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For Immediate Release
Contact: Marty Bauman, (508) 698-6810, classic.pr@verizon.net
Courtney
Boova, (802) 362-9023
Kensington and Juste Battle for the Regular Working Hunter Championship
At Vermont Summer Festival
East Dorset, VT—August 6, 2003—The
2003 Vermont Summer Festival began its last week, the Vermont
Summer Celebration, running through Sunday, August 10, the
final week of the five-week series of horse show competition
at the Harold Beebe Farm.
Juste, ridden by Brian Walker, won the first
Regular Working Hunter Class Over Fences while Kensington,
ridden by Katie Milton, won the second Regular Working Hunter
Over Fences Class with a score of 87 points. Juste won the
Regular Working Hunter Under Saddle Class and Kensington was
second. Either of these two competitors could win the Regular
Working Hunter Championship; Thursday’s Regular Working
Hunter Classes will decide.
The First Year Green Hunters were dominated
by Luxor with Mary Lisa Leffler riding for owners Jimmy Torano
and Anna Tilestone. Luxor and Leffler won both of the First
Year Green Hunters Over Fences Classes. Robyn with Elizabeth
Shoudy riding won the First Year Green Hunters Under Saddle
Class for owner Elizabeth Spielman.
Debbie McCarthy won the Open Jumper Class
on Zaharius with the only double clear round out of the 15
competitors that attempted the course designed by U.S. Olympic
veteran Buddy Brown of Tennessee.
The Vermont Summer Festival is New England’s
largest “AA” rated hunter/jumper horse show. This
year’s event includes five USET-recognized $35,000 Grand
Prix, held on the last day of each show, and five $10,000
Mini Prix, held on the Friday of each show. Each of the five
weeks also features a $10,000 Show Jumping Hall Of Fame High
Junior/Amateur-Owner Jumper class, part of the Show Jumping
Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series which determines which
junior and amateur/owner riders will qualify to ride at the
2003 National Horse Show.
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