Williams
and Sweepea Dean Win 2005 USEF National One-Star Eventing Championship East Coast
Lexington, KY – The MidSouth Three-Day Event at the Kentucky
Horse Park played host to four championships October 20-23. Mother Nature made
the weekend cold and damp; but, that didn’t stop 80 riders from competing
in the CCI*, with steeplechase, the 2005 USEF National One-Star Eventing Championship
East Coast. John Williams and his own Sweepea Dean led from
start to finish, winning the Championship for  the
Richard D. Collins Trophy. Williams added only one rail to his dressage
score of 39.5 to finish the weekend with a total score of 43.5. (John is pictured
at the right at a ceremony at the American Eventing Championships, honoring the
Silver Medal Team from the Athens Olympic Games.) Reserve championship
for the Championship was Elisa Wallace and her six-year-old Thoroughbred,
Jackson, finishing on their dressage score of 51. Debbie Nugent
and her eight-year-old Thoroughbred, My Echo, also led start to finish in the
amateur division to clinch the Alexander Mackay Smith Trophy for the National
Amateur Championship. The reserve champion in this division was Katherine Breunig.
Katherine also took home the new National 19-21-Year-Old Championship riding
her eight year old grey gelding Aris. The National Junior Championship
also took place as a part of the MidSouth CCI*. Once again the winner led start
to finish and Bonner Carpenter and her horse Impeccable took home the Harry
T. Peters Trophy. The reserve champion was Katlyn McMorris and her eight-year-old
New Zealand Thoroughbred, Clifton Peekachu. | 