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Garone
Wins Saddle Seat Medal Finals
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Devon
Garone, 17, of Richmond, NH, was crowned champion of the 2002
USA Saddle Seat Medal Finals, held November 23, as part of the
UPHA/American
Royal National Championship Horse Show in Kansas City, MO.
Garone
topped the class of 35 entries with the reserve championship going
to Dakota Willimon of Simpsonville, KY. The class was judged by
Maria Gilman of Land O' Lakes, FL, Lynn Harvey-McNamara of Wethersfield,
CT, and Marilyn Macfarlane of Simpsonville, KY. As champion Garone
will have her name engraved on the Adrian Van Sinderen trophy
and Helen K. Crabtree Perpetual Bronze. Champion and reserve each
received embroidered coolers, leather halters for their horses
and a bouquet of roses.
Results
are as follows:
Champion: Devon Garone, Richmond, NH
Reserve Champion: Dakota Willimon, Simpsonville, KY
3rd: Ashley Alden, Barrington, IL
4th: Caroline Gillespie, Wichita, KS
5th: Lucinda Hartley, Elizabethtown, KY
6th: Tasha Rose Sandler, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
7th: Alexandra Flynn, Tampa, FL
8th: Jessica Saft, Cumming, GA
9th: Betty Cox, Danville, KY
10th: Sarah Taylor, Davison, MI
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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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