Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Mandy Porter and LaMarque) The $30,000 Copa de Amistad Grand Prix, presented by EquiFit, Inc., welcomed 24 horse-and-rider teams onto the Peter Holmes-designed course at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park. With seven riders, six of them women, earning spots in the jump-off, it was the second to last duo of Mandy Porter and Wild Turkey Farm’s young stallion, LaMarque, who led the victory gallop. Porter also qualified her other mount, Chesapeake (Wild Turkey...

Photo by Dr. C. Mike Tomlinson (Missy Ransehousen, Chef d'Equipe for Para-Dressage at 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.) The United States Para-Equestrian Association would like to announce their qualified riders for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) Selection Trials scheduled for June 24-27, 2010. The amount of Para-Dressage participants has tripled in one year, which means more para-equestrians are challenging themselves to international competition. The riders making...

Photo by Lauren Fisher/PMG (Lisa Goldman and Morocco won the $10,000 SJHOF High Junior/AO Jumper Classic.) It was a fantastic day for 21-year-old Denise Wilson of Oconomowoc, WI, and Blue Gate Farm LLC's Life is Life 15 when the pair raced to victory in Saturday afternoon's $30,000 Showplace Productions Grand Prix. Held in the beautiful Grand Prix Ring at the Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, IL, the grand prix was the first of three in the 2010 Showplace Spring Spectacular Horse Show...

As anyone who’s familiar with Colorado weather knows, May can be an interesting month. Such was the case during the first of three weeks of horse shows at the Colorado Horse Park where a mid-May snowstorm (yes, you read that right) forced the High Prairie Spring Preview (May 13-16) to have a noon start on the first day. “I love the people at the Colorado shows,” said Show Manager Charlotte Skinner of Langer Equestrian Group. “They were much more accepting of the schedule modifications than I...

Showplace Productions is pleased to announce that respected hunter/jumper trainer Diane Carney will host several clinics during the 2010 Showplace Spring Spectacular Horse Shows. Held at the beautiful Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, IL, the Showplace Spring Spectacular will return with three consecutive weeks of competition this year, running June 8-June 25. Diane Carney of Telluride Farm in Hampshire, IL, has been both an active participant and influential trainer in the hunter and...

Photo by James Leslie Parker (Philip Richter and Glasgow.) Philip Richter returns to the Devon Horse Show to defend his championship on Glasgow in Amateur Owner Jumpers on Friday and Saturday, June 4-5. The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, May 27-June 6, benefits the Bryn Mawr Hospital, to which it has donated almost $14 million. New footing in the Dixon Oval at Devon has been installed by Equestrian Services International, which has provided the footing for the 2008 Olympics in Hong Kong,...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation's Eventing department has announced that the Eventing Mandatory Outing for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Land Rover American Eventing Championships (AEC) September 9-12, 2010 in Fairburn, GA. All Short Listed horse/rider combinations must enter in the Advanced division at AEC and demonstrate their continued preparation, soundess and ability to compete. The Land Rover US Eventing Team...

Photo by ESI Photography (Peter Leone and Nerval de la Batia win their first Grand Prix of the season at HITS Culpeper.) Peter Leone and Nerval de la Batia, owned by the Beaupre Group, are on the road to the Pfizer Million as they took home the victory in Sunday's $40,000 EMO Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, to highlight the Commonwealth National. "It means a lot to me to come here and kick-off the season," said Leone of Greenwich, CT, who competed in his first of eight needed...

Kim Severson Leads the Way with Tipperary Liadhnan (Shannon Brinkman/USEF) Lexington, KY - The gamble with the weather paid off on cross country day at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Bridgestone and the Organizing Committee was rewarded for their efforts and cancellation of the lunch break with a sunny cross country phase. The storms loomed toward the end of the day, but the competition went off unscathed and Great Britain's William Fox-Pitt held on to his lead with a text book...

Photo Courtesy CRAA Spring Derby Premiere Sport Horse Show The CRAA Spring Derby Premiere Sport Horse Show at the Three County Fairgrounds in Northhampton, MA, offers an array of opportunity like no other. Not only is it the International Friesian Show Horse Association (IFSHA) Region 1 Championship Horse Show, there are also regional and national qualifying events for the Arabian Horse Association, SHIH, SHUS, dressage and many over fences classes offered. In addition, a full day of open breed...