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Friday,
September 17th - The Second Day of Dressage The
outer bands of Hurricane Ivan disrupted the upper levels of Dressage
as well as the lower level Cross Country; but, only for short periods on Friday.
Organizer par excellence Lefreda Williams apparently has a straight wire
to the Weather Gods, for she came on the loud speaker to say that there were two
narrow bands of rain containing thunder storms that would be passing over the
Carolina Horse Park and that competition would be stopped for safety's sake during
each. Sure enough!- that's exactly what happened. Neither storm lasted longer
than 20 minutes.  There
was, however, one slight glitch - the Advanced Dressage kept running right through
the second storm. The drenching downpour, which dropped visibility to about 100
yards, did nothing to deter Kim Severson, she of the Individual Silver Medal at
the Athens Olympic Games, and the come back horse of this young fall season,
Royal Venture. Their score of 24.78 leads the Advanced Championship by 1.31 faults.
Michael
Pollard, of Chatsworth, GA, and SS Jett were the other pair "fortunate"
enough to get their tail coats washed for free. They came up with a score of 30.87,
good for seventh place, just 6.09 faults out of the lead. Squeezed
in between these two water lovers are Karen O'Connor and Joker's Wild on 26.09
for second position and Karen O'Connor again, this time riding Grand Slam to a
score of 26.31, and third position.
(Karen and Grand Slam are pictured above at the left)
Bonnie
Mosser and Jenga, fresh from a big win at the Over The Walls CIC-W***, which will
take her to the Eventing World Cup in Pau, France, is in  fourth
place on a score of 28.48, tied with Tiffany Loudon and Above 'N Beyond, third
at the Foxhall Cup CCI***, this spring. (Bonnie Mosser and Jenga are
pictured at the right.) These
two competitors are just ahead of Nathalie Bouckaert and West Farthing, second
at Over The Walls, and most recently winners at the Kentucky Classic CIC**, who
were the sixth pairing to squeeze into the 20's with 29.57. Standings
after the Dressage Phase: 1.
Kim Severson, Royal
Venture - 24.78
2. Karen O'Connor, Joker's
Wild - 26.09
3. Karen O'Connor, Grand
Slam - 26.31
4T. Bonnie Mosser, Jenga
- 28.48
4T. Tiffani Loudon, Above
'N Beyond - 28.48
6. Nathalie Bouckaert, West
Farthing - 29.57
7. Michael Pollard, SS
Jett -
30.87
8. Corinne Ashton, Dobbin
-
31.09 *
* * * Mara
(Depuy) Dean and Good Stuff (30.21) lead the Intermediate Championship from Jennie
Jarnstrom (SWE) and Chant de Paix (32.71, and Mark Weissbecker riding Decordova
(33.13). For
full results please click on: www.five
pointshorse park.com (then click on AEC) Cross
Country starts Saturday morning at 8 AM with Preliminary followed by Advanced
and Intermediate. Training
Junior/Young Rider: Page
Burnett makes her point: "It's MY bridle and I'm taking it with me!"  
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* * * * * * * Thursday,
September 16th, 2004 - The First Day of Dressage Some
Results and Partial Results from Thursday are Listed below:
These
Results Are Unofficial.
For Complete Results please click here: www.fivepointshorsepark.com
(then click on AEC)
Novice JR/YR, After Dressage and XC: 1.
Clair Williams, Top
American Paint - 31.5
2. Katie Berta, Stone Mason - 32.5
3.
Francesca Ling, Jamison - 32.9 Novice
Amateur, After Dresage and XC: 1.
D.C. McBroom, Woodbine - 30.5 Novice
Horse, After Dressage and XC: 1.
Tiffani Loudon, Ricardo - 27.3
Novice Championship after most
of the Dressage: #66.
Hank Hudson, Boysterous - 26.25
#69. Kelly Ann Soldavin, Traveler
- 26.75
#108. Nathan Stovis, Kapone - 27.50
#111. Lisa Fishback,
Caruso 202 - 28.25 Training
Championship after most of the Dressage: #258.
Marc Susoi, Manahawk
- 30.25
#247. Jill Wagenknecht,
Lord Yac
- 31.00
#230. Cassidy Lundmark, What's
Shakin -
32.00
#245. Lisa Swan, Do
Your Thing - 32.00 * * * * * * * * Preview The
American Eventing Championships will be held at the Carolina Horse Park Raeford,
NC, beginning on Wednesday, September 15th. Three
members of the Bronze Medal Eventing Team from the Athens will be competing. Kim
Severson will ride Maguire, Short Listed for the Games; Upper Register, sixth
at the Foxhall CCI*** this spring; and Royal Venture, who has been out of action
while recovering from a serious colic in the UK last fall. These three
will competed in the Advanced Championship. (Kim and Royal Venture are pictured
at the right at the Southern Pines Horse Trials, in 2003.) In addition, Kim,
the Olympic Individual Silver Medalist, plans to run Choo Choo MaGoo and St. Paddy
in the Training Horse Section. Darren
Chiacchia, just home from Greece, has San Salvador entered for the Advanced as
well as Huronia in the Preliminary Horse Section. Julie
Richards, also on the Team at Markopoulo Equestrian Center, brings her Olympic
ride from the 2000 Games in Sydney, Hyde Park Corne, as well as Welton Gold. Both
are in the Intermediate Championship. John
Williams will not be competing at the AEC; however, he will be much in evidence,
wearing a different hat - that of Course Designer for the Novice, Training and
Preliminary Divisions. Three
riders who were on the Short List for the Athens Games have entered the AEC. Nathalie
Bouckaert, fresh from finishing first and second at the Kentucky Classic CIC**,
will ride West Farthing in the Advanced and Everest in the  Intermediate.
Holly Hepp will present the home town favoriite Damien in the Advanced, while
Southern Pines resident Will Faudree, the Travelling Spare for Greece, has entered
Landlord and Wild Frontier in the Intermediate Championship. (Will and Landlord
are pictured at the left at the Southern Pines Horse Trials this past spring.) Former
Olympians Karen O'Connor with Grand Slam and Torrance Watkins riding Blue Mezzo
will also run in the Advanced Championship. David O'Connor, the Individual Gold
Medalist from Sydney, 2000, will ride Walk On The Moon in the Preliminary-Horse. 6
riders will have travelled from Colorado - Heather DuBois (T-CH), Matthew
Fine (T-JR/YR, Holly Grody (P-CH), Michelle Hoey (N-CH), Heather Messner (N-CH),
and Cynthia Moore-West (I-CH);
6 from Texas - Kristin Kilpartick (N-J/YR), Megan McGregor (P-H), Siobhan
O'Brien (T-AM), Danielle Williams (T-CH), Alexandra Wolf (N-CH)and Stacy Quarles
A-CH and I-CH); 2
from Arizona - Jill Breckner (N-A) and Shannon Treece (N-CH); 2
from Idaho -Gary Mittleider (P-CH) and Sara Mittleider (A-CH); 1
from California - Lisa Fishback (N-CH); 1
from Utah - Susan Goodman (P-AM and T-AM); and
1 from Washington - Didi Emtman (T-CH). 32
competitors have entered for the Advanced. 36 are registered for the Intermediate
Championship. Competition
begins on Wednesday, September 15th, at 8:00 AM, with the Novice and Training
Dressage and Novice Cross Country. | 