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Showjumper McLain Ward, farrier Joe Alfano and plastic surgeon and enthusiastic horseman Dr Csaba Magassy inducted into Pennsylvania National Horse Show Hall of Fame.
Leading showjumping rider Kathy Kusner and eventing organiser Howard Simpson have been honored with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the US Equestrian Federation.
Olympic showjumper Kent Farrington has been crowned US Equestrian’s (USEF) international equestrian of the year 2020 – as his mare Gazelle takes the international horse honours.
The awards, voted for by USEF members, were among those presented at the virtual USEF Pegasus and Horses of the Year Awards Celebration on 16 January.
Kent was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the bronze medal-winning team at the 2014 World Equestrian Games with Voyeur. In 2019 he became the first US rider to win the CSI5 Rolex grand prix at CHIO Aachen and the Rolex grand prix at CHI Geneva in the same year with Gazelle, the 15-year-old mare he co-owns with Robin Parsky.