#40 Alexa Reisfield
Alexa Reisfield went on her first pony ride at age 5 and has been in the saddle ever since. She has a background in hunter/jumpers and has been competitively showing in the hunter divisions since she was on ponies. During
Total Donation: $2026 | Horse: Sadie's Magic | Team: Team Racing Media
#60 Alison Chubb
Alison is the owner and trainer of AMC Equestrian in Cochranville, PA, where she breaks and trains young horses and teaches riders of all disciplines. She is an FEI Event rider and competes at 4th level dressage. Alison grew up
Total Donation: $2330 | Horse: American Colossus | Team: Team Animal Kingdom
#34 Bernadette Smith
My name is Bernie Smith, local Thoroughbred lover and equine vet. I just love this breed and feel very thankful to have TB’s in my life, as they have helped me become the person I am today 🙂 Biscuit, race
Total Donation: $1150 | Horse: Ascania | Team: The Fixer Fillies
#38 Brittlan Wall
Born in Texas and raised in Georgia, horses have been a big part of Brittlan Wall's life for as long as she can remember. She competed on the hunter/jumper/equitation circuit from a young age all the way through college, where
Total Donation: $2165 | Horse: Aggretio | Team: Team Maryland Jockey Club
#63 Cassie Lively
Cassie is 14 years old and has been riding her entire life. She exercises racehorses for Jack Fisher and helps her mom retrain ex-racehorses, mostly in the jumper arena. Cassie is easy to spot around the barn, often in bright
Total Donation: $1435 | Horse: Quite a Journey | Team: GSVH Pony Camp
#54 Chelsea Buttermore
Chelsea's love for horses started at an early age and continued through her life. She rode with Jack and Katie Benson at Briarwood Farm in New Jersey and competed in the equitation divisions as a junior. After graduating college, she
Total Donation: $200 | Horse: Fantastic Omen | Team: Team Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center
#79 Clare Mansmann
Clare is a trainer at Pacific Farms in Hume, VA, along with her husband, Tom. She is a lifetime OTTB lover, from competing them in show hunters as a child in CA, to exercising them on the track to assist
Total Donation: $1270 | Horse: Nothin Really | Team: Team Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
#39 Emily Fewster
Hello, my name is Emily Fewster, and I'm excited to share in the experience of the Real Rider Cup in 2022. Having grown up locally in Maryland, I have interacted enthusiastically with Thoroughbreds since a very young age. As this
Total Donation: $1540 | Horse: Stucco | Team: Team Animal Kingdom
#77 Erin Harty
I’m a lifelong eventer, Pony Club graduate, and reporter for the Chronicle of the Horse. I purchased Paid By Parm as a 3-year old from Jessica Redman and sent him to Pacific Farms for training, and we never left!
Total Donation: $1120 | Horse: Paid By Parm | Team: Team Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
Jackie Savoye
I have been in the industry for 20 years as an exercise rider, pony person, assistant trainer, and trainer. Thoroughbreds and racehorses have shaped a big part of who I am and my career. I currently run my own Magnawave
Total Donation: $2810 | Horse: Lemme See | Team: Team Maryland Jockey Club
#31 Jaidyn Shore
Grandiflora and I are fresh off winning the Pony Club Show Jumping Championships and looking forward to raising money for thoroughbred after care again this year. I spend my time exercising race horses for Suzanne Stettinius and have ridden for
Total Donation: $1391 | Horse: Grandiflora | Team: GSVH Pony Camp
#65 James Wyatt
I am a freshman at Hereford High School. I love riding and I run track. I hope to ride races when I am old enough. My Real Rider Cup mount is Biedermeier. He was trained on the flat by Todd
Total Donation: $2260 | Horse: Biedermeier | Team: Team Racing Kids
#52 Jennifer Pennington
Jennifer is originally from Baltimore, MD. She was horse crazy since the time she could talk. She attended McDonogh school from first through twelfth grade, where her riding and love for horses was able to flourish. After college, Jennifer returned
Total Donation: $1445 | Horse: Raw Oyster | Team: Team Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center
Kali Francois
Back after a year hiatus and ready for vengeance after a good finish
Total Donation: $1100 | Horse: My Luca | Team: Team Maryland Jockey Club
#58 Karin Hagios Belgrave
Karin has been around horses her entire life. From the Amwell Valley Hounds Pony Club, to Area II Young Riders, to International-level Eventing, to running around Rolex Kentucky - she’s done a whole lot. But she’ll tell you her most
Total Donation: $1200 | Horse: Tiyo | Team: Team Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center
#62 Kaymarie Kreidel
Hi! This will be my third Real Rider Cup. I wasn’t sure I would compete again after loosing my Trey Bear, but a friend (Sabrina Morris) asked me to join her team and offered me a mount she thought would
Total Donation: $2850 | Horse: Greek God | Team: Team 1/ST Racing
#49 Keira Nygaard
Keira Nygaard is a 14-year-old amateur rider from San Diego, California. She competes in the 3’0” equitation with her warmblood Encasso D, and the 2’6” hunters and .90 jumpers with her two OTTBs, Arkenstone and Latitude. Both of her Thoroughbreds
Total Donation: $4150 | Horse: Adirondack King
#67 Kimberly Crowell
I grew up on a dairy farm in Western Massachusetts. Horses were a passion of mine since the very beginning. I used to teach my 4H calves how to lunge and jump over things in hand. I worked and rode
Total Donation: $2200 | Horse: Flash McCaul | Team: Team Animal Kingdom
#57 Lia Kelly
A life-long horseperson from Maryland, I grew up eventing and showing ponies and then started galloping when I graduated high school. In 2012 I rode my first race and continued riding as an amateur over jumps and on the flat.
Total Donation: $1910 | Horse: Virginia Peach | Team: Team 1/ST Racing
#48 Lindsay Gilliam
I found my passion of horses at 8 years old but unfortunately was never able to be consistent with riding. I've done a little bit of showing in both hunters and jumpers but it's probably been 10+ years since I've
Total Donation: $1000 | Horse: Greatest Khan | Team: The Fixer Fillies
#45 Lisa Davison
I haven’t sat on a horse for 2 years, but I am happy to ride a borrowed mount in this fundraiser to help these incredible horses! I have been a vet tech for Equine Vet Care based at Fair Hill
Total Donation: $1890 | Horse: Military Mike | Team: The Fixer Fillies
#41 Mackenzie Pfeiffer
Mackenzie grew up in northern Baltimore County, where pastoral landscapes are often enjoyed from the back of a horse. In the show ring, she had the pleasure of riding various types of horses but always kept an OTTB of her
Total Donation: $2960 | Horse: Not in Charge | Team: GSVH Pony Camp
#80 Maggie Wolfendale-Morley
Maggie is a paddock analyst and host for America’s Day at the Races and Saratoga Live on Fox Sports and NYRA. She has galloped horses for over 20 years and has worked with OTTBs for even longer, with her first
Total Donation: $5152 | Horse: Talk Show Man | Team: Team Racing Media
#47 Meghan Delp
Hello all! I grew up on the back of a horse but have been over only a handful of jumps in my lifetime. I am an avid endurance rider, so those ‘jumps’ are usually logs across the trail, I’ve competed
Total Donation: $1915 | Horse: Precious Miracle | Team: The Fixer Fillies
#76 Morgan Hayden
Morgan is a lifetime lover of OTTBs. She and her husband Kyle are associated with MidAtlantic Horse Rescue and are a satellite farm for many of their horses while they rehab for their second careers. Morgan has even adopted three
Total Donation: $1475 | Horse: Be Back | Team: Team Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
#43 Paige Wyatt
I am in seventh grade at Hereford Middle School. I play field hockey and I love all kinds of riding. I'll be riding Fletched, owned by Black and Blue Stables, who ran both on the flat and over fences.
Total Donation: $1960 | Horse: Fletched | Team: Team Racing Kids
#59 Penelope Miller
Penelope Miller grew up as a horse-crazy kid on her parents’ farm in Ocala, Florida, and not much has changed since then. She worked on farms from Kentucky to Australia, and worked for six years at Tampa Bay Downs as
Total Donation: $5200 | Horse: Fullback | Team: Team Racing Media
#53 Sabrina Morris
I'm excited to announce that Phlash Phelps and I are competing in the Real Rider Cup Fair Hill this September! Phlash and I have a unique relationship: I galloped him from his 2-year-old year until his retirement at Laurel Park.
Total Donation: $3000 | Horse: Phlash Phelps | Team: Team Union Rags
#56 Scott Hammond
Scott Hammond was born in Somerset, England where he began riding at the age of 16 and began working in racing just after. Both of his parents worked in the Thoroughbred industry. Hammond attended West Oxfordshire Technical College and received
Total Donation: $2520 | Horse: Silver Lido | Team: Team 1/ST Racing
#35 Shannon Casey
My first job was galloping for Whitewood Farms/Richard Valentine at 15. My next job at 16 was for Neil Morris at Kinross Farms where I still help out. I have schooled timber horses such as Old Timer. I breed and
Total Donation: $1055 | Horse: Osprey | Team: Team Union Rags
#46 Stephanie Wardius
Stephanie is originally from Chester County, Pennsylvania where she grew up riding with local hunter and eventing trainers. Throughout high school and college she was immersed in Thoroughbred breeding at local Castle Rock Farm and later attended St. George's University
Total Donation: $1575 | Horse: Lucky Balladier | Team: Team Union Rags
#78 Tom Mansmann
Tom is a trainer and coach at Pacific Farms in Hume, VA, along with his wife, Clare. He is a generational OTTB rider and trainer, and grew up competing them in many disciplines, including exercising steeplechase horses. Tom is an
Total Donation: $1075 | Horse: Heaven Is Waiting | Team: Team Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
#37 William Slater
I'm 10 years old. I've been around race horses my whole life. My dad is an ex-steeplechase jockey, and my mom used to train and is now an assistant. I love going to the races and watching the horses run.
Total Donation: $3425 | Horse: Orchestra Leader | Team: Team Racing Kids