USEF Young Rider Championships

AREA 1 YOUNG RIDER CHAMPIONSHIPS OVER THE YEARS

2025 – CCI2* Team Bronze / CCI2* Silver Individual

USEF Eventing Young Rider Championships, Maryland International Horse Trials, AdamsTOWN, MD

Lyman Ordway, Trillian Hyde (Groom), Ellie Moran (Mentorship Program), Lexi Young (Mentorship Program), Rory Weeks (Mentorship Program)

2024 – CCI2* Silver / CCI3* Silver

USEF Eventing Young Rider Championships, Maryland International Horse Trials, AdamsTOWN, MD

Elizabeth Gill, Audrey Littlefield, Annabelle Sprague, Bridget O’Rourke
Team Groom: Max van der Schoot

2022 – CCI2* Silver

USEF Eventing youth RIDER CHAMpionships
Tryon international, tryon, nc

Lea Adams-Blackmore

2021 – CCI2* 5th Place

USEF Eventing youth team challenge IV
Tryon international, tryon, nc

Lea Adams-Blackmore and Ayden Schain

2021 – CCI2* Gold / CCI3* Gold

USEF Eventing youth team challenge III
Plantation field, UNIONVILLE, PA

Lea Adams-Blackmore, Audrey Littlefield, Jack Curtis, Cassie Sanger, Ayden Schain

2021 – CCI2* Gold

USEF Eventing youth team challenge II
Loch Moy Farm, Adamstown, md

Cassie Sanger

2021 – CCI2* Gold

USEF Eventing youth team challenge I
Stable View, Aiken, SC

Elizabeth Gill, Libby Scruton, Ayden Schain, and Jack Curtis

2019 – CCI2* 4th Place / CCI3* Bronze

North American Youth Championships
Rebecca Farm, Kalispell, MT

Isabel Finemore, Libby Scruton, Katie Lichten, and Maddie Lichten

2018 – CCI1* 4th Place / CIC2* Silver

North American YouNG RIDER Championships
Rebecca Farm, Kalispell, MT

India Doyle, William Jarrell, Sami Crandell, Kanyon Walker, Katie Lichten, and Maddie Lichten

2017 – CCI1* 4th Place / CIC2* Gold

North American Junior Young Rider Championships
Rebecca Farm, Kalispell, MT

Sloane Pierpont, Erica Jarrell, Natasha Knight, William Jarrell, Cornelia Dorr, Laine Metz, and Rain Anderson

2016 – CCI1* Gold Medal

North American Junior Young Rider Championships
The Colorado horse park

Katie Lichten, Cornelia Dorr, Eliza Eddy, Erica Jarrell, Maddie Lichten, and Haley Rosenberg

2015 – CCI1* 4th Place

North American Junior Young Rider Championships
The Kentucky Horse Park

Madison Gallien, Anna Billings, Katie Lichten, Mariah Gallien, and Caitlin Tierney

Stephie Baer has been teaching riding, training horses, and competing in three-day events and combined training events for over 35 years. She has trained numerous green horses, including several from green to 3 and 4-star levels. She is based out of Course Brook Farm located in Sherborn, MA. Stephie has competed through the advanced level, including 4-star events at Burghley CIC**** (England) and Rolex Kentucky CCI****. She also has competed at Fair Hill CCI***, Thirelston Castle CIC*** (Scotland), Essex CCI**, Radnor CCI**, Bromont CCI** (Canada), and Quetero CCI** (Mexico). She has won Advanced divisions at Fair Hill, Morven Park, and Southern Pines. She was short-listed for the 1998 World Championships and trained with the American Team in England. She has also participated in several USET training sessions. Along with being a working student and employee of Bruce Davidson for over four years, Stephie has also trained with Capt. Mark Phillips, Jack LeGoff, Rick Sullivan, Lauren Stevens, Kathy Connolly, Sandy Osborne, and Arlene Full. She has attended clinics with Lucinda Green, Joey Darby, Ann Kursinsky, Jane Savoy, Sandy Pflueger, Eric Horgan, and Jimmy Wofford. 

Jane Hamlin is an active event and dressage rider, trainer, and coach based at Pirouette Farm in Norwich, Vermont. Her positive attitude, with an emphasis on teaching good basics, has produced successful riders at the beginner level to the Olympic level. She enjoys teaching both adult amateurs as well as young riders and is a popular clinician teaching at such clinics as the Area 1 Young Rider camp and the Junior Horsemanship Clinic at GMHA. In addition to her teaching, she brings along nice young horses with careful preparation and education. Jane holds both a USEF Event and Dressage judge’s license as well as an FEI International Eventing Judge license. 

Based in Vermont and Aiken, South Carolina, Bevin O’Reilly Dugan is a veteran 3* eventer, USEA ECP-Certified Instructor, and USDF Bronze and Silver medalist. Her methodical process creates a strong element of trust between horse and rider, which inspires a greater level of commitment and passion from everyone she reaches. Her creative use of classical principles combined with kind and contemporary training strategies results in confident horses and riders who find success in the show ring as well as at home.

Growing up in New Brunswick, Canada, and northern Maine along the U.S./Canadian border, John Bourgoin‘s riding life began with trail riding and competing in local Western horse shows. While attending college in Vermont, Bourgoin was introduced to the local hunter/jumper scene where he spent time learning how to ride in an English saddle and proceeded to enter the world of jumping horses. While boarding a horse at a local stable, Bourgoin also began volunteering and helping out with the Charlotte Pony Club. After nearly 40 years, he continues to be one of their main instructors and volunteers yearly for their annual Horse Trials. Bourgoin is still an active competitor and has developed and competed his own horses through every national level of the sport. He has also trained and coached riders from Beginner Novice to Advanced. For the last 25 years, he has been very involved in the Area I Young Rider program and several of his students have represented Area I as team members, earning team and individual medals at the North American Youth Championships. He continues to serve as a team selector and clinician for the program. In 2022, Bourgoin was the recipient of the Mike Huber Award from the USEA Foundation. Having retired from public school teaching after 38 years, Bourgoin now has the opportunity to work full-time with clients and their horses. Bourgoin and his wife, Alice, own and operate Arbrook Farm in North Ferrisburgh, Vermont.