Meghan Benge kindly sent us some beautiful photos from the US Combined Driving Training Sessions and the Sunshine State CDE. Thanks you Meghan! If you have something to share with EN, send it to [email protected]!
From Meghan:
This is Wendy O’Brien from Aiken, SC with her Welsh Cobs getting a lesson from US Team coach Michael Freund. Wendy is the 2012 National Champion pony pair driver.
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Paul Maye participating in team training with a German Riding Pony stallion, Marcus. Paul and Marcus are the 2012 National Champion Single pony.
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Miranda Cadwell of Southern Pines, NC with her German Riding pony gelding, Kabam. They were 5th at the 2011 World Pony Championships, as well as a member of the bronze medal winning team. In 2007, Miranda won the World Championships with her pony pair. Shown here in dressage at Sunshine State CDE, they finished third overall.
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Paul Maye and Marcus won the marathon at Sunshine State CDE, and finished fourth overall.
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Tracey Morgan and her German Pony, Fuego, won the dressage and the overall Advanced Single Pony division at Sunshine State. Tracey has been a World Championship team member previously with a pair of Dartmoor ponies.
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Jennifer Matheson from Aiken, SC was first and third in the Advanced pony pair division at Sunshine State. In driving, they are just starting to allow people to compete more than once in the same division. Jennifer was a member of the team that won bronze at the World Championships in 2011.
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Heather Schneider was the only pony team competing at Sunshine State. Heather and her ponies are one of the few up and coming pony teams here in the USA.
