Votes Due by December 30 Attn: All Publications, Stations, Independent News Media Websites Please select three horses from the list below, whom you feel are most deserving of the inaugural 2005 Farnam®/ Platform™ • USEF Horse of the Year title, one of the most prestigious awards the USEF offers. The five finalists for Horse of the Year are: Authentic, owned by Abigail Wexner; Brentina, owned by Peggy Thomas; Cefnoakpark Bouncer, owned by Sybil Humphreys, WR Sonaskada+//, owned by...

Iron Spring Farm's young KWPN stallion Sir Sinclair has been awarded the 2005 United States Dressage Federation (USDF) FEI Six-Year-Old Horse of the Year Championship. This title follows the 2005 USEF/Markel FEI Six-Year-Old Championship as well as first place in the FEI Six-Year-Old class at Dressage at Devon, where Sir Sinclair and Belinda Nairn-Wertman earned a 8.7 from FEI "O" Judge Linda Zang and FEI "I" Judge Jennie Loriston-Clarke. "We are very proud of Sir Sinclair," said Mary Alice...

Votes Due by December 30 Contact: Kristyn Kay, [email protected] Attn: All Publications, Stations, Independent Websites Please select three individuals from the list below, whom you feel are most deserving of the 2005 USEF Equestrian of the Year title. This award recognizes an individual who consistently “excelled above all others in equestrian competition for the past year, while demonstrating superior sportsmanship and dedication to the principles, vision, and mission of the United States...

Lexington, KY – When asked to choose one word that best describes who she is, Teal Dowling pauses, laughs a little and gives a word that all who know her would heartily agree with. The word would have to be “original,” she told the panel of judges in her interview as a finalist for 2005 USEF Junior Equestrian of the Year. The delightful 18-year-old from Spring Prairie, Wisconsin does her best to live up to that word, charting her own course as she navigates life and the world...

Carol Rose's Shining Spark was bred to be a spectacular show horse--and he was. He was bred to be a fabulous sire--and he is. Shining Spark is a 1989 son of Genuine Doc and out of Rose's 1979 American Quarter Horse Association's (AQHA) Superhorse and 1996 National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Hall of Fame inductee Diamonds Sparkle. In 2002, Shining Spark was the youngest stallion to reach one of the NRHA's most prestigious milestones and was named an NRHA Million Dollar Sire. Just three...

Buy a breeding to an outstanding Paso Fino stallion for as little as half the standard breeding fee and give yourself an opportunity to share in a purse that could exceed $25,000.00. The list of stallions that remain available for breeding as part of the 2005 Stallion Service Auction will soon be posted to the Paso Fino Horse Association (PFHA) website and will be published in Paso Fino Horse World magazine. This phase of the 2005 Stallion Service Auction remains open until March 1, 2006....

The 2006 All American Cup and Bluegrass Futurity stallion service auctions are both set for January, and feature several prominent Saddlebred sires. The 2006 All American Cup Stallion Service Auction will take place Saturday, January 21, at 4:30 p.m. at Claudia Sanders Restaurant in Shelbyville, KY. A total of 175 stallion services will be available, in which the offspring produced by these stallion services are eligible for the All American Cup. The 2005 All American Weanling Cup awarded...

At the 2005 U.S. National Arabian and Half-Arabian Horse Show, the Arabian Breeder's Association (ABA) presented its Lifetime Breeder's Award to Sheila Varian of Varian Arabians. Varian has made her mark in the Arabian horse community. Her breeding program has risen to worldwide acclaim, and she is currently the leading breeder of Arabians in the United States and Canada. She has been awarded Arabian Breeder of the Year by the Arabian Professional and Amateur Horseman's Association four times....

Lexington, KY – The United States Equestrian Federation is pleased to announce the 2006 triple point competitions for the Saddlebred, Roadster and Hackney/Harness divisions. Each year, the corresponding discipline committees vote to assign “triple point” status to a competition in each of the 12 regions. Points won at each of these designated competitions will count as triple points for the Farnam®/Platform™ • USEF Horse of the Year program. Questions regarding...

Lexington, KY—Team USA won the FEI CRIO that took place on December 1, 2005, in Oklahoma City, OK, during the National Reining Horse Association Futurity. Tim McQuay of Tioga, TX; Scott McCutcheon of Whitesboro, TX; Tom McCutcheon of Aubrey, TX; and Dell Hendricks of Tioga, TX rode for the United States and came away victorious with a combined score of 654.5 Team Brazil took home the Silver, while Team Canada received the Bronze. Team Mexico came in fourth. All teams secured their place to ride...