David Stephenson/Lexington Herald-Leader (Belle Owen and Show Biz Time waited to take to the show ring in the three-gaited junior exhibitor 14 and under class during the first night of the 70th Annual Lexington Junior League Horse Show.) The Junior League of Lexington is celebrating it's 70th annual Lexington Junior League Horse Show, which runs July 10-15, 2006, at the Red Mile Race Track in Lexington, KY. The Lexington Junior League Horse Show is the first leg of the American Saddlebred...

FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) teammates McLain Ward of Brewster, NY, and Margie Engle of Wellington, FL, took the two featured classes on opening day of the 29th Annual I Love New York Horse Show. Ward, a Team Gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, topped a huge field of 83 horses, riding Galant to victory in the WPTZ-TV News Channel 5 1.35m Jump-off. Riding fourth in the order at the North Elba Showgrounds, the 30-year-old Ward set the early mark to beat when he rode clean and then...

Chris Kappler of the United States opened the CSI-W Blainville Jumping International with a win on Wednesday, July 5. The international show jumping competition runs from July 5-9 at the Blainville Equestrian Park in Blainville, Quebec. Despite some wet footing in the grass grand prix field, 18 horse-and-rider combinations took advantage of the opportunity to jump the track set by one of the most revered course designers in the world, Conrad Homfeld. Both Kappler and Homfeld are Olympic Team...

The 30th Annual National Youth Horse Leaders Symposium, presented by the American Youth Horse Council (AYHC), will be held on March 9-11, 2007, in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo in Denver, CO. The 2007 event will boast more than two-dozen internationally and nationally respected presenters assembled to share their keys to successful youth horse programming and horse management. Attendees will find resources, referrals and networking to improve their ability to help kids connect...

His racing career is over, but for Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby champion, the real race has just begun. He won’t be going it alone, however, judging from the outpouring of support from around the world since his recovery began at The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s famed New Bolton Center. Now, Breyer Animal Creations, makers of the model horses, has stepped in to help by creating a Barbaro portrait model horse that will provide a donation to New Bolton from the...

On Monday, June 26, 2006, the Office International des Epizooties (OIE.) Reference Laboratory for Equine Viral Arteritis at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture’s Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, confirmed an outbreak of equine arteritis virus (EVA) infection involving fetal losses among mares on a Quarter Horse breeding farm in New Mexico. This was based on the widespread prevalence of high antibody levels to the virus in both mares and stallions, plus virus isolation from...

Lexington, KY – One of the nation’s leaders in the fight against degenerative joint disease in equines, the veterinarian-trusted name of Adequan® (polysulfated glycosaminoglycan) has increased their commitment to the United States Equestrian Federation® family by signing on as the official sponsor of the U.S. Reining Team for the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. This is the first time in the history of the World Equestrian Games, that a U.S. team will have a corporate sponsor....

The new U.S. Equestrian Team logo found on Ariat apparel. Lexington, KY – Ariat International, the leading equestrian footwear and apparel manufacturer has created a collection of high-performance athletic gear for our nation’s top equestrian athletes that debuted last weekend at the 2006 Adequan®/USEF Open Reining Championship. Members of the newly-announced U.S. Reining Team sponsored by Adequan® were able to try on the gear and be the first team to do so. Through the newly-signed...

Despite the rain, Shahrazad, owned by the Beyaert Farm, and David Tromp were victorious over a field of 17 in the $25,000 Fairfield Grand Prix on Saturday, June 24, 2006, the culminating event of the Fairfield County Hunt Club June Benefit Horse Show in Westport, CT. Taking up the second and third spots were Hendrik Gunderson aboard Complete and Darvin Garbo with Holly Orlando on Great Pleasure, owned by Scott Hakim, close behind in fourth. The $25,000 Fairfield Grand Prix was held in...

Skinner & Company of Louisville, KY, is producing an important documentary film to raise awareness of equine rescue in disaster situations, specifically focusing on the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Skinner & Company is requesting that anyone who has videos and/or photographs of the following, or knows of someone else, please contact them at the contact information below. Here are some ideas of video/film/or photos that the company would like to see: -Actual storm/ hurricane footage...