Maryland’s 2016 News Makers, continued
10 Mares list. Bennetts Creek Farm LLC’s Woodstock Bennett, ridden by Ryan Wood (PA) was ranked fourth overall in the Top 10 Horses list and was fourth on the Advanced Horse list. Rutledge’s Confi dence Game was ninth on the Top 10 Stallions list. In the Advanced divisions, Savannah Ful-
ton, formerly of Full Moon Farm in Finksburg and now based out of Florida, was sixth on the Young Adult Rider list. Fulton also was fourth on the Preliminary Young Adult Rider list. Tiff any Wandy of Baltimore was fourth in the Intermediate Adult Amateur rankings while Cary Chavis of Washington, DC earned the reserve championship for Master Amateur Rider at Intermediate. At Preliminary, Alexandra Peterson of Annap- olis was tied for seventh on the new Intercolle-
giate Rider list. Ella Groner of Highland earned a third place spot on the Intercollegiate Rider list for the Training level and was tied for sixth at this level for Young Adult Rider. She also placed fourth for Intercollegiate Novice Rider. Rachael Miller of Pasadena tied for sixth for
Intercollegiate Training Rider. Sheri T ornley of Damascus fi nished out the season tied for ninth for Training Master Amateur Rider. Junior riders Gaby Es-
quivel (Clarksville) and Delaney O’Neil (White Hall) were fourth and sixth,
respectively, for
Kudos to 14-year-old Rachel Grabowski of Chester, who earned a Top 15 Halter Youth Aged Mares medal at the 50th Anniversary of the All-American Quarter Horse Congress (Columbus, OH) with So Hot, I’m Awesome, owned by her trainer Karen Marx, pictured here. T e pair also won the Novice Youth High Point championship at the July AQHA show in Upper Marlboro.
Novice Junior Rider. and Caroline Carney of Easton fi nished eighth in Novice Young Adult Rider. Also at Novice, Stacey Driscoll (Elk Mills) placed sixth for Adult Rider and Curran Simpson (Frederick) was sixth for Master Amateur Rider. Emily Ryan of Ashton earned eighth for Junior Rider at Beginner Novice. Tate Pearce- Williams of Accokeek was third for Begin- ner Novice Adult Rider. Melissa Dowling’s (Monkton) Nikolas, ridden by Lauren Chum- ley (NJ), was tied for ninth on the Beginner Novice Horse list.
From Junior Jockey to Internation- al Wins
After having a stellar 2016 season on the
Maryland steeplechase spring circuit, capped off by winning the 120th running of the Mary- land Hunt Cup aboard Skip and Vickie Craw- ford’s Senior Senator, Eric Poretz of Glyndon
traveled across the Atlantic this summer and fall to represent the U.S. in the Fegentri Men’s Amateur Riding competition. T e yearlong se- ries includes several races with riders represent- ing fi ve countries. Poretz rode in a total of eight races and fi nished sixth overall in the standings.
Marylander Eric Poretz (black and red silks) racing in Qatar
After winning in Germany and fi nishing second in Oman, Poretz fi nished out the series with a win in Qatar. “Germany stands out the most to me as being the best race of the series,” Poretz said. “It was the most evenly matched race in terms of riders and horses. Each horse was very evenly matched.” Poretz got his racing start right here in Mary- land coming up the ranks within the junior program before jumping into the irons at more serious point-to-points and sanctioned races. In 2016 alone, the 21-year-old rode in 24 races here in the states. He was approached by the Amateur Riding Club of America executive director Donald Yovanovich right after winning the Hunt Cup
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