Lake Placid, NY — What do you get when you combine horses, kids, learning and fun? You get the 19th annual Horse Club Junior Day, sponsored by Animal Planet, at the Intercat, Inc. Lake Placid Horse Shows. This special event invites local Pony Clubbers and 4-H members to participate in a fun-filled day full of “horsing around” at the horse shows, which return to the heart of the Adirondack Mountains at the North Elba Showgrounds, June 28–July 10. The Lake Placid Horse...

Boston Common, the site of the Putnam Boston Equestrian Classic Preview Party (Photo courtesy City of Boston Parks and Recreation). Boston, MA - Mayor Thomas Menino will be on-hand at the beautiful Boston Common Parade Ground for an equestrian demonstration by the Olympic-caliber show jumping riders of the Putnam Boston Equestrian Classic. This event, taking place on Thursday, August 25, 2011, will celebrate the annual tradition of show jumping returning to the Boston area and will...

Lexington, KY - The USEF has announced that the Mandatory Outing for Eventing for the 2011 Pan American Games will be held at the Richland Park Horse Trials in Richland, Michigan, August 25-28, 2011. The event will run a separate division for the USEF Short Listed riders. Their division will include the FEI CCI2* dressage test and the Advanced Cross Country and Jumping tracks. The USEF will name a partial Short List for the Games after the Bromont CCI, which will be held June 9-12, 2011. The...

Quentin, PA — Horses and riders weren't the only things working together at the 2011 St. Christopher's Horse Show, which returned to Pennsylvania’s picturesque Lebanon Valley region at the historic Quentin Riding Club in Quentin, PA, May 11-15. Mother nature cooperated with the horse show's busy schedule, holding her forecasted thunderstorms at bay until competitors in the final class lined up to receive their awards. Once again the St. Christopher’s Horse Show,...

Saugerties, NY — Equestrians from all over the world are reuniting at HITS-on-the-Hudson in Saugerties, NY, for the first of three consecutive weeks of hunter/jumper show jumping. The competition begins on Wednesday, May 25, and continues until Sunday, June 12, when the Purina Mills Weekend will wrap up the spring shows with its popular Kids Day and the much anticipated $100,000 Purina Mills Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health. For the past several days, horse trailers, RVs, and...

Gladstone, NJ - The USET Foundation is pleased to announce that four Elite Dressage Rider Clinics are to be held this fall. Two clinics will be held on the west coast and two on the east cost, both with U.S. Olympic athlete and World Equestrian Games medalist Steffen Peters and USEF Technical Advisor Anne Gribbons. The clinics will be by invitation only for horse and rider combinations on the USEF Grand Prix Long List and are designed to provide guidance and instruction for the top U.S....

The U.S. Junior and Young Riders Ready for Action in Belgium (USEF Archives). Bonheiden, Belgium – The U.S. Young Rider Show Jumping Team was second Saturday in the Nations Cup at CSIOJY Bonheiden – the first Young Rider Nations Cup of the USEF European Young Rider Tour. In the first round, Catherine Pasmore was clear on My Boy, Richard Neal on Transmission had 14 faults, Jessica Springsteen had a clear round on Vornado Van Den Hoendrik and Reed Kessler on Onisha ended the round...

USA placed 2nd in the Nations Cup Saturday afternoon! Jessie Springsteen put in a flawless double clear, Catherine Pasmore contributed a clear and a four, Ricky Neal and Reed Kessler both had a rough start in the first round, but both came back and pulled out a four-fault round to finish. We lost by only eight faults so a good lesson was learned by all. You really have to fight for it no matter what. Even if you have had three down in the course already, you can't give up because that...

Ehrin Rittmueller and Mr. Valentine (Photo by Diana Hadsall). Grass Lake, MI - For Ehrin Rittmueller, today’s win in the inaugural Hunter-Jumper Association of Michigan’s $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Classic aboard Diane Sheet’s Mr. Valentine was especially important and significant as not too long ago the future for the 10- year-old grey Zangersheide gelding was at best, very uncertain. “At one point in time this horse came close to being euthanized for his dangerous...

North Salem, NY – McLain Ward had four horses entered in the $75,000 Empire State Grand Prix presented by Land Rover of Larchmont/Mt. Kisco at the Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows, but it was up to Rothchild, the last horse to enter the ring, to give Ward a clear round. Each of Ward’s previous mounts had four faults, and in fact two of them even managed to post the exact time over the course. It was up to the 10 year old chestnut gelding, Rothchild, owned by Sagamore Farm, to give...