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The Competitions Department reminds riders to use the most current Rider Report Forms to expedite the recording process and to ensure accuracy. The forms can be downloaded from the USDF website at www.usdf.org. To have a form mailed or faxed to you, call (859)971-2277.
Adult Amateurs, check your status with USDF by viewing the list of adult amateurs at www.usdf.org/programs/adult_amateurs/index.html
If your name does not appear on the list, you are NOT registered with USDF as an adult amateur.
To correct your information, send a copy of your USA Equestrian adult amateur card to USDF Competitions Department, 220 Lexington Green Circle, Suite 510, Lexington, KY 40503.
The Membership Department wants USDF members to know that USDF occasionally rents its membership list to companies that offer equestrian-related products or services. If you prefer NOT to have your name released, please send an email message containing your name, address, and USDF member number to membership@usdf.org
The USDF Web Site now offers more information than ever. For up-to-date listings of competitions, championships, symposia, instructor/trainer workshops, and "L" programs, visit
www.usdf.org/calendars
For awards information and listings of musical-freestyle events, USDF University programs, and team competitions, visit
www.usdf.org/programs
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Legendary equestrian, Morton "Cappy" Smith of Newport, RI and Middleburg, VA, passed away July 17, 2002.
Cappy Smith was a 2000 recipient of the Pegasus Medal of Honor awarded by USA Equestrian. He was inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1991, the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame in 1998; and he was an inductee of the Virginia Horse Show Association's Hall of Fame in 1990. He was a Director of the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, CAN, and Master of the Orange County Hunt in Middleburg.
At Madison Square Garden in New York, Smith dominated the National Horse Show over a period of three decades. He first won the National Horse Show jumper title with Bartender in 1938. In 1939 he was champion and reserve with Bartender and Intrepid. Smith was the first post-war jumper champion at the National Horse Show with Chamarro. He captured the National title for the final time in 1954 aboard Clay Pidgeon for his fifth championship.
Among the champion hunters Smith trained were such horses as Skylark, Ballela, Lord Britain, Guardsman and Jambol, who won both the triple bar jumper
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class and the Conformation Hunter stake at the National as a four-year-old.
Additionally, Smith rode hunter champions Sinbad, Grey Pennant, My Bill, Sombrero and Bill Star. He won the three-year-old-hunter championship of Virginia for five consecutive years.
William Steinkraus, the first rider to win an individual gold medal in equestrian sports for the USA in the Olympic Games and one of the most influential competitors for the United States, said of Smith, "When I was a kid, Cappy was my idol and I think in the view of many people the best Hunter/Jumper rider in America. In my teens, I was lucky enough to have a chance to ride with him on a regular basis and what I learned, not only about horses but about everything, was incalculable."
Smith, acclaimed by his peers and riders today as the greatest horseman of the 1930's, 40's and 50's, has been called the Horseman of the Millennium.
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