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High Point Awards

High point awards are leaderboard based and presented to the rider or coach who meets the award criteria, has registered (where necessary) and accumulated the highest total points in one of the categories,

A horse's hind legs as they jump over am obstacle during the cross-country phase.
Horse and rider jumping a brush jump into the water during the cross country phase.

High Point Rider

No registration is required. 

This award is presented to the rider who has accumulated the highest total points for their top two placing horses at the EV110 and EV115 levels. Totals are calculated from the top eight scores during the season. Based on the leaderboard. Winner receives a resin trophy of a horse’s head.

Veteran Rider Award

To qualify for this award, a rider must:

  • Register before the last horse trial of the season

  • Be 50 years of age or older as of January 1,

  • Never have competed above the EV110 level, and 

  • Accumulate the most points on the same horse during the season.

Totals are calculated from the top eight scores during the season. Based on the leaderboard.

Horse and rider galloping across a field during the cross country phase.

Registration is required. 

Horse and rider jumping a rolltop obstacle on cross country with sponsor signs in the background.

Weekend Warrior Award - EV85

This award is given to the top horse/rider combinations in the EV85 division (based on the leaderboard).
To qualify for this award a rider must:

  • Register for the Weekend Warrior (formerly Novice Adult) Award in order to start accumulating points!

  • Be 21 years of age or older as of January 1,

  • Never have competed above EV85

Registration is required. 

Weekend Warrior Award - EV90

Registration is required. 

This award is given to the top horse/rider combinations in the EV90 division (based on the leaderboard).
To qualify for this award a rider must:

  • Register for the Weekend Warrior (formerly Novice Adult) Award in order to start accumulating points!

  • Be 21 years of age or older as of January 1,

  • Never have competed above EV90

Horse and rider jumping a table in the cross country phase.
Horse and rider galloping through the water on cross-country.

Adult Rider Team Challenge

Registration is required.

 

After a successful pilot in 2024, the Challenge is back!

 

You can register as a team or as an individual, and we will match you to a team.

 

Team members earn individual scores at every sanctioned Ontario horse trial they attend. Point scores will be calculated using a coefficient to account for different levels, and added to a leaderboard maintained by the Schooling Days and Adult Riders Committee. 

 

See registration link for more details.

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Registration is required. Open until August 15, 2024.

Coach of the Year Award

Registration is required. Open until August 15, 2024.

Registration is required.

 

To all the coaches who work long hours preparing for, and taking their students to, EC-sanctioned Horse Trials in Ontario – this one’s for you!

 

Each year, the OEA will award a year-end prize to an Ontario coach based on the greatest accumulation of Regular OEA

Leaderboard points earned by the riders who train with them. This Award is a token of sincere thanks from the OEA for all those hard-working coaches who keep our sport of Eventing healthy in Ontario. We couldn’t do it without you!

 

The winning coach will be announced at the OEA’s Annual Meeting of Members in

November. This coach, whose students have earned the most Leaderboard points at EC-sanctioned Horse Trials in Ontario at the end of the season, will receive a branded ‘OEA Coach of the Year’ ‘golf’ jacket and a $250 cash prize.

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Coaches may register themselves or may be nominated by one of their students.

 

Eligibility

  • Coaches must be certified from 2025 onwards.

  • Coaches must hold a current OEA membership.

 

All registered coaches are asked to provide the OEA with a list of students they take to, and coach at, EC-sanctioned HTs so that we don’t miss anyone. We’ll do the rest.

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To help us stay on top of the student ‘leaderboard’, please send us your list by September 30, 2025 to: info@ontarioeventing.ca

Selena O Hanlon coaching a rider on a cross country schooling day.
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