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Zara's Legacy of Excellence

This 2024 pilot project will recognize and celebrate Ontario's most successful Junior eventers.

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Pilot program 2024

The OEA and the Zara Buren Memorial Foundation present Zara’s Legacy of Excellence as a pilot project in 2024, to recognize and celebrate Ontario’s most successful Junior eventers. The Legacy of Excellence recognizes and rewards the top Junior at each sanctioned Ontario Horse Trial and furnishes year-end ribbons and prizes to the top Juniors across all divisions from EV85 to EV110. There are two aspects to this initiative as follows:

 

  1. Recognize and reward the top Junior at each sanctioned Ontario horse trial; and,

  2. Furnish one set of year-end ribbons for the top six Juniors across all divisions from EV85 to EV110 with prizes going to the top three.

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Eligibility

To be eligible, a rider must be under the age of 18 as of January 1, 2024 and riding at the EV85 level or above.

 

The top-placing Junior competitor will be identified at each EC-sanctioned horse trials in Ontario this season, using the final scores provided by the competition’s scorers combined with a coefficient calculation to account for any disproportionate effort, difficulty and commitment associated with riding at the higher levels. 

 

During the pilot phase, the proposed coefficients are:

  • EV85: 1.0

  • EV90: .95

  • EV100: .90

  • EV105: .85

  • EV110: .80

Ribbons and prizes

The successful Junior at each horse trial will receive a white, embroidered, Ogilvy Jump Profile saddle pad provided by the Zara Buren Memorial Foundation.

 

To encourage and reward as many Juniors as possible, there is a limit of one saddle pad per Junior during the season. Recipients will be announced on OEA’s social media on the Monday following each sanctioned horse trials.

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  • At the Year-End Awards, all OEA Juniors will be eligible for a Legacy of Excellence ribbon and prize.

  • Ribbons will be provided to sixth place and prizes to third place across divisions.

  • One set of ribbons/prizes will be shared by the top six Juniors taken from EV85 to EV110.

 

Year-end placings will be based on OEA Leaderboard points associated with a Junior’s top four finishes at sanctioned Ontario horse trials during the 2024 season.

2024 recipients

Congratulations to all our wonderful Juniors and to those who are leading the way in 2024:

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  • Glen Oro Spring Horse Trials: Alexandra Wickett / Philanthropy (EV100 / 28.08)

  • Grandview Spring Horse Trials: Daria Risk / All That (EV85 / 21.4)

  • Cherrylane Horse Trials 1: Nicola MacLeod / Flash of Brilliance (EV90 / 27.08)

  • Ottawa Horse Trials at WCP: Ellie Van Sickle / Qui Va La (EV85 / 34.2)

  • Caledon Horse Trials: Nika Maksymenko / SF Sparkling Sigi (EV85 / 28.7)

  • Bronte Creek Horse Trials 1: Maya Bhattacharjee / Great Expectations (EV100/30.51)

  • Wits End Summer Horse Trials: Daria Risk / All That (EV90/29.1); Olivia Pearson / Heads or Tails (EV90/29.7)

  • Bronte Creek Horse Trials 2: Nadia Ingratta / Meadowbrook’s Pollyanna (EV90/26.6)

  • Glen Oro Summer Horse Trials: Grace Dove / Beaufort (EV85/36.9)

  • Stevens Creek Horse Trials 1: Rebecca Lynch / Just Joey (EV90/25.5)

  • Glenarden Horse Trials 1: Ava Heroux / SV Khal Rhaego (EV85/30.0)

  • Grandview Summer Horse Trials:

  • Bronte Creek Horse Trials 3: Emma Mooney / Dragon (EV100/23.8)

  • Cherrylane Horse Trials 2: Kara Adams / On the Catwalk (EV100/25.2); Alexis Edwards / RREF Rock Romantic (EV85/25.3)

  • Stevens Creek Horse Trials 2: Rebecca Lunch / Just Joey (EV90/26.3); Amelia Boivin / Cabriole/Rio (EV90/29.9)

  • Glen Oro Autumn Horse Trials: Tori Horan / Smoke and Thunder (EV100/27.99)

  • Wits End Autumn Horse Trials: Nika Maksymenko / Sparkling Sigi (EV100/27.99); Addyson Fairfield / Brego (EV85/28.70)

  • Grandview Fall Horse Trials: Nika Maksymenko / Sparkling Sigi (EV100/30.87); Alexis Edwards / RREF Rock Romantic (EV85/31.9); Olivia Pearson / Heads or Tails (EV90/32.3); Nicole Dupuis / Brown Eyed Secret (EV90/32.3)

  • Glenarden Horse Trials 2:

  • Eastern Canadian Eventing Championships:
     

 

*All scores have ben adjusted consistent with the level related coefficients.

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