Photo by Hippoevent (Seventy-year-old Jan van den Broek, of The Netherlands, will defend his World title in Pratoni. ) The FEI World Single Driving Championships return to Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy, July 28-August 1. Pratoni hosted the Single Horse Driving Championships very successfully in 2006, and the Italian Equestrian Federation is now welcoming the competitors on their site for the sixth edition of these championships. It was just 12 years ago that the first official FEI Single...

The tension is mounting as the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series arrives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, this week. This event marks the halfway stage of the team challenge, which pits 10 great show jumping nations against each other in an eight-leg battle for survival in the premiership of the sport. The USA holds the lead after scoring a superb back-to-back double at Rome and St Gallen over the past few weeks, but the pressure continues, and there is no time to rest on their laurels as they face...

Karen Healey Stables spent the holiday weekend at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center competing at the Memorial Day Classic Horse Show, held May 21-25, 2009. Healey's students showed in the hunter, jumper, and equitation divisions throughout the weekend and earned top placings in all three disciplines. The Memorial Day Classic had an exciting equitation team challenge over the weekend that provided a fun opportunity for each team, which was made up of one professional, one amateur, and one junior...

A new trend in horse showing? Last fall Bob Bell, President of Classic Company, looked at his budget for the 2009 show season and decided there had to be some changes made. From May 22 to May 24, Bell will produce his first “Boutique” horse show in Tryon, NC, at the Harmon Field location, virtually in the downtown area, which only added to the new “definition” the show manager has created for these new events. Boutique (boo teek)—A horse show that is fashionable and unique. Always held at...

A relentless downpour disrupted the program of competitions at the Piazza di Siena in Rome Thursday afternoon, but spirits remained high amongst the teams preparing for Friday's second leg of the 2008 Samsung Super League with FEI series in which the Swedish side will be pathfinders. The draw for the competition is as follows: 1. Sweden 2. Switzerland 3. USA 4. The Netherlands 5. Germany 6. Belgium 7. Great Britain 8. Ireland 9. Italy Early Indications Early indications are that this is going...

From a Press Release by Daniel Rieffer , Communications Manager, American Saddlebred Horse Association Louisville, Kentucky ¬– Elena Vail, a high school freshman from Stonington, Connecticut, came to the World’s Championship Horse Show last year with her father, Don, to watch a friend of Elena’s compete here. That day, watching her friend show on the green shavings, she proclaimed, “This is amazing. I’m coming here next year.” To which her dad emphatically replied, “Then, do it!” – letting her...

Andre Thieme and Coco 135. (ESI Photography©.) OCALA, FL - On a perfectly beautiful afternoon at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala, FL, German show-jumping icon Andre Thieme riding Seth Vallhonrat's Coco 135 captured the victory in Sunday's $50,000 Purina Mills Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, to close out the Ocala Finals. Thieme's win marked the first time this season that a rider captured more than one victory in a Sunday Grand Prix, his first being aboard his own Cesar three weeks...

Al Cook (Lydia Ulrich and Tiger Lilly II won the $5,000 North American League Low Junior/Amateur-Owner Jumper Finals. ) Harrisburg, PA - Tiger Lilly II and Nikon's Prima Donna, both mares recently imported from Europe, triumphed over the competition to clinch year-end North American League (NAL) titles on the final day of the 65th Pennsylvania National Horse Show (PNHS). Lydia Ulrich and Tiger Lilly II captured the title in the $5,000 North American League Low Junior/Amateur-Owner Jumper Finals...

Lauren Fisher/PMG (Vanessa Voltman and Ziezo won the 2010 GAIG/USDF Region 2 Second Level Open Dressage Championship at the Dressage by the Bay Fall Classic. ) Traverse City, MI - The 2010 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 2 Dressage Championships began competition today at Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, MI. The championship classes were held in conjunction with the Dressage by the Bay Fall Classic which offered a full schedule of competition through the grand prix level....

It's not like Rachel Boggus has time on her hands. In addition to riding and showing three horses across all the divisions, the amateur rider who trains with Michael Dennehy also is completing the last year of her anesthesiology residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center. "I don't have a lot of free time," Rachel admitted. "When I do, I am riding and showing. It's really hard for me to stay away and sometimes that means very long days with very little sleep, but I wouldn't have it...