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Gaits Farm To Sponsor Junior Dressage Championship
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Gaits Farm has signed on to become a sponsor of the USAE Junior
Dressage Team Championship. The championship, created as part
of a movement to encouraging outstanding young riders, will be
held during Dressage at Devon, in Devon PA, September 23 –
28.
Riders,
ages 14 – 18, qualified for the USAE Junior Team Dressage
Championship by competing at USA Equestrian/United States Dressage
recognized competitions from August 1, 2002 through July 31, 2003.
Competitors must submit an Application of Intent and a minimum
of five qualifying scores to USA Equestrian. Of these five scores
two must be FEI Junior Team Tests, two FEI Junior Individual Tests
and one USA Equestrian Fourth Level Test 1. The top five scores
for each horse and rider combination will be calculated for the
final averages. Each horse and rider combination must achieve
an overall average score of 60.000% or higher. Once the riders
are selected, they are placed on teams in a handicapped format
so that when the members of a team average their individual scores
together, they are of similar percentages. During the competition,
team members will ride both the FEI Junior Team and the FEI Junior
Individual tests. Each team will drop the lowest score of each
test and accumulated percentages will determine the team placings.
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Gaits Farm, owned by Jeff and Shereen Fuqua, is located in a prestigious
suburb of Atlanta, GA, and is the training base for Karen Lipp,
an accomplished rider and one of few Americans to have competed
in last year’s prestigious Young Horse Championships in Verden,
Germany.
USA
Equestrian Inc., as the National Equestrian Federation of the
U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship
sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show
jumping, and vaulting, as well as 19 other breeds and disciplines
of equestrian competition. As
the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation
has over 80,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions
nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including
educating and licensing all judges, stewards, and technical delegates
who officiate at these shows.
VISION STATEMENT
The vision of USA Equestrian is to provide leadership for equestrian
sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of
excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on
a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its
horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian
federation in the world.
www.equestrian.org
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