Deep Field to Contest USEF Selection Trials for Show Jumping
02.27.2008 - part 1
By Joanie Morris

Wellington, FL - Regardless of discipline, things look pretty good when all
four members of the Gold Medal winning team from the 2004 Olympic Games line
up to vie for a spot on the team in 2008.

Hello show jumpers.

Reigning Gold medalists: Beezie Madden, McLain Ward, Peter Wylde and Chris
Kappler are among the 41 entered in the USEF Selection Trials for the 2008
Olympic Team in Show Jumping to take place at the Palm Beach International
Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL February 28- March 9.

Proving once again that in equestrian sports, experience can compete
alongside youth, this field not only includes 59-year-old Team and
Individual Gold Medalist from the 1984 Olympic Games, Joe Fargis, but also
Harvard University freshman Addison Phillips.

In addition to the 2004 Gold medal winning team, the following other Olympic
and Pan American medalists are also scheduled to compete in the Trials:
Norman Dello Joio, Margie Engle, Lauren Hough, Anne Kursinski, Todd Minikus,
and Cara Raether.

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