Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes who will represent the Land Rover U.S. Driving Team for the FEI Driving World Championship for Combined Ponies. This championship will take place August 30-September 3, 2023, in Oirschot, Netherlands. Single: Amy Cross (Chestertown, Md.) and Eulenhof Spencer , a 2010 Welsh Pony gelding owned by Wendy O’Brien Hilary Mroz-Blythe (Leverett, Mass.) and Bijou , her own 2006 pony cross mare Alternate: Anna Koopman...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athlete-and-horse combinations that have been named to the Short List for the U.S. Dressage Team for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. The dressage portion of equestrian competition will run October 22-23 and 25 in Santiago, Chile. The following athlete-and-horse combinations have been named to the U.S. Dressage Team List for the Pan American Games and are listed in alphabetical order: Susie Dutta (Wellington, Fla.) and Don...

Lexington, Ky. - The 2022 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions will take place August 22-28, 2022, at HITS Chicago at Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Ill. Members of the media who would like to request credentials to cover the event should submit a completed application form and waiver by August 15, 2022. The 2022 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions will consist of the following 16 championship divisions: USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the dates and location for the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions for 2022 through 2024. The event will return to HITS Chicago at Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Ill., for this period, pending contract finalization and the dates are as follows: August 22-28, 2022 August 21-27, 2023 August 19-25, 2024 Festival of Champions hosts 16 National Championships for dressage, including several new divisions for 2022. The Young Horse...

Kalispell, Mont. – Talented young athletes are ready at The Event at Rebecca Farm for the Adequan North American Youth Championships presented by Gotham North (NAYC). A total of 48 CCIJ2*-L and 13 CCIY3*-S competitors from the U.S. and Canada will vie for top honors in the USEA North American Youth Eventing Championships presented by Montana Equestrian Events from July 24-28. 2019 NAYC Opening Ceremony (Shannon Brinkman Photo) On Wednesday, teams and their supporters enjoyed an opening...

Lexington, Ky. – The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) is set to welcome the country’s top youth Arabian horse athletes at the 2018 Youth National Arabian and Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show. Hosted at the State Fair Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., competition will be held from July 21-28, in the Jim Norick Arena. The first annual Youth Nationals was held in 1993 and remains one of the most prestigious competitions for junior Arabian horse athletes. From 2006-2017, Youth Nationals...

The United States Equestrian Federation’s 2018 Annual Meeting, which ended Saturday, celebrated the achievements of equine and human athletes and provided reason for great optimism about equestrian sports’ future. Themed “Bringing Joy, Embracing Change,” this year’s convention honored champions, delivered updates on key strategies and initiatives, hosted a number of popular educational forums, and welcomed lively open discussion on topics of interest to members and...

Wayne, Ill. – The nation’s top young dressage talent has arrived at the Lamplight Equestrian Center with their sights set on national titles in the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. The annual championship will run Friday, August 26 through Sunday, August 28 and showcase three days of top notch competition across four divisions. These championships include the USEF Young Adult ‘Brentina Cup’ Dressage National Championship presented by Dressage Today, AGCO/USEF Young...

Lexington, Ky. - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is pleased to announce that eight athletes will represent the U.S. at the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final, March 24-28, 2016, in Gothenburg, Sweden at the Gothenburg Horse Show. The following athletes qualified during the 2015-2016 World Cup qualifying season in their respective leagues (listed in qualifying order): Longines FEI World Cup™, North American East Coast Sub-League Hardin Towell (Camden, S.C.) Quentin...

Steffen Peters and Rosamunde (Jennifer Keeler) Burbank, Calif. – Steffen Peters’ magical weekend continued on the final day of competition at California Dreaming Productions’ Los Angeles Winter Dressage CDI-W/Y/J/U-25, held January 28-31 in Burbank. This time aboard Four Winds Farm’s nine-year-old Rheinlander mare Rosamunde (Rock Forever x First Lady by Fidermark), Peters posted another personal best in the CDI Grand Prix Special with a score of 78.827%, once again...