Thursday July 3, 2003

Meet the USET’s 2003 Pan American Games Dressage Squad

Kristina Harrison-Naness

Kristina Harrison-Naness of Burbank, CA had the biggest win of her career at the 2003 Bayer/USET Festival of Champions Presented by State Line Tack, where she topped the field of thirteen horse-and-rider combinations to win the USET Intermediaire I Championship. With a score of 69.950% Harrison-Naness and Kantor topped the field to win the Championship, which also served as the Cosequin/USET Selection Trials for the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. On her way to the Championship in Gladstone, Harrison-Naness won the Prix St. Georges as well as the Freestyle.

Earlier in 2003, Harrison-Naness and Kantor won the selection trial at the Mid-Winter Dressage in Los Angeles, CA. This pair also place 6th in the Prix St. Georges and 5th in the Intermediaire at the Del Mar National.

Harrison-Naness has been riding since the age of six, when she got her first pony. Her love of horses continued as she got older and she began showing in the Junior Hunter division as well as equitation classes. In 1987, she qualified to ride in the ASPCA Maclay Finals.

In 1992, she discovered dressage and rode her former hunter Gilligan in dressage classes progressing to the advanced young rider level. In 1999, she purchased Kantor from Carol Plough and continued her dressage education.

Harrison-Naness operates a training stable, Angele Farms, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center and continues to train with Plough. She and her husband, Howard, have a six-year-old daughter, Rison.

Photo credit: People on Horses