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USEA Gold Cup Series Returns
to the The Adequan USEA Gold Cup Series is returning to This national equestrian competition series features top Advanced
eventing riders and horses that are in the run for the 2009 Adequan
USEA Gold Cups and cash prizes. Riders accumulate Gold Cup points
by riding in any of eight such events across the country, making
the Richland Park Horse Trials now one of the premier equestrian
competitions in the nation. But, the Gold Cup series is not all. Karen O'Connor, the 2007 Gold Medalist at the Pan Am Games, is among nearly 350 U.S. and Canadian horses and riders expected to compete in Novice, Training, Preliminary, Intermediate, Advanced, CIC 2 * and CIC 3* levels at the Eighth annual Richland Park Horse Trials to be held August 20-23 at the Richland Park complex at 8651 North 30th Street, Richland, Michigan.
This equestrian event, in cooperation with the United States Eventing
Association, the USEF, and the FEI, includes the standard three
phases of dressage, cross country jumping and stadium jumping.
Thursday, August 20 will feature the international CIC levels performing
their dressage tests. On Friday, August 21 all remaining levels
will perform their dressage tests. Cross country jumping will take
place on Saturday, August 22 and will feature the upper level horses
and riders. Novice and Training level will compete in the stadium
jumping phase on Saturday. Sunday, August 23, Novice and Training
will ride the cross country phase and the Upper level horses and
riders will ride the stadium jumping phase. Organizers of the horse
trials are Bob and Kay Willmarth, owners of the Richland layout,
which is located at 8651 N. 30th Street, just 3/10’s of a
mile south of M-89. Last year’s trials attracted several thousand spectators
and considerable newspaper, radio and television coverage. Single
day parking and admission is $10.00 per car. Weekend parking and
admission per car (four, three or two day) is $15.00. Children
12 and under are FREE. Parking fees are being donated to the Cheff
Therapeutic Riding Center in Augusta, which provides riding experiences
for a variety of special needs children and adults. We invite you
to spend A WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY in the lovely village of Richland. Refreshments and Richland Park souvenirs will be available for
purchase. Between 2001 and 2008 the cross country course was designed by
Michael Etherington-Smith of Great Britain, a widely respected
Olympic and international course designer. He is the course designer
at the Rolex Kentucky Four Star Event in Lexington, Kentucky, one
of the most prestigious equestrian events in the world. Mike also
designed the Sydney Olympic course, and the Beijing Olympic Course.
His final project before retiring from course design is designing
the 2009 World Equestrian Games to be held at the Kentucky Horse
Park. Currently Mike is the head of British Eventing. Bob & Kay
would like to thank Mike for making Richland Park a world class
eventing destination and for making our dreams come true. We are pleased and excited to announce IAN STARK, of Scotland is
taking over as our course designer. Ian has won 4 Olympic Silver
Medals; Los Angelos in 1984; Seoul in 1988, individual silver as
well as team silver; and at Sydney in 2000 in team Show Jumping.
He is a three time winner of Badminton, 1986 and 1988 riding Sir
Wattie. It was in 1988 that he won with Sir Wattie and finished
second on Glenburnie, and is the only competitor to finish 1st
and 2nd in Badminton history. He won again in 1999 aboard JayBee.
Ian retired from competition at the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three Day
Event. Our cross country course builders are Bert Wood of Temecula, California and Jay Hambly of Guelph, Ontario Canada. Updated: May 24, 2009
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