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Allegra Aron is a Senior at Menlo School in Atherton (CA) who has an eye on colleges with solid riding teams. “I want to continue my riding career and I’d really like to do jumpers as an adult,” says this talented young woman and given her performance at the Woodside Fall Finale (Sept. 28 - Oct.1) it certainly seems like she is on the right track. Aron won the CPHA Child/Adult Regional Medal Finals - North and took Reserve in the Junior Equitation Championship aboard her horse Odins Bombardier that she has owned for about four years. “He’s an opinionated horse, but he’s a good horse. He was pretty green when I first got him, but we’ve been bringing him along, and he’s worked really hard for me this year.”

Aron has been riding for about ten years. She began riding with DeDe Kramer who then referred her to Constance Kilmartin when Aron started focusing on showing. “They are both great trainers and are incredibly supportive,” Aron stated. “My horse goes back and forth between both barns. Constance’s barn is farther away, but we all work as a team.”

This wasn’t the first medal finals that Aron qualified for, but it was the first one she was able to compete in. “This class was a lot of fun, and it was very nice to have it at night with the dinner presentation,” she said. “My parents were there and they were really nervous for me, and just so happy when I won.”

The CPHA Horsemanship Regional Medal Finals - North were a bit of a mother-daughter act. Eleven year old Morgan Garnett qualified on her pony, Charlie Brown, but then her mom said Morgan could ride her amateur hunter, Black Ice. “He is just a really beautiful horse, like Black Beauty,” Morgan said of the five year old Hanoverian gelding. “He was really good the first round but a little slow in the end because he thought he was done. But then he was just perfect the second round and I was just so happy with him.” That solid second round clinched the win for Morgan.

Both Morgan and her mother, Katrina, train with Jan Pearce. They go to the shows together and sometimes even ride against one another in the same class. Katrina, a life long equestrian, says she would never push her daughter to ride unless it was truly something that Morgan was passionate about. “She is just so dedicated, and we sit down together and look at the show schedule and are really careful about what shows we pick. We have never purposefully picked shows with the thought of chasing points, but more to have a good time showing and doing this together.” They especially enjoy the Woodside shows. “It’s just really nice, and the atmosphere isn’t spooky,” added Morgan.

The California Professional Horseman’s Association and its sister organization, the CPHA Foundation, provide programs and services to assist and benefit California’s professional horsemen. While trainers make up a bulk of the membership, there are programs for grooms, instructors, and others who make their living in the horse show industry. The CPHA’s medal programs are an important part of their outreach and promotion of horse showing in California. Langer Equestrian Group is proud to host five of the CPHA’s medal finals. The Woodside Fall Finale is host to the CPHA Child/ Adult and CPHA Horsemanship Regional Medal Finals - North. Gold Coast 7 hosts the CPHA Child/Adult and CPHA Horsemanship Regional Medal Finals - Los Angeles Area, and the Los Angeles National hosts the WCE Junior/Amateur Medal Finals. For more information on these shows and finals, please go to the LEG website at: www.langerequestrian.com. For more information on the CPHA and the CPHA Foundation, their website is: www.cpha.org.

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