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The World's Best to be at Hampton Classic!!

If you're heading to the Hampton Classic this weekend, you're in for a treat! The Worlds Best riders will be there to compete for the Grand Prix title!


The $250,000 FTI Grand Prix and FEI World Cup™ Qualifier on Sunday, September 1, is a qualifying competition for the 2014 Longines FEI World Cup Final in Lyon, France next April. Riders will also be looking to win the new Longines Rider Challenge that will award $30,000 to the rider who accumulates the most points in the horse show’s Open Jumper division.

How Exciting!

Heading the list of riders is Kent Farrington who won the FTI Grand Prix last year on Voyeur. Joining are Olympic Gold Medalists Joe Fargis, Beezie Madden and McLain Ward who has won the Classic’s featured Grand Prix a record six times. Ward and Madden, the reigning FEI World Cup Champion, have been teammates on the United States’ last three Olympic teams including the 2004 and 2008 Gold Medal teams. Fargis won double Gold Medals at the 1984 Olympic Games, as well as a Silver Medal at the 1988 Games, and has been champion of the Classic’s featured Grand Prix three times.

I'll be sure you to keep you updated with lots of fun photos, maybe a celeb sighting, or two, or three! & of course - all the horse show action!
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