Devin Ryan of Long Valley, N.J., has been selected to compete on the USA’s NetJets squad for Great Britain’s Hickstead show next week. A member of the 2018 World Equestrian Games gold medal team, Devin was out of the highest level of the sport after his top horse, Eddie Blue, got sidelined by a bone bruise.
Devin Ryan and Eddie Blue at the Longines FEI World Cup Finals. (Photo © 2023 by Nancy Jaffer)
He brought Eddie back gradually, not rushing his recovery. Patience paid off. Devin did well in April at the Longines FEI World Cup final, where he was 13th, and then had only one rail in the hotly contested Aachen Nations Cup to contribute to the team’s fourth-place finish this summer.
Devin will be joined at Hickstead by another veteran, Olympic team gold medalist Laura Kraut. As usual, coach Robert Ridland is mixing in less-experienced riders, so they can get mileage.
The others on the team are Charlotte Jacobs, Paris Sellon and Alessandra Volpi, who was a member of the third-place squad this month at Stockholm, where she just missed the podium individually in the grand prix, finishing fifth in her first 5-star competition.