Annual awards honour equestrians

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation (CIEF) recently held its annual awards dinner at the George Town Yacht Club, with more than 80 people attending. In addition to giving prizes, highlights of the dinner included a pep talk based upon works by the UK cartoonist, Norman Thellwell, and the always-popular tombola, which drew a large crowd of kids the entire evening.

Over the September to June horse show season in the Cayman Islands, the CIEF holds four National Dressage and four National Jumping Series shows that lead up to the awards dinner. Based upon the three best results that local riders achieve in these shows in their respective categories, the foundation names a champion and reserve champion.

In addition toformer champions returning to collect rosettes again, many new champions and reserves were crowned, including Kate Flett, Kayla Mannisto, Caroline Key, Jessica Achtstatter, Grace Bostock, Marleigh Smith, Charli Milgate and Eva Hepburn.

CIEF president, Sharon Hinds, said of the event, “It was great to see all of our riders come together and celebrate everyone’s achievements. Equestrian sport in the Cayman Islands has grown substantially over the past few years and from the looks of the attendance at the awards dinner, we expect to have another strong year next show season.”

The list of riders named national and reserve champions for dressage and show jumping:

 

Category

Rider

Horse

Champion/Reserve

 

Introductory Level Dressage- Junior	Grace Bostock	LucyAnna	Champion
	Kayla Mannisto	Jitterbug	Reserve Champion

 

Training Level Dressage – Junior	Chloe Fowler	Will to Win	Champion
	Saskia Drake	Me and My Shadow	Reserve Champion

 

Training Level Dressage – Adults	Amara Thompson	Second Kiss	Champion
	Caroline Key	Iggy Pop	Reserve Champion

 

 

Preliminary Level Dressage – Junior	Ashley van den Bol	Whindlass	Champion
	Abbey Swartz	Fly By Me	Reserve Champion

 

Preliminary Level Dressage – Adult	Kate Flett	Blue Ridge Dream On	Champion
	Tracey Surrey	SonRise David	Reserve Champion

 

Elementary Level Dressage – Adult

Jessica Achstatter

Partenon

Champion

 

Medium Level Dressage	Kate Flett	Loris 7	Champion
	Polly Serpell	Calidad	Reserve Champion

 

0.6M Jumping – Pony	Grace Bostock	LucyAnna	Champion
	Marleigh Smith	Max	Reserve Champion
0.6M Jumping – Horse	Kayla Godwin	Harry	Champion
	Charli Milgate	Amarilla/Rambo	Reserve Champion
0.7M Jumping – Pony	Eva Muspratt	Oscar	Champion (tie)
	Grace Bostock	LucyAnna	Champion (tie)
0.7M Jumping – Horse	Juliette Forrester	Apollo	Champion
	Charli Milgate	Amarilla/Rambo	Reserve Champion (tie)
	Eva Hepburn	Watch Me Go	Reserve Champion (tie)
0.8M Jumping – Pony	Ashley van den Bol	Fly By Me	Champion
	Jessica McTaggart-Giuzio	Blue Ridge Dream On	Reserve Champion
0.8M Jumping – Horse	Basil Humphries	Storm	Champion
	Jenna Boucher	Katrina/Star	Reserve Champion
0.9M Jumping – Open	Amara Thompson	Second Kiss	Champion
	Ashley van den Bol	Whindlass	Reserve Champion
1.0M Jumping – Open	Amara Thompson	Second Kiss	Champion
	Polly Serpell	Sunday’s Edition	Reserve Champion
1.1M Jumping – Open	Jenna Boucher	Edson Arantes MB	Champion
	Polly Serpell	Sunday’s Edition	Reserve Champion

 

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