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Jeffery
Receives Fifth Course Designer Of The Year Award
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Richard
Jeffery of Dorsett, UK, has been selected as the recipient of
the Mr. & Mrs. William C. Cox Memorial Trophy as the 2002
Show Jumping Course Designer of the Year for the fifth time. He
also received this award in 1989, 1990, 1994 and 1999.
Courses
designed by Jeffery included courses at the Kentucky Spring Classic
(Lexington, KY), Bayer/USET Festival of Champions (Gladstone,
NJ) and the Pennsylvania National (Harrisburg, PA).
The
winner of the Mr. & Mrs. William C. Cox Memorial Trophy is
determined annually by eligible U.S. Competitors on the Grand
Prix Jumping Circuit. Donated in 1958 by the Cox family, the award
memorializes Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cox who were ardent supporters
of grand prix jumping in the United States.
The
presentation of the award will be made at the Pegasus Awards Dinner
to be held January 17, during the USA Equestrian Annual Meeting
in Lexington, KY. For information on attending the awards dinner
contact Deborah Martin at 859-225-6961.
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.
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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.
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