Intermediaire I Freestyle winners Tracy Roenick & Apassionata. (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - Until earlier this season, Tracy Roenick hadn't cantered down centerline in a dressage competition since 2005. But on Saturday she showed no sign of being out of practice as she and her elegant black Oldenburg mare Apassionata (Sir Donnerhall x Amelie by Friedensfuerst) decisively claimed the CDI Intermediaire I Freestyle victory with 72.625% over second-placed Susan Martin and...

Steffen Peters guided Rosamunde to her first Grand Prix Freestyle win at the Festival of the Horse CDI (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - Even though Steffen Peters' young star Rosamunde performed a Grand Prix Freestyle for the first time on Saturday, she looked like a seasoned veteran on her way to earning the unanimous win under all five FEI judges with an impressive final score of 77.750% at California Dreaming Productions' Festival of the Horse CDI 3*/Y/J/U-25 in San Juan...

Molly Talla and Java Keltic Courage (McCool) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - The second week of Spring season competition at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park at San Juan Capistrano culminated in today's $40,000 Spring Classic I Grand Prix. Eighteen entries competed for the top prize in the showcase class, presented by The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, over a sweeping track designed by Brazil's Guilherme Jorge. After 15 years of course designing for Blenheim EquiSports, Jorge is an...

Laura Graves and Verdades (SusanJStickle.com) Wellington, Fla. - The Stillpoint Farm CDIO3* at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival came to a close on Saturday afternoon with Laura Graves and Verdades claiming top honors in the Freestyle on a score of 80.175%. Originally scheduled for Friday evening but postponed due to weather, the Freestyle hosted 11 Small Tour combinations and a further four Big Tour competitors. Led by Graves, the U.S. secured six of the top 12 placings. In their final...

USA I Team stands atop the podium at the Stillpoint Farm FEI Nations Cup (SusanJStickle.com) Wellington, Fla. - The USA I Team, led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Dover, maintained its day-one lead to claim victory in the 2015 Stillpoint Farm FEI Nations Cup with strong performances from all four team members. On Thursday at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, Small Tour combinations performed the FEI Intermediaire I Test, with Big Tour pairs riding the FEI Grand Prix Special Test. A total of...

Intermediaire I Freestyle winners Sabine Schut-Kery & Sanceo. (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - After a fifth-place finish in Friday's hard-fought Prix St. Georges class, Sabine Schut-Kery and Alice Womble-Heightman's bay Hanoverian stallion Sanceo (San Remo x Rivera by Ramiro's Son II) returned to winning form in the Intermediaire I Freestyle on a score of 73.950%. Despite this being the first time Schut-Kery had performed the new freestyle (which was created with...

Steffen Peters & Legolas 92 (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - Steffen Peters successfully punched his ticket to return to the site of his 2009 World Cup glory by winning the CDI-W Grand Prix Freestyle with Legolas 92 in an exciting conclusion to California Dreaming Productions' Capistrano Dressage International CDI-W/Y/J/U-25, held March 19 - 22 in San Juan Capistrano, Cal. Peters' new personal-best score of 80.925% aboard Four Winds Farm's Westphalian gelding...

Steffen Peters & Legolas 92 win the Grand Prix at the Capistrano Dressage International CDI (Terri Miller) San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - The world was watching as thousands tuned in to CDP Live's wildly-popular online video streaming service to see two incredibly impressive fields of Grand Prix and Prix St. Georges competitors fight it out for top marks on the first day of competition at California Dreaming Productions' Capistrano Dressage International CDI-W/Y/J/U-25, being held...

Phillip and I'm Sew Ready (USEA/Caroline Culbertson photo) When you’re as good as Phillip Dutton, being asked to ride very nice horses for other people isn’t particularly unusual. But Phillip doesn’t take it for granted, especially after a day as successful as today at the Cloud Eleven - Gavilan North Carolina International in Southern Pines, N.C., where he leads a field of 52 horses in the CIC3*/Adequan USEA Gold Cup qualifier. Phillip rode Kristen Bond’s mount...

, Kylie Heitman and Lena The Dressage Foundation's Renee Isler Dressage Support Fund has awarded an $800 grant to youth dressage rider Kylie Heitman (MI) to train her Warmblood, Lena, with Jacqueline Brooks. Kylie and Lena are currently in Florida working with Jacqueline and participating in Lendon Gray’s Winter Intensive Training Program as an auditor. Lendon shared, "I first knew Kylie from the Emerging Dressage Athlete Program clinics a few years ago. She was a joy to teach and...