Lexington, Ky. – Nominations are being accepted for the USEF Lifetime Achievement Award and Pegasus Medal of Honor Award and the submission deadline is quickly approaching. Any current US Equestrian (USEF) Member may submit nominations to US Equestrian by Friday, October 6. The recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award will be acknowledged at the 2017 Pegasus Awards, to be held at the 2018 USEF Annual Meeting in January. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the horseman or woman...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian has named the following athlete-and-horse combinations to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for FEI Nations Cup™ CDIO3* Hickstead, July 27-30, in Hickstead, England: Katherine Bateson-Chandler (Wellington, Fla.) with Jane Clark’s Alcazar, a 2005 Dutch Warmblood gelding Susan Dutta (Wellington, Fla.) with Tim Dutta Inc.’s Currency DC, a 2000 Oldenburg gelding Chase Hickok (Wellington, Fla.) with Hyperion Farm, Inc.’s Sagacious HF, a 1999...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian has named the following athletes to the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team for FEI Nations Cup CSIO5* Falsterbo, July 13-16, in Falsterbo, Sweden. CSIO5* Falsterbo is the second leg of U.S. Show Jumping’s summer CSIO5* Nations Cup European tour, with two remaining stops at FEI Nations Cup CSIO5* Aachen, Germany, July 18-23, and FEI Nations Cup CSIO5* Dublin, Ireland, August 9-13. Teams for these remaining European events will be announced at a later...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian has named the following athletes to the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team for FEI Nations Cup™ CSIO4* Langley, May 31 - June 4, in Langley, British Columbia. The Nations Cup competition will be held in conjunction with the Odlum Brown BC Open at Thunderbird Show Park. CSIO4* Langley serves as the last North America qualifying competition for Barcelona’s FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Final in September. The U.S. sits in first place and leads...

Lexington, Ky. – On a night dedicated to the horse, two special athletes were recognized for their excellence in 2016 during the USEF's Horse of the Year Awards Gala. Mighty Nice and Catch Me reached the pinnacle of their sports and were named International and National Horse of the Year, respectively. Voting was open to the public through January and both horses, already fan favorites, were rewarded for their tremendous results throughout 2016 with support from voters. Mighty Nice...

Traverse City, Mich. - With only a few weeks to go until the start of the 2016 Great Lakes Equestrian Festival, competitors are gearing up for this year's addition of FEI 2* and 3* weeks, as well as a $25,000 U-25 Grand Prix to the August show series. The week of August 10-14 will surely be action packed, boasting both U-25 competition and two CSI2* ranking classes. The excitement continues just a week later, moving into August 17-21 with two more CSI2* ranking classes. Both CSI2* weeks...

Best Young Horse Arbor Hill with Handler Richard Taylor (Rebecca Walton/Phelps Media Group) Devon, Pa. - For the second year in a row, Richard Taylor and Arbor Hill stood front and center in the Dixon Oval on the final day of the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair. Owned by Kenneth Wheeler and handled by Taylor, Arbor Hill took home the Kenneth Wheeler Perpetual Trophy for Best Young Horse. Taylor and Arbor Hill (Redwine - Paisley), kicked off the day by winning the Three-Year-Old Other Than...

2015 Jersey Fresh International Three-Day CIC3* champion Lauren Kieffer and Meadowbrooks's Scarlett during Show Jumping. (Shannon Brinkman) Allentown, N.J. - Leading contenders for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team headline the entry list at the 2016 Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event (JFI) presented by B.W. Furlong & Associates, which returns to the Horse Park of New Jersey, May 11-15. As the last qualifying selection event for the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team that will compete in the...

Varsity Intermediate Over Fences 2' Team Elizabeth Trexler from Chatham, Virginia who rides for Chatham Hall in Zone 3 (McKenzie Yates for IEA) Lexington, Ky. - After two days filled with rigorous competition, the third day of the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) National Finals highlighted individual awards and saw the start of the team competition, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Classes included Hunt Seat Team and Western Individual competitions. Of the Hunt Seat...

Jenny Caras and Fernhill Fortitude (Shannon Brinkman) Gladstone, N.J. - The United States Equestrian Team Foundation is proud to announce that Caroline Martin and Jenny Caras have been named as the recipients of the 2016 Karen Stives Endowment Fund for High Performance Eventing Grant. Martin and Caras will participate in the Karen Stives European Developing Tour, which will give these U25 athletes a chance to represent the United States on an international stage at the 2016 Rockingham CIC and...