Washington, D.C. – October 23, 2012 – The Washington International Horse Show was filled with hunter excitement as horses descended on the nation’s capital. The show commenced this morning in Downtown Washington, D.C. at the Verizon Center with a full schedule of professional hunter divisions and continued well into the night as Madison Goetzmann and Sirius Black garnered the $10,000 WIHS Children’s Hunter Championship, competing against 29 of the nation’s top children riders. Amy Zettler piloted Glad Rags to the $10,000 Adult Amateur Hunter Championship to the top of the leader board, concluding the first day of the show with the championship tricolor presentation center ring.

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