Ride Awards

Each year we are honored to have many wonderful sponsors that offer awards specifically to rider achievement in the Old Dominion 00/50/25 mile ride. We provide a listing of those awards each year, and will be updating this page with this year's information in about May and June.

Again, a very very special thanks to all our sponsors of last year's ride, and all rides in prior years, for their unfailing support and generosity.

Old Dominion Awards 2009

• First to Finish 100: Chest donated by Hawthorn Hills Morgans
• First to Finish 50: Shelf Donated by Bill and Jean Dunn
• Best Condition 100: Blanket Country Aire Farm
• Best Condition 55: Sheet Country Aire Farm
• David Blackmore Award: 11th place finisher in the 100 free entry for 2009 donated by Johanna Blackmore
• Turtle Awards: Turtle Painted Rocks by artist Betty Demar Mueller (all rides)
• 100 Mile Junior Award: Halter donated by Doug Leitzke
• 50 Mile Junior Award: Picture with plaque donated by Janet Citron Three Bays Farm
• Team Awards both rides: Medals donated by Teddy Lancaster
• 100 mile High Vet Score: bridle donated by Taylored Tack
• 50 mile high vet score: Embroidered hay bag Bill and Stephanie Rice
• Rookie Horse and Rider 100: Monitor Roger Rittenhouse
• Junior Award for the LD: Bling Halter donated by Distance Depot
• Optimum Time Winner for the LD: Chaps from Just Us Chaps Sylvia Madden
• Division Winners 100: Halters
  HW Bill Rice
  FW Badgers Retreat Farm (Cindy Young/Tom Duvall)
  MW Natalie Muzzio
  LW Barbara Horstmeier
• Division Winners 50 Shirts:
  FW Mary Murphy
  MW John and Kim Lyttle
  LW Debra Fisk
  HW Georgia O'Brien
• 50 Mile Rookie Horse and Rider: Gear bag donated by Cadence Farm (Ami Cieri)
• Calvary 100 Mile First: Lynn Gilbert
• Calvary 100 Mile BC Sunday Judging: Donated by Jennifer Leipold
• Completion Awards 50 and 100: Belt Buckles
• Completion Awards LD: Totes filled with goodies
• Poor Bastard award first horse pulled after 75 miles: Handmade Wooden Saddle Rack the Green family

  Others whom donated to the completion awards for the LD: Emily Richardson, Skip Kemmerer, Mary Hornbaker

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  The Old Dominion Triple Crown Award

  Open to all riders who compete in all three Old Dominion rides. This challenge is to encourage and recognize all levels of effort, growth, and achievement with a horse/rider team – from rank beginner to seasoned competitor – and to emphasize the endurance motto: “To Finish Is To Win”

  Rules to Remember:

  • The same horse and rider team must compete in at least 3 designated OD rides. The 2007 designated rides are the No Frills, The OD, and Fort Valley.
  • Riders are free to mix and match the distances.
  • Each mile ridden counts as a point.
  • No entry blank or fee is required – you just enter the rides and we’ll keep track.

  Riders who complete all 3 OD sanctioned rides will receive:

  • a TRIPLE CROWN AWARD - a certificate for $10 off an entry on one of next year's OD rides.
  • a printed and frameable “Achievement Certificate” to show that you really, really did it!
  • any one of several snazzy awards ranging from a quality brown leather lead line with solid brass chain with an engraved brass plate, to a monogrammed deck chair, to a monogrammed polar fleece dress sheet.
  • Public recognition and enthusiastic applause to make you blush at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Membership Christmas Party in December.
  • Your name, your horse's name, and your lofty accomplishment in miles in the famous OD newsletter to be recorded in print for all time.

  If you enter and start any one of the 3 rides, but do not finish, you will still receive a TRIPLE CROWN CREDIT just for showing sheer grit and determination!

  So… take the challenge, win some great prizes, and prove to yourself that you and your horse ARE a champion!

The Old Dominion Trophy

The Old Dominion Trophy is the premier 100 mile division award presenting the to the horse/rider team which has demonstrated optimum performance based on its post-ride recovery and condition at the Old Dominion 25/50/100 mile ride. The formula for determining a winner is based on a veterinary score, total elapsed time and weight carried. Equine leg protective devices are prohibited during the ride. Horses are judged the morning following the close of the 100 mile ride. There is no fee for registering.

Old Dominion Cavalry Award

The Cavalry Award is presented to the 100 mile horse and rider team which successfully completes, without assistance, the 100 mile division of Old Dominion 25/50/100 mile ride and is judged in the best condition on Sunday morning based on a formula similar to that used for the Old Dominion Trophy. Riders must declare their intention to compete for the award before the ride start. Acceptance of any type of unauthorized assistance during the ride disqualifies the team from this award. Please read the rules and requirements for riding cavalry that are on this website under the Ride Entry Form menu link. There is no fee for registering.

Click here for OD Cavalry Rules

Old Dominion Team Award

Riders can form individual teams to compete for a team award in the 50 and 100 mile divisions of the Old Dominion 25/50/100 mile ride. Teams must be comprised of 4 riders officially entered in the ride, and must be declared and registered with Ride Management prior to the start of the ride. At least 3 team members must finish the ride with a ride completion for the team to remain eligible. Award will be based upon the fastest averaged time of each team. There is no fee for registering.

David Blackmore Memorial Award

Given to the 11th place finisher of the OD 100 Mile Ride.

David Blackmore was born in 1958, one of six children. An honor student, an athlete, a musician, and an Eagle Scout, David graduated with honors from Drexel University, obtaining both an Engineering Degree, and a family of his own - his new wife Johanna Van Meter and her young son William, before starting out on his own to create a geotechnical engineering firm.

David had no knowledge of horses and had never ridden, but his wife was from a horse crazy family and his mother in law, Judy, was an endurance rider who "found" David a nice little Arab mare to learn on. Within a year David was riding 50s and shortly there after top tenning and winning on 50s and 100s. David joined the Old Dominion Board of Directors, devoting his time to the organization, endurance riding, and his growing family which now included two young daughters - Barbara and Megan. In 1992, at age 34, David tragically lost his life in a plane crash while on business. The Blackmore Award is given in his memory by his loving family.