Area II Season Update

Area II bragging rights: The world's newest 5-star event, the Maryland 5-Star held at Fair Hill NRMA in Elkton, MD., took place last weekend and the winner was Boyd Martin on On Cue, from Cochranville, PA., keeping it all in the area! We are all very proud of Boyd and his program, his supporters and owners, and of course, hundreds of Area II volunteers who worked for this event. It was live streamed all over the world and had six overseas competitors attend. (See stories and results at the USEA website, The Chronicle of the Horse, and watch video at the USEF Network for more on this exciting competition.)

The Area II Championships were held at the Maryland Horse Trials at Loch Moy on Oct. 1-2, and a wrap up of this competition is coming! We had a beautiful new trophy to award to the winning Junior Training rider and horse courtesy of the familes who loved Cadenza Aria. Pictures soon!

The Young Event Horse eastern championships were also held last week (Oct. 14-15) at Fair Hill. This wraps up the Young Event Horse competition for the year, and the Future Event Horse championships were completed in September.

Our newest year end awards in 2021 included both Future Event Horse and Young Event Horse categories, based on average scores and we are pleased to ANNOUNCE the following Area II Year End Award winners for Future Event Horse and Young Event Horse: (winners with a minimum 3 competition scores). Awards will be given at our annual Area II awards ceremony, but we can announce the winners now! Here they are:

2021 Area II Year End Awards of Excellence - Future Event Horse

1. Utah Beach (G., 2019) (79.6 ave.) (3 competitions) owner Monica Fiss

2. Okie Brown (G., 2018) (76.29 ave.) (3 competitions) owner Angela Bailey

3. Lady Leia (M., 2018) 76.55 (2 competitions) owner Cynthia Gartrell

4. Another Yes (M., 2018) 80.0 (1 competition) owner Tracy Wagner

2021 Area II Year End Awards of Excellence - Young Event Horse

1. Archelos, (74.75) (2 competitions) owner Rebecca Lee

2. Accordingly, Cynthia Sansone (0) no competitions

The last three events for Area II year end awards are Waredaca Horse Trials/Classic Three Day Events Oct. 22-23, Virginia Horse Trials, Oct. 28-31, and Full Moon Farm horse trials Nov. 7. (While Tryon International 3-Day Event is the final event of the Area II season, it has only FEI divisions this year.) As per the rules all year end award winners will have a short period after Full Moon, to check points and make corrections known to the Pointskeeper Seanna/Awards chair Holly. We will have news about Year End Awards of Excellence and the Area II annual meeting coming soon. The Year End Awards scoring can be seen at the Tableau here. Once again, please check your scores and submit any discrepancies to us immediately for correction.

Our Area II Adult Riders will plan a Team competition at VAHT along with the Interscholastic Teams, please make sure you are signed up for a team if you enter. This is a fun teams event for all!

Young Riders/YTC final will be held at Tryon International Three Day Event Nov. 10-14, and YR Coordinator Chris Donovan is hard at work helping our Young Rider teams at the various levels enjoy the team experience in what has been an exciting year in this newly developed program. More on the YTC after Tryon!

Annual Area II Meeting/Awards will be announced shortly. 

Cross Country Schooling at Country Haven Farm

The majority of the course is outside of the pastures in fields and woods but there are also jumps through the pasture fence lines and in and out of the ring to the fields. The course is very horse friendly and is geared toward progressively educating your green horse or rider. Many of the jumps are adjustable in height. We have courses from Elementary through Training Level Eventing with a few higher fences. Jump heights range from approximately 1’ to 3’9”. You may school with your coach or ground person or take lessons with Earlen (with no schooling fees).

The course consists of:   bank jump,  stream crossing,  coffin,  trakehner,   hogs back,  coops,  log piles,  gates, snake fence,  roll top,  single logs, railroad ties,  brush piles,  etc.

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Daniel Stewart Clinic Information

Riders continually encounter mental and physical challenges and how we handle them greatly influences our ability to succeed. Join me for a fun and motivating jumping, dressage, or xc clinic, along with inspirational workshops and seminars that create strong minds (confidence, courage, concentration), strong bodies (strength,, stamina, suppleness), and strong teams (camaraderie, cooperation, communication).

Available Dates & Information

NEW! Area II Business Directory

The Area II website has a NEW feature - Business Directory

Many thanks to the MARYLAND 5-STAR International Three-Day Event for creating a link to Area II's Business Directory! Area II is proud to be the host area for the world's newest 5-star event!

Click on "Directory" on the far right on top of this page - and you'll have over 100 businesses, stables, instructors, services, tack shops, and much more right at your fingertips.

If you have supported the Area II fundraising auctions or Young Riders fundraising auctions in the past two years, you should already be listed.

If you are already listed:

1. Find your listing
2. Click "claim this listing"
3. To update it, create a username and password or login to the Area II website

If you don't see your business, it's free and easy to add it!

1. Create an Area II account or login to an existing account
2. Go to the Business Directory
3. Click "add a listing"
4. Add descriptions, photos, logos, and customize your contact information.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY 

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(entries subject to approval)

2021 Points To Date

Points to Date - Updated automatically

As soon as we enter your points this page will update with most current results. Thank you!

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Area II Reminders - Mid Season

YEAR END AWARDS - AREA II CHAMPIONSHIPS - AEC TEAMS

Year End Awards: Are you interested in participating in our Area II Year End Awards? July is the last month you can register for the $25 fee. It doubles to $50 on August 1, so get your registration done! It's all online and can be accessed here.

News about Year End Awards: We have changed the Volunteer Requirement. You are no longer required to have 8 volunteer hours, but instead, at the end of the season, you will earn a "Boost" point subtracted from your Averaged Score for at least four verified volunteer hours in the Eventingvolunteers.com app. In addition, completion of a Classic Three Day Event will also earn a .5 subtraction from your Averaged Score. Full rules will be posted soon.

Area II Championships: Once again held at beautiful Maryland Horse Trials, Oct. 1-3. Qualifications are posted here. Join us - we had a great time last year! Put it on your calendar. Special prizes and ribbons for winners, and championship courses again will be presented by the Loch Moy peeps! If you aren't riding, consider volunteering! We could use the help! Qualifying period: 10/15/20 to 9/14/21. 

Adult Rider News: August Clinic and AEC Teams: Carly Eddahri is coordinating the AEC Adult Rider teams, contact her if you are A) going to the AEC's and B) want to be part of the Adult Riders while there! They will stable together, swag is promised, and should have lots of fun, so make sure to get on a Team. Also there is a clinic scheduled for August in VA. with Tik Maynard and Andrea Waldo. More info about both at the Adult Riders page - info here.

Area II Hosts Young Rider Challenge at Maryland International (YTC Adamstown)

Teams:

ADAMSTOWN YTC COMPETITORS

In order to have a viable competition, the teams were scrambled as follows. Results will be available at evententries.com after Cross Country. (Saturday, July 3).

Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill

GMHA  Adds FEI 3* short to Festival of Eventing

GMHA  Adds FEI 3* short to  Festival of Eventing  August  13-15 2021

Warm days, cool nights, great galloping and prize money: Come to Vermont in August! 

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Points and Awards Program Registrations OPEN

The 2021 Year End Awards sign up form is now ready! We are awaiting approval from the Area II Council to formalize rules. What stays the same: High Average scores (just like the Packy McGaughan Awards of Excellence from 2020). 

What changes? We are hopeful a full season can be completed, so will go with minimum of 6 events used for best averages; The volunteer requirement has been changed (more details coming); we have now added FEH, YEH, and NEH divisions; and there is now ONE fee per horse/rider combination, no need to pay additional for more levels. All events count that you attend that have results in the USEA database for Area II events this year, no matter when you sign up, but there is a deadline of August 1, 2021 for the $25 fee; it doubles to $50 until October 10, 2021, which is the last available day to register for Area II year end awards. Payment must be made at time of registration via PayPal. (There are no printout forms - all registration must be online.) Rules will be posted soon.

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