Successful Eventing & Dressage Competitor

• One Star (updated CCI 2* L) and Training Three Day Events (classic long format)
• Preliminary Level Horse Trials
• USDF Bronze Medalist, Fourth Level Dressage

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Certified Instructor of
​Competitive Horses & Riders

• USEA ICP Certified  Instructor
• Eventing coaching through Training Level
• Dressage instruction through First Level
• Pony Club students through C3 level

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Additional Qualifications

• USEA certified XC course designer (BN-T)
• USEA show jumping course design 
• US Pony Club member for 10 years, through B level
• Licensed Maryland Thoroughbred Racing Exercise Rider
• Marlborough Horse Trials Co-Organizer & 
  Cross Country Coordinator (2012-2018)
• Marlborough Horse Trials (Intro Level) Cross Country and Jumper Derby Course Designer (2012-2018) 

Competitive Highlights:

• PVDA ATC Summer Showdown Reserve High Score (Riding Debi Jiggitt's Roxanne, 2013) & PVDA Ride for Life Thoroughbred High Score Open Division (Riding Dusty Dazing, 2013)
• 2nd place Hagyard Midsouth Training Classic Three Day Event (2011)
• MCTA Joan Thomas Barthel Perpetual trophy for dressage proficiency (best dressage score of MCTA members at MCTA Horse Trial)  (2011)
• USEA Eventing Silver Medal & Blue Ribbon Award - Training Level (2010)
• USEA Area II Year End Awards:  Open Novice - 5th place (2009); Open Training - 3rd place (2010); Open Training - Reserve Champion (2011); Open Preliminary - 3rd place (2011)
• USEA Area II Adult Rider Scholarship recipient (2009)
• US Dressage Federation Rider Performance Award - Training Level (2007); First Level (2011); Second Level (2012); Bronze Medal (2016)
• 8th place at United States Jr. Young Rider Championships, United States Combined Training Association CCN* North Georgia Three Day Event (1994)
• 2nd place Preliminary Young Rider Team National Championship Horse Trials, The Event at the Downs, New Mexico (1993)
• USPC National Dressage Championships, 18th place overall & 4th in division, Kentucky Horse Park (1992)
• North Texas Combined Training Association Most Improved Young/Junior Rider of the Year (1991 & 1992)
• 2nd place USDF/Dr. Benson's Region 4 Junior/Young Rider Team Championships (1992)

​Read about Cherie on Eventing Nation's "Eventing Profile of the Week from Tipperary" November 2011 

Read about Cherie & Katchi on Off-Track Thoroughbreds.com "A day in Kabul leads to racehorse, joyous life" November 2011 and the follow-up article in January 2013,"Chauvin targets 3rd level; patience rewarded."

Watch Cherie & Katchi's helmet cam from the 2011 USEA Area II Training Level Championships at Virginia Horse Center.

The infamous "Bad Katchi" video and the very very good Katchi as a big bad prelim eventer -- schooling with Phillip Dutton and running XC at Loch Moy.

Golightly Sport Horses - Cherie Chauvin