The first major exhibition to explore the dynamic impact of the horse on Near Eastern civilization, A Gift from the Desert will have a particular emphasis on the first horse breed, the Arabian Horse. The exhibition will be a fascinating journey from the arrival of the first domesticated horses in the Near East to the renaissance of purebred Arabian horse breeding in the Near East today. As with all horse breeds, the story of the Arabian horse is dependent upon the cultures that created,...

Photo Courtesy CKRH (A group lesson at CKRH.) Central Kentucky Riding for Hope (CKRH) a NARHA premier therapeutic riding program is currently looking for horses to add to its equine team. The program has recently expanded into a new facility and a new year-round schedule. CKRH has many requests to provide services but is currently limited in its ability to expand due to a shortage of appropriate horses. The type of horse CKRH is looking for at this time must meet a set of requirements in order...

Mario and Urico Look for More Clear Rounds (Randi Muster Photo) Lexington, KY - The following horse/rider combinations have been named to represent the US in the Nations Cup at CSIO Schweiz St. Gallen in Switzerland on Friday June 4. Mario Deslauriers on Jane Clark’s Urico Beezie Madden on Abigail Wexner’s Mademoiselle Richard Spooner on Show Jumping Syndications’ Cristallo McLain Ward on Sagamore Farm’s Rothchild These four riders will take on the nine other teams in the third Nations Cup of...

Erin Alberda and Collo 5 (Stockimageservices.com Photo) Dressage Dressage riders on East coast celebrated the holiday weekend at the CDI3* Allentown at the Horse Park of New Jersey. Elisabeth Austin and her Dutch Warmblood Olivier took home wins in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special. On the small tour Cesar Parra and Olympia performed beautifully, winning the Prix St. Georges with a score of 71.789% and the Intermediaire I with 71.000%. For complete results please click here . This week...

2009 NAJYRC Reining Individual Gold Medalist Darcy Wilson aboard Miss Cielo Chex (Waltenberry ) Lexington, KY With great success and continued growth in the program over the last two years SmartPak™ will once again be the title sponsor of the FEI North American Young Rider Reining Championship at the Adequan FEI North American Junior/Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North. SmartPak has been an outstanding supporter of equestrian sport at many levels and also serves as the “Official...

Photo by SusanJStickle.com (Mikala Gundersen and Leonberg ) Victories continue to accumulate for Horses Unlimited's Leonberg and his Danish rider Mikala Munter Gundersen. The latest victory was a 70.79% in the Kentucky Cup Grand Prix Special over a field that included World Cup Finalists, European medalists, Olympians and Pan American Games medalists. The Kentucky Cup was the test event for the dressage world championships at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games that will be held at the...

Photo courtesy of Holly Wilmoth, Kingland Farm (Sakrementer, ridden by Rick Rockefeller-Silvia.) It was dual wins for the promising young Oldenburg gelding, Sakrementer, at the recent CDCTA Summer Dressage show at Morven Park in Leesburg, VA. Sakrementer was ridden by Rick Rockefeller-Silvia, of Dream Street Stallions, and is owned by Deborah and Rex Howe of HRH Holdings. Sakrementer’s success included placing first in the Materiale Class with a score of 84.7% and winning the FEI Four-Year-Old....

Photo by Bill Alphin (BW-Callista received the North American Breeders Futurity Four-Year-Old.) Dressage at Devon is pleased to announce that the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) has chosen the show for its 2010 Symposium and General Assembly. WBFSH delegates and its famed international membership comprised of the world's top breeders will attend Dressage at Devon for the foal and young horse breed classes, as well as the FEI young horse competitions. "The DAD breed division...

Photo Courtesy SHN Payback, Inc. (Novalis, by Jus De Pomme and out of a G Ramiro Z daughter, is one of the champion Stallions available through the SHN Payback program at half price.) The SHN Payback program offers 350 champion stallions at half price, and awards cash prizes for Sport Horses. The SHN Payback program is in full swing for its third year, offering donated stallion services at half price to raise money for Sport Horse prize money. Every stallion in the program is a champion, or the...

Photo by Waltenberry (Wimpys Little Step ) Wimpys Little Step made history at this year’s Carolina Classic Derby, held May 13-16, in Williamston, NC, when his offspring surpassed two million dollars in National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) earnings. The flashy palomino sire joins eight of NRHA’s leading stallions as a Two Million Dollar Sire*. To achieve this elite status is no easy feat, yet Wimpys’ offspring went above and beyond expectations when they earned enough to make him the...