Nina Bonnie, a pillar of the Kentucky Horse Park who served as its chairman and founded the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation in 1985, was voted into this year’s class of the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame. She was a foxhunter and also highly successful with hunters in the show ring.
The others selected by voters are California hunter/jumper trainer Archie Cox, who is also a steward, judge and clinician, and New Yorker Andre Dignelli, perhaps best known for his successful equitation students, but also skilled in training hunters and jumpers. He won the U.S. Equestrian Team Talent Search finals, and was a Pan American Games medalist.
The historical committee voted to induct the Rigan and Frances McKinney family of Lexington. Ky. The two horse inductees are Catch Me and Lone Star. The Horse Show Of The Year is Devon and the Derby Of The Year is Derby Finals.
The Hall of Fame dinner is May 27 at the Merion, Pa., Cricket Club.