Kent Farrington, No. 1 rider in the United States, and Olympic gold medalists McLain Ward and Laura Kraut to lead all-star list of athletes competing in inaugural Central Park Horse Show presented by Rolex

New York, N.Y. – August 26

The Central Park Horse Show, presented by Rolex and produced by The Chronicle of the Horse, is excited to announce riders for the $210,000 Central Park Grand Prix.

The Jumping event, to be held on Sept. 18th, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. at the Trump Rink in New York City’s Central Park, will showcase some of the world’s top show jumpers in a $210,000 FEI world ranking class. The Grand Prix will be set against a backdrop of skyscrapers in one of the world’s most iconic venues, Central Park, and will be the first live prime-time broadcast of a show jumping event in the U.S. on a rated sports network, NBC Sports. 

Riders for the event are as follows:

Kent Farrington

McLain Ward

Laura Kraut

Charlie Jayne

Jessica Springsteen

Georgina Bloomberg

Brianne Goutal

Conor Swail

Todd Minikus

Quentin Judge

Richie Moloney

Candice King

Shane Sweetnam

Darragh Kerins

Darragh Kenny

Meagan Nusz

Daniel Bluman

Peter Leone

Kirsten Coe

Lauren Tisbo

Danielle Goldstein

Molly Ashe Cawley

Paige Johnson

Catherine Pasmore

Cara Raether

Amanda Derbyshire

For more information, please go to www.centralparkhorseshow.com. For tickets, please go to centralparkhorseshow.tix.com. 

For VIP tables, please contact Anne Caroline Valtin at vip@centralparkhorseshow.com.

Discounted Hotel rooms are available at the JW Marriott Essex House at the following link:  http://bit.ly/1nRumC6.

Information for The Central Park Horse Show can be found at www.centralparkhorseshow.com, “Like” the new Central Park Horse Show Facebook page and follow them on Twitter at @CPHorseShow, and on Instagram at @CPHorseShow!