Courtney King-Dye remains in a coma following a fall from a horse last week, but her mentor Lendon Gray was on hand at the weekend's Palm Beach Derby to accept the $US25,000 Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prize awarded by the Dressage Foundation, won by the injured rider.
An emotional Gray accepted the grant on behalf of King-Dye, whose skull was fractured when she fell from a horse last week.
The grant is designed to help riders excel at international levels.
King-Dye has worked with Gray for several years, starting out as a working pupil at the age of 15.
At the age of 21, Gray handed King-Dye the reins of Idocus, whom they had both been riding over the past years. King-Dye was extremely successful with him at Grand Prix level in the US, before accepting an offer to work with Conrad Schumacher in Germany.
After working with him for several months, she entered her first international grand prix, with the goal to simply "not embarrass her country". She came in third with 70%, ahead of Olympic medalists such as Coby van Baalen and Anky van Grunsven.
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