FEI Equestrian Susan Jaccoma Awarded Educational Training Scholarship by New England Dressage Association

The New England Dressage Association recently named nationally-ranked dressage competitor Susan Jaccoma as the 2008 award recipient of a $2,000 educational scholarship to further her riding education in training sessions with an Olympic coach this winter in Florida.

Jaccoma, who placed 5th at the 2008 National Intermediare Dressage Championship in San Juan Capistrano, California this season, was selected from a pool of finalists for this prestigious honor. Intermediare is one of the top levels of dressage -only Grand Prix is higher. With her eye on the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, Jaccoma will utilize the funding to train intensively with renowned Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) trainer Lars Petersen of Denmark with her two horses Wadamur and Donatella. Petersen, a 5-time Danish National Champion, has competed in an Olympiad, two World Cup Finals, and three World Equestrian Games and was recently ranked #2 in the world….

Read the entire article by The Weekly Sentinel
Date: 11-28-2008
Source: theweeklysentinel.blogspot.com

Wadamur and Susan Jaccoma scored 68.2 and took 5th place in the Intermediaire I at the 2008 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions held at the Oaks Blenheim in San Juan Capistrano, California on Saturday June 28th, 2008.

Susan Jaccoma
Hometown: Kennebunk, ME

Horse: Wadamur (8-year-old bay Hanoverian gelding by Weltmeyer; Owned by Susan Jaccoma)

Susan Jaccoma has been riding since the age of six and has been competing at FEI — level dressage for the past 20 years. She has trained and ridden numerous horses to many USDF Regional Championships. Susan was also a member of the U.S. team for the Can Am Challenges in 2001 in Blaineville, Canada, and in 2005 at Devon, and also at the 2005 Challenge of the Americans in Wellington with “Harmony’s Coolio” and “Jellowa”. In 2006, Susan rode “Harmony’s FX” to an overall 5th place finish at the Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Championships in Lexington, KY while “Wadamur” was USDF Horse of the year. Susan and “Wadamur” qualified for last year’s Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions and Pan American Games Selection Trials, and “Wadamur” became the youngest horse placed on the USEF Developing List.