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Platinum Performance U.S. Teams Poised for Start of 2017 SVAG FEI World Reining Championships for Juniors and Young Riders

Get to Know the Platinum Performance U.S. Junior Team for the 2017 SVAG FEI World Reining Championships for Juniors and Young Riders

More details on Selection Procedues for Junior and Young Rider FEI World Reining Championships ~

Youth and Young Riders - Ride for TEAM USA
Want to represent your country at the FEI Youth and Young Rider Reining World Championships?

Think of expenses paid for you and your horse!

The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has announced that U.S. reining athletes will have the opportunity to participate in the 2017 FEI World Reining Championships for

Juniors and Young Riders. This inaugural event will take place at the CS Ranch in Givrins, Switzerland, August 9-12, 2017.

FEI Qualifying Criteria for the 2017 FEI World Reining Championships for Juniors and Young Riders

•  Qualification period begins January 1, 2017

• A Junior is defined as any athlete from the beginning of the year in which they reach 14 years old until the end of the year in which they reach 18 years old.

• A Young Rider is defined as any athlete from the beginning of the year they reach 16 years old until the end of the year they reach 21 years old.

• The athlete must achieve a minimum average score of 67 at one CRI3* Junior or Young Rider competition during the qualifying period. Plan to get ready early - it takes some time to get your credentials in order for you and your horse.

• Horses must be seven years old or older.

• U.S. Qualifying Competitions

  • Winter Slide (Ardmore, Okla.) February 3-5, 2017

  • NRBC (Katy, Texas) April 16-23, 2017

  • Wild Card Reining Challenge (Las Vegas, Nev.) May 23-27, 2017

  • CNYRHA (Syracuse, N.Y.) June 24, 2017

  • Additional competitions to be added as approved

For more information, contact USEF Director of Reining, Bryn Wells at pbwells@usef.org.

USA Reining 2016 Champions announed

USA Reining Champions Recognized at Tulsa Reining Classic

Congratulations to Fredrick Winn, Elizabeth Kelley Holly Leigh Jacobson, Cole Jacobs, Jennifer Flannigan, Dale Dedrick and Cullen Santino LeRoy, who have qualified to represent USA Reining in the 2016 World Para Reining International Championships! They will compete as two USA Reining teams in the competition during the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma City. Currently five other countries are already represented - South Africa, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Canada!

Per the tentative schedule, the jog will take place on November 12, with the team competition the next day and individual competition on November 14. Best of luck to all of our great USA Para Reining representatives!

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Lexington, Ky. - Gabriella Kammerer, Dani Latimer, Cade McCutcheon, and Jack Medows are rising stars in the reining world. They will get their first dose of international and team experience when they compete on the Platinum Performance U.S. Young Rider team in the 2017 SVAG FEI World Reining Championship for Junior and Young Riders August 9-12. This impressive group of diverse athletes will bring depth and experience not often seen in riders of their age to the show pen in Givrins, Switzerland. Learn more about them and their accomplishments as they prepare to represent U.S. reining in Switzerland.

Gabriella Kammerer (Mt. Sterling, Ky.), known as “Boo”, is a 16-year-old high school junior. Kammerer has been showing reining horses since 2014. Some of her major accomplishments include being named the two-time Kentucky Reining Horse Association Champion, as well as the two-time National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) East Central Affiliate Champion. In addition, Kammerer garnered the NRHA Derby APHA Championship title and named the Clayton Woosley Hall of Fame Champion, Buckeye Reining Classic Champion, Tennessee Reining Horse Association Futurity Champion Level 1 and Level 2, IEA Reserve National Champion, and the Central New York Reining Horse Association CRI Silver Medalist. Kammerer will ride her own Gunners Star, a 2009 Paint gelding, in the SVAG FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.

Dani Latimer (Marietta, Okla.) is the 16-year-old daughter of Dean and Bunkey Latimer. She has been showing horses since the age of six, with much success in the show pen. Her accolades include winning the 2016 NRHA NAAC Adequan© Affiliate Youth 14-18 Championship. Latimer loves the challenge of competing in reining and the many friends she has met through participating in the sport. Latimer will ride Fancy Sailor Oak, Angelucci Quarter Horses' 2006 Quarter Horse stallion, in the SVAG FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.

Cade McCutcheon (Aubrey, Texas) is the 17-year-old son of NRHA million dollar riders Tom and Mandy McCutcheon, grandson of NRHA multi-million dollar rider/NRHA Hall of Fame member Tim McQuay and NRHA Hall of Fame member Collen McQuay. Starting as soon as he could walk and ride a stick horse, he ran every NRHA reining pattern he could. At age seven, McCutcheon made his reining debut in the first ever Short Stirrup class. By 10-years-old, he was showing in his first NRHA Non Pro Futurity. Some of McCutcheon’s accolades include the NRHA Non Pro Futurity Reserve Champion title, the National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC) Reserve Champion title, and the 2016 SmartPak Tulsa Non Pro Derby champion title. Since then, McCutcheon has been a top finisher in every major NRHA event he has ridden in. He will begin his senior year of high school in the fall where he will finish his final season of basketball. McCutcheon will ride Tim and Colleen McQuay’s Yellow Jersey, a 2004 Quarter Horse stallion in the FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.

Jack Medows (Cuba, Mo.) was born and raised in Cuba, Missouri. In 2016, he started an academic road towards earning his Civil Engineering degree at Missouri Science & Technology in Rolla, Mo. Medows spent most of his life on a horse and began reining in 2011. Since then, he has garnered numerous titles, including the 2014 NRBC Levels 1, 2, and 3 Champion, the 2014 American Quarter Horse Youth Association (AQHYA) World Champion in Reining, the 2015 NRHA Derby Non-Pro Reserve Champion, and the 2016 AQHYA World Champion in Reining. He was also the 2016 NRHA Futurity Non Pro Champion and the 2017 NRBC Non Pro Champion. Medows will ride his own Wimpys Show Stopper, a 2006 Quarter Horse gelding in the FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.

Ready to compete in the 2017 SVAG FEI World Reining Championships for Junior and Young Riders August 9-12, this group of up-and-coming junior riders is prepared to impress as they spin, slide, and rollback into Givrins, Switzerland. Gain an insider perspective and learn more about the members of the Platinum Performance U.S. Junior Team:

Sam Flarida (Springfield, Ohio) is an accomplished 14-year-old who started riding and showing with his dad when he was nine years old. In his short career, Flarida is already a three-time All American Quarter Horse Congress Champion and has placed in both ancillary and aged horse National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) events. Flarida is proud to ride Footwork Revolution, a 2010 Quarter Horse Stallion owned by his lifelong friend Katsy Leeman. "Footwork" has won over $100,000 in both Open and Non Pro NRHA events. In their first time competing together, Flarida and Footwork qualified by winning the Syracuse, New York qualifier. When Flarida is not riding, he loves to play baseball and swim with his sister and friends. He also spends a lot of time with his two dogs, Milo and Deeks, and enjoys his family (Dad, Shawn; Mom, Michele; brother, Cody; and sister, Courtney) and horse farm. Flarida is also a high honors student at Clark Shawnee Middle School.

Emma Lane (Gates, N.C.) is 14 years old and will be entering the tenth grade in the fall of 2017. Lane has been riding since she was big enough to sit in the saddle and showed her first reiner when she was just eight years old. In 2016, she became the NRHA Youth 13 and Under World Champion. At the FEI World Reining Championships, Lane will be riding Buddy Lane’s Gunner Gump, a 2008 Quarter Horse gelding. Lane not only rides her own horses at home, but also plays varsity basketball and soccer, and is on the yearbook staff at her school. In the future, Lane hopes to participate on a college equestrian team and study to become a neonatal intensive care physician assistant or registered nurse.

Emilia Reutimann (Sherrills Ford, N.C.) is 15 years old and attends Statesville Christian School, where she served as the National Junior Society President for the 2016/2017 school year. In her numerous years as an equestrian athlete, Reutimann has gathered a variety of equine accolades, including the 2016 Congress Champion in the National Youth Activity Team Tournament Reining and Reserve Champion in 13 and under reining. She was the 2016 Level 1 Buckeye Reining Series Champion, as well as the 2017 National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC) Youth 14-18 winner and Youth Challenge Champion. Additionally, Reutimann was the 2017 NRBC scholarship winner and currently serves on the Board of Directions for the North Carolina Quarter Horse Youth Association. Reutimann will ride Black Hails Gold, Lisa Reutimann’s 2010 Quarter Horse gelding at the FEI World Reining Championships in August.

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