The annual Vermont Summer Festival will return to East Dorset, VT, for six consecutive weeks of competition running July 7 through August 15, 2010. New England’s largest “AA” rated hunter/jumper horse show, the Vermont Summer Festival offers more than $750,000 in prize money, making it the richest sporting event based on purse in the state. The competition attracts the best athletes, including Olympic medalists, from across the country and around the globe to vie for top honors. The first five...

The Galway Downs International Horse Trials, on March 26-28, is the largest and most important eventing competition on the West Coast every spring. The Galway Downs International Three-Day Event, November 4-7, has long been the largest and most prestigious eventing competition on the West Coast every autumn, and this year it will become even bigger and more prestigious. Since 2003, the Galway Downs International Horse Trials have been designated a three-star event (CIC***) by the International...

Kentucky Horse Shows, LLC, the management company for hunter/jumper competitions at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, is pleased to announce that Hagyard Equine Medical Institute will be the proud sponsor of the Hagyard Challenge Series. The 2010 Hagyard Challenge Series consists of five grand prix show jumping competitions at the world-class horse park. These classes start in May at the Kentucky Spring Horse Shows and conclude in August at the Bluegrass Festival Horse Show. The rider who...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) has announced a membership dues and horse registration fee increase for the 2011 membership year, which begins December 1, 2010. At the 2009 Adequan/USDF Annual Convention in Austin, TX, the following dues and fees were approved by the Board of Governors (BOG); 1-year Participating Membership (PM)-$75, Youth PM-$60, 5-Year PM-$300, Life PM-$1,500, Business Membership-$200, Group Member Organization (GMO) Membership-$20, GMO Supporting Family...

Colombian dressage rider Marco Bernal lived every rider’s dream during the 2010 Palm Beach Dressage Derby CDI, when he heard his country’s national anthem played three times for three great wins. Bernal’s success came aboard his Westphalian stallion Farewell IV, the same stallion that he set the world record on at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in 2005 when they scored a record high score of 85.385%. “This was the best show for me so far. It is nice when you work so long with a horse and...

The American Horse Council (AHC) released its 2009 Report on Equestrian Access on Federal Land . The 2009 report is intended to provide a brief overview of the responses the AHC received from equestrians to its ongoing access survey in 2009. The report can be viewed and downloaded on the AHC’s website at: https://www.horsecouncil.org//images/2009 ReportEqAccessFedLand.pdf . In July of 2009, the American Horse Council launched an effort to collect information regarding equestrian access issues...

EMC Corporation, the world’s leading developer of information infrastructure technology and solutions in company, will be the Official Physical Security Solutions Provider of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. EMC will provide the hardware, software, cameras and support services to enhance security measures during the 2010 Games. Support services include camera design and placement, as well as a staffed temporary control center on the grounds of the Kentucky Horse Park. EMC works with...

Photo Courtesy Kentucky Horse Park The largest and most comprehensive collection of exotic Near Eastern and Arabian equine art and artifacts ever assembled will soon be on view when "A Gift from the Desert: The Art, History and Culture of the Arabian Horse" is presented May 29-October 15 in the Kentucky Horse Park's International Museum of the Horse—a Smithsonian Affiliate. "A Gift from the Desert" will be the first major exhibition to explore the impact of the horse on Near Eastern...

The 2009 SUCCEED® Holiday Fundraiser to benefit the United States Equestrian Team Foundation (USET) has come and gone. But the fun can be relived again on HRTV. Highlights of the event will premier on the network Monday, March 15, at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT, and re-air Tuesday and the following Sunday, March 21. The USET Holiday Gala Fundraiser was originally held live at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL, last December 11-12. The event raised $20,853 for the USET...

The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) was full of top competition during week eight, held March 3-7, 2010. The week featured the USEF Selection Trials for the U.S. Show Jumping Team for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games #3, #4, and #5, presented by Fidelity Investments, and the $75,000 FEI Nations Cup, presented by CN, along with a full schedule of hunter, jumper, and equitation classes. The week eight title sponsor was CN. The $150,000 CN U.S. Open Grand Prix, CSIO**** was...