Congratulations to our Zone 5 members who participated in the Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program late summer Regional Training Sessions! Check out the USHJA Facebook page for more photos.

HITS Balmoral Park session:

Shannon Bauer, Martina Chiara, Kylie Cohen, Katie Gilcrest, Rebecca Morris, Madison O'Meara, Chiara Perni, Tanner Pfeffer, Kylie Schmidt, Hadley Shalowitz, Anna Spitzer, Alexandra Ulanovski, Abby Wardeberg and Jennifer Wardeberg.

Zone 5 Individual Medalists:

Children's Individual Medalists:

Adult Amateur Individual Medalists:

Read more about the individual competition.

Zone 5 members competed in the USHJA Zones 5 & 6 Jumper Team Championships this month at HITS Balmoral Park. See who participated. Special congratulations to our Zone 5 medalists:

Entries are now open for the AON/USHJA National Championships, which will be returning to The Las Vegas National CSI3*-W November 11-17. Click here to read more! 

Congratulations to Mary Roskens and Mary-Go-Round Stables, winners of the 2019 Horsemanship Quiz Stable Challenge in Zone 5.

The Stable Challenge is designed to engage a trainer's entire barn as a team. At least three students per trainer had to complete the USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Challenge Practice Quiz between June 15 and July 15.

Each of the high scoring trainers will be receiving a USHJA backpack with a brush, hoofpick, and TCP manual; a helmet from Charles Owen; a one-year membership to Equestriancoach.com; a $200 Parlanti gift certificate; a grooming bucket with supplies from Shapley's; a $100 FITS Breeches and a $100 gift card from State Line Tack.

USEF Pony Finals, presented by Collecting Gaits Farm are just around the corner and will be held August 6-11 at The Kentucky Horse Park.

Good luck to our riders participating, including our Zone 5 riders who will be competing in the USEF Pony Jumper Championships.

USHJA will again host educational clinics during Pony Finals. Click here for more info.

Catch all the action on USEF Network.

Zone 5 members competed in the USHJA Zones 5 & 6 Platinum Jumper Championships at HITS Balmoral Park this month. Congratulations to our members who participated. Special congratulations to our Zone 5 medalists:

Team Championship:

Special thanks to Chefs d'Equipe Elaine Schott and Ryan Sassmannshausen for leading teams. Read more about the team competition.

Individual Championship:

Read more about the individual competition.

The Zone 5 Horse of the Year Championship is coming up September 11-15 at Showplace Fall Classic I in Crete, Illinois. View specifications.

The USHJA Zone 5 Horsemanship Class will be September 20 during The Kentucky National in Lexington, Kentucky. View specifications.

Good luck to our riders who are competing at the 2019 Adequan/FEI North American Youth Championships presented by Gotham North, July 30-August 4 at Old Salem Farm in New York.

Catch all the action on USEF Network. Click here for more information.

Getting to Know EAP Clinician Cynthia Hankins 

Cynthia Hankins, one of this summer’s clinicians at the Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions, is widely recognized for winning the AHSA Medal finals in 1977 and for her national and international success with jumpers. Did you know that Cynthia’s winning record in the show ring started at a much earlier age? Cynthia took top prize in Leadline at Devon two times, at ages three and four. Her first Medal class win came at age 12 on a 13.2 1/2 hand pony, and she qualified for the Medal and ASPCA Maclay finals that year, finishing fifth in the Maclay. Cynthia’s story was featured in ”Equitation: A Foundation for Life” at the USHJA Wheeler Museum.

Photo courtesy of Cynthia Hankins.