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USEF Announces Vaulting Team for 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games The United States Equestrian Federation® is pleased to announce the vaulting team for the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games. Three individual men, three individual women and one team were selected to represent the U.S. at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany, August 20–September 3. The vaulting competition will take place from August 23-27, 2006. For the full story, click here.
USEF Mourns Loss of Mary Lutz, Friend, Colleague and Devoted USEF Staff Member It is with the deepest sense of loss that the USEF must announce that Mary Lutz, Director for Endurance and Para-Equestrian, died on Friday, June 9, as a result of a riding injury. We ask that the entire equestrian community join us in expressing our deepest sympathy to Mary's family. Mary’s devotion to horse sport, her patient team attitude, and her commitment to both endurance and para-equestrian were admired and respected by all who had the privilege to work with her. Surviving Mary are her parents, Mary B. and Michael Lutz. The family requests that expressions of sympathy be made in the form of gifts to the USET Foundation programs for endurance and para-equestrian. Day One of USET Foundation Dressage Festival of Champions, 2006 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage National Championships Gets Underway with Stellar Performances for Hart, Gibson and Peters The USET Foundation Dressage Festival of Champions presented by Paul Miller, Inc., got underway on June 15 with the best of the best from across the country in multiple dressage divisions, all vying for a coveted 2006 USEF National Championship title. For the full story, click here. USEF Announces Dressage Riders Selected to Compete at 2006 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF National Intermediaire I Dressage Championship The USEF is pleased to announce the rider/horse combinations that have been selected to compete in the 2006 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF National Intermediaire I Dressage Championship. For the full story, click here. USEF Announces Top 11 U.S. Dressage Riders to Compete at 2006 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF National Grand Prix Dressage Championship The USEF is pleased to announce the 11 rider/horse combinations that have been selected to compete in the 2006 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF National Grand Prix Dressage Championship. This year, the national championship has also been designated as the selection trials for the 2006 World Equestrian Games (WEG). Therefore, riders will not only be competing for the national championship title, they will also be vying for two of the four spots on the U.S. dressage team that will compete at the WEG. The WEG will be held from August 20 to September 3, 2006 with the dressage competition taking place August 20-27. For the full story, click here. USEF Announces Samsung Super League Tour #3 The USEF has announced the five riders that will compete in the third leg of the Samsung Super League tour CSIO Falsterbo, Sweden (July 13-16); CSIO Hickstead, Great Britain (July 26-30); and CSIO Dublin, Ireland (August 9-13). For the full list, click here. Las Vegas FEI World Cup Finals Season Tickets Available to the General Public Season tickets for the 2007 Las Vegas FEI World Cup Finals are available for sale to the general public as of June 16, 2006. Tickets are expected to sell quickly, so spectators are advised to purchase early. The FEI World Cup Finals in both show jumping and dressage return to the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV, on April 18-22, 2007. In 2005, the FEI Budweiser World Cup Jumping Final and the FEI World Cup Dressage Final presented by Offield Farms, were held simultaneously in the same location for the first time in history. Attendance topped 90,000 as equestrian sports fans turned out in record numbers to share in the excitement. After the record-breaking success of the 2005 Finals in Las Vegas, ticket demand for the finals’ return to the U.S. next year is at an all-time high. For the full story, click here. USEF Congratulates Second Group of 2006 Outreach Grant Recipients The USEF has finalized the second list of breed events that will receive outreach grants through the new program announced in January. The maximum grant is $1,000, and grants are still available. A total of $125,000 has been budgeted in 2006 for grants to financially challenged breed competitions that meet the grant requirements and are approved by the USEF. To date, 61 applications have been received and 49 have been approved. For the full story, click here. Endurance Rider Susan Summers Wins Third and Final CEI*** Observation Trial Susan Summers, riding Mags Motivator, finished first in a ride time of 9:54:59 at the CEI*** 100-mile endurance ride in Ashland, MT, on Sunday, June 11. Her average ride time of 10.48 miles per hour put her four minutes ahead of second-place finisher Heather Stevens riding RSA Count Laquen. Forty riders took the trail in the 4:30 a.m. eastern Montana dawn. The trail took them over ranch land and through the Custer National Forest. Twenty-six FEI riders began this third and last observation ride, hoping to land one of the coveted slots on the U.S. endurance team that will compete at the FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Aachen, Germany, in August. A total of 16 riders finished the combined American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) Open, Arabian Horse Association (AHA) Region 6 Championship, and FEI/CEI*** ride, including 11 riding the FEI division. For the full story, click here.
An exciting new USEF partner offer! SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER: 0% APR on Purchases for One Year with the United States Equestrian Federation® Visa® Platinum Card* This spring, it’s out with the old and in with the new when you use the United States Equestrian Federation® Visa Platinum Card, now offering 0% APR for one year*! With this exclusive card, every dollar you spend is interest free until next year. Use your USEF Visa for everyday purchases, home improvement projects, family vacations or that special purchase you’ve been waiting to make. Plus, you’ll earn reward points with every purchase. Spring clean your wallet and make sure you carry the correct USEF Visa card with the US Bank logo on the backside. The United States Equestrian Federation® Select Rewards Visa Platinum card provides great benefits, including no annual fee, your choice of rewards and 1,000 bonus points with your first purchase. In addition, a percentage of every purchase will support USEF programs and initiatives. Hurry, this offer ends June 15, 2006 *Click here for terms and conditions Attention: All members participating in the Farnam®/Platform™ USEF Horse of the Year and Silver Stirrup Awards Programs Please review your points and standings in your respective division(s) by:  American Saddlebred Horse Association Adds Saddlebred Competition Records Online The American Saddlebred Horse Association and Registry announced that member access to competition records of registered American Saddlebreds have been added to the expanding functionality of www.saddlebred.com. For the full story, click here. Busy Weekend for the United States Eventing Association/Spalding Labs Young Event Horse Series Over the weekend of June 3-4, three events held 2006 United States Eventing Association (USEA)/Spalding Labs Young Event Horse Series divisions, with some of the country’s most promising four- and five-year-olds vying for the top scores needed on their journey to the series championships, which will be held this fall at the Morven Park Three-Day Event and Horse Trials, October 5-8 in Leesburg, VA. For the full story, click here. Americans Rack up the Wins at the Spruce Meadows National With an evening kick-off, the opening class of two scheduled for ‘National’ Friday at Spruce Meadows was the ATCO Midstream Challenge. Although cool breezy conditions greeted the 25 riders, who qualifiered from a class held two days earlier, the rain that had threatened all day fortunately held off despite an extremely overcast sky. For the full story, click here. 
Courtney King Wins Six Blues and Two High Scores at Windy Hollow Hunt Summer I Dressage Courtney King went six-for-six at the Windy Hollow Hunt Summer I Dressage show, held June 10-11, at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, NJ. King exhibited three horses in six classes and claimed victory in all six competitions. King’s winning mounts were Harmony’s Wyoming, Jubilant and Idocus. High scores of the show were awarded by level/type and two of King’s mounts earned the high score in their respective divisions--Harmony’s Wyoming earned the Open High Score (79.444%) for first level test 4, and Idocus earned the FEI High Score (74.167%) for the grand prix. For the full story, click here. The United States Equestrian Federation®, Inc. (USEF), as the National Equestrian Federation of the U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show jumping, and vaulting, as well as 20 other breeds and disciplines of equestrian competition. As the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation has over 86,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including educating and licensing all judges, stewards and technical delegates who officiate at these shows. VISION STATEMENT The vision of USEF is to provide leadership for equestrian sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian federation in the world. ©2006, United States Equestrian Federation®, Inc. |
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