Victoria ‘Tori’ Colvin began riding and showing ponies at a young age and has since gone onto be one of the most accomplished hunter riders in the USA. Victoria is a six-time winner of the prestigious $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular, held at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF).
We find out a little more about the leading show rider…
Victoria Colvin runs her own business specialising in hunter/jumpers just outside of Wellington, Florida. As well as coaching and training, she focuses her time on producing young show horses.
Her first big triumphs came during her junior career at the USEF pony finals where she took numerous championships over the years. She also won five best child rider accolades at the Devon Horse Show and County Fair as well as various titles in equitation and junior hunter classes at shows across the country.
Olympic showjumper Kent Farrington has been crowned US Equestrian’s (USEF) international equestrian of the year 2020 – as his mare Gazelle takes the international horse honours.
The awards, voted for by USEF members, were among those presented at the virtual USEF Pegasus and Horses of the Year Awards Celebration on 16 January.
Kent was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the bronze medal-winning team at the 2014 World Equestrian Games with Voyeur. In 2019 he became the first US rider to win the CSI5 Rolex grand prix at CHIO Aachen and the Rolex grand prix at CHI Geneva in the same year with Gazelle, the 15-year-old mare he co-owns with Robin Parsky.