Ellen Wright, OCHS Senior, Competes with Various Horses

Ellen Medley Wright is one horse show shy of finishing her junior exhibitor career in Saddleseat Equitation. She has competed in four horse shows this summer with Championship and Grand Championship titles in both Equitation and Three-gaited classes at each show. Her beloved equitation horse, Kalu’s Can’t Stop The Magic, was not well enough to compete with her at the World Championship Horse show at the Kentucky State Fair, but her trainers and the other riders and their families were generous enough to offer horses for her to practice on once and ride in the competitions at the Show. She was thrilled with her ribbons on these borrowed horses but much more impressed by the kindness and generosity of so many people who were so willing to share their time and horses. She won the title of World Champion Junior Exhibitor Three-gaited 14-17 and Junior Exhibitor World Grand Champion of Champions three gaited age 14-7 on her performance horse , “A Travelin’ Man.” She was World Grand Champion Senior Saddleseat Kentucky Equitation Rider and Reserve World Champion Sixteen Year Old Saddleseat Equitation Rider on “Thunder Gone Wild “a horse loaned to her by Delovely Farm. Last but not least, Ellen was fourth out of 16 riders in the Senior Sadddleseat World Championship on a Horse who is scared to do the patterns required as part of the competition. This horse was loaned to her by a friend named Hunter Chancellor, and Ellen was able to encourage the horse through the pattern. This was the greatest accomplishment of the show as far as Ellen was concerned. Pictured are the many horses Ellen was privileged to show.