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LIVE Broadcasts from 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions

by USEF Communications | 8/5/2010 4:49:00 PM

Lexington, KY - Join the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) for a beta broadcast experience - four days of free LIVE streaming video from the 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions, in Gladstone, NJ. This LIVE broadcast coverage will span two consecutive weekends, August 7-8 and 14-15, and will be available exclusively on USEFLIVE.com, a new video platform designed to showcase some of the very best live action equestrian sport in America. Watch LIVE as 15...

USEF Dressage Tests Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

by USEF Communications | 8/5/2010 4:44:00 PM

USEF Archive (Preview from the New USEF EquiTests Mobile Application) Lexington, KY - United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Dressage Tests are now available for download from the iTunes Store, through a new agreement with EquiApps.com and parent company Numen Communications Inc. The "USEF EquiTests" mobile application includes all USEF Dressage Tests for the 2010 competition year and allows the user to view test instructions, view and play animated diagrams, record and play readings of the...

Eventing Competition Wraps Up at the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships

by Cynthia Grisolia | 8/5/2010 11:12:00 AM

Brant Gamma (Kelly Loria bested the competition to take the Individual Gold medal.) Lexington, KY - On the last day of the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North, the USEA Eventing Championships concluded with the stadium-jumping phase of the three-day event for both Juniors and Young Riders on Sunday. In the Juniors, the Gold medal went to Kelly Loria, representing Area VI/VII/VIII, who proved she is a new rising star on the eventing...

Competition Concludes at the USEF Junior Hunter National Championship - East Coast

by Marion Maybank | 8/5/2010 10:54:00 AM

Shawn McMillen (Hayley Barnhill and Red Panda topped the competition by an impressive 14-point margin. ) The USEF Junior Hunter National Championship wrapped today under record temperatures, but the heat did nothing to lower the scores of these top competitors. John and Stephanie Ingram's Red Panda, under the skilled guidance of Hayley Barnhill, captured the title of 2010 USEF Junior Hunter National Champion - East Coast by an impressive 14-point margin. The chestnut gelding is no stranger to...

Competition Begins at the USEF Junior Hunter National Championship - East Coast

by Marion Maybank | 8/4/2010 9:51:00 AM

Shawn McMillen (Way Cool and Victoria Colvin.) Under sunny skies, the first day of the USEF Junior Hunter National Championship – East Coast competition began with a challenging Handy Hunter round at the Kentucky Horse Park. Course designer Bobby Murphy made use of the bank of the Walnut Ring for a trot jump. The trot off the bank proved to be a walk in the park for Dr. Betsee Parker's Way Cool piloted by Victoria Colvin. The pair scored an impressive 267 in the Younger Large Juniors for the...

Maitozo, McCormick and F.A.C.E Vaulting Team Emerge Victorious at USEF/AVA National Vaulting Championships and USEF Selection Trial

by Carole Dwinell for USEF | 8/3/2010 11:23:00 AM

F.A.C.E. Team Vaulters (Photo by Carole Dwinell) Santa Barbara, CA - Cool weather, a facility with more than 50 years of experience hosting championship horse shows, and the top vaulters in the United States came together at the site of the famed Santa Barbara National Horse Show to wow spectators with the classic and historical beauty of equestrian vaulting. Long the basic training for those entering the military cavalries...from early Macedonians to the Romans in the fourth century, to...

Junior & Young Rider Jumper Champions are Named

by Cynthia Grisolia | 8/3/2010 9:46:00 AM

SportFot (Ben Asselin earned the Junior Rider Gold medal at the NAJYRC.) LEXINGTON, KY - AUGUST 1, 2010 - On the final day of competition at the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North, the jumpers ruled as the USHJA Jumper Championships brought to a close the five-day international event. The Juniors took to the Kentucky Horse Park’s Main Stadium first for the final two rounds of the five-round contest, and when the dust cleared in was Ben...

Canada Clean Sweeps the Individual Medals

by Brad Ettleman | 8/1/2010 10:00:00 AM

Diana DeRosa (Nancy Pracht, Darcy Wilson and Vanessa Trotman - winners of the reining medals.) Thursday’s Gold-medal Canadian Reining Team showed its muscle once again today at the Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North. They put in a dominant effort and swept the medal positions in the final and most thrilling competition so far – the SmartPak North American Young Rider Individual Championship, held today at the Kentucky Horse Park indoor arena....

Medalists are Crowned in the Platinum Performance/USDF Dressage Championship at the Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North

by Cynthia Grisolia | 7/30/2010 6:40:00 PM

SusanJStickle.com (Catherine Chamberlain, Jamie Pestana and Stephanie Bedford won Individual dressage medals.) Lexington, KY - JULY 30, 2010 - At the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North the spotlight was on Junior dressage riders today as they vied for the Gold in FEI Junior Individual test, phase two of the Platinum Performance/USDF Dressage Championship. When the scores were tallied, it was Winzalot who lived up to his name, earning the...

F.A.C.E. Off Challenge in the Fourth USEF Selection Trial for the U.S. Vaulting Team at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

by By Carole Dwinell | 7/30/2010 4:14:00 PM

Photo by Carole Dwinell (F.A.C.E.) El Sueño Equestrian Center near Camarillo, CA, was the site for the the fourth of five USEF Selection Trials on the road to this year’s 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) for American vaulters. Translated from Spanish, El Sueño means "dream." This new facility represents four years of hard work and upgrading efforts at the recently purchased property. Owner Gina Atton-Thomas has now hosted upper-level dressage clinics, a hunter/jumper series, and...