St. Andrews Presbyterian College (Laurinburg, NC) edged out Centenary College (Hackettstown, NJ) to claim the team championship at the 30th Annual ANRC National Intercollegiate Riding Championship on April 21-22, 2007. St. Andrews finished with 161.30 points, compared to Centenary’s 160.73. Goucher College (Maryland) was a close third, with 159.29. Defending champions, Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia), settled into fourth place. Centenary rider Eleanor Kunsman won the overall...

The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) is pleased to announce NRHA Professional Tom McCutcheon has reached a major milestone in his career. McCutcheon is now part of an elite distinction only a few reiners reach in their lifetime. McCutcheon just topped one million dollars in NRHA Lifetime Earnings. The reiner from Aubrey, TX, becomes the latest to join the NRHA Million Dollar Rider club with $1,004,881.75 in lifetime earnings. McCutcheon’s earnings at the 2006 NRHA Futurity sent him...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) is pleased to announce that Jane Savoie, who has been a member of the United States Equestrian Team and a popular clinician and author, is clinician for the nine adult clinics beginning in 2007. The clinic dates for 2007 are March 3-4 in Region 9, March 24-25 in Region 4, April 14-15 in Region 8, and October 13-14 in Region 5. The theme for the clinics is “Believe You Can; Ride the Possibilities,” focusing on Savoie’s sports psychology first...

Stadium Jumping, Inc., will present the Fifth Annual Zada Enterprises, LLC, Dressage at the National on December 1-3, 2006, at the Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club in Wellington, FL. The dressage show is an annual highlight of the 123rd National Horse Show and Family Festival, which runs from November 29 through December 3. The 2006 edition of Dressage at the National features the full gamut of dressage classes, ranging from USEF training level through FEI grand prix, including young rider,...

Julie Welles of West Simsbury, CT, won the SHALANNO Style of Riding Award Perpetual Trophy at the 31st annual Hampton Classic Horse Show. The SHALANNO Style of Riding Award Perpetual Trophy is presented to the junior jumper rider who best exemplifies the American style of equitation as modeled by Olympic medalists Joe Fargis, Conrad Homfeld and George Morris. The award recipient must have the respectful, dignified, courteous and workmanlike manner of a true sportsman. Welles, 18, was selected...

Nick Haness, 2006 USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals-West Champion (A.C. Custom Photo ) (Burbank, CA)—After three challenging phases of competition, and a ride off among the top four, California’s Nick Haness emerged as the 2006 USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals–West champion during the Los Angeles International Jumping Festival (September 20-24) at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Judges Anne Kursinski, an Olympic medalist, and Carol Hoffman, both of Frenchtown,...

The 2006 Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) returns to the Verizon Center this year, October 24-29, in downtown Washington, D.C., to host one of the most exciting and innovative horse show events in the country. This year, the WIHS proudly welcomes ladies’ side saddle as a new division and evening feature. Eight exhibitors will be chosen from the USEF Horse of the Year standings as of September 18, 2006. The eight invited competitors will participate in the $10,000 Ladies’ Side Saddle...

Riding Claim to Fame, 12-year-old Reed Kessler won the Small Pony Green championship title with a total score of 983 during the second day of the USEF Pony Finals National Championships. (PhelpsPhotos.com/USEF Archives) Lexington, KY – Despite an ominous black cloud and earth-shaking claps of thunder, three young ladies had a very happy ending to their day. In the 2006 Wild Horsefeathers/USEF National Green Hunter Pony Championship, 14-year-old Kaitlin Campbell cantered away with the...

Wilhelm Genn of Lebanon, OH, cleaned house at Horse Shows by the Bay Series II by winning both the $10,000 Open Jumper Welcome Prix and the $25,000 Grand Traverse Bay Grand Prix on Happy Z and Chantal, respectively. Grand Prix Ring Designer Pierre Joliceur’s course produced four clean rounds out of 22 in Friday afternoon’s (July 21) Welcome Prix. Genn guided Happy Z to the win by skimming all of the turns and jumping diagonally across several of the verticals, beating out Quendo and Erin Haas...

Two of the country’s premier events, The Event at Rebecca Farm and the Cosequin Stuart Horse Trials, ran Adequan United States Eventing Association (USEA) Gold Cup Series divisions the weekend of July 21-23, giving eventers from both coasts the chance to test their mettle against some of the top horses and riders in the nation. The Event at Rebecca Farm Approximately 450 horse-and-rider combinations, from novice level through three-star, came from as far as Idaho and California and Arizona to...