2017 Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North Features 25 and Under Para-Dressage Competition 

Saugerties, NY – March 5, 2017 – The 2017 Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships, presented by Gotham North, committee has granted a waiver for the Para-Dressage discipline age category to allow competitors ages 14 through 25 to compete. This waiver is currently only for the 2017 competition hosted by HITS-on-the-Hudson in Saugerties, N.Y. July 18-23.

The Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships, presented by Gotham North, (NAJYRC) is a unique and prestigious competition which brings together the top FEI Junior and Young Riders, age 14-21 (25*), from throughout North American and neighboring countries. Teams of qualified riders vie for team and individual FEI medals in the three Olympic equestrian disciplines of show jumping, dressage, and eventing, the Paralympic discipline of para-dressage, and the FEI World Equestrian Games disciplines of reining and endurance. HITS-on-the-Hudson in Saugerties, N.Y., will host the disciplines of dressage, para-dressage, and jumping July 18-23, 2017. Rebecca Farm in Kalispell, Mont., will host eventing July 20-23, 2017. The competition is run under rules of the FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale, the international governing body for equestrian sport), and is the only FEI championship held annually on this continent.

To get involved with NAJYRC please contact Mark Coley at mcoley@usef.org

To learn more about the NAJYRC please visit http://www.youngriders.org.

The United States Para-Equestrian Association (USPEA) includes every recognized equestrian discipline that is practiced by athletes with an eligible physical impairment with a focus on Paralympic Equestrian Sports. . The USPEA is a network of current and past athletes, owners, officials, event organizers, and equestrian enthusiasts. The Association assists athletes to get involved and expand their knowledge and experience in the Disciplines of Para-Equestrian.

USPEA was created to fill a need to assist Para Equestrian disciplines when they came under the governance of the FEI.  While Para Equestrian disciplines were originally segregated, they now are integrated in international sport.  As each individual Para Equestrian discipline develops, it is USPEA’s mission to always serve as an advisory resource with the ultimate goal that the established able-bodied discipline affiliate will integrate within their organization.

In 2010, the USPEA earned its 501 (c)(3) status and became a recognized International affiliate association of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) working together to grow the FEI recognized disciplines by helping to provide press, educational information, symposiums and competition opportunities for athletes with eligible physical impairments.