August 22, 2009 Saturday was such an eventful day! We allowed the horse's to rest in the stalls on Friday to become accustomed to the climate and to calm their nerves down from the 12 hour drive. So after their relaxing day of rest, we got to work them. All 9 horses were perfect and we worked them to the best of their abilities. The funny part about Saturday though came after we worked the horses. Customers of ours and my family went to a café on the show grounds to enjoy lunch. And...

The five-year-old champion in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Central Selection Trials was Solaris Hit, ridden and owned by Rebecca Knollman, of Maineville, OH. (PhelpsPhotos.com) Lexington, KY – Some of the most promising dressage prospects in the country were showcased in the quest to qualify for the FEI World Breeding Championships in Verden, Germany, as the 2007 Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Program kicked off with two of the three official selection trials. The first...

The date of the Intercontinental Sport Horse Auction hosted by Nona Garson and The Ridge Farm in Wellington, FL, has been rescheduled for February 23, 2007, in light of the Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) outbreak in the area. The schedule of the auction will remain the same, and only the dates have changed. The cocktail party and formal viewing reception will now be held on Wednesday, February 21, 2007, beginning at 4:00 p.m., with the sale to follow on Friday, February 23 at 5:00 p.m. Horses can be...

The December 27 and 28 clinic with Nona Garson at The Ridge Farm has been delayed until current quarantines are lifted and conditions are rendered safe in Wellington, FL, due to the recent outbreak of the Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1). The illness has temporarily halted the local equestrian community. Garson, a 2000 Olympic veteran, teaches several clinics each year at her farms in New Jersey and Florida, and although all horses on her farms are “healthy and safe,” she has decided to postpone...

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will continue its long history of providing premier continuing education for equine veterinarians when it sponsors its 52nd Annual Convention in San Antonio, TX, December 2-6. More than 4,000 practitioners, veterinary students and technicians attend the convention each year, making it the largest equine veterinary meeting in the world. The San Antonio Convention Facilities, located along San Antonio's famous River Walk, will be the primary...

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...

The Event at Rebecca Farm put on an all around world-class competition the weekend of July 21-23, including a United States Eventing Association (USEA) Spalding Labs Young Event Horse Series division. Held in Kalispell, MT, the beautiful mountains towering in the distance made a fantastic backdrop for the event...but were viewed through shimmering heat waves as temperatures soared up to and over 100 degrees throughout the weekend. With the highest total score of the weekend, Landioso (Legendaer...

Courtesy Susie Bors (The F.A.M.E. Team shows their stuff to other international vaulters in Germany.) Lexington, KY – The U.S. Vaulting Team that will travel to Aachen in a few weeks for the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games secured a more than impressive win in Munich, Germany, last weekend, beating out the European competition, to the surprise of many. In an arena where one could have heard a pin drop when the crowd went silent for the Americans, F.A.M.E. became the first U.S. vaulting team to...

Steve Schaefer of Maple Park, IL, and his horse, Winchester, out-jumped a field of 20 to win the $25,000 Grand Prix of Traverse City during Series I of Horse Shows by the Bay in Traverse City, MI. Eight horse-and-rider combinations returned to compete over the shortened course designed Sunday by international course designer Guilherme Jorge. Schaefer and Winchester crossed through the finish markers penalty-free and in a time of 46.486 seconds, almost two seconds faster than second-place...

Garrison Latimer (Brooke Jacobs) Lexington, KY – Six was the magic number for Brooke Jacobs of Georgetown, KY. Jacobs has entered the USEF Saddle Seat Adult Amateur Medal Final every year since its inception in 2001, and this year she took home the Gold medal with a unanimous vote from the judges. Her mount was Callaway’s Show Me When, an 11-year-old American Saddlebred gelding owned by Werk Way Stables. The championship was especially sweet for Jacobs who was on home turf and had a large...