Margie Engle Regains the Lead for AGA Rider of the Year
Equestrian News Release
Wellington, FL – August 22, 2006 – Following a win at the $65,000 Merrill Lynch Cleveland Grand Prix, and a second place finish in the $65,000 Budweiser Grand Prix of Indianapolis, nine-time American Grand Prix Association (AGA) Rider of the Year Margie Engle is back on top of the charts again with only six events remaining on the 2006 schedule.
Entering its twenty-eighth year, the AGA Grand Prix Series of Show Jumping is the world’s richest and longest running series of equestrian show jumping events. The AGA series offers over $3 million dollars in prize money on a tour that encompasses thirty events and twenty different equestrian markets across the United States.
Engle has bankrolled 119 points and 13 clear rounds. Three-time AGA Rider of the Year McLain Ward is close behind Engle with 104 points and 9 clear rounds. 2004 AGA Rider of the Year Beezie Madden, with a win in the $40,000 Kentucky Classic Grand Prix moves back into the top ten in eighth place. Indianapolis winner Aaron Vale moves from 27th on the list into a thirteenth place tie with Kim Prince. Karen Cudmore, winner of the $60,000 Grand Prix of Denver, vaults into a tie with Leslie Howard for nineteenth place on the rider list.
In the race for AGA Horse of the Year, the top four remain unchanged with Baloubet Du Rouet still in the lead with $83,685 in the bank. Engle’s mount Hidden Creek’s Wapino has soared up the charts from fourteenth, into the top ten at number five. Wapino has earned $33,800 in less than a month’s time and now totals $66,300 in prize money won. Artur 28, Vale’s winner at Indianapolis has jumped up into the thirteenth spot on the list.
Janet Hirscher has grabbed the lead in the race for American Grand Prix Association (AGA) Rookie of the Year from previous leader Brianne Goutal. Hirscher finished second in the $60,000 Grand Prix of Denver and picked up a check for $13,200. Goutal’s money won total holds steady at $8,800.
With six competitions remaining on the 2006 AGA tour, all three races are still up for grabs.
Up next in the East on the AGA tour is the $75,000 Fidelity Investments Jumper Classic on Sunday, September 10, 2006, followed by the $100,000 Wachovia Securities American Gold Cup on September 17, returning to Metro Parks Polo Field in Moreland Hills, Ohio for the first time since 1970. Out West, the next AGA tour stop is at the Oaks Blenheim facilty in San Juan Capistrano, California, as the $50,000 World Cup Qualifying Grand Prix takes center stage.
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