Doda de Miranda and AD Nouvelle Europe Z (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - Week five of the 2016 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) began Wednesday morning at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, FL, with a win for Brazil's Doda de Miranda and AD Nouvelle Europe Z in the $35,000 Douglas Elliman 1.45m Jumper Classic. WEF 5, sponsored by Fidelity Investments®, runs February 10-14, 2016. The week will feature the $380,000 Fidelity Investments® Grand Prix CSI...

Richie Moloney and Alsvid (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - Week four of the 2016 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) kicked off on Wednesday morning with a win for Richie Moloney (IRL) and Equinimity LLC's Alsvid in the $35,000 Douglas Elliman 1.45m Jumper Classic. WEF 4, sponsored by Ariat®, runs February 3-7, 2016, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, FL. The week will feature the Great Charity Challenge presented by Fidelity Investments® on Saturday,...

Scott Stewart and Catch Me (Phelps Media Group) Lexington, Ky. - This week, Lexington, Kentucky, ushers in both top racehorses for the Breeders' Cup and the nation's leading hunter and jumper horses for the prestigious CP National Horse Show. The horse show, marking the culmination of the year-long show circuit, kicked off Tuesday morning at the Kentucky Horse Park with a full day of professional and amateur hunter competition. Competing at the CP National Horse Show in itself is an...

Children dress up as Wizard of Oz characters. (Kendall Bierer) Lexington, Ky. - All young horse fans and their families are invited to come in costume for free admission Saturday, Oct. 31. Trick-or-treating begins at 6:30 p.m. on Halloween with over 30 vendors handing out candy and goodies on the Alltech Arena concourse at the Kentucky Horse Park. Come early to enjoy the world-renowned Budweiser Clydesdales exhibition before filling up on treats! Enjoy a safe and family friendly evening...

Region 1 Winner - Kendra Gierkink Lexington, Ky. - In just one month, the nation's top junior equitation riders will travel to Lexington, Kentucky for the CP National Horse Show and the prestigious ASPCA Maclay Horsmanship Finals. In order to punch their ticket to the finals, riders first had to qualify through highly competitive Regional Finals held in eight different regions throughout the month of September. Winning their regions this year were Kendra Gierkink, Katherine Bundy, Ashton...

Kent Farrington of USA riding Uceko (Spruce Meadows Media Services) Calgary, AB, Canada – An exciting evening of international show jumping took place complimented by equestrian exhibitions, live music and a dazzling display of fireworks during the Mercedes-Benz Evening of the Horse Friday night at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ Tournament. It was a packed house to watch many of the world’s best horses and riders compete in the evening’s events, which included the...

Lisa Goldman and Morocco win the $10,000 Open Welcome Stake, sponsored by Adequan, during the Showplace Fall Classic Championship. (Kendall Bierer/Phelps Media Group) Wayne, Ill. - More than two seconds separated the top three finishers in the $10,000 Open Welcome Stake, sponsored by Adequan, at the Showplace Fall Classic Championship on Thursday. The lead continued to change hands throughout the 13-horse jump-off, with each consecutive rider gaining speed in an attempt to find their way to the...

The $2,500 USHJA Children's Jumper Regional Team Championship medalists. (Phelps Media Group) Roscoe, Ill. - The tension in the air was palpable as the second day of the 2015 USHJA Children's & Adult Amateur Jumper Regional Championships got underway during the Showplace Jumper Spectacular. All eyes turned to the teams as each zone from the Northern Region took their turn at Anderson Lima's track. It was Zone 5 Team One that emerged victorious for the $2,500 Children's Team...

Heather Caristo-Williams and Evening Star on their way to a $34,000 FEI HITS Jumper Classic win at HITS Saugerties. (ESI Photography) SAUGERTIES, N.Y . - Internationally ranked competition continued at HITS Saugerties Friday with the $34,000 FEI HITS Jumper Classic, the only qualifying class of the week for Sunday’s Canadian Pacific $1 Million Grand Prix FEI CSI-5*. Spectators were on the edge of their seats down to the end when Pablo Barrios of Wellington, Florida, and his own Antares,...

Wayne, Ill. – The 2015 Markel/USEF Young & Developing Horse Dressage National Championships got underway today at the Lamplight Equestrian Center with three preliminary tests: the USEF Four-Year-Old Test, the FEI Five-Year-Old Young Horse Preliminary Test, and the FEI Prix St. Georges Test. USEF Four-Year-Old Test Top-ranked Alice Tarjan (Frenchtown, N.J.) stole the show in the field of 13 as her own Danish Warmblood Tiko and Oldenburg Donatella M took first and second place,...