rst glance, the 1989 course might have seemed small, but the hills of Fair Hill made the course much more challenging and bigger than expected. “T is really is the most exciting piece of cross-country that I’ve ever been able to design on,” Michael added. Michael continued to design the course until Derek di Grazia took over in 2000. Derek had shadowed Michael the previous year and Michael stayed on as the Technical Delegate for the fi rst three years that Derek was course designer. Derek knew the Fair Hill terrain quite well as he won the event in 1991 aboard
The fi rst FHI winner Karen Lende (now O’Connor) aboard Nos Ecus (left) and last year’s CCI*** winner Hannah Sue Burnett riding Harbour Pilot (right)
John Ryan and Judy Thayer have been part of the driving force behind FHI from the beginning.
Our Busby. “Derek put his stamp on Fair Hill. He also felt that the terrain was tough and he designs his courses accordingly,” Michael said. Eric started building jumps at Fair Hill by lending a hand to builders Tremaine Cooper and Jamie Emerson. T en in 2000, Eric became the offi cial course designer. Eric pointed out that the two biggest changes that have taken place at FHI over the last 15 years are the number of portables being used and the use of smoother terrain. “Really, the use of more portable jumps is a change that has happened across the whole sport,” he said. “T e course today uses more of the smoother terrain that is out in the open on the grass instead of many of the gravel trails that go through the woods,” he added.
T ese changes might not be that noticeable since Derek has taken his time making them slowly over the years. “Derek is very subtle and systematic in how he operates. T ere were never any gigantic changes, but he made the
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course better and better little by little,” Eric said, adding, “Riders might not notice these changes but they feel the diff erence and know it has gotten better.”
Judy feels that today’s courses have
a more “horse-friendly” fl ow to them. “T e courses use the terrain better in a way that is a bit easier on the horses. T e terrain is still a very important part of the courses,” she said. FHI’s reputation for putting on a high-quality event earned them the honor of being the host site for the 2003 Pan American Games. T at year, the course had a bit of a makeover with diff erent options being off ered
for the Pan American riders versus the CCI riders. “T e biggest diff erence was that there were more options that had longer routes [for the Pan American riders]. You couldn’t win by taking these options as they ate up a lot of time,
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The eventing competition of the 2003 Pan American Games were held at FHI where the U.S. team of Stephen Bradley, Jan Thompson (now Byyny), Robert Costello and Will Faudree won the gold medal.
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