Seven half-Connemaras and one purebred Connemara competed in the Connemara divisions at the Warrenton Pony Show this year, including several new entries. All seven halfbreds entered the Connemara Halfbred In-Hand class, which Kate Shields and her Hastening Lilly won. In the performance classes, six entered the Connemara Halfbred Hunter Under Saddle class, five competed in the Halfbred Bridle Path Hack, a hunter hack class with two fences, and four vied for the halfbred performance championship...

Courtesy Joanie Webster (Junior rider Natalie Kupperman astride her purebred Connemara gelding, Elphin Song Sparrow, winner of the Consummate Connemara Trophy.) The Annual West Coast Connemara Show, dedicated in memory of Larry Ervin, was held for the second consecutive year at Twin Rivers Ranch in Paso Robles, CA. Chris Knox of Chesterfield, ID, was the USEF-licensed Connemara Breed and Performance judge. Forty-six Connemara ponies along with some 'open' horses vied for ribbons in the...

The American Connemara Pony Society (ACPS) Board of Governors voted last fall for the Society to support the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Lexington, KY, with a promotional “Connemara Pony Booth” within the site’s Equestrian Village. The consensus was that the international exposure, media coverage, demographics and expected record-breaking attendance added up to “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for the ACPS to showcase the remarkable traits and breed characteristics of the...

Stadium Jumping, Inc, the nation's oldest and most respected horse show production company, is pleased to announce the return of the famed American Gold Cup to the Metroparks Polo Field in Moreland Hills, OH, just outside of Cleveland. The American Gold Cup will be the grand finale following two weeks of show jumping in the beautiful Chagrin Valley at this year's Cleveland Autumn Jumper Series. The North Coast Jumper Classic, the first of the two shows, begins on September 8 and runs through...

Photo by ESI Photography (Lillie Keenan riding Chansonette Farm’s C Coast Z in the $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby.) The landscape of the Pfizer Million took a major turn during HITS-on-the-Hudson IV when Olympians McLain Ward, and Margie Engle each reached the eight qualifying Grand Prix classes needed to become eligible for the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix that will take place at HITS-on-the-Hudson on Sunday, September 12. Engle of West Palm Beach, FL, and Ward of Brewster, NY,...

The United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) will host a ribbon cutting ceremony August 20 at 6 p.m. to celebrate the opening of its new headquarters at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. Founded in 2004, the USHJA was established to promote the hunter/jumper sport, to provide broad-based education to its members and to provide the framework for the conduct of our sport. Since receiving approval as the Federation Recognized Affiliate for the hunter/jumper discipline, the USHJA has...

A record-tying win by Margie Engle of Wellington, FL, in the $75,000 Le Grand Prix Hermès CSI** highlighted the show jumping action at the 33rd Annual I Love New York Horse Show. Engle's win was her seventh Grand Prix win in Lake Placid, tying the record held by Leslie Burr Howard. After four of 23 horses qualified for a tiebreaking jump-off by riding without penalty over the 17-jump, first-round course at the North Elba Showgrounds, the first three accrued faults over the eight-jump,...

Photo by Lauren Fisher/PMG (Kate Bomgaars and Kirikou AC Z) The second week of hunter/jumper competition at the 2010 Horse Shows by the Bay Equestrian Festival continued on Thursday with the Five-/Six-Year-Old and Seven-/Eight-Year-Old Young Jumpers competing in the Grand Prix Ring at the Flintfields Horse Park. Coming out on top in the day's qualifiers were six-year-old Imprimis, owned by Windswept Farm and ridden by Laura Pfeiffer, and seven-year-old Kirikou AC Z, owned and ridden by Kate...

Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Reuters Tiamo Trocadero ) Reuters Tiamo Trocadero certainly has nothing left to prove at age 23. The Hanoverian stallion has been winning at grand prix dressage since he was eight years old. He earned scores over 70% at top CDIs in Europe, was an alternate for the British Olympic dressage team in 2000, and took his American amateur owner, Karin Reid Offield, to multiple USDF year-end awards at the FEI level. Today, Tiamo is standing at Little Bit Farm in...

These two top Dutch Warmblood breeders will be displaying all of this year's foals from both farms at one venue. This will make it easy for anyone interested in the products of their breeding programs to see them all in one place. Ten sets of mares and foals will be available for viewing and shown individually at liberty. Majestic Gaits and Carnival Hill have both bred several Top Ten and Top Five KWPN Dutch Warmblood offspring. This is a chance to see some top imported and domestic Star, Keur,...