This 1994 photo of two of America’s greatest legends, now passed, but never forgotten. Icons of Equestrian Sport they were longtime comrades, whose legacy lives on with two of the sports most prestigious awards honoring US Equestrian talent each year.

Fiona Baan – December 21, 1938 – June 19, 1994

Fiona Baan was a Scottish-born American equestrian sports administrator, the dressage and driving trainer, manager, and director of the United States Equestrian Team (USET) from 1976 to 1994. She created the Dressage Festival of Champions and the North American Young Riders’ Championships. She was U.S. Dressage Team leader for the 1976 Olympics, in which the U.S. won the Bronze Medal, the 1987 Pan Am Games, and for the Bronze Medal dressage team at the 1992 Olympics, in Barcelona.

At the North American Young Riders’ Championships in 2003, giving photgrapher Mary Phelps’s Corgi Winnie a belly rub.

She hunted with the hounds and successfully competed herself while working for the Equestrian Team. She began with the team in 1966 as a secretary. The Fiona Baan “Pursuit of Excellence” Memorial Trophy has been presented since 1994 to the young rider competing in the USDF/Platinum Performance North American Young Riders Dressage Championship that receives the highest combined average score for all three of their dressage tests; FEI Young Rider Team, Individual, and Freestyle.

William Clark Steinkraus –  October 12, 1925 – November 29, 2017

“A good horseman must be a good psychologist,” he William C Steinkraus told Life magazine in 1968. “Horses are young, childish individuals. When you train them, they respond to the environment you create. You are the parent, manager and educator. You can be tender or brutal. But the goal is to develop the horse’s confidence in you to the point he’d think he could clear a building if you headed him for it.”

Widely considered one of the greatest riders in the history of equestrian sports, Steinkraus made all six United States Olympic teams from 1952 through 1972, missing only the 1964 Games in Tokyo when his horse pulled up lame at the last moment.

The William C. Steinkraus Trophy is presented to an equestrian competing in the Olympic disciplines of dressage, eventing, or show jumping.