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Local horse jumpers to showcase talent
By Hillary Wundrow
Daily News staff writer
ROSCOE - Some local teens will show off their talents during “Showplace Summertime” set for today through Sunday at the Ledges Sporting Horses, 12250 Love Road.
Hosted by Showplace Productions, the event will feature more than 250 contestants in more than 59 classes of horse jumping. Events will run from 8 a.m. to dusk throughout the four-day event and are free to the public. Those who are not familiar with horse jumping are invited to come and learn more about the sport and view the more than 350 horses featured in events.
The highlight of the weekend will be the $25,000 Grand Prix event held at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Nick Novak, 17, of Poplar Grove, Ill., and Claire Rozran, 19, of Clinton, Wis., are scheduled to participate in the line-up along with more than 20 professional riders from all over the United States and Canada. Both amateur and professional riders from all over the country can come and compete in the Grand Prix.
During the competitions contestants get points for this skills and height of jumping. Grand Prix jumping is the highest level of jumping. Most riders in the event have been riding 10 years to reach this level. Nick Novak has been riding for only four years and will be competing in his first Grand Prix.
“The sport is very dangerous and exciting as the jumps can be as high as six feet,” said Nick's father Reno Novak. “In this sport the rider and the horse must work perfectly together to jump over fences, water hazards and other obstacles in a specified course in an allotted amount of time.”
Grand Prix and show jumping is starting to get much more attention in the U.S. and is becoming a popular spectator sport. In Europe Grand Prix jumping is second in spectator attendance, just behind soccer.
Nick Novak is one of the top 20 riders in the junior jumping level in the U.S. and is the top male rider in the Midwest. His trainer Nancy Whitehead has trained Kent Farrington who now is one of the top riders in the world. Novak hopes to earn more points in order to compete in national competition held next fall.
For more information contact Ledges Sporting Horses at (815) 623-2700.
Hosted by Showplace Productions, the event will feature more than 250 contestants in more than 59 classes of horse jumping. Events will run from 8 a.m. to dusk throughout the four-day event and are free to the public. Those who are not familiar with horse jumping are invited to come and learn more about the sport and view the more than 350 horses featured in events.
The highlight of the weekend will be the $25,000 Grand Prix event held at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Nick Novak, 17, of Poplar Grove, Ill., and Claire Rozran, 19, of Clinton, Wis., are scheduled to participate in the line-up along with more than 20 professional riders from all over the United States and Canada. Both amateur and professional riders from all over the country can come and compete in the Grand Prix.
During the competitions contestants get points for this skills and height of jumping. Grand Prix jumping is the highest level of jumping. Most riders in the event have been riding 10 years to reach this level. Nick Novak has been riding for only four years and will be competing in his first Grand Prix.
“The sport is very dangerous and exciting as the jumps can be as high as six feet,” said Nick's father Reno Novak. “In this sport the rider and the horse must work perfectly together to jump over fences, water hazards and other obstacles in a specified course in an allotted amount of time.”
Grand Prix and show jumping is starting to get much more attention in the U.S. and is becoming a popular spectator sport. In Europe Grand Prix jumping is second in spectator attendance, just behind soccer.
Nick Novak is one of the top 20 riders in the junior jumping level in the U.S. and is the top male rider in the Midwest. His trainer Nancy Whitehead has trained Kent Farrington who now is one of the top riders in the world. Novak hopes to earn more points in order to compete in national competition held next fall.
For more information contact Ledges Sporting Horses at (815) 623-2700.
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