The
USEA is Proud to Announce the 2005 Adequan USEA Gold Cup Series Champions. 
Phillip
Dutton avenged last year's second place finish by becoming the "Keeper
of the Cup" in the 2005 Gold Cup Advanced division. Dutton, a two-time
Olympic gold medallist, who rides internationally for Australia, resides in West
Grove, Pennsylvania at his True Prospect Farm, and campaigned several horses very
successfully in 2005. He took the early Series lead after the Red Hills
Horse Trials in March, winning the CIC-W***  with
The Foreman, placing third with Connaught, and sixth with Nova Top. (The Series
awards points to riders, not horse/rider combinations, therefore a rider could
earn points several times at one event.) He clinched the win in August at
the Millbrook Horse Trials after winning with Hannigan and placing third with
Amazing Odyssey. (Phillip and Hannigan are pictured at the right jumping The
Loons at the Fair Hill International CCI***.) Dutton's win earns
him $6,000 in prize money from the USEA, along with an Amerigo saddle. These will
be presented at the Awards Luncheon held at the 2005 USEA Annual Meeting and Convention
in Charlotte, North Carolina, December 1-4. Reserve champion in the Gold
Cup Advanced division is longtime Dutton student, Bonnie Mosser, of Coatesville,
Pennsylvania. Mosser and her 12-year-old Thoroughbred gelding Jenga attended
three Gold Cup events: Red Hills, Millbrook, and Poplar Place Horse Trials, where
they  finished
seventh, third, and first respectively. (Bonnie and Jenga are pictured at the
left jumping onto the island in the water at Millbrook.) Though Mosser
won't be leaving the USEA Convention with the Gold Cup, she will take home a $3,000
Bit of Britain gift certificate from Series sponsor John Nunn, owner of USEA sponsors
Nunn Finer and Bit of Britain. Debbie Rosen of Calabasas, California
put in several stellar performances this year to earn the title of Gold Cup Intermediate
Champion. She and Quito 10, her 12-year-old Holsteiner gelding, started out the
year by placing second in April at the Galway Downs CIC**. They followed that
up with a win at the Woodside Horse Trials in August. Then, in September, she
and Phillipa, a seven-year-old Holsteiner cross, owned by Gina Miles, Laura Coats,
and Thomas Schulz, placed sixth in the Twin Rivers CIC**. In addition to
the Cup, Rosen will receive $4,000 in prize money from the USEA, plus an
Amerigo saddle. It was a close race at the Intermediate level, with Tiana
Coudray, age 17, of Ojai, California right on Rosen's heels to take the reserve
champion position. Coudray and King Street, a ten-year-old Irish Sport
Horse gelding owned by Jatiel, Inc., won the CIC** at Galway Downs in April, and
then finished second at the Twin Rivers CIC**. For her efforts Coudray
will leave the USEA Convention with a $2,000 Bit of Britain gift certificate. The
2005 Adequan USEA Gold Cup Series would not be possible without the support of
its sponsors, Title Sponsor, Adequan; Presenting Sponsors: Amerigo, Nunn Finer,
SmartPak Equine, Dry Nest Bedding, and Nutrena; and Contributing Sponsors: Cover-All
Building Systems, ULCERGARD, and Platinum Performance.
|
