Wellington, Fla.
Jumping

The William C. Steinkraus Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing in the Olympic disciplines of dressage, eventing, or show jumping.

Kent Farrington is one of top jumping athletes in the world, consistently producing dominant results in the United States and abroad year after year. Farrington’s roots in equestrian sport were seeded in Chicago, Illinois, where he began riding at the age of eight. He quickly made his mark, ascending through the junior ranks before turning professional in 2000. He has since gone on to represent the United States at numerous international championships, including the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, 2015 Toronto Pan American Games, 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, and 2011 Guadalajara Pan American Games. In 2019, he became the first U.S. rider to win the Rolex Grand Prix of Aachen and the International Jumping Riders Rolex Grand Prix of Geneva in the same year.

Farrington capitalized on limited opportunities during an unconventional 2020 season, bringing home numerous victories, including a top finish aboard Gazelle in the coveted $213,300 American Gold Cup Grand Prix CSI4*, besting a competitive jump-off of 15 combinations. With a strong start to the season at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla., Farrington set the tone early with win in the $214,000 Marshall & Sterling/Great American Insurance Grand Prix CSI4* aboard longtime mount Creedance, before guiding Gazelle to a second-place finish in the $401,000 Fidelity Investments Grand Prix CSI5*. Most recently, Farrington has recorded several international wins aboard Kaprice, Creedance, and new mount, Orafina.

Flower Mound, Texas
Hunter

The Emerson Burr Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing with any horse or pony breed shown in over-fences hunter classes.

Tracy Fenney of Flower Mound, Texas, might be known for her winning results in the jumper ring. But she’s had plenty of success in the hunter ring over the course of her career, including a notable win in 2017 at the $25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at HITS Ocala with MTM Outbid. 2020 brought an impressive list of victories for Fenney, especially in the green hunter classes.

Fenney campaigned MTM Animated and MTM Dippin’ Dots throughout 2020 in the Green Hunter 3’ division, posting wins including those at Ocala January Classic, Equifest I and II, Texas Rose Sport Horse Cup, Final Chase, and the championship at Showplace Summertime II.

With MTM Personal Assistant in the Green Hunter 3’3” division, Fenney brought home wins at the Ocala Winter Celebration, Showplace Summertime II, Equifest I, and the Texas Rose Sport Horse Cup.

Fenney has successfully trained and shown hunters and jumpers for more than 35 years, and has a long track record of producing exceptional green horses. She is the co-owner, trainer, and rider at MTM Farm in Texas, where she imports and develops outstanding sport horses for the hunter and jumper rings.

Scottsdale, Ariz.
Arabian

The Barbara Worth Oakford Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing in a non-reining Western discipline.

Colby Powell is just 26 years old, but he already has become a highly sought-after Arabian horse trainer, earning numerous national championships himself and for his clients. The 2020 U.S Arabian and Half-Arabian National Championship Horse Show was no exception. Powell earned four national championship titles in the Arabian Western Pleasure Futurity, Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Reined Cow Open, Arabian Ranch Horse Riding Junior Horse, and the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Ranch Horse Riding Junior Horse classes. His win in the Arabian Western Pleasure Futurity at U.S. Nationals was particularly impressive considering the stiff competition from top entries like Gordon Potts, Jody Strand, J. T. Keller, and his own mother, LaRae Fletcher Powell.

Powell was also Reserve Champion in both the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Western Pleasure Open and the Arabian Ranch Horse Riding Open. Finally, he earned two Top 10 placings in the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Working Cow Open and the Arabian Western Pleasure Association $50,000 Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Western Pleasure Futurity. Powell also won five of the eight classes he competed in at the 2020 Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show in February.

Morriston, Fla.
Arabian

The Bill Robinson Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing with horses or ponies across all the breeds in harness or for driving performance in non-international competitions.

Margy Cox has excelled at recognized competitions for many years, and the carriage pleasure driving discipline is her forte. She has consistently earned Top 10 results since her first Arabian and Half-Arabian Sport Horse National Championship Horse Show in 2013. Cox’s performance at the 2020 Sport Horse Nationals in Nampa, Idaho, resulted in two wins in the Arabian/Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Carriage Pleasure Driving Working National Championship and the Arabian/Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Carriage Pleasure Driving Pick Your Route National Championship.

Cox also secured two reserve national championships in the Arabian/Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Carriage Pleasure Driving Turnout and Gamblers Choice championship classes, as well as two Top 10 placings in reinsmanship and scurry obstacle classes.

Prairieville, La.
Arabian

The C.J. “June” Cronan Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing under saddle in a non-hunter and/or non-Western discipline.

Joel Gangi is an Arabian horse trainer and breeder who manages Boisvert Farm in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., with Amanda Purdin Standish and Rhein Standish. Gangi competed at the 2020 U.S Arabian and Half-Arabian National Championship Horse Show, earning one national championship in the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Country English Pleasure Open and one reserve championship in the Arabian Country English Pleasure Junior Horse. He also secured five Top 10 placings at the competition in the Arabian English Performance Association $50,000 Half-Arabian Saddle Seat Futurity, AEPA $100,000 Arabian Saddle Seat Futurity, Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Park Open, Arabian Country English Pleasure Futurity, and the AEPA Saddle Seat Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Futurity.

Gangi also had standout performances at the 2020 Youth and Mid-Summer National Championship Horse Show, placing in every class he entered. He won two national championship titles, including unanimously winning the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Country English Pleasure Open, besting some of the top English pleasure trainers in the Arabian horse industry. He also earned a reserve championship in the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Country English Pleasure Junior Horse class.

Richard Freeman of Oak Hill Ranch has focused on breeding top-quality dressage horses for amateurs and professionals for almost 30 years. With a focus on Danish Warmbloods, Oak Hill Ranch has produced some of America’s top-ranking national horses for dressage and dressage sport horse breeding, including Paragon, Montana, Regiment, and Duke of Tryon. In total, Oak Hill Ranch has produced over 200 foals since the program started in 1992.

Richard worked with contacts in Denmark to discover Rambo, the Danish Warmblood stallion, and use him for the breeding program. Oak Hill Ranch emerged as a pioneer of importing frozen semen to the U.S. for the purposes of strategic sport horse breeding. Oak Hill Ranch eventually imported Rambo to the U.S., as well as additional stallions from Europe, and bred its own licensed stallion Ripline. Richard worked to ensure the best mare lines were incorporated into the breeding plans, sourcing some of Denmark’s most promising fillies and eventually producing his own top-quality broodmares. Through its breeding practices and in conjunction with Dr. Gary Greene, Oak Hill Ranch was completing successful embryo transfers and utilizing frozen semen in the early 1990s, making them an innovator in breeding technologies and practices of the day.

Dr. Ruth Wilburn, a veterinarian known by all as “Dr. Ruth,” has a deep passion for ponies and for generously supporting many organizations that improve the lives of Welsh cobs and ponies, strengthen sport governance, foster veterinary medicine, and help her local community thrive. Ruth also is an active competitor in Welsh/USEF shows in pleasure driving.

In 1983, Ruth established Rollingwoods Farm with two of her sisters, Joanna Wilburn and Sally Ross Davis, to breed and train purebred and crossbred Welsh ponies. Rollingwoods has bred more than 225 ponies since the breeding program began for hunter shows, driving events (combined and pleasure driving), dressage and Welsh breed shows. The program has built awareness and deep re-spect for the Welsh breed across multiple disciplines, for which Ruth was awarded the Welsh Pony and Cob Society of America Breeders’ Order of the Dragon—an honor only rarely bestowed, given to breeders who have had a significant and lasting positive effect on the breed through show-ring performance. Rollingwoods has received the USEF’s Welsh Pony Leading Breeder and Leading Owner honors multiple times.

Rollingwoods-bred and -produced ponies’ accomplishments are legion. They include more than 35 WPCSA Lifetime Achievement Award winners; numerous USEF and Welsh Pony and Cob Society of American National and Zone champions and reserve champions; and multiple ponies qualifying each year for the USEF Pony Finals.

Brooke USA, the sister organization to Brooke and founded in 1930 by Dorothy Brooke, is best known for improving and advocating for the welfare of working horses, donkeys and mules and the people they serve throughout Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean by raising funds and responsibly directing them to the areas of greatest need.

Over 100 million working horses, donkeys and mules provide invaluable support to daily life for an estimated 600 million people (eight percent of the world's population) in some of the poorest places in the world, through haulage, transportation and production. Healthy working horses, donkeys and mules help to put food on their tables, send their children to school, and build better futures for themselves and their families.

Brooke USA strategically invests in solution-oriented, community-based partner organizations that address the root causes of problems affecting vulnerable communities around the globe. Working directly with animals, owners, health services agencies, and governments, Brooke USA supports growths in infrastructure, education, veterinary care, and funding for projects and causes positively benefitting and sustaining working humans and animals in the developing world.

September 1, 2020, marked the end of an era for US Equestrian as Sally Ike, who has been with the organization for nearly 30 years, transitioned from her post as Managing Director of Licensed Offi-cials and Education into an independent contractor role. Sally has been an integral part of US Equestrian’s success and growth since 1989, working extensively with the USEF Sport Department for more than three decades. She has managed countless responsibilities and held numerous titles throughout her tenure, including Chef de Mission, Discipline Director of Eventing, Managing Direc-tor of Jumping, and Director of Vaulting Activities. She also served as the jumping team leader for every Olympic Games, Pan American Games, FEI World Equestrian Games, and FEI World Cup Finals from 1990 through 2008.

An accomplished equestrian, Sally successfully competed at the Burghley Horse Trials in 1967 and completed the 1968 Badminton Horse Trials on Evening Mail, earning an Olympic team nomina-tion. She was selected as a non-traveling reserve for the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

Sally’s many roles also have included course designer, technical delegate, steward, and judge at numerous three-day events across the country, as well as managing the jumping department and traveling around the world with top international U.S. Jumping teams.

Sally has always been a welcoming and dependable supporter of all equestrian disciplines. Her pledge to ensure the success of US Equestrian’s teams and programs has left a lasting impression not only on the disciplines she has been so deeply tied to throughout her career, but also on those she has mentored and worked with throughout the years.

Scottsdale, Ariz.
Arabian

The Norman K. Dunn Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing at halter or in-hand.

Sandro Pinha has owned and operated Arabians International in Scottsdale, Ariz., with partner Gil Valdez since 2010, producing numerous Arabian horse halter champions throughout the years for an array of loyal owners and supporters. Pinha, born and raised in Brazil, spent his youth learning from the best at Haras Capim Fino, one of the premier Arabian horse breeding and training centers in Brazil. Known for his world-class management and horsemanship skills, Pinha has become a household name in the U.S. after capturing his first national championship in 2010 with El Nabila B.

In 2020, Pinha took home national titles for the Arabian Senior Mare Breeding 6 & Over Championship with Pitonisa AS, the Arabian Junior Stallion Breeding 3-5 Championship with Preludio OSB, and the Arabian 2-Year-Old Filly Breeding Championship with CW La Stella at the U.S. Arabian and Half-Arabian National Championship in Tulsa, Okla., in late October. Pinha also collected top results throughout the year at the 2020 Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show, 2020 Youth and Mid-Summer Arabian and Half-Arabian National Championship, and 2020 Arabian National Breeder Finals.

In a year where timely and trustworthy public health information became even more important than usual, Dr. Mark Hart has been an invaluable resource to the USEF and the equestrian community at large. Dr. Hart is a board certified, practicing cardiologist based in Portland, Ore. He entered the horse world when his daughter started eventing, and has remained an active member of the community since.

Dr. Hart currently serves as the USEF Team Physician, a member of the USEF Human and Equine Safety & Welfare Committee, and Chair of the Fédération Équestre Internationale Medical Committee. With past experience as a Medical Officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee and USEF at the Toronto 2015 and Lima 2019 Pan American Games, and as the Chief Medical Officer for the Tryon 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, Dr. Hart is no stranger to handling logistics around human health and equestrian events. His expertise proved invaluable as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the course of 2020. He was instrumental in developing the USEF’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan and Toolkit for Competition Organizers and Participants, which allowed equestrian sports to resume safely this summer.

Dr. Hart continues to provide leadership and guidance to the equestrian community at home and abroad as we look ahead to a new competition year.

Dick Miller was first introduced to the Paso Fino breed in the 1980s, and nearly 40 years later, he is still riding and competing at top horse shows around the country. He has owned more than 130 Paso Finos, competed in more than 3,000 classes, and won more than 85 national titles. He competed in the Mundial World Championships four times and showed all over the U.S., England, Germany, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

Miller grew up riding working ranch horses but fell in love with the spirit and smooth gait when he rode his first Paso Fino, Merodeador El Prim, after visiting Orville Cummings’s farm in Nebraska. Miller has volunteered for Paso Fino associations locally and nationally, including serving as treasurer for the Paso Fino Horse Association.

Miller’s biggest contributions have been behind the scenes in his relentless dedication to the sport’s youth. He was instrumental in kick-starting the Paso Fino Horse Foundation’s youth scholarship program, which has awarded more than $180,000. Miller has also been a major supporter of the U.S. teams competing at Youth Equitation Mundial events in Puerto Rico, Colombia, and the United States, leading fundraising efforts and coordinating financial planning for several teams. At horse shows, Miller is often found talking with young members, offering encouragement and advice, and providing horses for them to ride when needed.

Carl Bessette was always the picture of equestrian elegance; tall, slender and impeccably turned out. He was a horseman who emphasized the classical approach with no shortcuts. He took his last ride on Father's Day in June, wearing his usual polished boots and spurs, according to M. Douglas “Dougie” Mutch, who noted he was still able to demonstrate the skills that made him such an out-standing horseman and teacher.

A Marine veteran, Carl began riding with his father at Bessette Brothers Riding Stable in Burlington, Vt., which ultimately evolved into Champlain Riding School in Williston in 1964, after Carl had left the Marines and married Virginia Donaldson.

During his career, Carl also headed the equitation program at St. Lawrence University, trained at Tewksbury Farms in New Jersey, and taught at Champlain Riding School in Vermont and Southern Seminary in Virginia, before relocating to Wellington, Fla.

Carl died in Wellington on October 20, 2019, at age 89.

Carol Dean-Porter developed a passion for horses at an early age and left a lasting legacy. For more than 40 years, she was the professional hunter-jumper rider and trainer at Carol Dean-Porter Stables in Los Angeles, California. As a rider, Carol successfully competed several jumpers to wins at the international level.

As a trainer, Carol coached many champions in hunter, equitation, jumper, and hunter breeding divisions. Several of her students went on to become international level riders and trainers. Carol also traveled the U.S. to teach clinics to all levels of riders.

Carol held a USEF "R" license for judging hunters, jumpers, equitation, and hunter breeding, a license as a sport horse judge with the Arabian Horse Association, and a license with the American Paint Horse Association. Additionally, she served on the USEF Licensed Officials Committee, the Zone 10 Jumper Committee, and the United States Hunter Jumper Association Education Committee as well as authored numerous print and online articles. One of her most significant endeavors was the "Horses for Parks" donation program she originated for the National Parks Trust, which raised over $750,000.

Carol Dean-Porter passed away on October 21, 2019 at the age of 68.

Eve Lloyd Thompson’s love of horseback riding and animals led her to a varied and interesting life. She competed in competitive trail riding, saddle seat, hunters, jumpers, and dressage. Eve also owned racehorses, bred horses, and fox hunted. She was a graduate of Cornell University with a Zoology major.

Eve served in numerous leadership roles, including Executive Director of the Washington International Horse Show, color commentator for HTS-FOX in Washington, and a member of the American Horse Council’s Animal Welfare Task Force, to name a few.

Eve helped establish the Bernice Barbour Foundation, which has contributed to significant improvements in animal welfare across the country. She was also one of the founders of Animal Grantmakers, a group of funders with animal protection, welfare, and rights perspectives. Her leadership caught the attention of several veterinary schools. She served on the External Advisory Council at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, chairing the council from 1998 to 2018. Eve also served on veterinary boards at University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, and Johns Hopkins Center for Alternative to Animal Testing.

Eve Lloyd Thompson passed away on October 13, 2020, at the age of 86.

Dr. Gay Culverhouse—a leading Paso Fino amateur competitor, highly active member of the Paso Fino Horse Association, and the CEO of Aquarian Show Horses—was also a champion of safety in sport. In her professional life, Gay was an educator who specialized in child psychiatry.She also served for nearly a decade, first as a senior executive and later as team president, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during her father’s ownership of the National Football League team.She became an outspoken and effective advocate for player health and safety, and particularly for players with brain injuries.Gay's actions and interest in sport safety and brain injury also extended to the equestrian world, where she was a generous financial supporter. Her work on concussion issues also has greatly benefited athletes in equestrian sport.

Gay was a lifetime member of the Paso Fino Horse Association. Gay also became PFHA’s Amateur of the Year in 2010, which she earned through her dedication to the Association and youth programs, as well as through the numerous Grand and National Champion horses she owned and rode.

Gay Culverhouse died on July 1, 2020, at her home in Fernandina Beach, Fla. She was 73.

Kip Rosenthal’s many contributions to the hunter jumper world are a testament to her wide-ranging talents and areas of expertise. She was a successful rider in her own right who went on to train horses and riders to the top of the sport. She was a USEF “R” judge who officiated at several major hunter and equitation finals, as well as donating her time as a member of USEF committees. She held a Ph.D. in adolescent clinical psychology, and focused on sports psychology to help junior, amateur, and professional athletes perform at their best.

Rosenthal opened her business, Benchmark Farms, in 1985. Based in Wellington, Fla., she trained students to wins at all of the major equitation finals and numerous Horse of the Year titles. She continued to share her vast knowledge throughout her life, writing articles for The Chronicle of the Horse, Practical Horseman, and US Equestrian magazine, and publishing a book on horsemanship titled Kip’s Tips.

Kip Rosenthal passed away on August 20, 2020, at age 69.

Larry Alcorn had a deep appreciation for horsepower in its different forms. He enjoyed cars and cherished the time he spent with his son going to racetracks and car shows. Larry loved horses and he treasured spending time with his wife Kelly competing sport-horse Arabians.

A proud Army veteran and a retiree from U.S. Steel, Larry had a deep love of the horse world and the friends he made there.

Larry was well known as a USEF (Jumper) Judge, a Steward, and a show organizer, as well as an excellent announcer. He had a reputation for always managing difficult situations fairly and equita-bly. Larry understood more than the literal word of each USEF rule; he understood the intent, used his incisive judgment to apply the rules, and steadfastly stood by his principles.

Larry also was a valued mentor who enjoyed teaching, and newer Stewards or those applying for their licenses would often seek his wisdom. As a friend said of him, “He was as generous as he was tall.” Larry Alcorn passed away on January 20, 2020, at age 63.

Lieutenant Colonel John William Russell served in the mounted 104th Cavalry of the National Guard during World War II, fighting in Africa, Italy, and Germany. He received a Purple Heart, the Soldier’s Medal, and two Bronze Service Stars, amongst other awards. While John was in the U.S. Army, he competed in his first Olympics Games in 1948 in London, England. He returned for the 1952 Olympics Games in Helsinki, Finland, and he and his horse, Democrat, were part of the bronze medal-winning jumping team. John was also the first foreigner to win the Hamburg Spring Derby while riding a Texas-bred Quarter horse named Rattler.

John went on to run the United States Modern Pentathlon Training Center in San Antonio, Texas, where he coached and mentored generations of athletes. He was inducted into the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame and the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame and was awarded the United States Hunter Jumper Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne Medal of Honor.

Lieutenant Colonel John William Russell was the oldest living U.S. Olympic medalist at 100, up until his death on September 30, 2020.

Patrick “Packy” McGaughan was a lifelong member of the American eventing community. As a rider, he achieved the national spotlight as a competitor at the North American Youth Championships. He was recruited by U.S. Eventing Chef d’Equipe Jack Le Goff to train with him at the U.S. Equestrian Team Center in South Hamilton, Mass., in the early 1980s.

McGaughan followed an educational and career path outside of the horse world, earning a degree in psychology from Duke University and later completing his law degree at the University of Maryland. However, he continued his competitive pursuits in the sport of eventing, finishing second at the 1987 Kentucky Three-Day Event with his mother’s horse, Tanzer, and winning individual bronze and team gold at the Pan American Games that same year.

After practicing law for several years, he turned his attention back to the horse world at his Banbury Cross Farm in Clarksburg, Md., where he bred and trained sport horses and coached riders in eventing, dressage, hunters, and equitation.

Patrick McGaughan passed away on March 12, 2020, at age 56.

Richard Petty spent much of his career as a dedicated judge for many breeds and disciplines, but he got his start in the industry working with the Arabian horse in the 1970s. During his tenure as an Arabian horse trainer, Petty earned numerous National Top 10 honors in the U.S. and Canada, as well as National and Reserve National Championships in Halter, Western Pleasure, Pleasure Driving, and English Pleasure. Petty held nine judges cards, earning his first in 1979 for the Arabian breed, and judged prestigious competitions across the U.S. and internationally.

Petty earned a reputation as an honest, fair judge all over the world, crediting the Arabian horse for the wonderful world it opened up to him. Petty made friends as a knowledgeable official and horseman for many breeds, including the American Saddlebred, Shetland, Andalusian, Lusitano, Friesian, Hackney, and Morgan. In 2019, he was the first recipient of the Peter Cameron Award, awarded to an Arabian horse judge or steward who demonstrates high standards and values. Petty had a particular fondness for Arabian mares, inspiring his friends in the industry to create and award a perpetual trophy annually to the National Champion Senior Mare at the U.S. Arabian and Half-Arabian National Championship Show.

Petty passed away on September 18, 2020, at the age of 70.

Steve Blauner was an amateur rider and longtime supporter of equestrian sports, especially eventing. He was a dedicated owner for Boyd Martin and Doug Payne. As a proponent of the syndicate model of ownership for high performance horses, he was part of syndicates that owned six horses that represented the U.S. at Olympic Games, World Equestrian Games, and Pan American Games.

Additionally, Blauner supported rising athletes in the sport of eventing as one of the founders of the MARS Bromont Rising Program for under-25 athletes, which debuted in June 2019. The program provides training, coaching, and financial assistance for up-and-coming eventers at high-level events.

A lawyer by profession, Blauner devoted much of his time and talent to promote equestrianism and the sport of eventing. He was a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation Benefit Committee and the USEF Event Owners Task Force. As part of the team behind the Millbrook Horse Trials, he was an active participant in providing exceptional eventing not far from his hometown of New York City.

Steve Blauner passed away on January 16, 2020, at age 66.

Lucy Enns has participated in the equestrian industry both in the arena and in its governance. Enns was a finalist in the American Morgan Horse Association Youth of the Year contest in 2019 and 2020 and currently serves on the AMHA Youth Council as Vice President of Central Region. She is an accomplished young driver, earning five top-10 finishes with her mare Mabelene at the 2020 Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show. She has also tried her hand at officiating, participating in multiple AMHA youth judging clinics. Enns started at Friends University in Wichita, Kan., this past August and intends to start her own Morgan breeding program in the future.

Enns competed at the Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show for the first time in 2008 in the leadline class. Six-year-old Enns was star-struck watching the show horses proudly move around the arena that night and was determined to become one of those competitors.

Enns faced many obstacles on her way to that goal. Her four older siblings all have some form of disability, so Enns always prioritized family and understood that her equestrian dreams would rely on hard work and her characteristic independence. She worked at her barn, the Wichita Riding Academy, and volunteered at local shows, observing people and learning about their training methods. She quickly learned that difficult decisions are part of life with horses when two of her competition horses got sick and ultimately needed to be put down.

Enns was not looking for a horse when she found her current partner, Mabelene, but immediately knew that mare was her “heart horse.” Enns tried out many different disciplines to find what “Mabel” loved to do. They finally found their niche in 2020 when Enns started training Mabel to drive with the support of Jim McCune. Everything fell into place at the Morgan Grand National where the pair earned third place in the Carriage Pleasure Driving Single World Championship. Enns was very pleased with the result but was most elated to be back in the competition ring after working so hard to be there again.

San Marcos, Calif.
Arabian

The Vaughan Smith Trophy is presented to the best rider of any horse or pony breed shown in hunter pleasure, show hack, hunter hack, dressage hack, costume, sidesaddle, or Western dressage.

Jonathan Ramsay is an Arabian horse trainer at Stachowski Farms in San Marcos, Calif., specializing in training young horses and amateur and junior riders. He has garnered many accolades over the years, and 2020 was no different, with numerous top-10 results on the Arabian show circuit. Ramsay claimed three Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian championship titles in Country English Pleasure, Country Pleasure Driving, and English Pleasure at the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show. He found continued success at the Arabian Horse Association Region 2 Championships, earning top honors in the Arabian English Show Hack Championship, Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian English Show Hack Championship, Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian English Pleasure Junior Horse Championship, and Arabian Park Championship. Next, he took home the Arabian Country English Pleasure Junior Horse Championship at the Arabian & Half-Arabian Youth and Mid-Summer National Championship, plus three more championship titles at the Arabian Horse Association of Southern California Purebred & Half-Arabian Fall Show. Ramsay closed out 2020 by finishing in the top three in 16 different championship and futurity classes at the U.S Arabian and Half-Arabian National Championship Horse Show.

Debbi Long, trainer and owner at Long Farms, grew up in Pasadena, Calif. She made her mark in the hunter/jumper world as a “do-it-yourselfer.” She found young or inexpensive horses, trained them, and sold them, building a solid foundation of exceptional horsemanship that ultimately led her to develop Long Farms in Boise, Idaho. As she once said, “The satisfaction of winning is sec-ond to the joy of hard work and process.”

Debbi has instilled her passion for horses in her three granddaughters—Rachel, Kayla, and Isabell, all of whom have achieved success as juniors.

This dedication to creating opportunities and success for others is typical of Debbi. Her support for junior and young riders has helped Zone 9 riders reach the podium in a variety of competitions, from combined team silver at the 2015 and 2016 USEF Pony Jumper National Championships to the individual gold and team bronze at the 2019 USHJA Zone 9/10 Jumper Team Championships.

What makes her a true sportsman is her deep appreciation for equestrian sport, a love of the out-doors, her passion for working with each horse and the dedication she has to creating a legacy of hard work and teamwork as shared with her own grandchildren.