City: Westport, Conn.
USEF Rank: 25

Leslie Howard, 50, is one of the most accomplished American show jumping riders. A member of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the silver medal winning team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Howard's record also boasts a 1986 World Cup Final win in Gothenburg, Sweden. To date, she has 19 Nations Cup wins and 15 wins in World Cup qualifying competitions. When she was a junior rider, Leslie won the ASPCA Maclay equitation championship. In addition to her own impressive career, Howard has mentored top riders such as Judy Garofalo, Nicole Shahinian Simpson and Molly Ashe. This is Leslie's fourth year competing at the Syracuse Invitational. She won the inaugural $75,000 Budweiser Grand Prix of Syracuse in 2003 and the Animal Planet Sporthorse Cup in 2006.

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