Jacqueline Ruyle was one of the 2023 Faces of Pin Oak. I think it is safe to say that Jacqueline earned this title through hard work and perseverance. I love that Jacqueline keeps her horses at her own place, hauls in for lessons, and shows genuinely doing it all as an amateur.

In Addition to their grand prix victory, Ruyle and Craymo Z also won the $10,000 Welcome Stake during Pin Oak Week I, and in July of 2022, the pair earned their first FEI victory at the Tyron International Equestrian Center in 2022.

While Ruyle competed and rode successfully through her teenage years and while attending college at the University of Texas at Austin (where she received a degree in mechanical engineering,) it was not until she began training with Daniel Bedoya in 2018 that she says she got really serious about her riding.

In the years since then, Ruyle’s riding career has skyrocketed. She earned her first grand prix victory in late 2021 and went on to top the $100,000 Lone Star State Grand Prix at the 2022 Texas Winter Series a few months later. Then, at her first Pin Oak Grand Prix win, topping the $50,000 Hildebrand Fund Grand Prix aboard Cyramo Z.

Jacqueline’s Mom, Sandy, had grown up riding. However, horses weren’t a part of Jacquenline’s life until she was a teen when her Mom decided to return to riding. The mother-daughter duo took a lesson together, and the rest, as they say, is history!