ANRC - American National Riding Commission

25/07/2024

Our last recognition of the 2024 ANRC National Championship is a special award, near and dear to the hearts of those who have been involved with ANRC for many years. The Marion Lee Horsemanship Award is awarded annually to the rider that best demonstrates the spirit and practices of the Forward Riding System as determined by the judges.

The award celebrates Marion’s loyalty and commitment to the ANRC organization and championship and the advancement of forward riding.

This year’s recipient of the Marion Lee Horsemanship Award was Katherine Atherton of Sweet Briar College. Katherine is a junior, from Montpelier, VA and this was her first time participating in the ANRC Championship format. She finished overall 3rd place in the Collegiate National Division with her own Viola BF, winning 🥇 the derby and finishing 🥈 in the medal round with scores of 84.5 & 85 respectively.

Congratulations Katherine on this meaningful honor! 💕 we hope to see you this spring at the 2025 ANRC Championship!

20/05/2024

We’ve said it before, but did you know that ANRC offers an alumni/amateur division!!! We often hear wonderful stories from alums across the country who cherished their time at ANRC’s during their collegiate years. Come back and join us in 2025!!!!

We would like to extend a special congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Amateur ANRC divisions. The National Amateur Division was won by Anna Wong 🏆🥇🏆and the Novice Amateur Division was won by Abigail Rhea 🏆🥇🏆

Congratulations to our Amateur Riders from 2024!!! We would love to see more of you in 2025! Bring a seasoned horse or a green horse, it’s a wonderful venue and schedule. Please reach out if you have any questions.

14/05/2024

Next we look to the 2024 ANRC Collegiate National Division— Special Congratulations to Individual Champion🏆🥇🏆 Alex Alston of Savannah College of Art & Design🏆🥇🏆 Alex was 🥇in the Medal Phase 🥈in the Derby Phase and 🥉in the Flat Phase!!!

🥈Lindsey Hurley also from SCAD took home second place honors🥈

🥉Katherine Atherton from Sweet Briar College took third🥉

10/05/2024

Congratulations to the individual winners of the 2024 ANRC Novice Championship 🏆🥇🏆from Savannah College of Art & Design - Hannah Williams took home the Championship title 🏆 Well done!!!

🥈was Iris Schweiger 🥈

🥉was Ella Luhn 🥉

This competitive division had more than 15 competitors! Congratulations to all who participated!!!! We are already looking forward to next years competition.

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08/05/2024

Next, we would like to congratulate our individual winners of all our divisions 🏆🥇🏆First up, Congratulations to Mallory Worthington, Champion of the 2024 ANRC Junior Novice Division!!! We enjoyed having Mallory & her trainers from Rancho Pampa at this years 2024 ANRC Championships!!!

🥈 Reserve Champion of the Junior Division from MET Equestrian was Avia Gamelin

🥉Third place, also from MET Equestrian was Pearl Baldi

06/05/2024

The 2024 ANRC Novice Team Championship went to SCAD Black & Yellow 🏆🥇🏆The team consisted of Peter Cavagnac, Hannah Williams, & McKenna Lewis. Congratulations to these three Bees on their success🐝 This competitive division saw 15+ entries. Special thanks to all the new and returning schools that joined us this year including
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03/05/2024

Next on our list of those to Congratulate is the Championship Team for the 2024 ANRC Junior Novice Division. Winning this years Junior Championship was first time ANRC competitors, MET Team B 🏆🥇🏆 Consisting of riders Rose Ganz & Avia Gemelin 💙 We are so happy you joined us, we loved seeing you ride and have fun!

02/05/2024

Congratulations are in order for the SCAD Black & Yellow Team, consisting of Alex Alston, Celia Cram & Hattie Bradford, who took home the Championship in the National Division at this years 2024 ANRC Championship 🏆🥇🏆 Congratulations!!!!

01/04/2024

We would like to take a moment to thank our 2024 ANRC National Equitation Championships Presenting Sponsor the WSJ Foundation. The WSJ Foundation is a donor advised fund of Renaissance Charitable Foundation🩵♥️🩵

“WSJ Foundation was created to provide both people and animals with assistance in healing. WSJ is proud to be a sponsor of ANRC and to support young riders and good horsemanship”

A huge thank you to WSJ Foundation founder Wendy Janesky for her continued support of this historic event!
Thank you 🩵

30/03/2024

We would like to take a moment to thank our host facility. For the second year in a row we find ourselves at the beautiful Highfields Event Center in Aiken, SC!!! This equine facility is perfect for the ANRC format, with a separate ring for each of our 3 different ridden phases, including a wonderful derby ring with a berm, and a grass section. We are very thankful to the Cram Family for hosting us. Thank you for your hospitality and support!!! 💚🤎💚

29/03/2024

We would like to welcome individual competitor - Mallory Worthington & her trainers from Rancho Pampa to this year’s ANRC Championships!!! Mallory will be competing in the Junior Novice Championship. We are so excited to have you joining us ♥️🖤♥️

28/03/2024

We are so excited to welcome some new junior teams to this year’s 2024 ANRC Junior competition!!! We would like to welcome riders from MET- Metropolitan Equestrian 🖤🖤🖤 We hope that you have so much fun this week!!!

28/03/2024

Extending a warm welcome to long time collegiate ANRC competitors from Sweet Briar College 🩷💚🩷 Like many of our long time supporters, the Vixens have hosted this historic event at home. We look forward to seeing you this week in Aiken 🦊

28/03/2024

We are looking forward to having wonderful photographers catch the magic of ANRC’s ✨✨✨

See you in Aiken this weekend for the finals! Shooting for

28/03/2024

We would like to welcome Hartwell Photography as this years official ANRC 2024 Photographer 📸📸📸 Please swipe ⬅️ to check out the QR Code and get details on different show packages and everything Hartwell will be offering to our ANRC participants this week. Sign up tonight, Wednesday before midnight for special deals!!!! We cannot thank for being here with us! Go follow her now!!! We cannot wait to see all the amazing shots of the always beautifully turned out horses at this year’s ANRC Championship 💙💙💙

27/03/2024

Next on our list of teams to welcome for the 2024 ANRC Championship this week hosted at Highfield’s in Aiken,SC is ANRC newcomers the University of North Carolina - Wilmington Seahawks! We are so excited to have you all join the most fun week of the year in collegiate equestrian competition 💙💚💙Welcome!!!