Zara's Legacy of Excellence

This Program celebrates Ontario’s most accomplished Junior Eventers throughout the season and at the Year-End.

No registration required.

The Zara Buren Memorial Foundation (the Foundation), Equestrian Canada (EC) and the Ontario Eventing Association (OEA) are proud to present Zara’s Legacy of Excellence, a Program that celebrates Ontario’s outstanding Junior Eventers across divisions (EV85-EV110), recognizing one excellent performance at each EC-sanctioned Horse Trial in Ontario each year.

“Supporting and growing the sport of Eventing starts with our Juniors. We are working with the OEA and EC to deliver a fair, performance-based program that acknowledges and encourages high performance across levels at our EC-sanctioned Ontario Horse Trials. Zara’s legacy of excellence in everything she did was the inspiration. We hope everyone has a great show season!”

– Sabrina Haque (Zara’s mom)

The Program recognizes Juniors who achieve outstanding results as reflected in their final scores. The Junior with the lowest score at each Horse Trial will be eligible to receive a white, embroidered, Ogilvy Jump Profile saddle pad provided by the Zara Buren Memorial Foundation.

To encourage and reward as many excellent performances by Juniors as possible, there is a limit of one saddle pad per rider during the season. Where a Junior earns the lowest score more than once, their performance will be warmly acknowledged alongside the performance of the rider with the next-most-excellent score, who will receive the saddle pad. Recipients will be announced on the OEA’s social media on the Tuesday following each EC-sanctioned Horse Trial.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this Program a rider must:

hold a current EC Sport Licence and OEA membership
be competing as a Junior as defined by the OEA, and
be competing at an EC-sanctioned horse trial in Ontario at the EV85 level or above.

For the purposes of this program, the top-placing competitor at each Horse Trial will be identified as the Junior with the lowest final score provided by the competition scorers, combined with a coefficient calculation to account for any disproportionate effort, difficulty and commitment associated with Juniors who are competing at the higher levels.

The coefficients are as follows: EV85: 1.0; EV90: .95; EV100: .90; EV105: .85 and EV110:.80.

Athletes who have been sanctioned for actions contrary to the EC Code of Conduct, the EC Horse Welfare Code of Conduct or a violation of the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport will not be considered for this Program.