Source:  News Release/Sara Cavanagh

 

 

Monday
Chris Richards of Arlington, Tenn., rode her Foxtrot Echo to third place in the $5,000 Adult Amateur Jumper Classic to add enough points to those she’d earned with a win on Sunday to claim the Championship in that division at Devon Horse Show and Country Fair last evening.

“She’s been great,” said Richards of Foxtrot Echo. “Last night with the lights and the crowd, she loved it. I love the crowd because it gets her up.”

Richards is the General Counsel at Federal Express, and she named her mare after the call name of the Fed Ex jets when they call the tower.

“My boss is OK with my showing,” said Richards, who drives her own trailer to shows, keeps her horses at her 12 acre farm and uses vacation days to travel to shows. “My boss knows he gets a better General Counsel back after I’ve been at a show.”

“I ride early in the morning at home,” said Richards. “When I ride, I have to pay attention to my horse and forget all about work.”

“I’m just shocked to be champion here,” Richards said. “I read about this show and the famous riders who won here when I was a kid.”

Scott Stewart of Flemington, N.J., opened his defense of his 2010 Devon Leading Hunter Rider title by winning four of the 10 classes and placing second in two others.

Stewart’s wins came on Dedication in First Year Green Hunter, who also placed second in another class, Empire in Green Conformation, and two wins in Regular Conformation on Touchdown and a second in High Performance Hunters on Carlos Boy.