New Horse, Same Result

The Chronicle of the Horse reports October 31, 2020

The last time Kat Fuqua competed in the Alltech Arena during a championship horse show, she brought home the a cooler for the Marshall & Sterling USEF Pony Medal Final from USEF Pony Finals with her large Prestige in 2019. Fast forward 1½ years and things look a little different. There’s no one sitting in the stands due to COVID-19 regulations and this time 13-year-old Fuqua is on the back of a horse rather than a pony, but the result was the same. Kat Fuqua picked up the grand junior hunter title with Grand Remo.

With the striking bay gelding Grand Remo, Fuqua picked up her first National Horse Show championship in the large junior hunters, 15 and under, division. Their result was good enough to also earn them the grand junior hunter title. Fuqua also won the small junior hunter, 15 and under, section with Consent.

“He was really, really well behaved,” Fuqua said of the 9-year-old Dutch Warmblood (San Remo—La Molga V).  “I think this is his second time showing in an indoor, so the first class we went in we got a 90! That was really exciting. [In the handy] I just wanted to make sure that I did all the inside turns and kept going on a forward pace so that it didn’t get boring.”

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