Competitors
and Organizers
Bruce
Davidson winner
of two Olympic Team Gold Medals in 1976 and 1984; two Olympic Team  Silver
Medals in 1972 and 1996; winner of Team and Individual Silver Medals at the Mexico
City Pan American Games in 1975; and winner of Individual Gold Medal and Team
Silver Medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bruce
won the Rolex Kentucky competition six times and was the first American rider
to win the (Mitsubishi Motors) Badminton CCI****. (Bruce is pictured at the
right on Jam at the 2009 Fair Hill International CCI****, The pair is jumping
a skinny in the water.) Kevin
Freeman - represented the USA at the
Olympic Games in 1964, 1968 and 1972, where he was a member of the USA Silver
Medal Team. He also won Individual Gold at the 1963 Pan American Games in Sao
Paulo, Brazil. Denis
Glaccum organizer
of the Plantation Field Horse Trials and former organizer at Chesterland, Fair
Hill and Menfelt. David
O'Connor - Individual
Golf Medalist at the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney Australia and 1997 Winner of
Badminton CCI**** and third there in 1995. President of the US Equestrian Federation
for the past seven years. Eileen
Thomas - former
Executive Director of the United States Combined Training Association and Chief
Scorer at The Rolex Kentucky CCI****.
Horses
Custom
Made - David
O'Connor's mount when that pair won the first US Olympic Individual Gold Medal
of modern times, in Sydney, Australia in 2,000 - owned by Ms. Jacqueline Mars;
also David's winning mount at the 1997 Badminton Horse Trials. Good
Mixture - Kevin Freeman's Olympic Team ride at the 1972 Games in Munich, Germany.
In 1974 Good Mixture was ridden by J. Michael Plumb, a USEA Hall of Fame Member
since 2003, to the Team Gold Medal and the Individual Silver Medal at the World
Championships, held at Burghley, in England. Irish
Cap - double Gold Medal ride for Bruce
Davidson at the 1974 World Championships at Burghley as well as third place at
the (Mitsubishi Motors) Badminton Horse Trials that same year. | 