Hello all! I have some recent updates I thought you should know about:
First and foremost, it has been announced that Frodo and I made the short list for next year's olmypic games in Hong Kong. Being on the winter training list, as I have heard, entails a lot of hard work and determination which is right up Frodo's and my alley! The clinics for the training list will start at the end of January prompting my boys and I to head down south a little earlier than expected.
Secondly, I am so thrilled to say that my deceased equine star, the apple of my mother's eye, Eight Saint James Place is going to be honored at the Jersey Fresh CCI*** every year by naming the trophy to the three star winner the Eight Saint James Place Trophy. In addition to that honor, a tree and gravestone have also been planted at the Horse Park of New Jersey that oversees the water fence thanks to the great people at the horse park of NJ, Ann and Troy Glaus, Wendy Bebie, Kristen Bond and Buck Davidson, Darren Chiacchia, Jess and Matt Kiener, and Carl and Cassandra Siegal. Also, Brendan Furlong and Associates gave a grant of money in Jamie's name in research to study anurisms in horses and the reasons for their happenings. I cannot tell you amazing it feels to have your horse loved not only by myself and my mother, but by the whole eventing community as a whole. Jamie's legend will live on forever because of what these eight groups of people have done. For that, I am so greatly appreciative.
Finally, the end of the year rider rankings from the USEA were published and because of Frodo's excellent standing at Fairhill and Alex's phenomenal showing at Ocala and because of my horse's consistency throughout the whole year, they helped me to finish 12th in the overall rankings and 7th in the woman standings in the whole nation, which also includes foreign riders riding in our country! What a feat!!! Stay tuned for more!
