Southern Saddlebred Sales – New Auction Scheduled for April 27-28 After 120 years in business, Tattersalls in Lexington, KY is closing its doors. Since 1986, Teater Saddlebred Enterprises, Inc has handled the Saddlebred auction, but Ed and Suzie Teater have announced their retirement. This creates a void in the ASB industry for a public auction. James and Jackie Hale, who own and operate a successful Saddlebred training stable in Alabama and specialize in consignment sales, have plans for...

Vaulter Bree Krebel will be a featured clinician at the 2012 Western States Horse Expo (Western States Horse Expo) Sacramento, CA - The Western States Horse Expo is pleased to announce that vaulting coach Bree Krebel will be a featured clinician during year's event. Krebel has recently created a new program, "Vaulting for Equestrians," which she hopes will help develop new programs across the country. The Western States Horse Expo is scheduled for June 8-10, 2012 at the Cal Expo Fairgrounds...

Albuquerque, NM - The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) kicks off the 2011 national show season with the Youth National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Youth Nationals), July 23-30, 2011 at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. The equine industry's shining young stars, ages 6-18 (although you might find some remarkable 3 year-olds in the lead-line classes) will swagger into Albuquerque with their Arabians, Half-Arabians, and Anglo-Arabians to present the work they've...

Lexington, KY - Midge Wagner, longtime member of the American Saddlebred Horse Association, and founder of Copper Coin Farm, passed away on July 13, 2011. Midge loved life and lived it to its fullest. For the last 40 years, she lived on Copper Coin Farm, the American Saddlebred horse farm she started from rough, bare land in 1968 with daughter, Wendy. She described building it as being one of the most satisfying and thrilling things she ever did. And she did a lot. A native of Chicago, Midge...

West Grove, PA - The 25th annual Laurels at Landhope International Combined Driving Event, one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the U.S., will be held in West Grove, PA, September 9-11, 2011. Combining family fun with international equestrian competition in a beautiful country setting just 40 miles from Philadelphia, the event hosts the best drivers from Canada, Mexico and the United States, who compete in a series of three events with combinations from single horses and ponies to...

Albuquerque, NM - The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) kicks off the 2011 national show season with the Youth National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Youth Nationals), July 23-30, 2011 at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. The equine industry's shining young stars, ages 6-18 (although you might find some remarkable 3 year-olds in the lead-line classes) will swagger into Albuquerque with their Arabians, Half-Arabians, and Anglo-Arabians to present the work they've...

Eastern Selection Trial 5-year-old champion Lauren Chumley and Somer Hit (Photo by Pics of You). The Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Selection Trials 2011 qualifying season concluded last week at the Eastern Selection Trials in Leesburg, Va. The top five 5-year-olds and top five 6-year-olds that earned a minimum score of 7.8 from the three competitions will make up the short list of horses moving forward to the 2011 Markel/USEF Dressage National Championship at Lamplight in Wayne,...

Lexington, KY - Longtime supporter of the American Saddlebred and the American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA), Gerald "Gerry" L. Durnell, 69, passed away on the evening of Monday, May 23, 2011, after a courageous bout with cancer. Gerry, husband of longtime ASHA member Kaye Bowles-Durnell, was born April 27, 1942, in Santa Paula, CA. He was a graduate of Southwest Missouri University in Springfield, MO. He worked his way through college as a rock and roll DJ, a TV cameraman, and as an...

Today’s speed competition course looked a little bit like a Hunter Derby Finals course. I don’t know that they used any of the same jumps, but it really brought me back to Derby Finals. It was a great-looking course and used the entire stadium. The course theme was “The Nature of Kentucky” according to course designer Conrad Homfeld. It included a Kentucky Folk Art fence, a Natural Arch fence, a Kentucky Fence Line (which caused quite a few problems), a Farm Entrance...

Flying Horse Photography. (U.S. Chef d'Equipe George Morris and HITS President Tom Struzzieri.) Saugerties, NY - The inaugural Pfizer Million, with the richest purse in show jumping, scheduled for Saugerties, New York, on September 12th, will play host to a world class line-up of the country's best horse and rider combinations. That already glittering roster of stars got even brighter this weekend when HITS President Tom Struzzieri awarded one of the five coveted Manager's Wild Card picks for...