A team of Gloucester High School Future Farmers of America members scored well in the hippology competition held Oct. 17 during the All-American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio.

GHS 2012 graduate Shelley Brown, senior Lilly Johnson and sophomores Emily Johnston and Anna Henderson-Cox qualified for the national level contest by winning the hippology competition during the Virginia FFA Convention in June.

In Columbus, the hippology contest included a 100-question written exam, a 100-station visual identification test and four rounds of horse judging. It also required responses to both prepared and impromptu team problems.

At the end of the 20-team, seven-hour competition, the Gloucester girls placed fourth in the station identification test, fifth on the written exam and fifth overall. In addition, Brown placed third overall individually.

Awards were presented to the top 10 individuals and the top five teams in each competition category and in overall scoring...