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Your ticket to “The Ride of Your Life”

The Training Level Three Day Event is an educational hybrid competition; it is officially recognized by the United States Eventing Association as an educational activity. Riders compete in an actual "classic" three day event, with roads and tracks and steeplechase, a "10-minute box" as well as cross country, in addition to dressage and stadium jumping. Formal horse inspections also take place on the first day and on the last day. What makes it fun is the wonderful educational opportunities for both riders and volunteers.

Reorganization of website

posted Jan. 3, 2008

It's that time of year...time to clean out the old and bring in the new. So right now we're cleaning house and reorganizing the website to have a new format that will be more interactive and hopefully provide members with a better online experience.

Please bear with us while we complete this process. The site will remain up and you shouldn't notice any interruptions, but things may not be updated on this format as we're moving to a new one.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the webmaster. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Kevin Baumgardner to speak at Annual Meeting

posted Nov. 16, 2008

The Committee for the Area II Annual Meeting is delighted to announce that Mr. Kevin Baumgardner, President of the United States Eventing Association, will be speaking at our meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn Kennett Square, PA on Saturday, November 22^nd, 2008.

Mr. Baumgardner has graciously agreed to meet with us and talk about what he sees as the key issues facing Eventing in the coming years. After his opening remarks, we will open the session to allow you to pose your own questions to Mr. Baumgardner and to share your opinions about what is important to our sport. Prepare your questions and comments and come to Kennett Square next Saturday!

Please get you reservations in as soon as possible. Registrations received after Monday cannot be guaranteed inclusion in the meals provided.

Click here for Annual Meeting schedule and registration forms

The Annual Meeting is a great time to visit with friends, learn new things and see what’s in store for next year. Some things to look forward to this year…..

The Rules Forum – get a preview of rules changes and proposed changes for the 2009 competition year.

Speakers

Gretchen Butts will give us a recap of her Hong Kong experience. Gretchen Butts has served the USEA in just about every capacity possible. A past board member and VP of Education, she is currently Director of the USEA Officials Advisory Panel and the Educational Consultant to the Association. She also is an advisor to the USEF Eventing Technical Committee, a member of the Active Athletes and Safety Committees as well as being very involved in cross country course design with the licensed designers and builders. Gretchen is herself a licensed judge and technical delegate-- nationally and internationally, organized three USEA recognized events this year, and while doing all this had piloted her horse Zydeco at the Four Star Level as well as training some younger horses. Gretchen is one of those rare people who understands just about every rule of the sport, and is happy to pass this information along to everyone in the form of her Get Smart column in Eventing USA, or at the various competitions and clinics she organizes and attends. Her dedication to the sport, her horses, her family, and the USEA is truly appreciated.
Kelley Williams will be share with us how she manages to start and bring along young horses. After graduating from St. Mary’s College with a degree in math, Kelley married high school sweetheart, Danny Williams, and began working for Ridgeview Veterinary Practice (large animal veterinarians). Working with Dr. Will Engel at the practice has helped fine-tune her horsemanship skills through the years. In addition, she continued with her riding and competing and eventually found a love of retraining young horses off the track. That, coupled with her passion for eventing, led to her current career. Kelley is a naturally gifted trainer who always seems to know what the young horses need and possesses an infinite amount of patience with them. Over the past few years, Kelley has found incredible gratification in her teaching and coaching, and feels very strongly that she learns as much from her students as they learn from her.
Banquet - The evening banquet and award ceremony is a super way to put a close on the competition year and reflect upon not only the successes of ourselves and others, but to take stock of the things we need to work on in the coming year both as competitors and eventing enthusiasts.

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FINAL POINTS TALLIED - FINAL results are posted.

posted Nov. 15, 2008

The final event of the year is completed, and the results have been posted in record time (thank you, Rubicon!) I have now calculated all the divisions, and the points and placings are shown.

2009 Event Stallion Auction

posted Nov. 13, 2008

The 2009 Area II EVENT STALLION Auction, our 2nd annual, to benefit the Area II Young Riders, will get started the first of December, 2008. Please check back for detailed instructions if you are interested in donating a stallion service, or in bidding on one! If you have a question please email Area II Sponsorship coordinator, Holly Covey, at eventhorse@gmail.com. Thank you! (All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law, Area II YR is a 501.c.3 educational activity.)

The Stable Scoop Radio Show Goes Live With An Entertaining Look At All Things Horse

posted Nov. 6, 2008

The Horse Radio Network is pleased to announce the launch of it's first weekly Internet radio show. The Stable Scoop Radio Show takes an entertaining look at a different horse topic each week. With the help of the leading experts, veteran online radio hosts Glenn the Geek and Helena B. bring you a light hearted informative look at the topic of the week. Appealing to a variety of equestrian disciplines and horse enthusiasts of all sorts, the Stable Scoop Radio Show is available for listening on their site at www.stablescoop.com or through iTunes.

Glenn the Geek and Helena B. are familiar with hosting duties on the Internet as they hosted one of the first horse podcasts over two years ago. Both are experienced horse people who take a somewhat irreverent look at the horse industry and are not shy about sharing their opinions. Glenn is a trained improvisational actor and a horse husband with over 20 years of experience at both. Helena is an experienced horsewoman, mom of a horse-loving six year old and avid fox hunter. "Helena provides a great counterbalance to some of Glenn's wackiness," comments Jennifer, a groupie of the hosting pair.

With an emphasis on the everyday rider, show segments include Horse News, Blog of the Week, Stable Spotlight, the 2010 Games Report, and interviews with top riders as well as rider's in the "barn next door."

Listeners can catch new shows each Friday at www.stablescoop.com or by subscribing through iTunes. The show is available to download to MP3 players or iPods, so folks can listen while they are doing their favorite barn chores or on the road to the next horse show!

Where the Buffalo Roam - NAJYRC 2008

posted Oct. 17, 2008

What a journey we had to the wild, wild west this year. NAJYRC this year was held at the beautiful Colorado Horse Park in Parker, CO. Due to the extend travel and acclimation issues for horses and riders, we held our training camp over 10 days at the O’Brien’s Kincora Farm in Vass, North Carolina. They were kind enough to donate their facility at no charge to the program again this year. Much appreciation from all of us. Camp began on the 18th of July with the attendees including Laura Roberts, Kaitlin Spurlock, Kate Bagwell, Alex Martone Molly Curtiss and Benita Strini. All horse’s and rider’s arrived geared up and ready to go! This year Area II had only a CH * junior team and did not have any Young Riders qualified for the CH**. I am hopeful for next year though!

Training camp went really well...

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