Patricia Hennessy and Little Tom Win $25,000 Barry Lane Memorial Jumper Classic; Megan Edrick and Cadence Victorious in $25,000 EMO Insurance Grand Prix
Conyers, GA — Nov 13, 2011 — The 10th Annual Barry Lane Memorial Jumper Classic kicked off the action of the Atlanta Fall Classics at the Georgia International Horse Park. “This is always a personal event to the horse show staff. Barry Lane was not only a great supporter of the Atlanta events, but a dear friend to many of us. We all feel her presence here and hope she’s enjoying this class,” Bob Bell, President of Classic Company, said. This year’s Jumper Classic boasted 59 entries.
The format of the classic was changed this year, Bell explained. “For the past eight years we’ve offered $25,000 in a single classic to the Adult and Children jumpers but rules have changed, so rather than give up our Barry Lane Memorial we ran it as two classes. The first on Saturday evening under the lights of the Olympic arena for $10,000 and the second class on Sunday afternoon prior to the Grand Prix for $15,000. They were both a great success.”
Maurice Beatson and Daniel Geitner Each Take $25,000 in Prix Awards
Conyers, GA — November 21, 2010 — World Equestrian Games competitor Maurice Beatson and his 10-year-old Belgian gelding Apollo Van Evendael are on an extended walk about from their homeland of New Zealand which lead to a victory in the $25,000 EMO Welcome Prix at the Georgia International Horse Park this week.
On Friday, the first of two big $25,000 show jumping events kicked off the final week of competition for the Atlanta Fall Classics with 32 horses from around the world. Maurice Beatson was visiting from New Zealand, by way of their trek south when he captured the top spot, a feat that Beatson was proud of given the relatively short partnership with his mount. “I’ve had him [Apollo] since February and I brought him over to America in the beginning of April. We’ve been campaigning him in California, Colorado, Kentucky, Cleveland, all around the countryside and now we’re working our way down to Florida. He’s been pretty good; we’ve placed in 18 out of 22 so I’m quite pleased with him,” Beatson complimented of his partner.
Course designer Allen Rheinheimer took full advantage of both the former Olympic arena’s massive size and the strong talent in the starting order of go to create an 86 second lengthy 13 fence layout which had a couple of troublesome spots. After crossing vertical #10 riders faced a tricky rollback to vertical #11 and then encountered a “L” turn-bending line into the combination of 12ABC [ oxer in to vertical and oxer out] , this caused more than a few to fault before reaching the final jump, a wide oxer. Ireland’s Darragh Kerins aboard the S&L Farms’ entry S&L Slingback were the first pair to successfully clear the course under the threat of a ticking clock with a time of 78.443. Beatson and Apollo followed and guaranteed a jump off round with their clear time of 78.545. “It was a good course to ride. Tougher than last week and the horses had to be on top today to jump it,” Beatson commented.
Conyers, GA — November 14, 2010 — Classic Company’s Season Finale event, the Atlanta Fall Classics, is a virtual cornucopia of equestrian competition with everything from Zone Championships to a $25,000 Adult-Child Jumper Classic to a show jumping Grand Prix just in the first week. “We always like to end our year big!” Classic Company President Bob Bell quipped.
Friday’s kick off of head to head competition began with the USHJA National Hunter Classic. This event is considered a stepping stone to the regular Hunter Derbies for many and designer Joe Carnicone gave riders a taste of that experience with a layout offering four higher option fences to garnish bonus points. Top scores were invited to return for a handy round in which an overall point total would determine the victor. Round one found Camden, SC favorite Elizabeth Boyd riding the Lee Cesery owned Marquis to an early lead, but the young talents of Marlena Parker and Edie Ringger were right on her coat tails. And when the scores were tallied it was Edie Ringger of Midland, GA with her mount Norway de la Fosse taking the number one position.
Conyers, GA — October 27, 2010 — Excitement is building as once again the Atlanta Fall Classics will play host to both the USHJA Zone 4 Finals and the National Hunter Jumper League Finals at the Georgia International Horse Park November 10th through 21st.
“These two big events are always a great way to end our show season, but there are so many other special classes occurring during our year end finale, such as the $25,000 Barry Lane Memorial, the Silver Cup Equitation Championship, and new classes too!” Classic Company Bob Bell shared.
Week one, November 10-14, will see some heated competition for the Zone 4 Champion titles in both the Hunter and Jumper divisions. Riders residing in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or Tennessee will compete in a total of three classes, for the hunters two will be over fences and one under saddle with judges issuing a numeric score for not only the division, but with bonus points going to the Zone Finals total. For the jumpers all three classes will be over fences in their respective divisions. The following will offer Zone 4 Finals:
Conyers, GA – November 16, 2009 – Mother Nature gave exhibitors a fine weather send-off for the finale week of the Atlanta Fall Classics. And what a busy week it was with NCE Championships, a $10,000 Junior Amateur Owner Jumper Classic, $10,000 Children’s and Adults Jumper Classic, and another $25,000 Grand Prix presented by EMO Insurance.
The covered arena at the Georgia International Horse Park played host on Saturday evening to the Equestrian Travel sponsored National Classic Equitation Finals [NCE] with spectators enjoying dinner ringside to all the action. From the original 125 competitors 84 qualifiers vied for top honors in their respective divisions. Both the winning riders and their trainers were awarded the coveted Classic letterman jackets. “This is just a fun event and a nice way to reward our riders and hard working trainers,” Bob Bell of Classic Company said. The 2009 National Classic Equitation Champions are:
Short Stirrup Equitation – Grace Whitlaw riding When In Rome
Pre Children/Pre Adult Equitation – Stella Styslinger riding Toccafinito
Pony Equitation – Emily Weeks riding Peterpotamus
Children’s Equitation – Grace Howard riding CR Galileo
Adult Equitation – Sherri Geddes riding Auden
Amateur Owner Equitation – Meg Keeley riding Black Tie Affair
Conyers, GA – November 9, 2009 – Nicholas Dello Joio of Wellington, FL provided the crescendo for an action packed first week of the Atlanta Fall Classics by besting some of the nation’s most revered riders in the $25,000 Atlanta Fall Grand Prix, presented by EMO Insurance.
33 took their turn at surviving Rheinheimer’s lengthy 13 fence [16 effort] challenge. Archer, FL resident Jenny Childs with Contharo were the first pair to beat the 92 second limit with a clean 86.210 ride. Following right after, Nicholas Dello Joio of Wellington, FL ensured a jump off round by taking Judy Richter’s entry Malcolm clear in 87.010. “Allen’s been building great courses all week. I wasn’t too worried about the first round thanks to the time allowed. I was planning to go inside to the liverpool at fence 3 and with that time I was able to ride the way I wanted to,” Nicholas Dello Joio began. “Everything was difficult – oxer to oxer [9AB] – he [Allen] got a good number clean so that made it an exciting jump off.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8808
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