T e 61st Washington International Horse Show,
presented by MARS
Equestrian, wrapped up on Sunday, October 27th with the local classes. McKenna Gregorio of Virginia took top honors for the WIHS Regional Pony Hunter Finals riding Autumn Frost
while Washington, DC, native Caroline Pennington earned the reserve championship. Marylanders earned the top two spots in the WIHS Re-
gional Hunter Finals with Olivia Brown of Whaleyville rid- ing Lapis for the win. Caroline Childs of Lothian earned the reserve championship title. Maryland barns won big during the annual WIHS Barn
Night on T ursday, October 24 with Wheaton Park Stables winning the Largest Maryland Group award and Meadow- brook Stables taking home the Largest Overall Group prize. T e Best Video award went to Garrison Forrest School and the Best Poster award went to T e Big Easy. Potomac Horse Center showed their barn pride in style winning the Best Spirit Award. T ursday evening at WIHS was also the annual Buck
Breast Cancer fundraiser and the Laura Pickett Excellence in Horsemanship presentation. In honor of local trainer Laura Pickett, the award is given to an up and coming adult or child rider and their trainer who best exhibit the enthu- siasm, dedication, style and commitment to excellent horse- manship that brings out the best in horse and rider. T is year’s winner was Kaitlyn Harvey Nicely. T e big jumper classes concluded on Saturday (October
26) evening with U.S. Olympian Laura Kraut winning the coveted $136,300 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Washington class. Better known as “T e President’s Cup,” this is one class that has eluded Kraut. “It’s been a class that I wanted to win for many, many years,” she told JumpMe- dia. Last year, Kraut fi nished fi fth riding Confu. Kraut fi rst competed at WIHS in 1978 in the pony hunter divisions and moved up the levels through the years. Her win this year came aboard Fleurette. Israeli rider Sydney Shulman, who calls Greenwich, CT, her US home base, earned two Grand Prix wins at WIHS this year. On T ursday, Shulman won the fan favorite $36,000 International Jumper Accumulator Costume Class riding Villamoura. Dressed as the Pokéman trainer Ash and decorating her horse as Pikachu, Shulman threw 30 plush Poké balls into the crowd while walking the course. “T e kids I threw them to were so excited at the end when I won,” she said. As the fastest of the top nine riders who each earned 65 points, Shulman and Villamoura came out on top. T at night, the Buck Breast Cancer joker jump in the Ac-
cumulator class racked up 10 clear jumping eff orts to raise $5,000 for the Capital Breast Care Center. T e next day, Fri- day, October 25, Shulman and Villamoura earned the blue ribbon again, this time in the $50,000 International Jumper Speed Final. Friday evening also hosted the $25,000 Land Rover Puis-
sance, or T e Wall. In the end, it was a battle between a three-time WIHS Puissance winning horse Finou 4 and one competing in the class for the fi rst time, Very Chic Du Tillard. T e night ended with a tie between Aaron Vale on Finou 4 and Schuyler Riley riding Very Chic Du Tillard as both cleared the wall at 6’9”. To read more about WIHS and fi nd out who won each class, go to
www.wihs.org.
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Patuxent Run Stables showed their barn spirit during Thursday’s Barn Night festivities.
Marylander Olivia Brown (Whaleyville) rode Lapis to win the 2019 WIHS Regional Hunter Finals.
The Big Easy won the Best Poster award at Barn Night!
Laura Kraut fi nally took home The President’s Cup after fi nishing in the top fi ve several times.
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OUT&ABOUT
DEC 2019
at the 2019 Washington International Horse Show
Shawn McMillen
Shawn McMillen
TRACY MCKENNA
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