1999
Neil R. Ayer (1926-1990)
Neil Ayer was primarily responsible for the success and popularity of American eventing in the 1970s and the 1980s...
Induction into the United States Eventing Association's Eventing Hall of Fame is the highest honor awarded within the sport of eventing in the United States.
Those inducted into the USEA's Eventing Hall of Fame have truly made a difference in the sport of eventing. Inductees have included past Association presidents, volunteers, riders, founding members, course designers, officials, organizers, horses, horse owners, and coaches.
Hall of Fame Inductees
1999
1999
Major General Jonathan R. Burton (1919-2019)
Major General Jonathan “Jack” Burton, always a horse lover, was born in 1919 and began his equestrian career galloping racehorses as a young boy...
1999
Captain John H. Fritz (1924-2012)
Captain John “Jack” Fritz, born in 1924, rode horses as a child and was introduced to dressage while studying at Princeton University...
1999
Edward Harris (1912-2005)
Edward Harris served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and Captain of a submarine chaser in World War II on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in addition to carrying out the duties of Executive Officer of a destroyer chaser...
1999
Jack LeGoff (1931-2009)
Jack LeGoff was born in France in 1931 and competed in dressage, show jumping, and eventing as a child, even riding steeplechasers as a teenager...
1999
Alexander Mackay-Smith (1903-1998)
There is possibly no one who has done more to further the interests of all equestrian sports during the last century than Alexander Mackay-Smith.
1999
Jenny Camp
Jenny Camp, a bay mare foaled in 1926 at the Remount Depot in Front Royal, Virginia, is arguably one of the most famous Army-bred horses...
1999
The Grasshopper
Standing only 15.1 hands, The Grasshopper made history competing in a multitude of international team competitions.
2003
Richard Collins (1908-1984)
Richard "Dick" Collins attended a military school in Southern California with a strong riding program...
2003
J. Michael Plumb
Born in 1940 in Syosset, New York, Michael Plumb got his start with the Meadow Brooks Hounds Pony Club where he earned his "A" rating...
2003
Torrance Watkins
Torrance Watkins was born in 1949 to a foxhunting family and made her hunting debut at age four...
2003
James C. Wofford (1944-2023)
James C. “Jimmy” Wofford was born in 1944 and raised on a horse farm in Milford, Kansas...
2003
2003
Plain Sailing
Plain Sailing's international career spanned almost a decade and several top riders...
2006
Denny Emerson
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Edward E. “Denny” Emerson originally taught high school English and sold real estate in his native Vermont...
2006
Michael Page
Michael Page hails from North Salem, New York and is well known as the rider in one of eventing's most successful combinations with his partner The Grasshopper...
2006
Karen Stives (1950-2015)
Karen Stives earned her place in three-day eventing history when she rode her mother's big grey gelding, Ben Arthur, to win the individual silver medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics...
2006
2006
2009
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson was a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team for more than 30 years, first making the team in 1971 when he was 18 years old...
2009
Kevin Freeman (1941-2023)
Kevin Freeman’s first international success came in 1963 when he won team gold and individual silver medals at the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil...
2009
Denis Glaccum
Denis Glaccum was one of the first members of the USEA and rode in his first event in 1956...
2009
David O'Connor
David O’Connor was a member of almost every U.S. Equestrian Team from 1986 until his retirement in 2004 and is one of America’s most successful international three-day event riders...
2009
Eileen Thomas
Eileen Thomas was Executive Director of the USEA and served the organization for 17 years from 1974 to 1991...
2009
Custom Made
Custom Made (Bassompierre x Purple Heather) is a 17.2 hand dark bay Irish Sport Horse gelding who was foaled in Ireland in 1985...
2009
Good Mixture
Good Mixture (Mixture x Romaha) was a 16.1 ½ hand brown gelding born in 1962 who was bought off the racetrack by Miss Geraldine (Gerry) Pearson in Oregon...
2009
2012
Roger Haller (1946-2016)
The son of Elliot Haller and Jean Haller Reid, Roger Haller grew up with a love for horses...
2012
Amy Tryon (1970-2012)
Amy Tryon had a competitive record that few can match. With her beloved Poggio II, Amy represented the United States Eventing Team no less than five times...
2012
Lana DuPont Wright
Lana DuPont Wright broke the glass ceiling for women in eventing all over the world when she became the first woman to compete on a team at the Olympic Games...
2012
2012
The Gray Goose
As a youngster, this seven-eighths bred Irish horse was not everyone’s cup of tea, at least not until Kim Walnes found him in a yard in Ireland and saw something very special in him...
2015
Jacqueline B. Mars
The support that Ms. Jacqueline B. Mars has provided for the sport of eventing as an owner and patron is legendary...
2015
Jo Whitehouse
Born and raised in Filey, Yorkshire, England, Jo Whitehouse was hooked on eventing when she attended her first Pony Club Eventing Rally...
2015
Margaret Lindsley Warden (1904-2007)
Margaret Lindsley Warden organized the first event in the United States in June 1952 at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, Tennessee...
2015
Mike Huber
One of the youngest riders ever named to an international Team, Mike Huber finished 13th at the 1978 World Championships at only 18 years of age...
2015
Rebecca Broussard (1942-2010)
A horsewoman herself, Rebecca “Becky” Broussard was passionate about the sport of eventing...
2015
Richard (1930-2012) and Vita Thompson (1937-2008)
Richard “Dick” and Vita Thompson were very special supporters of the sport of eventing...
2015
McKinlaigh
Thom Schultz and his wife Laura Coats were on a horse buying trip to Ireland and just happened to stop by Ireland’s Young Event Horse Competition at the 1998 Punchestown Three-Day Event...
2015
2015
Winsome Adante
Winsome Adante (Saunter x Juswith Genoa) was owned by Ms. Linda Wachtmeister, ridden by Kim Severson, and bred in England by Janet and Chris Gooch...
2018
Tim and Nina Gardner
Nina and Tim Gardner have been active supporters of the sport and its future for many years as owners, breeders, and volunteers of the Association...
2018
Dr. A. Martin Simensen (1930-1995)
Dr. A. Martin “Marty” Simensen served as the U.S. Equestrian Team (USET) Veterinarian for over 22 years and was widely known and loved for his commitment to his patients and the owners behind them...
2018
Karen O'Connor
Karen Lende O’Connor has competed in five Olympic Games, three World Equestrian Games, and two Pan American Games...
2018
Howard Simpson
Howard Simpson grew up fox hunting and served as Master of the Foxhounds (MFH) for the Mill Creek Hunt in Illinois...
2018
Captain Mark Phillips
Captain Mark Phillips was born on September 22, 1948, in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England...
2018
Out and About
Out and About (“Outie”), a 16.2 hand dark bay Thoroughbred gelding (L'Amour Rullah x Incarnadine), was Kerry Millikin’s horse of a lifetime and one of the greatest eventing Thoroughbreds of all time...
2022
Janie Atkinson
After graduating from Rutgers University with a Master’s Degree in Animal Science, Janie Atkinson began working as a lab tech in the University of Kentucky Veterinary Science Department in 1969. She moved from Lexington in 1970 to accept a position as industry liaison with the newly formed American Horse Council, an equine industry trade association, in Washington, D.C.
2022
Colonel Harry D. Chamberlin (1887-1944)
Jim Wofford compared the work of Colonel Harry D. Chamberlin in the equestrian community to that of Mozart and was quoted saying, “We are the beneficiaries of Col. Chamberlin’s genius, and horses around the world live far more comfortable and productive lives because of his work.”
2022
Trish Gilbert
Trish Gilbert was one of the first women to break the barriers put up against women competing in the sport of eventing. She had considerable success in the early years of eventing amongst non-military competitors. Prior to relocating to her current home in Hartford County, Maryland with her husband Bill, she served as the director of the Blue Ridge Horse Trials and organized th...
2022
Eagle Lion
Out of the famous mare Stream Lion, a producer of many excellent event horses, and by the Thoroughbred sire Gipfel whose progeny went on to be top-class sport horses, Eagle Lion competed at the highest level of the sport with Bruce Davidson Sr. in the tack. The horse, bred by Patricia Nicholson and owned by Dr. George Strawbridge, won the Fair Hill CCI*** and was the first of o...
2022
Sally O'Connor
Sally O’Connor has enjoyed a lifetime of involvement with horses both in eventing and dressage. She had a robust eventing career in the 1960s and 70s as well as competing in the dressage ring for many years, earning numerous championship accolades while studying under the tutelage of classical riders Franz Rockowansky, Nuno Olivera, and Bengt Ljungquist. Sally moved to Draper, ...