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- USEF Talent Search Finals East runner-up Maggie McAlary on Mid-Accord, winner of the Grappa trophy for Best Horse
- © Nancy Jaffer 2006
He ended up with 273 points, to 271 for Maggie and 259 for both Addie and Michael, who ended up tied in third place. Maggie got a bonus because Mid-Accord was named the Best Horse of the Final Four, and won the new Grappa trophy named after one of the greatest equitation mounts of all time.
Charlie's a character, who likes to play poker in his spare time and hopes to enter a big tournament someday with his best friend, Jack Hardin Towell, who finished 10th. (Oh, I should fill in the others in the top 10 I didn't mention before -- Sloane Coles, the equitation winner at Capital Challenge, was seventh and Hillary Dobbs was ninth.)
Let me wrap this up with George's comments about Charlie as a rider: "He has a beautiful touch, he has a beautiful eye. He can ride very softly, but he also can ride very strongly. No matter what presented itself, he could cope."
You'll be seeing lots more of him in the jumper ring. While he is coached by his father, Alex Jayne, and Missy Clark for equitation, Charlie is also working with Norman Dello Joio now and concentrating more on the jumpers than on the hunters. So he really is exactly what the Talent Search is supposed to determine--a rider with the potential to compete with the American flag on his saddlepad.
