Dressage Star Steffen Peters Named USEF 2009 Equestrian of the Year; Jessica Ransehousen Honored for a Lifetime of Excellence and Maxance McManamy to Carry Sport into Future
January 16 2010 – Louisville, KY – In January of 2009 Steffen Peters was honored with the USEF’s Equestrian of the Year Award for his uncanny sportsmanship and his achievements on the field of play throughout 2008. In 2010, at the USEF Pegasus Awards dinner he was bestowed the title again – this time for simply blowing the doors off the dressage world in 2009.
Made even sweeter by the fact that the beloved horse who made it all possible picked up the top honors the night before at the 2009 Farnam/Platform Horse of the Year Awards dinner, 2009 is a year that will go down in history as the year of Peters and Ravel.
In April, Peters (San Diego, CA) became only the second American to win the FEI World Cup Dressage Final, and the first to do so in the US when he stormed to victory in Las Vegas. With Ravel, the performance brought the crowd to their feet and then to tears as the 11-year-old Dutch gelding owned by Aikiko Yamazaki proved how much he had improved since his fourth place finish at the 2008 Olympic Games. He looked the very best in the eye and never wavered – putting the historically Euro-centric dressage world on notice that the game had indeed changed. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9867
Tags: dressage, equestrian community, equestrian disciplines, Jessica Ransehousen, Maxance McManamy, Pegasus Award Winners, Steffen Peters, USEF
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