Newark, OH – The American Trakehner Association (ATA) is pleased to announce its 2008 Awards of Merit. The awards were announced at the ATA convention this fall. Additional details on the awards can be found on the ATA website at www.americantrakehner.com. The Koenig/NowPac Young Riders’ Dressage Award is a monetary award presented to the highest scoring junior/young rider competing in dressage on an ATA Trakehner or part-Trakehner horse. The 2008 recipient is Laura Noyes of Delaware, OH. Noyes...

The American Trakehner Association (ATA) announces that the following horses have been awarded Excellence of Performance designations: —The approved stallion SCHIFFON *Ps* by E.H. Anduc, out of Surprise by Mago xx, bred by Anna & Flemming Loeber, Herning, DK, owned and ridden in most classes by Lea Ann Hansen of Doswell, VA, for his accomplishments in dressage. —The gelding MICIAH *Pb* by Leonidas *Pg*, out of Meriah *Pb* by Erzsand *E*, bred, owned and ridden by A. Whit Watkins,...

Jacqueline Brooks on Balmoral and Elly Schobel on Raison d’Etre were the top scorers in the North American Breeders Futurity FEI Dressage Test for Five-Year-Old Horses and Six-Year-Old Horses respectively at the 2004 Dressage at Devon. Brooks earned an 8.2 in the test, a score which judge Janet Brown says would place her in the top ten percent in a European championship. Her five-year-old American Hanoverian is by Belcanto out of Charisma, and was bred by Stephanie Jeffery. The Canadian was...

Del Mar, Calif. – After the East Coast and West Coast portions of the Sallie B. Wheeler/USEF/USHJA Hunter Breeding National Championship presented by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Oare concluded on Wednesday, August 28, Quite a Star, the East Coast Best Young Horse Champion, was named the Overall Grand Champion. Caberneigh, the East Coast Best Young Horse Reserve Champion, was named the Overall Reserve Grand Champion. Overall Grand Champion Quite a Star (Shawna Simmons of SAS Photography) Judges...

Lexington, Ky. – The West Coast portion of the 2017 Sallie B. Wheeler/USEF Hunter Breeding National Championship took place Wednesday, August 23, at the Showpark Summer Classic in Del Mar, Calif. Judges Christina Schlusemeyer of Wellington, Fla., and Meg Schulman of Littleton, Colo., assessed the young hunter prospects and awarded the West Coast Best Young Horse Champion title to Just Remember. Just Remember, 2017 West Coast Best Young Horse Champion (Captured Moment Photography) Just...

The successful High Score Awards presented by the Welsh Pony & Cob Society of America at Pony Finals have been expanded this year to include registered part bred Welsh ponies in addition to registered purebred and half Welsh ponies recognized in past years. Earlier this year, WPCSA voted to register part bred Welsh and these animals are now competing at rated Welsh shows alongside half Welsh. Part bred Welsh are animals with at least one registered half Welsh parent. In addition to...

Kreuth, Germany - The 2011 National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) European Futurity hosted ancillary classes in the $15,000 added Open, $7,500 added Non Pro, $1,000 added Novice Horse Open Level 2 and $1,000 added Novice Horse Non Pro Level 2 this week. The $15,000 added Open Champion is Volker Schmitt (GER) riding Chic Magnetic. The two scored a 228 earning both the NRHA Lawson trophy and $4,653 in prize money. Bernard Fonck (BEL) and Kitas Spark claimed the Reserve Champion title scoring a...

Nina Lill and GB Jacs Bond. (NRHA.) Kreuth, Germany – The Consolation for the $187,000 added National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) European Open Futurity offered plenty of fine reining for visitors today. It was FEI European Champion Nina Lill (GER) who rode to a top score of 220 astride GB Jacs Bond (owner Jan Gerbig). The gelding by GB Jac out of Dr Bonds Bessie was bred by Daniela Schurrer and earned the Western Event Snaffle Bit Level 2 Open Futurity Champion title last year. The duo...

Winning the Palmenblute Award is Stiletto *Ps*. (Photo by Shannon Brinkman/USEF ) Newark, OH - The American Trakehner Association is pleased to announce its 2010 merit awards, which recognize Trakehner horses registered with the association and having superior performance careers, and those individuals who have made significant contributions to the organization. Winning the Palmenblute Award is Stiletto *Ps* (by Martini *Pg*E* out of Suprecocious by Abdullah *Pg*E*), a stallion bred and owned...

Michael Blowen, the Founder and President of Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Kentucky, is pleased to announce that the satellite facility, Old Friends at Cabin Creek: The Bobby Frankel Division, will be the new permanent home of Bobby Frankel-trainee Gigli and famed New York-bred stallion Thunder Rumble. The first Old Friends auxiliary farm, Cabin Creek, is located just outside of Saratoga in Greenfield Center, NY, and is owned by Joann and Mark Pepper. In 1992, Thunder Rumble...