Education
In 1965 Phelps attended his first United States Equestrian Team Clinic at the age of sixteen.
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Mason Phelps, Junior.
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He is also a past president of the National Horse Show. He competed in the World Championships in Ireland, where he earned 12th place. Next Phelps earned a position as an alternate with the United States equestrian team on the 1968 Summer Olympics Three Day Eventing squad.
That year he was also named United States. Combined Training Association"s Rider of the Year.
In the early 1970s, Phelps opened a stable and began training hunters and jumpers. He also became an event manager for equestrian shows.
Phelps would also become the president of the National Horse Show, where he among other things oversaw the event move its annual location to Lexington, Kentucky. He was also the event organizer for the 2012 World Dressage Masters, and founded the International Jumping Derby.
In 2002 Phelps cofounded the public relations firm Phelps, Wilkes & Associates.
Their first client was the National Horse Show, which was moving its location from Madison Square Garden in New York City to Wellington, Florida. In 2004 Phelps founded the as an equestrian-oriented public relations agency. In 2011 Phelps was named to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce President"s Circle, for building "America"s most progressive and successful equestrian public relations firm".
The organization has since changed its name to the Equestrian Aid Foundation, as it began also raising and distributing money to those in the equestrian community that have suffered calamitous injuries in the sport.
Phelps has helped the Florida charity Back to Basics, which provides basic essentials children need to go to school. In addition, he has thrown charity events and galas, including events in support of the United States Equestrian Team—raising more than a million dollars between 1996 and 2002.
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lieutenant helps equestrian shows put together and market their events, in addition to serving as a public relations representative to members of the equestrian community.
