Show News
January 2012
Great news from Thermal, CA! Two days into the HITS Desert Circuit and we are having some amazing success!! Yesterday, day 1, we had John McConnell and Katie Riddle place 4th in the 1.45m class. Guy McElvain and Cortegiano went double clean in the 1.10m class. Both also Gravitas and Chevalier went clean! Guy and Caruso had an amazing double clean round! As well as John and Cesar's Crack went clean!
Today was a good day for the team too! John and CoCo Colette won the 7 & 8 Year Old class! And Guy and Carino went clean! Some incredible stuff! Go team!!
A fantastic showing for Rancho Corazon at the National Western Stock Show! John McConnell and Katie Riddle won 1st place in the $40,000 Grand Prix. Guy McElvain placed 8th in the Grand Prix on Caruso and Guy also placed 9th on Quinlan in the Grand Prix. John and Katie placed 2nd in the $5,000 Top of the Rockies Jumper Stakes. Guy placed 5th in the $10,000 Gambler's Choice Open Jumper Stake on Quinlan.
Rancho Corazon's Show Team leaves this week for Thermal, CA to attend the HITS winter circuit. Our best and brightest horses will be attending! Over the next 7 weeks, you will get to check out Katie Riddle, WH Ciris, Cortegiano, Carino, Gravitas, Cesar's Crack, Cha Ching, Chevalier SA, Waragi, Caruso, CoCo Collette, Lamarque and Wonton. Most of these incredible athletes are for sale, so we hope that you can come and check them out! We will keep you posted on class results and videos as soon as they are available, on our Facebook and our RC blog.
November 2010
U.S. Storms to Nations Cup Win at CSIO Buenos Aires
The U.S. show jumping team put in an impressive effort to win the Nations Cup at CSIO Buenes Aires in Argentina. The Canadian and Argentine teams finished second and third respectively
Four U.S. Show Jumping riders travelled to CSIO Buenos Aires in Argentina, and their trip proved worth the miles when they scored a big win in today's Nations Cup. Led by the four fault efforts of Young Rider Lucy Davis (Los Angeles, Calif.) and John McConnell (Lemitar, N.M.), the U.S. Team put in an impressive effort to jump to the win on 24 faults over the Canadians who finished on 37. The home nation was third on a score of 43.
Megan Edrick (Ocala, Fla.) and Cadence jumped a four-fault round in their first attempt over Javier Hernandez' course and picked up 12 faults in the second round. McConell jumped a confident clear in the first round with Katie Riddle and then had four faults in round two. Davis, 18, and Nemo 119, also finished on four faults, but her clear effort came in the second round.
Saer Coulter (San Francisco, Calif.), another Young Rider at 19-years-old, had eight faults in the first round with Chalan. In this Nations Cup, only three riders from each team returned for the second round. Davis and Coulter have a history of winning together; they were also teammates on the Gold medal-winning team in the Young Rider Championships at the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior/Young Rider Championship presented by Gotham North where they rode for Zone 10.
There were only four clear rounds within the time allowed in the entire Nations Cup and two of them belonged to the U.S. Team, who were riding under the expertise of Chef d'Equipe Michelle Grubb.
January 20, 2009 • www.phelpssports.com
Karen Cudmore Ties Herself for First Place in NWSS $40,000 Jack Daniels Grand Prix
John McConnell lassoes third with fastest four-fault time
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October 2008 • Chronicle of the Horse
New Mexicans hold their own at Young Riders Championships
August 15, 2008 • Chronicle of the Horse
Benjamin Takes A Handy Victory At Colorado Summer Classic
This equitation rider impressed the judges in the hunter derby.
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