The American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA) Board of Directors will hold its second quarter 2007 meeting in Shelburne, VT, beginning Wednesday, May 2, through Saturday, May 5. Directors from across the United States will gather to conduct strategic planning (closed session), and for the Registry Committee, Finance Committee, IT Committee, Trust Committee, and General Membership Meeting. In addition to several days of jam-packed business, the Vermont Morgan Heritage Foundation and the AMHA...

(Lexington, KY) – The injury to Le Samurai, ridden by Amy Tryon, sustained at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event on April 28th is under review by the FEI. They will obtain a statement from the Ground Jury at the competition and from the Appeal Committee, and conduct a hearing which will include a review of the tape of the incident. A judgment will then be made in the case. The USEF will honor that decision, abide by it and enforce it. A schedule for this hearing and judgment has not yet been...

Aussie Clayton Fredericks and Ben Along Time took home the top honors. (Amy Dragoo) Riding for the first time under the U.S. flag, former Australian rider Phillip Dutton finished second at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, for the fifth time. But, this year, it was former Aussie teammate, Clayton Fredericks, aboard Ben Along Time, who put in the best score to take the Rolex Kentucky four-star championship on a score of 54.0. Dutton, as the highest-placed U.S. rider aboard...

Amy Dragoo (Kristin Bachman and Gryffindor stand on a score of 48.2 heading into Sunday's show jumping phase.) Nearly 47,000 people turned out for a spectacular day of cross-country at the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam. A variation of last year’s course greeted horses and riders, and at the end of a tumultuous day, Kristin Bachman, riding in only her second four-star on her own Gryffindor found herself on top of a very classy heap of horses and riders with a...

Amy Tryon and Le Samurai sit atop the leaderboard going into the cross-country phase of the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam. (Amy Dragoo) (Lexington, KY)—Day Two of dressage during the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, welcomed much drier skies than the previous day, and it provided a much nicer environment in which to wrap up the dressage phase and head into cross-country. At day’s end, Amy Tryon (U.S.) aboard Le Samurai, a...

Missy Ransehousen aboard Critical Decision leads after Day One of dressage at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented by Farnam. (Amy Katherine Dragoo ) The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented by Farnam, began in traditional Rolex style on the first of two-days of dressage—and that was with rain. Spectators came prepared for the typical Rolex wet weather, as they gathered to watch the top competitors in eventing vie for the prestigious four-star title. With 45 horses starting...

EQUESTRIAN magazine as the official publication of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010.)" style="width: 200px; height: 271px;" USEF Archives (USEF President David O'Connor and the WEG 2010 Foundation's CEO Jack Kelly announce EQUESTRIAN magazine as the official publication of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010.) (Lexington, KY) - EQUESTRIAN magazine, the official publication of equestrian sport since 1937 and the print voice of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2007 (Lexington, KY) - The following horse-rider combinations have been named to compete at the Test Event for the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong: Rider/Hometown/Horse/Sex/Age/Breed//Owner Amy Tryon/DuvallWA/CoalCreek/Gelding/7/Thoroughbred/Kathryn Sullivan and Amy Tryon Kim Severson/Keene, VA/Tipperary Liadhnan/Gelding/10/Irish Sport Horse/Elizabeth Wachmeister 1st Alternate -AmyTryon/Duvall,WA/Leyland/Gelding/7/Thoroughbred/Elisabeth Nicholson 2nd Alternate –...

United Professional Horsemen’s Association (UPHA) President Jim Taylor has informed American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) President Fred Sarver that the American Royal will host the 2007 ASHA Junior Exhibitor Driving Challenge Finals, November 13-17, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. Several qualifying shows are already scheduled; the current list is available online at www.saddlebred.com/files/drivingchallenge.pdf . Any horse show interested in becoming one of the qualifying stops along...

In the past two decades, huge advances have been made in our understanding of many equine diseases, but we have a lot more to learn before we can truly improve the way many of these diseases are prevented or treated. One simply needs to consider the impact that laminitis had on Barbaro, a horse who captured everyone’s imagination, or the effect that equine herpesvirus-1 infections have had up and down the East Coast in the past few months. While these diseases might be the most glaringly...