Jeffery Welles
Hometown: North Salem, New York
Biography
Jeffery began riding at the age of 6 in his native North Carolina. He has had success riding both hunters and jumpers.His Grand Prix career started in 1982 at the age of 20. He won his first Grand Prix the following year at Harrisburg.
Welles has represented the USET at the Royal Winter Fair in Toranto where they won the Nation's Cup. He also won the Grand Prix of Donueshingen in Germany and the Grand Prix of Mondorf in Luxenburg as a member of the USET.
He was runner-up to Margie Goldstein for the 1989 AGA Rider of the Year Award. In 1991 aboard "Serengeti"' he won the Grand Prix of New York at the National Horse Show. This successful partnership continued in 1992, winning the $100, Crown Royal Grand Prix at the Hampton Classic and the Grand Prix of Devon. In 1994, Jeffery was 1st and 3rd in the $40,000 Pepsico Empire Grand Prix and won the $100,000 Hampton Classic Grand Prix on "Irish". In 1996, he won the $50,000 Grand Prix of Tampa on "Lufkin". In 2000, Wells won the $50,000 Grand Prix of Lake Placid aboard S & L Riviera and the Mirror Lake Inn Speed Stake riding Penelope at the Lake Placid Horse Show.
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