Road to the AEC: I’m Not Giving Up on My Dream, Just Changing the Path
My road to the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds looks a bit different this year than it has in previous years. My name is Diana Craven, and I am a 21-year-old three-day event rider.
Road to the AEC: Margo Goldfarb Balances Graduate School and Intermediate Eventing With Her Connemara Cross
I am heading to the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds on my 8-year-old Connemara/Thoroughbred cross Ridgetop Pirate Blue.
Road to the AEC: Eden Miller Makes the Switch to Eventing with a Special Partner
I’d like to preface my story by saying that I have been a 30-year hunter/jumper rider and trainer. I run a large training and lesson farm in Monroe, Georgia, and up until April of 2024, I would have considered myself a hunter/jumper through and through, and let me just say my world has been flipp...
Road to the AEC: Becky Crocket Reunites with a Special Homebred
My story began in July of 1995 when my parents bought my dream horse, B.B. Babauska, “Babs,” from Bruce Davidson when I was 17 years old. She was part of Bruce’s homebred program and related to the great JJ Babu.
Road to the AEC: An Intercollegiate Championship Triumph Sets Katie Mendes Up for AEC Success
Until this past May, qualifying for the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds let alone actually making plans to compete, seemed like a far-off dream. Going into this show season the AEC was a goal I had set in the back of my mind but maybe only said out loud a few times...
Road to the AEC: Telford Has Her Swan Song with a Special OTTB
As a young girl growing up in Connecticut, I had ponies and horses and was an active 4-Her. My family didn’t have a lot of money so my riding was primarily limited to 4-H and small sanctioned hunter shows. I was very fortunate that my parents supported my passion and my father, as a carpenter, bu...
Road to the AEC: Chalman and 'War Horse' Classic Greeley Are Headed to Kentucky
I have been working towards my goal of qualifying for AEC for quite some time now. I made the switch from hunters to eventing about eight years ago because I loved the adrenaline rush of cross-country. Although my family wasn’t able to buy a horse that had “been there, done that,” they have shown...
The Road to the AEC: Special Reserve Has Half the Sight But Twice the Passion of Most Event Horses
I am heading to the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds on my 10-year-old thoroughbred Special Reserve (The Visualizer x Deco Jazz). "Chip" is special to me in so many ways but particularly because three years ago he lost total vision in his left eye. I bought him from...
The Road to the AEC: Barb Nikolajczyk Picked Up Eventing at 55 and Hasn't Looked Back
It had been decades since Barb Nikolajczyk had sat on a horse due to family and career aspirations, but 16 years ago, a stop at her cousin Sharon Church’s farm in Culpeper, Virginia, on the way to the Outer Banks for vacation led to a renewed interest in her passion. Nikolajczyk didn’t have much ...
The Road to the AEC: The Unbreakable Bond Between Belmont and Adalena Campisi
“Every horse, at least once in its life, deserves to be loved by a little girl.” The now 19-year-old Thoroughbred gelding Belmont (Boundary x Capiana) has been lucky enough to have been loved by several little girls in his life. For almost three years now, he has been helping his current girl, Ad...
