The United States Pony Clubs, Inc.
The Kentucky Horse Park, 4041 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY 40511
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News Release
For more information, contact: Wayne Quarles
activities@ponyclub.org or 859/254-7669
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The United States Pony Clubs, Inc.
Field of Six Teams Ready to Run at the 2007
Prince Philip Cup Games at Rolex/Kentucky 3-Day Event
The 2007 Prince Philip Cup Games at Rolex will mark the competition’s 22nd anniversary and the sixth consecutive year it will be hosted at the Rolex/Kentucky 3-Day Event. The 2007 competition will feature 6 teams and will for the first time ever be held in the beautiful Walnut Arena, close to the indoor arena, on April 26-27, 2007. The tentative competition schedule is:
Friday
9:00-10:00 a.m. Round 1
12:30-1:00 p.m. Celebrity Round (a number of Rolex competitors and well-known horsemen who are Pony Club graduates, such as David O’Connor and Phillip Dutton, will be joining the teams for this special competition)
1:00-2:00 p.m. Round 2
Saturday
9:00-10:00 a.m. Round 3 and Awards
1:30-3:00 p.m. Rain Make-up Round (if needed)
This year we have an East-West games showdown and an opportunity to really ignite some additional enthusiasm for games. To qualify for the Prince Philip Cup Games a team must achieve top honors at the USPC Championships the previous summer. The teams competing this year are:
Intermountain Region BOISE GEMS
Kylie Reagan, Boise, Idaho, 14, D-3, Boise Pony Club
Felicity Jerman, Eagle, Idaho, 13, C-1, Boise Pony Club
Elizabeth Stoker, Nampa, Idaho, 14, D-3, Boise Pony Club
Amy Craggs, Meridian, Idaho, 13, D-2, Boise Pony Club
Frisco Adams, Middleton, Idaho, 13, D-2, Boise Pony Club
Eastern PA/Virginia Regions LUCK OF THE IRISH
Heather Klingerman, Telford, Pennsylvania, 14, C-2, Perkiomen Creek Pony Club
Joe Naji, North Wales, Pennsylvania, 14, D-3, Perkiomen Creek Pony Club
Tyler Royer, Souderton, Pennsylvania, 13, C-1, Perkiomen Creek Pony Club
Carin Brown, Warrenton, Virginia, 14, C-2, Casanova/Warrenton Pony Club
Jon Naji, North Wales, Pennsylvania, 12, D-2, Perkiomen Creek Pony Club
Eastern Pennsylvania region MELONHEADS
Greta Schelling, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, 15, C-2, Radnor Hunt Pony Club
Lauren Attanasio, Douglassville, Pennsylvania, 13, D-3, Pickering Hunt Pony Club
Emily Nelson, Morgantown, Pennsylvania, 12, C-1, Pickering Hunt Pony Club
Nicole Ligon, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 14, C-1, Pickering Hunt Pony Club
Shannon Murphy, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 14, C-1, Pickering Hunt Pony Club
Northwest Region REBELS WITH A CAUSE
Roberta Woronowicz, Bellevue, Washington, 14, C-2, Misty Mountain Pony Club
Morgan Roggow, Graham, Washington, 14, C-1, Carbon River Pony Club
Meaghan Oakes, Orting, Washington, 13, C-2, Carbon River Pony Club
Cameron Longacre, Longview, Washington, 13, D-3, Hilander Pony Club
Rebecca Saar, Vaughn, Washington, 14, C-1, Narrows Pony Club
MidSouth/heartland Regions SPACECATS
Jessica Caddel, Lexington, Kentucky, 13, D-3, Keeneland Pony Club
Hannah Turnbull, Versailles, Kentucky, 12, D-3, Keeneland Pony Club
Katie Lockhart, Versailles, Kentucky, 12, D-3, Keeneland Pony Club
Katie Robertson, Waco, Kentucky, 13, D-3, Keeneland Pony Club
Sarah Foreman, Saint Joseph, Illinois, 11, D-3, Half Halt Pony Club
Capital Region SWAT
Evan Becker, Frederick, Maryland, 13, D-3, Frederick Pony Club
Isabelle Brace, Mount Airy, Maryland, 14, C-1, Frederick Pony Club
Aron Cone, Darnestown, Maryland, 14, C-1, Frederick Pony Club
Shelby Kepner, Damascus, Maryland, 12, D-3, Frederick Pony Club
MacKenzie Taylor, Mount Airy, Maryland, 11, D-3, Frederick Pony Club
Mounted Games is a series of relay races on horseback, where the riders must perform different skills while riding at speed. An example is the Balloon Race, where balloons are placed on a board in the middle of a 180 foot arena. The riders race from one end with a pole and pop one balloon while riding past at a gallop, then hand the pole to a teammate at the other end who returns and pops a balloon along the way. The first team to have four riders successfully pop a balloon and cross the finish line wins. These riders also perform games that require them to dismount and pick an object off of the ground and then vault back on to the pony as it moves out – no stirrups, just jump and pull on! A picture beats a thousand words with this sport.
The United States Pony Clubs, Inc. (USPC) was founded in 1954 as a nonprofit national youth organization to teach riding and horsemanship through a formal educational program. Many of the nation’s top equestrians, including our Olympic team members, have Pony Club roots. Members range in age from as young as 4 through age 25. Activities are English-riding based, and members ride both horses and ponies, depending on the size of the rider and the discipline in which s/he is competing. Pony Club competition is team competition, much like the Olympic games, where members learn the importance of cooperation and teamwork.
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