Emily Daily
June 23, 2025 for USEA News
When 17-year-old James Power headed to the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington last month, he wasn’t chasing a blue ribbon. He just wanted a clean go—something steady to help him qualify for this year’s USEF Eventing Young Rider Championships (Adamstown, Maryland). But by weekend’s end, he and his 9-year-old Connemara Sport Horse gelding, Brambleridge Ponder The Truth—better known as Patrick—were leading the victory gallop in the CCI1*-L.