High Point Awards
High point awards are leaderboard based and presented to the rider or coach who meets the award criteria, has registered (where necessary) and accumulated the highest total points in one of the categories,
High Point Rider
No registration is required.
This award is presented to the rider who has accumulated the highest total points for their top two placing horses at the EV110 and EV115 levels. Totals are calculated from the top eight scores during the season. Based on the leaderboard. Winner receives a resin trophy of a horse’s head.
Veteran Rider Award
To qualify for this award, a rider must:
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Register before the last horse trial of the season.
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Be 50 years of age or older as of January 1.
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Never have competed above the EV110 level, and.
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Accumulate the most points on the same horse during the season.
Totals are calculated from the top eight scores during the season. Based on the leaderboard.
Registration is required.
Weekend Warrior Award - EV85
This award is given to the top horse/rider combinations in the EV85 division (based on the leaderboard).
To qualify for this award a rider must:
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Register for the Weekend Warrior (formerly Novice Adult). Award in order to start accumulating points!
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Be 21 years of age or older as of January 1.
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Never have competed above EV85.
Registration is required.
Weekend Warrior Award - EV90
Registration is required.
This award is given to the top horse/rider combinations in the EV90 division (based on the leaderboard).
To qualify for this award a rider must:
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Register for the Weekend Warrior (formerly Novice Adult) Award in order to start accumulating points.
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Be 21 years of age or older as of January 1.
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Never have competed above EV90.
Adult Rider Team Challenge and Year-End Finale
OEA members aged 21 years are invited to compete in a friendly team competition with their friends and peers across the province! Riders may register as a team or as an individual (we will do our best to match individual riders to a team). Teams may be made up of three or four riders and can be at different levels and different locations across the province.
Team members earn individual scores at every sanctioned Ontario horse trial they attend. Point scores will be calculated and added to a leaderboard maintained by the OEA. To determine the winning team, the OEA will take each rider’s best three scores over the season. Teams with four members may drop their highest score.
Riders are free to join more than one team on different horses or to join one team with multiple horses, which must be listed on the Adult Rider Team Challenge registration form and the Rider may enter any of the listed horses in a given HT (see rules in registration form).
And new for 2025: an Adult Rider Team Challenge Year-End Finale will be held at the Wits End Fall HTs on October 12, 2025, where teams will compete for final year-end placings, with ribbons to sixth and prizes for podium finishes.
Registration is required.
Coach of the Year Award
Registration is required.
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To all the coaches who work long hours preparing for, and taking their students to, EC-sanctioned Horse Trials in Ontario – this one’s for you!
Each year, the OEA will award a year-end prize to an Ontario coach based on the greatest accumulation of Regular OEA
Leaderboard points earned by the riders who train with them. This Award is a token of sincere thanks from the OEA for all those hard-working coaches who keep our sport of Eventing healthy in Ontario. We couldn’t do it without you!
The winning coach will be announced at the OEA’s Annual Meeting of Members in
November. This coach, whose students have earned the most Leaderboard points at EC-sanctioned Horse Trials in Ontario at the end of the season, will receive a branded ‘OEA Coach of the Year’ ‘golf’ jacket and a $250 cash prize.
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Coaches may register themselves or may be nominated by one of their students.
Eligibility
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Coaches must be certified from 2025 onwards.
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Coaches must hold a current OEA membership.
All registered coaches are asked to provide the OEA with a list of students they take to, and coach at, EC-sanctioned HTs so that we don’t miss anyone. We’ll do the rest.
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To help us stay on top of the student ‘leaderboard’, please send us your list by September 30, 2025 to: info@ontarioeventing.ca
