Editor's
Note: eventingetc.com will be covering
the Show Jumping at the WEG next fall as well as Dressage, Driving and, of course
Eventing. Following the completion of the USEF
Selection Trials for the US Show Jumping Team in Wellington, FL, the United States
Equestrian Federation's Ad Hoc Committee on Selection has approved naming the
following 15 horse/rider combinations to the Show Jumping Long List for the 2010
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY September 25-October 10, 2010.
As per the Selection Procedures, the top nine horse/rider combinations
are named according to their Final Overall Placing in the Selection Trials. The
remaining six horse/rider combinations may be discretionary choices recommended
by the Selectors. In this case, the Selectors exercised their option to use three
discretionary choices. In addition, the Selectors name and rank up to five substitute
horse/rider combinations to the Long List.
Ranking of Top 15 horse/rider
combinations:
Name/Horse (Hometown)
1. McLain Ward/Sapphire
(Brewster, NY)
2. Laura Kraut/Cedric (Wellington, FL) 3. Lauren
Hough/Quick Study (Wellington, FL) 4. Nicole Shahinian-Simpson/Tristan
(Thousand Oaks, CA) 5. Richard Spooner/Cristallo (Agua Dulce, CA) 6T.
Mario Deslauriers/Urico (New York, NY) 6T. Beezie Madden/Danny
Boy (Cazenovia, NY) 8. McLain Ward/Rothchild (Brewster, NY)
(2nd horse for this rider) 9. Hillary Dobbs/Quincy B (Sussex,
NJ) 10. Beezie Madden/ Mademoiselle (Cazenovia, NY) 11. Candice
King/Skara Glen's Davos (Wellington, FL) 12. Rich Fellers/Flexible
(Wilsonville, OR) 13. Todd Minikus/Pavarotti (Loxahatchee, FL) 14.
Cara Raether/Ublesco (North Palm Beach, FL) 15. Bob Kraut/Graf
Lando (Oconomowoc, WI)
Alternates in order:
Ashlee
Bond/Chivas Z (Hidden Hills, CA)
Georgina Bloomberg/Fiedi 3 (New
York, NY) Jeffery Welles/Armani (Wellington, FL) Nicole
Shahinian-Simpson/ Kilkenny Rindo (Thousand Oaks, CA) (2nd
horse for this rider) Charlie Jayne/Athena (Elgin, IL) Biography
information, complete coverage and standings from the USEF Selection Trials are
all available here: http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/breedsDisciplines/discipline/alljumping/sjSelectionTrials.aspx.
The horse/rider combinations have been named to compete on the following
Tours which consist of 2010 FEI Top League competitions:
Tour 1:
CSIO5* La Baule, FRA (May 13-16); CSIO5* Rome, ITA (May 27-30); and CSIO5*
St. Gallen, SUI (June 3-6)
McLain Ward/Sapphire Richard Spooner/Cristallo
Mario Deslauriers/Urico Hillary Dobbs/Quincy B Beezie Madden/
Mademoiselle
Tour 2: CSIO5* Rotterdam, NED (June 16-20); and
CSIO5* Aachen, GER (July 13-18).
Laura Kraut/Cedric Lauren Hough/Quick
Study Nicole Shahinian-Simpson/Tristan Candace King/Skara Glen's Davos Beezie
Madden/Danny Boy
Tour 3: CSIO5* Falsterbo, SWE (July 8-11); CSIO5*
Hickstead, GBR (July 22-25) and CSIO5* Dublin, IRL (August 4-8)
McLain Ward/Rothchild Rich
Fellers/Flexible Todd Minikus/Pavarotti Cara Raether/Ublesco Bob
Kraut/Graf Lando
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