The Swedish and KWPN Studbooks invite you to a morning warm-up meeting in the arena at Thomas Mack on Friday, April 17, in Section 227, Balcony Level, from 8:00-9:30 a.m. All attendees must have a Friday Dressage Session ticket for the Rolex FEI World Cup Finals Dressage to enter the arena. The box office will open at 8 a.m. for any attendees who wish to purchase a ticket. The meeting will feature celebrity riders and trainers, world-known breeders, presentations of the studbooks, and Flyinge,...

2008 Individual Junior Show Jumping Medalists at NAJYRC (Ken Braddick) Lexington, KY – The countdown to the 2009 Adequan FEI North American Junior/Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) has begun in earnest. For the first time, the NAJYRC will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY – which in 2010 will play host to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. This year’s NAJYRC will be held July 21-26, 2009. Since 1979, these Championships...

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, July 18 the famous L.A. Memorial Coliseum, site of the spectacular Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, again will be center stage for a special gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of those memorable Games, arguably the greatest event in the history of Los Angeles. The celebratory dinner will be held that evening on the floor of the Coliseum. Many Olympic notables are expected to attend, including 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing...

Lexington, KY – CN has been a steadfast supporter of the FEI North American Junior/Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) as the title sponsor of the event since 2005. In 2009, CN will headline the discipline with which it is most closely associated. A long time supporter of Show Jumping on the Global Champions Tour, at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida and at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, CN continues to support show jumping in 2009. CN’s commitment spans from the...

Lexington, KY— ClubEquestrian.com will feature a blog from the Pin Oak Charity Horse Show, which runs through March 29 at the Great Southwest Equestrian Center in Katy, TX. Wendy Cook, Executive Director of the show, will bring readers closer to the action of this multi-breed show. Known as one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious horse competitions, Pin Oak is the first United States Equestrian Federation competition designated as a Heritage Competition. Pin Oak has been holding...

Lexington, KY – The 2009 Adequan North American Junior and Young Rider Championships will be presented, for the third year, by Georgina Bloomberg’s Gotham North. Bloomberg is one of the country’s top young Jumping riders and was a double Individual Gold medalist at the NAJYRC, winning Individual Gold in 2003 and Team Gold in 2002. These championships have showcased the best riders between the ages of 14 and 21 since 1979. Junior and Young Rider Championship medals are awarded to individuals and...

The Three Phase Event Gaited Horse Versatility Competition is three weeks away, and organizers wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for entries is midnight, April 1, 2009. Check the website at www.threephaseevent.org for an entry form, dressage tests, and hotel information. There will be new challenges to the stadium obstacle course, and new zigs and zags to the cross-country course that will keep everyone moving. We are please to announce that our dressage judge, Betty Ortlieb, is...

The Children of the Americas Dressage Invitational (CADI) is the only competition of its’ kind in the United States. This United States Dressage Federation- and United States Equestrian Federation-recognized event is exclusively for children between the ages of 12 and 14. It features riders from South and Central America, the Islands, Mexico, Canada and The United States, all brought together for a week of training and international competition. New for 2009 is the working affiliation with...

Lexington, KY— The United States Equestrian Federation announces the approval of a Rule Change by the Executive Committee that is effective immediately for Rule GR1211.5b. The change to the rule is the following: GR1211 Appointment of Officials and Employees. [Chapter 12. Competition Officials, Employees and Volunteers] Effective immediately: 5. Qualified Medical Personnel. (Exception: Eventing - see EV113.4) b. Competitions using more than three performance areas simultaneously and all first...

The $400,000 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival Finale Grand Prix on Saturday night, March 21, will be broadcast live on the Internet from the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. The $400,000 FTI Finale Grand Prix that will decide the $200,000 FTI Rider Challenge, which puts a total of $600,000 on the line will be broadcast live beginning at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 21. The ticket price for the live broadcast of the Finale Grand Prix is $19.95. Viewers can log on to www....