2016 grant recipient Judy Dettore (Photo courtesy of the Dettore Family) Lexington, Ky. --- The USHJA Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to award 2016 USHJA Foundation Gochman Family US Pony Finals Grants to Judy Dettore, Riley Hogan and Cecillia Machado. Each grant recipient will be given an opportunity to compete at the 2016 US Pony Finals. "We had many impressive applicants this year, and we're very excited that with the support of the Gochman Family we were able to award this...

Columbus, Ohio - The Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA), in conjunction with the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA), awards a student-rider the National Sportsmanship Award each year. This year's award was presented to Kate Coffey, a sixteen-year-old from Westford, Massachusetts. The national award winner is selected from a group of riders who earned a Sportsmanship Award at a local, regional or zone IEA show during the 2015-2016 season. These winners were then invited...

Brooke Kemper and Classified. (Andrew Ellis) Lexington, Va. - An impressive crowd of over 1,000 spectators turned out Saturday night to see Virginian Brooke Kemper and her own Classified, a 12-year-old Holsteiner Thoroughbred gelding, take home the win in the $25,000 Grand Prix of Roanoke. The evening class was the highlight of the show that this year found a new home at the Virginia Horse Center. Kemper bested a field of 11 in the Grand Prix, emerging victorious after a four-horse jump off....

Stamford, England – The dressage phase of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI4* wrapped up Friday afternoon and the U.S. combinations had solid performances in the talented field of 74 entries. Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights, recipients of a Jacqueline B. Mars Competition Grant through the USET Foundation, are the top American pair in 27th place as the compeition moves into the cross-country phase tomorrow. Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights (Libby Law Photography) Rutledge...

Lexington, Ky. – Cross-country was the order of the day at the Kentucky Horse Park as the second phase of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Land Rover took place under rainy skies. Despite deteriorating conditions the competition went off as planned with 72 starters challenging Derek di Grazia’s course of 47 jumping efforts. It was a tough day for the American contingent with several top placed athletes opting to retire on course, but brave rides were rewarded as the U....

Lexington, Ky. – The dressage phase of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Land Rover wrapped up today with an expected shake-up of the leaderboard. The remaining starters in the field went to task today in the Rolex Stadium before the ground jury of Dr. Ernst Topp (GER), Angela Tucker (GBR), and Wayne Quarles (USA). The U.S. now holds five positions within the top ten, led by Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights in fifth place. Rutledge and Covert Rights , a nine-year-old...

Angel Karolyi and Wings, owned by McLain Ward, Win the $50,000 Purina Animal Nutrition Grand Prix, Sunday, March 8, 2015, at HITS Ocala (ESI Photography) Ocala, Fla. - HITS Ocala VIII finished up with the $50,000 Purina Animal Nutrition Grand Prix, held in the Ocala Horse Properties Stadium on Sunday. Angel Karolyi of Aiken, South Carolina, riding McLain Ward’s Wings was the only rider to have two clear rounds for the win. Karolyi went last in the jump-off and took a chance by going...

Jill Wilson receives the Leading Lady Rider Award for the sixth consecutive year (Al Cook - alcookphoto.com) Harrisburg, Pa. - It was a night of 'old tradition' at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show as 19 Hunt Clubs, including hounds, huntsmen, and horses, took over the main arena at the Farm Show Complex for Hunt Night, sponsored by Kinsley Construction. The competition was steep in the Field Hunters Competitions, in which each horse and rider competed over a course of eight...

Jan Ebeling and Santo Domingo (Jennifer M. Keeler) Burbank, Calif. - After four days, six rings, and nearly 1500 rides scheduled to come down centerline, final championship titles were awarded Sunday and the competition officially entered the record books as the largest edition in the 47-year history of the Annual California Dressage Society (CDS) Championship Show, held in conjunction with the Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 7 Dressage Championships, September 25 - 28, 2014 in...

The first day of dressage began on Thursday for the FEI World Team and Individual Eventing Championship at the Le Pin National Stud in Le Pin-au-Haras, France. The Ground Jury made up of Gillian Rolton (AUS), James Alain (FRA), and Ernst Topp (GER) saw 46 combinations perform their dressage tests, three of whom were representing the U.S. Phillip Dutton and Trading Aces had the best score of the day for the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team, with Buck Davidson and Ballynoe Castle RM and Sinead...