HITS' Holly Bachor and Joe Calcagno, alongside Mike McCormick, presented the awards to Tracy Fenney (© ESI Photography) SAUGERTIES, NY (August 31, 2010) -- Tracy Fenney and MTM Centano, owned by MTM Farm, captured Sunday's $40,000 HITS Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, to highlight the Constitution Classic at HITS Commonwealth Park in Culpeper, Virginia. Fenney of Flower Mound, Texas and MTM Centano were one of 25 horse-and-rider combinations to ride the course designed by Doug...

Cara Brykett, left, showed the pony, who is owned by Gail Ray of Silver Meadows Training Center in A (Photo by Washburn Photography) Ardmore, Okla. (August 30, 2010) – Isn’t He Just Magical managed to outshine all of the other Shetland Ponies at the 2010 American Shetland Pony Congress Show in Ardmore, Oklahoma, when he won the Vetrolin® Grooming Award, sponsored by Farnam. Winning the title of “Best Groomed” pony at the show earned Isn’t He Just Magical and...

SusanJStickle.com (Jaimie Holland, Jhesika Wells and Megan Lane atop the podium as medalists in the Platinum Performance/USDF Dressage Championship Individual Test. ) Lexington, KY - July 29, 2010 - Dressage competition continued today on day two of the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North. In the Main Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park, FEI Young Riders went on a quest for the Gold in the Platinum Performance/USDF Dressage Championship...

A record-tying win by Margie Engle of Wellington, FL, in the $75,000 Le Grand Prix Hermès CSI** highlighted the show jumping action at the 33rd Annual I Love New York Horse Show. Engle's win was her seventh Grand Prix win in Lake Placid, tying the record held by Leslie Burr Howard. After four of 23 horses qualified for a tiebreaking jump-off by riding without penalty over the 17-jump, first-round course at the North Elba Showgrounds, the first three accrued faults over the eight-jump,...

Photo by Lauren Fisher/PMG (Kate Bomgaars and Kirikou AC Z) The second week of hunter/jumper competition at the 2010 Horse Shows by the Bay Equestrian Festival continued on Thursday with the Five-/Six-Year-Old and Seven-/Eight-Year-Old Young Jumpers competing in the Grand Prix Ring at the Flintfields Horse Park. Coming out on top in the day's qualifiers were six-year-old Imprimis, owned by Windswept Farm and ridden by Laura Pfeiffer, and seven-year-old Kirikou AC Z, owned and ridden by Kate...

"What a mare, huh?" said Penny Brennon of her winning mount in the $5,000 Speed Derby. The mare in question is Cowgirl, an eight-year-old Dutch Warmblood that owner Debi Connor imported from Holland several years ago. With Brennon in the irons, Cowgirl won the $5,000 Speed Derby during the Rocky Mountain Classic (July 14-18, 2010) at the Colorado Horse Park. It was the second week in a row the pair topped the Speed Derby. "This is an amazing horse," Brennon said. "I didn't think we could have a...

Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Michelle Parker and Socrates de Midos) In honor of the Fourth of July holiday weekend and to wrap up four weeks of competition managed by Blenheim EquiSports, the $25,000 Red, White & Blue Grand Prix presented by the St. Regis Monarch Beach, invited 19 horse-and-rider duos onto the Michel Vaillancourt-designed course at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park. Vaillancourt remarked, “I think today’s course dimensions are very worthy of this class. It is...

Christine McCrea of East Windsor, CT, rode Sweetheart to victory in the Champlain Valley Equipment 1.45m Jump-Off to kick off the 33rd Annual I Love New York Horse Show. Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, took an early lead in the class with the first of five clean rides over the 12-jump, first-round course at the North Elba Showgrounds, which she followed with a clean jump-off ride in 39.055 seconds. Her lead held until McCrea matched her double-clean rides but with a faster jump-off time of 38.664...

Kate Levy of Katonah, NY, won the Whiteface Mountain 1.45m Jump-off to kick off the 41st Annual Lake Placid Horse Show. Levy was the third of 20 entries to try the 12-jump, first-round course at the North Elba Showgrounds. She rode her mount, Vent Du Nord, to one of what would be eight fault-free rides. She then turned in another fault-free ride in 37.350 seconds to take an early lead that would hold for the remainder of the class. Placing second was Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, who had two...

Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Susie Hutchison and El Dorado 29's Cantano.) The $30,000 Blenheim June Classic Grand Prix, made possible by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, had 20 horse-and-rider combinations take a turn on the course designed by Javier Fernandez. With only four riders bringing their mounts back for the jump-off, it was the team of Susan Hutchison and El Dorado 29's Cantano who came out on top for the win. As the 15th pair to enter the ring, Hutchison and Cantano were the...