Beezie Madden Named USET Athlete of the Month for November

Gladstone, NJ—December 2, 2003— Beezie Madden of Cazenovia, NY was named United States Equestrian Team Athlete of the Month for November after she topped an international field to win the Mercedes German Masters class at CSI**** Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany on November 21. The 2003 Pan American Games team Gold Medalist, who was awarded a new Mercedes-Benz for her win, won the class on Authentic, an 8-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by Elizabeth Busch Burke and John Madden Sales.

On November 16, Madden helped the U.S. team win the Nations Cup at CSIO*** Buenos Aires to clinch a berth for the United States in the 2004 Samsung Super League, an elite show jumping series open to only eight countries. Madden helped lead the U.S. to the do-or-die victory with a clean first round and just one knockdown in the second round on Innocence, owned by Allan Shore, Jr.

 

U.S. Equestrian was formed through the combination of USA Equestrian and the United States Equestrian Team. The vision of U.S. Equestrian is to provide leadership for equestrian sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian federation in the world