Four teams, three of them ranked in the top 10, met at the Willis Family Equestrian Center in Waco, Texas for the Willis invitational on Friday and Saturday. No.7 Baylor, No.10 University of Tennese Martin, New Mexico State, and No.8 South Dakota State University each went head to head over the two days. By winning all three of their matches Baylor won the invitational for the sixth straight year, and opened their season 3-0. NMSU finished 2-1 over the weekend, UTM 1-2, and SDSU 0-3....

USEF Network is broadcasting the New England Morgan Horse Show live from the Tri-County Fairgrounds all week. Full coverage from every day of the show (through Saturday July 27) will be streamed live on the USEF Network coverage page: https://www.usefnetwork.com/featured/2013NewEnglandMorganHorseShow/ .The #NEMHS is now in it's seventy-fourth year. A full schedule of classes each day will include classic pleasure driving, classic pleasure saddle, english pleasure, equitation, hunter...

The U.S. Saddle Seat Young Rider Team (Laura Elcock) Fulton, MO - The U.S. Saddle Seat Young Rider Team swept the competition at the U.S. Saddle Seat Invitational over the weekend against international teams from South Africa and Canada. The three teams met for the competition at William Woods University, and the U.S. young riders were excellent during the two days of Three- and Five-gaited competition. After the first day of competition, the U.S. team led South Africa and Canada in...

Lexington, KY - The Florida Department of Agriculture has confirmed that a second horse associated with the Ocala Equine Herpes Virus 1 (EHV-1) has presented with neurological signs. To date, there have been a total of 7 horses linked to the Ocala outbreak (two neurological cases, and five having tested positive with no evidence of neurologic disease being seen). All positive tests have been reported as Equine Herpes Virus Type 1, the wild strain. An additional horse (Wellington area and no...

Emily Chapman is an 18-year-old from Tucson, Arizona who will be attending the University of Kentucky in the Spring of 2013. She is a member of the three-gaited section of the 2012 U.S. Saddle Seat World Cup Team. There is a misconception that equitation is easy, and that the riders who show in this division simply “sit pretty” on a horse. So people often ask why I chose to compete in the equitation division over other divisions. Well, because one of the primary goals of equitation...

Each year, 10 percent of the net from each year's AMHA Stallion Service Auction is available for the AMHA grant program for financially challenged USEF Morgan competitions. This year, nine shows applied for the grant and five were selected. The following shows are recipients of $639.50 in grant monies for their 2012 shows: Far West Morgan Horse Show, Key Classic Benefit Morgan Horse Show, Western New York Morgan Horse Show, North Star Morgan Americana, and Citrus Cup Regional. For a show to...

Rebekah "Becca" Chenelle IEA 2012 Leading Hunt Seat Rider of the Year (Ron Schwane) Syracuse, NY - More than 330 of the nation's leading middle school and high school equestrians competed at The New York State Fairgrounds April 20-22 for the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) National Finals sponsored by Dover Saddlery and the American Quarter Horse Youth Association (AQHYA). The finalists represented over 100 teams from seven zones throughout the United States. Individuals and...

Devon, PA - The ticket office for the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair opens Today, April 9, and with top Olympic hopefuls competing in two Observation Events at this year’s show, getting reservations early is very important. At least three of the eight top riders on the long list of candidates for the London Olympics show jumping team have said they will compete in the Observation classes at Devon, May 24 to June 3. Mclain Ward on Sapphire and Antares F were given a bye for the first...

Devon, PA — Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, which benefits the Bryn Mawr Hospital, has donated over $14 million, and last year another record donation was made to the Hospital. The 2011 show generated a record donation of $402,000 for the Hospital that will be used for a variety of much needed equipment including two Cardiac Catheterization Lab Fast Track Holding Bays, a pediatric anesthesia monitoring and gas system and a SonoSite ultrasound machine. Thousands of volunteers work...

Orlando, Florida - Olympian Peter Leone joined members of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) Board of Directors at their annual meeting held in Orlando, FL to celebrate the launch of his new book, Peter Leone's Show Jumping Clinic: Success Strategies for Equestrian Athletes. Leone's book, written along with Kimberly S. Jaussi, PhD, herself an avid rider, writer and leadership professor and coach, explores every aspect of riding from the basics of correct use of aids...