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Dressage Training Online Offers the 2007 FEI Level Trainer’s Conference Online

by By Reisa Bonetti | 1/24/2008 9:46:00 AM

DressageTrainingOnline.com , the exclusive Internet host partner to the United States Dressage Federation (USDF), currently has the 2007 FEI Level Trainers’ Conference available in its entirety online. The conference was hosted by Swedish star Jan Brink. Brink has been to numerous world championships, including the Olympics, World Equestrian Games, World Cups and all of the top international shows. The training incorporates horse-and-rider teams of all levels, from the young horse to those...

HITS and Equine Medical Center Announce Leading Mare Award for the 2008 HITS Ocala Winter Circuit

by By HITS | 1/24/2008 9:40:00 AM

HITS is pleased to announce that the Stallion Services Department of the Equine Medical Center of Ocala, FL, will offer the Leading Mare Award to the mare that finishes the highest in the $100,000 DeLuca Toyota Tundra Grand Prix, presented by Great American Insurance Group on Sunday, March 16, at HITS Ocala. The award consists of a free embryo transfer, which will be performed by Dr. Corey Miller, head of reproduction at the Ocala-based veterinary hospital. Any mare based in the United States...

American Saddlebred Sweepstakes Payments Due January 31; Nomination Forms Available Online

by By Will Wood, Jr. | 1/24/2008 9:31:00 AM

American Saddlebred Sweepstakes prize program payments are due Thursday, January 31, for the three-year-old and four-year-old sweepstakes. Nomination forms can be found on the sweepstakes homepage at https://www.asha.net/Prize-Sweepstakes . Nomination forms for the two-year-old sweepstakes will be available in May. Information for the Kentucky Breeders Incentive Fund can be found on the KSOBA Charter Club page at https://www.asha.net/ksoba . The following payments are due Thursday, January 31:...

Winsome Adante to be Honored in Official Retirement Ceremony at the 2008 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Presented by Farnam

by By Joanie Morris | 1/22/2008 2:39:00 PM

Lexington, KY - The only three-time winner of the CCI**** at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, eventing legend Winsome Adante will grace the Sheila C. Johnson Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington one final time. He will be honored by the Rolex Kentucky organizer Equestrian Events, Inc., and his fans in an official retirement ceremony at the 2008 event on Sunday, April 27. Owned by Plain Dealing Farm in Scottsville, VA, and ridden by Kim Severson, Winsome Adante is the only horse to...

Dates Finalized for 2008 World Reining Championships

by Joanie Morris | 1/17/2008 4:28:00 PM

Lexington, KY - 2008 will be an important milestone in the international Reining community. Previously, a World Reining Championship had only been offered at the FEI World Equestrian Games. But this year, in Maneribo, Italy, teams will compete for World Championship medals September 11-14. The U.S. team will be selected at the Adequan/USEF National Reining Championship presented by Equine Motorcoach in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma June 24-28, which will be held during the NRHA Derby. To compete at...

World Games 2010 Foundation Selects Official Shipping Agent

by Brian Sosby | 1/17/2008 4:09:00 PM

LEXINGTON, KY— The World Games 2010 Foundation has appointed Peden Bloodstock as the Official Shipping Agent for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, to be held September 25-October 10, 2010, at the Kentucky Horse Park. Peden Bloodstock will be engaged in the management, coordination and provision of all equine transport services and ground logistics for the Games. This will include but is not limited to coordinating the shipment of some 800 horses, their attendants, equipment and...

Ken Smith Wins WEF Opening Day Working Hunter

by Brian Sosby | 1/17/2008 4:04:00 PM

WELLINGTON, FL—Ken Smith kicked off the opening day of the CN Winter Equestrian Festival with wins in two Regular Working Hunter classes aboard seven-year-old gray gelding Cento at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center Wednesday. The seven-year-old, owned by Angel/Ashland Farms of Wellington, took the blue ahead of Tiffany Cornacchio on Hypnotiq in the one class and Amy Momrow and Rolling Hills Contessa in the other class. "It has been a great show so far," Smith joked, being a winner...

CN Winter Equestrian Festival Opens in Celebration of Color

by Brian Sosby | 1/17/2008 4:03:00 PM

WELLINGTON, FL—The CN Winter Equestrian Festival opened a 12-week run Wednesday to accolades from riders over the rebuilt Palm Beach International Equestrian Center that was a celebration of color with thousands of flowers decorating the show grounds. Labels of "world class," "unbelievable" and "amazing" were applied by exhibitors to the show grounds that were taken over by Equestrian Sport Productions, LLC (ESP) just one month and one day before the start of WEF. Opening day saw 929 horses...

USET Foundation Honors Miranda Cadwell with Whitney Stone Cup

by By Phelps Media Group | 1/17/2008 3:41:00 PM

The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation is pleased to announce that Miranda (Randy) Cadwell has been awarded the Whitney Stone Cup, which is awarded annually to an active competitor who displays consistent excellence in international competition and high standards of sportsmanlike conduct while serving as an ambassador for the United States and equestrian sport. The Whitney Stone Cup is given by the USET Foundation Executive Committee in honor of the late Whitney Stone, who served...

Karen Healey Given California Professional Horsemen's Association Special Achievement Award and United States Hunter Jumper Association Distinguished Service Award

by By Phelps Media Group | 1/17/2008 3:36:00 PM

For trainer Karen Healey of Thousand Oaks, CA, 2007 was a very good year. Her students won an amazing amount of classes throughout the year, and she was honored at the California Professional Horsemen's Association (CPHA) awards dinner with the CPHA Special Achievement Award and she also received four leading trainer awards. Healey's students won four CPHA equitation finals in 2007. Shelby Wakeman of Westlake Village, CA, won the CPHA Junior Medal Finals, while Yvette Lang-Einczig of Malibu,...