He goes on to say that even though the requirements for
Competition Lite have been developed, USEF staff members are still meeting with each USEF-recognized breed and disci- pline affiliate in order to sort out each group’s specific needs to add Competition Lite to their shows. He notes this step is necessary to ensure the success of the program. Though there are not yet any shows implementing
Competition Lite, there are shows offering local days where competitors not entered in the rated show can compete in their own classes on the same grounds. And the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) has an outreach program along similar lines that is being used by some hunter-jumper shows now. At this point questions related to the developing Compe-
tition Lite program should be directed to the USEF/US Eques- trian’s National Affiliates Department. For more information, visit
usef.org or call 859-258-2472.
colleagues on the founda- tion announced their stra- tegic plan for development of equestrian sports in the Midwest through 2021. The plan focused on
encouraging the growth of equestrian sport in their region, both at the FEI-levels and the grass-roots level. They initiated the InIt2WinIt 1.40-meter show jump- ing speed series, which will culminate in a 1.45-meter InIt2WinIt $100,000 Cham- pionships to be held at The International Omaha indoor show next April. They also have in the works an upper- level dressage competition and a “local day” at The Inter- national where develop- ing riders can get a taste of competing in a big, USEF-rated venue. But in conjunction with all of that, the OEF’s plan also offered low-cost schooling at nationally-rated area shows, and at other top-notch facilities near Omaha, where trainers and breeders could take young horses for valuable ring and atmosphere experience. The first of these
Lisa Roskens with one of her horses at The International Omaha show in May 2016 who is one of the found- ers of the Omaha Eques- trian Foundation (OEF), the group that spearheaded the World Cup Finals coming to Omaha last spring.
Members of the USEF’s Breeders’ Committee and guests at their committee meeting during the 2017 Annual Meeting in January in Lexington, Kentucky (L–R): Christine Raposo, guest interested in sport horse breeding; Lisa Lourie, Spy Coast Farm, Breeders Committee Member and key person in the develop- ment of the Young Horse Show Series; Wayne Quarles, US Eventing representative; Christine Knox, vice chairman of the Breeders’ Committee; Ruth Wilburn D.V.M., president of the Welsh Pony & Cob Society of America; Verene Kruepe, Ameri- can Warmblood Registry; and Ken Ball, USEF horse registration and services department director.
OMAHA’S REGIONAL REACH Just a few years ago the Omaha Equestrian Federation wasn’t on the radar of most outside the region surrounding billion- aire businessman Warren Buffett’s home city…until it was announced that the FEI World Cup Finals were going to Omaha in 2017. This past spring during the finals, the city and the horsemen and women serving on the Omaha Eques- trian Foundation (OEF) put on a show that left no doubt as to their commitment to equestrian sport. Lisa Roskens, an attorney and businesswoman from Omaha and an amateur-owner jumper rider, was one of the founders of the Omaha Equestrian Federation and led the delegation that won the bid for the World Cup Finals. In a press conference toward the end of the finals, she and her
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low-cost, high-quality schooling days were offered in conjunc- tion with a series of USEF-rated shows at Quail Run Horse Centre in Omaha. Quail Run is owned by Jim and Patrice Urban who manage the facil- ity, along with their son Dan, who runs the shows under the business name Urban Equine Events. “I think that this is,
hopefully, a good way to start strengthening our zone and region. It is in line with what the OEF’s mission is. We are a relatively new, and growing, horse show company and there are a lot of horse shows on the calendar nowa- days—a lot to compete
Dan Urban, manager of the USEF- rated shows at Quail Run Horse Centre and Mid States Shows in Mason City, Iowa, riding Motley Blue, owned by Chloe Heng and the Quail Run Horse Centre, Inc., in the jumper ring. He thinks offering the low-cost young horse schooling the day before his USEF-rated shows fits well with his and the Omaha Equestrian Federation’s mission to grow equestrian sports in the Midwest.
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