Lexington, Ky. - Daisy Farish of Versailles, KY has been named the Show Jumping Hall of Fame Rider of the Month for March. Farish competes in the East Conference Junior division of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series. Farish earned the award by having top placings during weeks eleven and twelve of the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, FL, with her horse Triviant. Farish and Triviant gained momentum in the series, taking second place in weeks eight and nine of WEF...

Waco, Texas. - Seeding and match-ups have been determined for the 2015 National Collegiate Equestrian Association National Championship, set to take place April 16-18 at the Extraco Events Center in Waco, Texas, the NCEA Selection Committee announced Tuesday. The top-12 overall teams (Western and Hunt Seat combined) are invited to compete. The NCEA Selection Committee determines and invites these teams based on a number of factors throughout the season. The top-four seeds in the NCEA...

The Big 12 Champion Baylor Bears The Baylor equestrian team took home its first Big 12 championship since 2010 with an 11-8 win over Kansas State in the finals Saturday at Turning Point Ranch in Springtown. Baylor fell 3-2 in fences, but tied in the reining event to trail just 5-4 at the halfway point. But, the Bears took a convincing 4-1 win in flat to take an 8-6 lead. With horsemanship remaining, Baylor needed two points for the win, and the Bears’ Mary Brown and Charlotte Green took...

Liza Boyd and Sterling won Friday's $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby in the Olympic Arena at the Georgia International Horse Park. Atlanta, Ga. - The $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby saw a field of twelve horse and rider teams compete over a course designed by Vaillencourt in the Olympic Arena. Pony Lane Farm's Sterling, ridden by Liza Boyd of Camden, South Carolina won the class after earning a combined score of 354. Second place finisher was Ava, owned and ridden by...

Defending champions Daniel Deusser of Germany and Cornet d'Amour (FEI / Dirk Caremans) Las Vegas, Nev. - After a hotly-contested season, many of the world's top show jumping athletes have earned their golden ticket to the "Entertainment Capital of the World" for the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2014/2015 Final that will be held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, concurrently with the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final, April 15-19. The list of competitors...

Sydney Long pilots Venchy De Bornival to the win in Saturday's $25,000 EMO Grand Prix (Alison Hartwell) Atlanta, Ga. - Saturday at the Olympic Venue is Grand Prix showing jumping day and the $25,000 EMO Grand Prix saw a field of 13 compete for the win in the Olympic Arena over a course designed by Vaillencourt. Sixteen year old Sydney Long of Atlanta, Georgia in the irons of her own Venchy De Bornival posted the only clear round in a time of 77.163 seconds, beating the 80 seconds time allowed...

More than $150,000 in scholarships for Youth exhibitors will be up for grabs at the 2015 AjPHA Youth World Championship Show, which takes place June 23–July 4 in Fort Worth, Texas. Building upon the work of generous APHA members who have raised $45,000 for scholarships awarded in Youth World Show halter classes plus rookie exhibitor awards, the American Paint Horse Foundation will add another $100,000 for scholarships awarded throughout the show’s world championship performance...

Intermediaire I Freestyle winners Tracy Roenick & Apassionata. (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - Until earlier this season, Tracy Roenick hadn't cantered down centerline in a dressage competition since 2005. But on Saturday she showed no sign of being out of practice as she and her elegant black Oldenburg mare Apassionata (Sir Donnerhall x Amelie by Friedensfuerst) decisively claimed the CDI Intermediaire I Freestyle victory with 72.625% over second-placed Susan Martin and...

Steffen Peters guided Rosamunde to her first Grand Prix Freestyle win at the Festival of the Horse CDI (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - Even though Steffen Peters' young star Rosamunde performed a Grand Prix Freestyle for the first time on Saturday, she looked like a seasoned veteran on her way to earning the unanimous win under all five FEI judges with an impressive final score of 77.750% at California Dreaming Productions' Festival of the Horse CDI 3*/Y/J/U-25 in San Juan...

Aurora, Colo. - The Arabian Horse Association’s (AHA) Board of Directors (BOD), at their March 2015 Board Meeting, passed a motion that requires mandatory DNA testing for all horses competing in the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Halter Futurity classes at Canadian and U.S. Nationals; as well as all horses competing in the Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Performance Futurity and Maturity classes at U.S. Nationals, in 2015. Half-Arabian horses entered in the aforementioned classes must have the...