Paris, France - Laura Graves and Verdades have defended their 2017 second place finish at the 2018 FEI World Cup Dressage Final. Graves and the 16-year-old KWPN gelding she owns with Curt Maes finished on a score of 89.082 percent, just behind Isabell Werth (GER) and Weihegold OLD's score of 90.0657 percent. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER) and Unee BB finished third on a 83.725 percent. Full Results More information and photos to follow. The USEF International High Performance Programs are...

Paris, France - Laura Graves and Verdades, the 16-year-old KWPN gelding she owns with Curt Maes, have won the FEI Grand Prix at the World Cup Dressage Final. Finishing on a score of 81.413 percent, the combination finished ahead of Isabell Werth (GER) and Weihegold OLD's score of 78.261 percent. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER) and Unee BB finished third on a 75.668 percent. Full Results More information and photos to follow. The USEF International High Performance Programs are generously...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce that U.S. reining athletes will have the opportunity to participate in the 2017 FEI World Reining Championships for Juniors and Young Riders. The inaugural world championships for Juniors (14-18 years of age) and Young Riders (16-21 years of age) will be held in Givrins, Switzerland, August 9-12, 2017. The aim is to have this new championship become a popular addition to high-profile reining competitions that will give reining athletes...

Fairfield, Conn. – To watch Tufts University senior Chase Boggio ride is to see the next generation of greatness in the making. The 2016 USEF Cacchione Cup champion opened his week at the Kentucky Horse Park for the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) National Championships with a win in Individual Open Fences and never stopped his chase for the most prestigious individual college riding title in North America until the last stride of a last work-off Shakespearean in its...

Lexington, Ky. - 549 of the nation's leading middle school and high school equestrians competed in the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The finalists represented over 1,300 teams and over 11,000 student-riders from eight zones throughout the country. Individuals and teams participated in multiple competitions during the regular season shows, regional finals and zone finals to qualify for the National Finals competition. During the week, riders competed in...

Ocala, FL (February 5, 2016)— He was the international rags to riches story that won the hearts of America and the world. A Dutch-bred gelding destined for slaughter who proved too high-spirited for a job pulling a city carriage, then plucked from obscurity by one of the greatest four-in-hand drivers in history. He became a champion whose steel shoes were gifted to Prince Phillip by President Obama, and who was commemorated as a Breyer® horse model. His athleticism and driving honors...

Lucador and Scott Stewart (Al Cook - www.alcookphoto.com) Harrisburg, Pa. - When Dr. Betsee Parker's 7 year-old German Oldenburg gelding Lucador enters the show ring it is almost a certainty that he will exit with a top ribbon. That premise held true at the 70th Anniversary Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Lucador and rider Scott Stewart swept the Regular Conformation Hunter Division with four class wins out of the six classes contested. For winning the division, Lucador received the...

Lexington, Ky. - Held alongside the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, the Kentucky Reining Cup is thrilled to announce an all-star line-up of celebrity Eventing riders who will take part in the annual favorite Celebrity Reining Challenge, presented in conjunction with the World Championship Freestyle Reining on Saturday April 25th in the Alltech Arena of the Kentucky Horse Park. Celebrity Eventing Riders include: David O’Connor (2014 high score celebrity) Sinead Halpin Michael Pollard...

Lexington, Ky. - One of the highlights of the day Saturday was the presentation of the new Calaveras County Perpetual Trophy (by artist Olva Stewart Pharo) to the very first US Dressage Finals Grand Prix Freestyle Adult Amateur Champion, Janne Rumbough of Palm Beach, Fla. (Region 3). The crowd went wild and clapped to the beat of Rumbough's Mary Poppins-themed music as her gray PRE gelding Junior (by Gaucho III x La Nina by Brioso VI) seemed to relish the electric atmosphere of Alltech...

Michael Hughes looks to add the Maclay National Championship to his growing resume (Photo by Emily Riden) Lexington, Ky. - The historic National Horse Show is just around the corner and junior riders are preparing to showcase their skills during the ASPCA Alfred B. Maclay National Championship. Held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky on November 2, 2014, the top junior riders in the nation will compete under the watchful eye of judges McLain Ward and Chrystine Tauber to try and...