AWARDS

2009 GHF YEAR-END AWARDS Click here for 2009 Year-End Certificate Winners (by Level) Click  here for 2009 70 Percent Medal Winners Certificates, plaques and 70% Medals will be mailed to the winners. 2009 Award of Excellence Plaque Winners (by Division) Adult Amateur Division 1st Christine Felker and Whindlass 69.250% average score 2nd Lara Silver and Highlander, 68.830% average score Junior/Young Rider Division 1st Vlada Lvova and Stellar Hit, 76.400% average score 2nd Lauren Wilhelm and Voncordo, 68.100% average score Open Division 1st Julie Cochran and Femke-Klaske Fan 'e Olde Hoek, 72.010% average score 2nd Debbie Lane and Vermeer HF, 69.740%, average score Click here for final division tabulations       We have listed above the winners of the 2009 GHF Year-End Awards program. Certificates and plaques will be mailed to the winners. The results are taken from the six GHF/Collecting Gaits Farm shows in 2009. You may check your scores by clicking on the following link:   2009 Year-End Master Results Please contact the show manager  if you see any errors.          These awards can be very valuable to a rider, trainer or owner because they are proof of strength and ability in competition.  Each winning horse/rider have won over other competitors in six 2009 GHF/CGF shows in their division or level.   To get into the tally, a horse/rider combination must have had at least three scores of 60% or better--then all of the scores (even scores below 60%) of horse/rider pair will be averaged and a "percentile" score will be determined.  The pair is not required to participate in all six shows.      To be eligible for these awards, riders do not have to be GHF members  nor do they have  to submit their scores. Final tabulations are completed at the end of the year following the September show by the GHF office. Scores from the following shows will be used: GHF/Collecting Gaits Three Horsemen (March), GHF/Collecting Gaits Dressage at the Horse Park (April/May), GHF/Collecting Gaits Annual Show (June) 1st and 2nd Editions, GHF/Collecting Gaits Summer Dressage Show (August)  and GHF/Collecting Gaits Fall Dressage Show (September).        It is the competitors’ responsibility to check their scores that are published when the year-end results are posted on the GHF website’s Awards page following the September show.      For all awards, scores will be taken from Training through Fourth Level, Prix St. Georges, Intermediaire I and II, Grand  Prix, ridden in the Open, Adult Amateur and Jr./YR divisions. Scores received from tests ridden in such divisions as Introductory, Green Horse, Test of Choice or Young Horse will not be used.  Results below 60% will not  be awarded.  The total number of scores from each horse/rider combination per level will be averaged to arrive at a “percentile” score.      The "Award of Excellence" Plaques will be given at the end of the year to the top two horse/rider combinations achieving the highest percentiles in three divisions:  Open, Adult Amateur and Junior/Young Rider. To compete for this award, riders must have at least three scores of 60% or better to be averaged. Scores will be taken from all six 2009 GHF/CGF shows.     The “High Achievement” Certificates will go to the top three horse/rider combinations achieving the  highest percentiles in  the following levels:  Training through Fourth Level, Prix St. Georges, Intermediaire I and II, Grand  Prix and Freestyle (any level).  To compete for this award, riders must have at least three scores of 60% or better to be averaged.   Scores will be taken from all six 2009 GHF shows.      Also awarded will be the “70 Percent Medals”   which will be given to riders achieving scores of 70 percent or better at Training through the FEI levels (any division), excluding Freestyle, Introductory and the FEI Young Horse tests which are scored differently and cannot be compared.

TOP VOLUNTEER AWARD--Chief Steward Mark Fornwalt, retired Army colonel (now you know why he is so good at his job!), receives The Good Horseman Award for Exceptional Volunteer Service at the GHF shows. The plaque is intended to be hung in his office at Georgia Pacific, which encourages volunteer service for its employees, for which The Good Horseman Foundation is forever grateful.  Without Mark Fornwalt, these shows would not be what they are today--correct and fun for participants.  The award is presented by show manager Ann Genovese. (Photo by Alicia Klenk www.freseframephotography.com )

2008 Year-End Winners Posted Here

Click here for 2008 70% Medal Winners

Click here for Final Results for 2008 Levels High Achievement Awards

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Click here for 2007 Year-End Winners!

The winners of The Good Horseman's Year-End Awards program have been posted here.  Top winners names' appeared in the February 2008 annual American Horses in Sport issue of The Chronicle of the Horse.

2007 Levels Results Final Tally