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Caroline Frances Bradley MBE (4 April 1946 – 1 June 1983) was an international British show-jumper, becoming the first female winner of the Puissance at the Horse of the Year Show in 1974, an era when the sport was still largely dominated by male riders. [1]
Category for horses that take part in show jumping events. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. A.
Jessica Mendoza is one of the UK's top female equestrian athletes, [1] who broke into the world's top 100 riders, and into the top 10 British showjumping riders in Spring 2015. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is also a regular contributor to the British monthly magazine PONY .
Edwina Tops-Alexander (born 29 March 1974) is an Australian showjumper known for her participation in three Olympics, finishing in the top ten twice. She is the first Australian to place in the top 10 at the World Equestrian Games and the first rider to earn more than €1 million in prize money on the Global Champions Tour.
Competitors in the modern pentathlon event also have to complete an equestrian show-jumping course, but this is not part of the equestrian events. [4] Modern-day Olympic equestrian events are rooted in cavalry skills and classical horsemanship, [5] and through 1948, competition was restricted to active-duty officers on military horses. [6]
In the jump-off, Touch of Class and Fargis competed against her former rider, Conrad Homfeld, who took home silver. She was the fourth horse in history to win two show-jumping gold medals, with the last being Hans Winkler's Halla in 1956. [3] Her performance allowed her to be named the first non-human USOC Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year. [2]
Kathryn Hallowell "Kathy" Kusner (born March 21, 1940) is an American equestrian and Olympic medalist in show jumping.She was one of the first woman who rode for the United States Equestrian Team (USET), the first licensed female jockey, and the first American women to win an Olympic medal in equestrian competition.
[2] [19] [23] She was also the 1991 American Horse Shows Association Equestrian of the Year. [20] Goldstein-Engle set a record with career show-jumping earnings of more than $4 million. [8] [19] She has more than 195 Grand Prix victories, and as of October 2011 she was the all-time career leader in Grand Prix wins.