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UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION®
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2008
White Withdraws Northern Spy; O’Connor and Mandiba Named to 2008 US Olympic Team in Eventing
By Joanie Morris
Lexington, KY − Heidi White has withdrawn Northern Spy from the US Olympic Team in Eventing for
veterinary reasons. Following the selection procedures, the USEF named
replacement horse/rider combination Karen O
’Connor/Mandiba to the US Olympic Team in Eventing.
This will be O’Connor’s fourth Olympic Games.
The following horse/rider combinations have been named to the 2008 US Olympic
Team in Eventing:
Rider/Age/Hometown/Horse/Age/Breed/Sex/Owner (in alphabetical order):
Phillip Dutton/44/West Grove, PA/Connaught/15/Irish Sport Horse/G/Bruce
Duchossois
Becky Holder/39/Mendota Heights, MN/Courageous Comet/12/Thoroughbred/G/Becky and
Thomas Holder, Jr.
Gina Miles/34/Creston, CA/McKinlaigh/14/Irish Sport Horse/Gina Miles, Laura
Coats and Thomas Schulz
Karen O'Connor/50/The Plains, VA/Mandiba/9/Irish Thoroughbred/G/Joan Goswell
Amy Tryon/38/Duvall, WA/Poggio II/16/Thoroughbred/G/Amy and Greg Tryon and Mark
Hart
Replacements in alphabetical order:
Bruce Davidson, Jr./32/ Ocala, FL/BallyNoe Castle RM/8/Irish Thoroughbred/G/Carl
and Cassandra Segal
Phillip Dutton/44/West Grove, PA/Woodburn/13/Thoroughbred/G/Acorn Hill Farm
Bonnie Mosser/45/Gordonsville, VA/Merloch/11/New Zealand Thoroughbred
Cross/G/Bonnie Mosser and Margaret Egan
The horses in the U.S. will ship to Hong Kong for the Olympic Games on July 30.
ENDS
Please see www.usef.org for complete selection procedures.
For information regarding selection, please contact Sara Ike, Managing Director
of Eventing at sara.ike@usef.org.
For media requests, please contact Joanie Morris, High Performance
Communications Manager at jmorris@usef.org.
The vision of the United States Equestrian Federation® is to provide leadership
for equestrian sport in the United States of America by promoting the pursuit
of excellence from the grassroots to the Olympic Games, based on a
foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare
of its human and equine athletes.
