Eric Lamaze and Wang Chung M2S (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - Canada's Eric Lamaze was in the winner's circle on Friday with a win in the $33,000 G&C Farm 1.45m speed class during week eleven of the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF). Lamaze and Wang Chung M2S, owned by Morningside Stud and Torrey Pines Stable, beat a field of top horses and riders in the day's highlight Longines FEI world ranking event. Also showing on Friday, Lillie Keenan was the winner of...

Wayne, IL - The 2012 USEF National Dressage Championships came to a conclusion Sunday at the Lamplight Equestrian Center with champions crowned across three divisions. Intermittent rain could not dampen spirits as final competition was held in the USEF Dressage Seat Medal Finals presented by Dressage Today, the Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships and the USEF National Developing Horse Prix St. Georges Dressage Championship presented by The Dutta Corp. and Performance Sales...

Cosmo and Laura Pfeiffer. Traverse City, MI - Although Laura Pfeiffer has collected many blue ribbons during the Horse Shows by the Bay Equestrian Festival, there was one that had eluded her since the series started: the $10,000 Open Jumper Welcome Prix. Her wait ended today, however, when she guided Fox Meadow Farm's Cosmo to the top and bested a field of 30 horse-and-rider combinations to capture the $10,000 Open Jumper Welcome Prix, sponsored by Positive Step Farm. "I've been...

SAUGERTIES, NY – HITS recently wrapped up nine weeks of show jumping at HITS-on-the-Hudson and transitioned to the Culpeper Finals at Commonwealth Park in Virginia. The capstone to the Saugerties series offered coveted year-end awards, over $1.5 million in prize money and new Pfizer Million and Diamond Mills Hunter Champions. As HITS-on-the-Hudson quiets, Andre Thieme, Samantha Schaefer and a handful of Marshall & Sterling League National Final winners are cashing their checks and...

Lexington, KY - Skylar Rowan's high school in Knoxville, TN, offers a plethora of sports teams - even bowling and sailing. More than 20. But, there is one missing - the most important one to Rowan: An equestrian team. "Just like the majority of schools in my area, my school doesn't have the facilities or the budget to support an equestrian team," the 16-year-old says. But what is more frustrating to this high school sophomore is that most people outside the horse world, she says,...

Geoff Oliver Bugbee/USEF Archives (Kimberly Maloomian accepts a Silver Stirrup Award from Ned Bonnie for her champion in the Hunter Breeding category, Masquerade's Cove.) —From the historic Seelbach Hotel in downtown Louisville, KY, David O’Connor, President of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF), awarded the honors bestowed on equestrian media for the past year before addressing the contingent of the equestrian sport world’s administrators and guests gathered to...

Lexington, Ky. – Two athlete-and-horse combinations participated the U.S. Dressage European U25 Tour this spring and summer and scored top results. Ben Ebeling and Status Royal OLD competed in Belgium and France, while Erin Nichols and Elian Royale competed in the Netherlands. USEF Dressage Youth Coach George Williams advised the U.S. athletes to help them achieve strong scores in European competition. Ben Ebeling and Status Royal OLD compete in Crozet, France. (Photos Les Garennes)...

Aachen, Germany – The NetJets U.S. Jumping Team finished fourth in the Mercedes-Benz Jumping Nations Cup CSIO5* under the lights in the Main Stadium at CHIO Aachen in front of an electric crowd packing the stands. The team jumped to a final total of 12 faults over two rounds, with Switzerland earning the win on four faults, Great Britain taking second place on eight, and Belgium taking third on eight faults. The team was led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland. “We always aim for...

Stadl-Paura, Austria – The Perrigo U.S. Para Dressage Team had a successful outing this past weekend at the CPEDI3* Stadl-Paura, Austria. The team of Rebecca Hart and Floratina, Fiona Howard and Jagger, and Kate Shoemaker and Colijn turned in excellent performances to finish in a close third place behind the teams from Italy and Austria. Even with the disadvantage of having only three team members and therefore no drop score, the U.S. team earned a final team score of 431.014%, just over...

Omaha, Neb . – The 2023 Burlington Capital FEI Vaulting World Cup Final concluded Saturday with Free Tests, which saw Kimmy Palmer finish as the highest-placed U.S. athlete, earning fourth place overall in the Individual Female Final. Daniel Janes took sixth place overall in the Individual Male Final in his first individual appearance in an FEI World Cup Final competition. Kimmy Palmer and Romeo (US Equestrian) Palmer (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) produced a clean Free Test, earning an overall...