OKLAHOMA CITY - Horses considered as gypsy cob, gypsy vanner and other similar types are now eligible for registration with the Pinto Horse Association of America. Relaxing the rules on draft characteristics, the PtHA is offering a new classification of equines. According to the new rules, horses showing feathers on their legs are now acceptable as long as they are registered with an approved outcross breed association as determined by the PtHA Rule Book and meet the standard color requirements...

Kate Hayley wins top honors at USHJA Emerging Athletes Training Clinic (Tricia Booker/Cameron Green Media ) Buffalo, N.Y., November 23, 2010 - The Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center (BTRC) has been a busy facility during the last few weeks, wrapping up with the United States Hunter Jumper Association's Emerging Athletes Program's National Training Session. The clinic was held November 19-21, 2010, at the BTRC, which is the only indoor riding facility located in the city of Buffalo. It has been...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is now accepting bids to host the 2011 USEF National Junior Hunter Championships - East Coast or West Coast. To request a bid packet, please contact Lauren Fahey, USEF Director of Hunter Affiliates, at (859) 225-6977 or via email at [email protected]. Bids will be due in the office by the close of business on Monday, January 3, 2011. Requests received after this time will not be considered.

Lexington, KY - This fall the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) hosted three Youth and Pony Outreach Clinics, giving aspiring dressage riders the opportunity to hone their skills with international rider and trainer Lendon Gray. These two day sessions provided riders with personal and group riding instruction as well as informational lectures. Parents and trainers were also invited to participate in information sessions that focused on how to best guide young riders through FEI pony,...

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – November 17, 2010 – More than 30 entries have been received for the inaugural $100,000 added National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) World Championship Shootout. The Shootout is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 2 at the NRHA Futurity & Adequan® North American Affiliate Championship Show. It is this year’s largest added money NRHA-approved class in the world. The $100,000 added Shootout, sponsored by Equine Sports Medicine and Kyle Tack, is an...

Hayley Barnhill and Podest, 2010 ASPCA Maclay National Championships (Photo Credit: Rebecca Walton/PMG.) Syracuse, NY - November 7, 2010 - Today marked the final day of competition at the 2010 Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament featuring the 127th National Horse Show. The highlight event at the Oncenter Complex in Syracuse, NY, was the 2010 ASPCA Maclay National Championships. Riders worked all year to qualify for this event and after three phases of competition and it was 17-year-old...

Temecula, CA — Jennie Brannigan and Nina Gardner’s Cambalda made their plane trip to the West Coast worthwhile today, by winning the inaugural CCI3* at the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event on their dressage score of 46.0. The reward for their effort was a $7,000 check. Cambalda, an Irish Sport Horse gelding, overcame a miscommunication at fence 4 in the show jumping today, before making a spectacular effort to leave the rails up. The clean round—finishing exactly on the optimum...

Hannah Goodson-Cutt rode Caretano to victory in the $50,000 NHS Hunter Classic (Photo © 2010 Reflections Photography) Cazenovia, NY - November 4, 2010 - Hunter divisions at the 127th National Horse Show concluded on Thursday afternoon with the presentation of championship awards followed by a special $50,000 National Horse Show Hunter Classic, held to honor Charlie Weaver. Hannah Goodson-Cutt rode Caretano to victory in the $50,000 Hunter Classic and was also named Best Child Rider on a Horse...

Goosebumps and Cookie Beck earned multiple blue ribbons in Wednesday's Green Conformation Hunter div (Photo © 2010 Lauren Fisher/PMG) Cazenovia, NY - November 3, 2010 - The 2010 Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament featuring the 127th National Horse Show continued with its second day of competition on Wednesday with the start of the professional, amateur-owner, and junior hunter divisions. Horses and riders showed two rounds over fences and went under saddle in the day's competition....

Lexington, KY - The American Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation has awarded $262,000 in grants to 15 non-profit organizations and universities working for the health and welfare of horses. These 2010 grant recipients share the Foundation’s mission to support equine research, benevolence, education and the equine community. From funding laminitis research to sponsoring an “equitarian” mission in Mexico, the Foundation is supporting a wide range of initiatives in 2010 and 2011 that...