This year the EQ is being judged by Lillie Keenen and Laura Kraut.
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Prize List:
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Nothing personal, but for an important final that has 40 kids in it who have shown all year to qualify to participate in the class, I think at least one of the judges should have significant judging experience.
Call me crazy. 
You can be the best rider in the world, but if you have not had any practice at the bookkeeping aspect of judging so that you can write down exactly what happens in every round to keep track of it throughout the day… Good luck.
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I do have to agree, I find it odd neither judges are even licensed I don’t think. Absolutely incredible riders in their own right and I’m sure know a thing or two about picking riders out who have solid form and function but it just strikes me as…off…that WIHS wouldn’t select at least one licensed judge for a pretty big Big Eq final.
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From the finals procedures document on the show website:
“ 1. Judging - All three phases of the Finals will be judged under the Open Numerical Scoring system by two panels of two judges seated in two separate locations. Each panel may include one high performance jumper rider, provided that the rider has either judged the East or West Coast Finals of the USEF Talent Search class or held a Hunter Seat Equitation Judges’ Card within the last ten years.”
From this I assume that each of Lillie and Laura will be paired with the other listed judges to make up the two panels. I believe Laura judged the USET finals awhile ago- so Lillie must have or have had a card?
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Not according to the USEF website as of today.
It’s possible Lillie might have judged the USET finals at some point in the last 10 years. It was certainly not longer ago than that, based on her age. Lol.
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Looks like Lillie judged the Talent Search Finals - West in 2019.
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Good find!
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Odd how we require so much credentialing of judges, but none for trainers. . . . .
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I mean, aside from how such a thing would be impinging on our Freedoms!!1! I can easily see the logic that you are free to use/not use a trainer based on their skill or lack thereof. But if you show, your ability to not show under a judge is considerably hampered if that judge lacks even a modicum of talent. (Before the internets leap down my throat, I mean if you are in the business of showing. I, personally have opted not to show under certain judges in multiple disciplines, but I’m not a pro with clients and client horses).
But mostly it’s freedoms.
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I agree. We should be free to be taught by uneducated “trainers” who hurt horses and riders due to their ineptitude. We should be free to have said “trainers” tell us that we need “another horse” and then we’d win the equitation finals, so we buy horses where the trainer selects the horse, we have no contact with the seller (may not even know who the seller is), hand over a sum of money and viola, we have a winner! Oh yeah, no it’s still not the right horse, we need another one. . . . And the merry go round continues to turn.
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Final placings:
- Adriana Forte
- Taylor Cawley
- Christian Dominguez
- Isabelle Ehman
- Schuyler Dayner
- Paige Walkenbach
- Mae Mannis
- Harper Phipps
- Eve Westfall
- JJ Torano
Was it a tough course? Is it worth watching? Just wondering before I spend the time watching the replay.
I missed half the jumper phase, but there was some excellent riding in the workoff.
Really pleased for Adriana Forte having a comeback tour after the Medal didn’t go her way!
So glad for Adriana Forte. From having to go first at the Medal last year and lay it down, early again this year with a botched (but beautiful) test I’m glad to see it all come together.
Will the GP be on USEF or FEI TV?
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FEI unfortunately.
I can’t find the EQ final, only the age sections.
Guess I have no excuse not to go to my neighbor’s Halloween party now? 
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Lots of shake ups in the standings in the final round.
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I cant find the WIHS on CMH for the life of me. Signed in to USEF Network and CMH. Will someone send me a link to the class from CMH? Maybe I can find it that way?
Was a little amusing to see Yjapas Kashmir’s spur patches in relation to JJ’s legs 
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