The U.S. Saddle Seat Equitation World Cup will be hosting a benefit dinner on Sunday evening, July 6, at the beautiful and historic Spindletop Hall in Lexington, KY. The 2008 Gold Medal Celebration will feature a seated dinner, cash bar and great auction items. Tickets may be purchased for $75 each from any World Cup team member or by contacting Executive Secretary Christy O’Donnell at [email protected] or (813) 760-0465. The U.S. Saddle Seat Equitation World Cup is also proud to announce...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has approved the following horse/rider combinations to the Driving Preliminary Training Short List for the 2008 World Horse Championships (Singles) to be held in Jarantow, Poland August 28-31. The combinations are as follows (listed alphabetically): Name/Age/Hometown/Horse/Sex/Age/Breed/Owner Leslie Berndl / 45 / Newcastle, CA / Koopman’s Lightning Rod / Gelding / 12 / Hackney / Ann McClure Marjas Becker / 61 / Brooker, FL /...

Visitors to this year’s American Paint Horse Association (APHA) World Championship Show will get a special chance to see National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) and American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Freestyle Reining Champion and winner of the prestigious Road to the Horse Competition, Stacy Westfall. She will share her secrets to “thinking like a horse” during a free horsemanship seminar on Saturday, June 28, presented by SmartPak. Recently featured on the Ellen DeGeneres show,...

Lexington, KY - Chester Weber continued his undefeated assault in the four-in-hand combined driving division in the U.S., finishing more than 30 points clear of the competition at the Garden State CDE held in Allentown, NJ. The Ocala, FL driver won his third consecutive Selection Trials for the 2008 World Horse Championships (Four-in-Hand) – to be held in Beesd, Holland September 3-7. Weber’s dressage was spectacular, scoring 37.76, impressing the Ground Jury of Marsoe Larose, Danuta Nowicka,...

Diamante Farms of Wellington, FL, is pleased to announce that Michelle Gibson will compete Don Angelo, the farm's eight-year-old Oldenburg stallion, at the 2008 USEF National Intermediaire I Championship during the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of Champions. The event will be held in San Juan Capistrano, CA, on June 21-22 and June 27-29, with the Intermediaire I championship scheduled for the second weekend. Gibson, a 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games Team Bronze medalist, is head trainer at...

The 2004 U.S. Olympic Equestrian Show Jumping Gold-medal team has been awarded the Sports Hall of Fame inuagural President's Award. Donald P. Dufresne, President of the Palm Beach County Sports Commission and Institute, announced the award Thursday. The awards banquet will be held March 9 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The four team members and the horses on which they won Gold are: Beezie Madden of Cazenovia, NY, on Authentic; McLain Ward of Brewster, NY, on Sapphire; Chris Kapler...

The National Dressage Pony Cup will hold its inaugural show June 28-29, 2008, at Paxton Farm in Cincinnati, OH. The show was created by a group of pony owners in order to promote ponies, their breeders and riders in dressage competition in the United States. Ponies of all breeds are invited to attend the United States Dressage Federation/United States Equestrian Federation-recognized show held in conjunction with Paxton Farms Summer Classic. The ponies will be officially measured at the show...

The American Saddlebred Registry Grand National program announces the five regional championship competitions that have been awarded an additional $5,000 in prize money and the three competitions that have won the $5,000 Special Stakes drawing—part of $40,000 more in prize money the Grand National will be awarding in 2008. Additionally, a donation of $5,000 has been made by freemansaddlebreds.com to the Grand National Fine Harness Open Championship at the Carousel Horse Show in...

The lovely Warmblood gelding Brunello and Liza Towell-Boyd achieved the trifecta of the indoor circuit by taking home the championship ribbons in the regular working hunter division at the Capital Challenge Horse Show, the Washington International Horse Show and the final leg of the indoor championships, The Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, PA, on October 24. Trainer Jack Towell and daughter Towell-Boyd, 28, of Finally Farm in Camden, SC, who piloted Carolyn Clarke Morrison’s...

It's official! The 2006 USEF Dressage Seat Medal Finals will be held at the Golden State Warm Up I & II, July 28-30, 2006, in Rancho Murieta, CA. Junior riders qualified for these Finals by competing in the 2005 USEF Dressage Seat Medal Semi-Final classes held at each of the 2005 Great American/USDF Regional Championships, with the top two competitors in each age division being invited to the 2006 Medal Finals. For more information, contact Jennifer Keeler, National Director of Dressage, at...