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Fair Hill International: Bigger and Better than Ever!


The Competition Nearly 100 horses competed in the


The people mover moved a lot of people on Saturday up and down the cross-country course!


CCI2* and CCI3* this year at the Dutta Corp Fair Hill International with 61 in the CCI2* and 36 in the C CI3*. In addition, the Young Event Horse East Coast Championships hit a record number of entries with 35 in the 5-Year-Old division and 20 in the 4-Year-Old division. T ere were seven Marylanders, and two Mary-


Matt Flynn (NJ) with Maryland-owned Get Wild and Get Out in the Young Event Horse 5-Year-Old East Coast Championship


Jamie Wright (PA), Grace Gorham (PA), Ruth Kodek (Notting- ham, MD) and Suan Gorham (PA) at The Equiery’ Saturday


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Colleen Rutledge (Frederick) and UNO ate up the CCI2* course fi n- ishing clean and inside the time. Their double clean show jump round moved them up to sixth overall. The 15.2 hand mare also received the “Small but Mighty” award for being the smallest equine competitor to complete the CCI2*.


land-bred horses ridden by competitors out of state, that competed in the CCI2*, with all but one completing the event. Sarah Shearin withdrew af- ter dressage but before cross-country. Colleen Rut- ledge and UNO were the top placing Maryland en- try, fi nishing the competition in sixth place. In the CCI3*, Colleen was the only Maryland entry and fi nished in ninth with Covert Rights. T e CCI2* championship went to Californian


Tamra Smith riding Sunsprite Syrius while Selena O’Hanlon of Canada won the CCI3* with Fox- wood High. William Coleman (VA) won the CCI3* national championship with Tight Lines. In the YEH 5-Year-Old championships, Kim


Severson (VA) won aboard Excusively Cooley. Former Marylander and Seneca Valley Pony Club graduate Matt Flynn placed third and fourth with two horses co-owned by his parents, Kathleen and Patrick of Potomac. Get Wild placed third while Get Out came in fourth. Rumsey Keefe’s Point Nemo placed seventh in the YEH 4-Year-Old championship with former Marylander Alyssa Peterson in the irons. Kristen Bond (NJ) won the division with Bea Ready.


The Grounds T e staff and volunteers at FHI really outdid


Steph Kohr (Frederick) of the Waredaca Brewing Company, and an event rider herself, at the Beer Garden on Saturday


There were 113 runners on Saturday morning for the fi rst annual Gore 5K cross-country run, which was won by Eric Barton and Elizabeth Swierzbinski.


themselves this year! T e facility looked amazing and the additional food vendors and hospitality tents spread out across the grounds were greatly appreciated by the 13,650 spectators who came throughout the festival. T e sold out vendor area was overfl owing with 70 unique options from fi ne art to clothing to saddles and more. And there seemed to be plenty of people shopping during the weekend activities! T e kids corner was bustling, the alpacas were a hit once again and the dog demonstrations and competitions are always fun to watch. In addition, the Gore 5K race held Saturday


morning before the start of cross-country looked to be a great success with plenty of runners seen later in the day at the Beer Garden, tailgating and watching the competition. All in all, a successful event for sure!


Members of the Delaware Valley Combined Training As- sociation’s Quad Squad


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Tayler Stewart of Damascus was all smiles after complet- ing her fi rst FHI CCI2*. She and Ideal Contini jumped double clean on cross-coun- try and only had one rail drop in show jumping to fi nish in 20th place overall.


Social Media


#DuttaFHI sure was popular across so many so- cial media platforms! FHI themselves did a great job on Facebook and Instagram, posting fabulous photos and stories throughout the competition. Twitter was a little lacking but thankfully media outlets like @ClassicCommunic and @useventing kept everyone tweeted in!


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