US eventing team named for Boekelo Nations Cup

       Marilyn Little (USA) and RF Scandalous at the PanAm Games                   Photo: StockImageservices

 

The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team and Alternates for the Military Boekelo-Enschede CCIO3*, October 8-11 in Boekelo, The Netherlands.

The following athlete-and-horse combinations will compose the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team (in alphabetical order):

Matt Brown (Petaluma, Calif.) and Blossom Creek Foundation's Super Socks BCF, a 2006 Irish Sport Horse gelding

Buck Davidson (Unionville, Pa.) and Sherrie Martin and Carl Segal's Copper Beach, a 2006 Irish Sport Horse gelding

Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp (East Sussex, UK) and Deborah Halliday's HHS Cooley, a 2004 Irish Sport Horse gelding

Marilyn Little (Frederick, Md.) and Robin Parsky, Jacqueline Mars, and Phoebe Manders' RF Scandalous, a 2005 Oldenburg mare, or Raylyn Farms, Inc.'s RF Quarterman, a 2008 Oldenburg gelding

The following athlete-and-horse combinations competing at Boekelo are the alternates (in ranked order):

Lauren Kieffer (Middleburg, Va.) on Jacqueline Mars' Landmark's Monte Carlo, a 2006 Irish Thoroughbred Cross gelding

Jon Holling (Ocala, Fla.) on Constance Holling's Downtown Harrison, a 2004 Trakehner/Thoroughbred gelding

Three members of the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team are attending the Military Boekelo-Enschede CCIO3* with the help of grants. Brown is attending Boekelo on a Jacqueline B. Mars Competition Grant through the USET Foundation, while Davidson and Little (with RF Quarterman) are attending Boekelo on USEF Land Rover Competition Grants.