U. S. Carriage Driving History

1. Driving in the ‘80’s
A retrospective miscellaney

2. U. S. Carriage Driving History:
Dates of note
• 1962 CAA Formed –
» Carriage Journal edited by Paul Downing (1898
– 1975)
• 1969 Combined Driving Rules Written by
Sir Michael Ansell at suggestion of HRH
• 1970 First Competition in the US – Brunswick,
N.J. –
• 1974 American Driving Society Formed – Phil
Hoffmann, president
Victor Shone’s Driving Event, Millbrook, NY
Charlie Kellogg edits The Whip
1975 Myopia Driving Event – Massachusetts
Judges: T.A.G. Moore, D. Thackeray

3. 1974 American Driving Society Formed
Phil Hoffmann President

4. Victor Shone’s Driving Event,
Millbrook, NY

5. 1974 The Whip began Publishing
• Charlie Kellogg, editor

6. Some of the ADS Directors
Jack Weir
Bill Remley
Bill Radebaugh

7. Our teachers
Tom Ryder George Bowman

8. 1975 First Myopia Driving Event
Ipswich, MA
• Competitors included
• Micki Bowen
• Spencer Brewster
• Macy Hill
• Charles Kellogg
• Jamie O’Rouke
• Deirdre Pirie
• Holly Pulsifer
• Barbara Weir
• Frolic Weymouth
• Jack Seabrook
• Kate Whaley
• Richard Nicoll

9. Hazards were simpler; carriages
fragile!

10. 1977
• Ledyard ’77 - Leading riders from Ireland,
Great Britain, West Germany, Italy, Canada
and Holland competed and watched a driving
competition for four-in-hands (15 to 25
miles!). 16 started, only Jung, Pirie,
Sirrenberg, Jenkel, and Kellogg finished.
• The 4th annual Carriage Show at No.
Andover, New England Region of the CAA;
first CDE at Gladstone
• At Myopia CDE – 49 competitors drove FEI
Dressage Test #1 (elementary, incl. 6 pairs) or
#3 (Intermediate, including 3 teams) and
had from 30 cm, to 60 cm clearance in cones!
• The ADS met at the Mohonk Mountain
House
• The Combined Driving Committee formed at
the Union Club in NYC

11. 1979 Exchange with North of England
Driving Club
• Myopians competed at
Lowther, Cumbria,
England with horses
belonging to George
Bowman’s driving club.

12. 8 English Drivers competed at Myopia
• Tommy Fawcett
• George Denny
• Clive Richardson
• Betty Fisher
• Barbara Stothert (here)
• Robert Bowman
• Betty Lambert
• Jennifer Harrison

13. Millbrook CDE -
• Richard Nicoll, Frank
Kinsella, and Lois
Cheston

14. 1979
• The USET, led by Josh Barney, accepted our
proposal to have Combined Driving as its 4th
international discipline, with no funding
• Phil Hoffmann (ADS), Homer Easterwood
(CAA), Col. Thackeray (AHSA), and Holly
Pulsifer (ADS Combined Driving chair)
instrumental in persuading the board.
• Fundraising commenced!

15. Phil Hoffmann and Don Thackeray were the
forces behind the USET Driving Program

16. 1980’s – the “international decade”
• Training and funding of potential team
members resulted in the selection of
• John Fairclough –with Tish Hewitt’s Hungarians
• Jim Fairclough - with Liz Tippett’s horses
• Jamie O’Rourke – with Tish Hewitt’s second team
• Clay Camp – with his own Gelderlanders
• Deirdre Pirie – with her own Hungarian horses

17. John Fairclough
John F. in the infamous Sand Pit
Hazard at Windsor, 1980 John Fairclough with Tish Hewitt

18. Jimmy Fairclough
Jimmy with Liz Tippett & her
horses at Windsor, 1980

19. Jamie O’Rourke
Jamie with Tish Hewitt Jamie in Dressage

20. Clay Camp
Clay in The Maze
Clay – his wife Barbara, and
Vance Coulthard

21. Deirdre Pirie
Closing Ceremony – with groom Marc
Johnson; Chef d’Equipe Holly Pulsifer
The only American to finish the
marathon in 1980

23. Clinics around the Country
• Deirdre Pirie teaching a
clinic in California,
about 1979.
• Not world class
yet!

24. 1981
Bill Lower Won the National Team
Championship – Vanderbilt Cup Tjerd Velstra, taught a clinic

25. And the Pairs began …..
• Fall 1980 – Pair Championship
at Gladstone. The Top 5 –
Jung, Fairclough, Cheston,
Pirie, and Lower finished at
Madison Square Garden
• Myopia hosted the USET
National championship with
Velstra judging. 1st Bill Lower,
2nd Bill Long, 3rd John Jenkel
(California)
• Radnor, Millbrook,
Chesterland, Genesee events

26. 1982
• Jung & Pirie won a silver
medal at Aachen – our first!
• World championships were
held at Apeldoorn in
Holland. US finished 7th
Jimmy Fairclough with Clay
Camp’s Gelderlanders –
12th
Deirdre Pirie – with her
Hungarians – 19th
Emil Jung with his
Holsteiners - E

27. 1983
• National championships
at Myopia won by Emil
Jung
• Tucker Johnson won
Preliminary pair class
• Charlie Cheston
competed at the trial
world pair
championship in Italy

28. 1984
• Radnor, Chesterlands,
Genesee, etc. no longer
held
• Lower won pair class at
Myopia, but Cheston won
national pair championship
at Gladstone proving the
viability of small horses
• World Championship at
Szilvasvarad, Hungary
• Bill Long 7th; Pirie 16th, Jung
– E, Groenewoud 22nd. Very
difficult course.

29. 1985
• Larry Poulin with Morgans was 1st
out of 16 pairs at Myopia
• Pair Championship at
Sandringham – Larry finished 8th,
Sharon Chesson, 35th (broken
hand) and Charlie Cheston 21st
which put the team in 6th place.
• Bill Long won the teams class at
Windsor
• Gladstone Equestrian Association
formed
• Chrysler sponsored Gladstone.
Finn “imported” Juhasz (WDC
1984); Velstra (WDC 1982) and
Nikki Pahlsson to compete

30. 1986
• National championship held at Fair Hill was
won by Emil Jung, Bill Long second
• Tucker Johnson won his 1st Advanced class
• World Championship at Ascot. The US
finished 4th
– Groenewoud broke elbow on course walk
– Long finished 9th, Pirie 16th, Jung was Elim, again!!!

31. Deirdre Pirie driving in the Home Park,
Ascot

32. 1987
• Gladstone became a CAI – much publicity and
exposure for the sport.
• Velstra finished 1st, Chardon 2nd, Juhasz 3rd, and
Bill Long 4th – the same order as the 1986 World
Championship. Finn paid to bring them to USA.
• Tucker went to Germany to work with Emil Jung
• The Pairs placed 8th at Reisenbeck. Team was
Poulin, Cheston, Lower, Johnson as an individual

33. 1988
• World Championship at Apeldoorn again
• US placed 7th with Long, Pirie, and
Groenewoud. Camp was 34th; Jung
Eliminated!
• Larry Poulin again won the USET Pair
Championship.
• Gladstone facility was deeded to the USET as a
permanent home.

34. Apeldoorn 1988

35. 1989
• Masters Cup at Windsor – Team, Pair, and Single
format tried out. Won by Bill Long, Lana Wright, and
Randy McFarland.
• Tucker begins to drive a team in national events
• Pairs compete at Balaton-Fenyves: Poulin, Chesson,
and Wright. Valdes is Alternate
• Chesson 1st in dressage, Lana 5th, Larry 8th – finally
we are world class! Udo Hochgesurtz of Canada,
who trained in US, won individual gold
• Team placed

36. The Queen of Dressage – Sharon
Chesson, 1st in the World, 1989

37. US Team at Balaton-Fenyves 1989

38. 1990
• Finn Casperson becomes President of the
USET. He navigates for Bill Long at all
competitions

39. 1991 – A Gold Medal!