Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7:31PM September 19th was the first day of the USDF Region 5 and RMDS Championships and Open Show at Colorado Horse Park. Team PSEC had only 1 rider:
Madeline riding qinLu's April won their 1st level Open Test of Choice by 5 points with a 70.172
Friday, September 13, 2019 at 12:46PM Laura and Team PSEC are in Utah at the Event at Skyline horse trials:
Noa and Farah Training Sr
Madeline and Edie Training Sr
Madeline and Lulu in their move up to Training Sr
Ingrid and Berklee Novice Jr/YR
Melinda and Brodi Beginner Novice Sr
Heidi and Vinny Beginner Novice Sr
Polly and Macgyver Starter Sr
Watch live scoring on eventing.startbox.com
Monday, September 2, 2019 at 1:07PM Madeline Backus and Lynn Roberts’ 12-year-old Hanoverian gelding Reflektion’s Rio (Reggasoni x L.A. Baltic Reflektion) led the Training Horse division wire-to-wire to take home the win on a score of 27.4, finishing the weekend four points ahead of the competition.
“He’s been stellar all week and he’s a bit hit-or-miss with show jumping – sometimes we’ll go in and he’ll be great others he pulls down a lot,” Backus explained. “We tried a new thing today and it worked and I’m really proud of him.”
“[We tried] very little warmup – like one fence,” she elaborated. “It was very nerve-wracking for me but he’s got like 15 good fences in him before he starts not caring. He got in the ring and I think the atmosphere helped. It’s so great to be able to bring younger horses into this arena. I think that atmosphere set him back a little and he was more careful – it was great, I was really proud of him.”
Backus will be giving Rio a little vacation before deciding what’s in store for the fall season. “He’s going to get a little break after this,” she said. “He’s one that we take our time with. He’s 12 this year but we just take it slow and go with what he needs. He’ll get a break and we’ll schedule our fall season after that.”
“I love the American Eventing Championships, I’ve been coming to them for so many years,” Backus said. “Being from Colorado we travel a lot so it’s nice that it’s in Kentukcy because I think it’s a little closer than some of the locations have been and it’s so fun to get out here and be competing next to big names and seeing everyone again. It’s amazing that we’ve had so many entries this show – it’s just really incredible. Thanks to all the sponsors for making it possible and all the volunteers because without them we wouldn’t be able to do it.”
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 4:25PM PSEC has 3 riders and 4 horses competing in this year's American Eventing Championships:
Cora Severs riding her horse, Cuervo, in Preliminary JYR Championships
Madeline riding Lynn Roberts' Rio in Training Horse Championships
Madeline riding her horse, Lulu, in Novice Horse Championships and
Noa Crowley riding her horse, Farah, in Novice Rider Championships
Live scoring and streaming on USEventing.com
Monday, August 12, 2019 at 7:47PM Great weekend at Spring Gulch Horse Trials!! Such a well run, fun and safe event!!
Sophie and Obie came home with the win at preliminary
Liz and Brodie secured a 4th in a very competitive novice division
Emma and Gracy won their HUGE BN junior division, ending their career together on their dressage score of 28!!! Second lowest of the entire event
Melissa and Titus had three great phases and ended up in 4th in their BN division
Right behind them in 5th was Heidi and Vinnie, doing a great job after several rain delays that affected them directly, fortunately, Vinnie is a TB and wasn't phased by the many warmups!!!
Chandler and Jayden had 3 really good phases but had a TE in XC. i am so proud of how these two put the work in to make their last event of the year fun and safe!!
Last but definitely not least...
Polly and Mason ended up 2nd in their Intro division. I love how they are really starting to mesh as a team!!