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nities to join NAL and compete for year-end division awards, as well as qualify for the NAL fi nals held in San Juan Capistrano (CA) and Harrisburg (PA).
USEA Makes Changes to Young Event Horse Program
In response to competitor requests, the US
Eventing Association has made signifi cant changes to its Young Event Horse Program for the 2018 season. T e biggest change is that the Conformation section of the test will no longer be held at YEH qualifying events and will only be included at the championships. Tradition- ally, YEH classes were judged in three parts; Conformation, Jumping/Gallop and Dressage. T e change means that in terms of scoring, only the Jumping/Gallop and Dressage tests will be used for qualifying competitions. T e second big change is the new scoring sys-
tem. For the Jumping phase, each jump will be scored individually on a scale of zero to three. T e course designers will set exactly fi ve show jump obstacles and exactly 10 cross-country obstacles for horses to jump. T us, horses will be scored over 15 jumps in total. At the cham- pionship level, the Jumping/Gallop test will now count as 70% of the fi nal score. In addition, the YEH Committee voted out
the “bye-year” for mare, which had allowed a mare that had a full-term foal to compete an
age group down. Now, all horses, no matter their gender or if they have had a foal or not, must compete at their re- spective age groups, no exceptions. Finally, the Dres-
sage tests for each age group have been shortened. At the qualifying level, horses are no longer asked to halt at the end of their tests and are scored on the walk as they exit the arena. All new tests can be found on
useventing.com. T e East Coast YEH Championships will be held at Fair Hill International again this year, October 18-19 while the West Coast YEH Championships are held in Fresno, CA.
Fisher Tops NSA Trainer Standings
Maryland steeplechase trainer Jack Fisher topped both trainer standings (by races won and by money won) with the National Steeple- chase Association again this year. Out of 117
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starts in 2017, Fisher- trained horses won 25 times, fi nished second 27 times and third 15 times for total earnings of $1,321,150. T is is nearly double the second place fi nisher Ricky Hendriks for races won (14) and is twice as much as Eliza- beth Voss for money won ($514,950). Darren Nagle earned
Kudos to Elizabeth O’Connor of Mechanic- sville, and her one-eyed wonder horse Bugsy on earning their U.S. Dressage Federation Gold Medal in 2017.
his fi rst NSA jockey title with 18 wins. In 2017 Nagle also became the 39th jockey to win 100 U.S. jump races. Sean McDermott topped the NSA rider by money won standings with 14
wins, 22 seconds and 14 thirds for a total of $719,550. T e owner titles went to Bruton Street-US for money won and Irvin Naylor for Timber owner by money won. For more NSA year-end standings, see equi-
ery.com later this month!
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