color, winning all of their over-fences classes and placing second under saddle in the Large Junior Hunters, 15 and under. In the Small Junior Hunters, 15 and under, she rode O’Ryan, a bay Holsteiner gelding (sire unknown), also owned by Stella Styslinger, to second place in the stake and solid ribbons in the other classes. Ending on a high note, Maggie put in a perfect round with Cassanto to win the prestigious Jeffrey Wilson Memorial Challenge Trophy. “Winning at Devon was such a surprise,” the teen says with a smile. “I am so proud of how the horses went and with my mental state!” Maggie is not sitting on her laurels—she’s working
hard to qualify for this year’s indoor and year-end cham- pionships, both in the hunters and in the equitation. She’s also gearing up for the jumpers on her new Norwe- gian Warmblood mare Hope (by Clinton). “I want to grow as a rider,” she says with enthusiasm. “I think if I can improve as a jumper rider, it will in turn help my equitation; same with the hunters. I enjoy it all!”
Maggie started her career on horseback in a Western saddle, here in a 2010 parade on her Tobiano Sundae (top), also competing a horse named Cabo (left), and then trying her hand at Pony Club on the pony named Bambi in 2011 (right).
gelding she’s leasing from North Run. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. “Everything was fine until the fifth jump, a Liverpool; he didn’t like it,” Maggie ex- plains. Two refusals meant she was disqualified. But things turned around that same afternoon when
Maggie put in a solid round on the gelding in the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunt Seat Medal class. “This is my first year doing the 3’6” classes and I’ve never had to ‘test’ be- fore in the equitation,” she says. “There were eight of us [finalists] and we were asked ride an oxer away from the gate, hold the counter canter, and do a trot jump.” In the end Maggie placed fourth out of 42. The following day was the Junior Hunters. Maggie piloted another horse she leases, Cassanto, to the tri-
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