On June 1, 2019, US Equestrian’s Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention (MAAP) Policies went into effect. The policies provide both mandatory requirements and recommended best practices tailored to protecting minors, anyone under 18 years of age (regardless of USEF age), in equestrian sport from abuse. This page provides a side-by-side view of the mandatory requirements and recommended best practices as written in the USEF MAAP Policies. View the updated USEF Safe Sport Policy and MAAP Policies...

Lexington, Ky. - As the last qualifying competition in the North and Central America and Caribbean division, the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Canada can secure a spot for the NetJets® U.S. Show Jumping Team in October’s Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final. The competition wraps up a week of competition at the Langley Odlum Brown BC Open, which also includes both a Juniors and Children’s Nations Cup competition on Saturday, June 2. After tying for third in the...

The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, always a huge family favorite, is expecting record attendance in 2015 (Phelps Media Group) Devon, PA - May 16, 2015 - If advance ticket sales are any indication, this year's Devon Horse Show and Country Fair might be the best attended of any show in recent memory. This year's show, just days away now, is scheduled for May 21 - May 31, 2015 at the famed Devon show grounds on Lancaster Avenue. This year's show begins with the highly competitive...

Reining Junior Team Gold - USA Southeast on their victory lap (Waltenberry) Lexington, KY - The Reining Team Championship competition was tightly contested today at the Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) with Team USA South-Central claiming the top of the podium in Young Rider Competition and Team USA Southeast in the Gold position for Juniors. The NAJYRC runs through Sunday, July 22, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY....

Holly Bergay (USA) and Rubino Bellissimo (Lindsay McCall) Del Mar, CA - Kicking off the 2012 Rancho Valencia Dressage Affaire Thursday morning were the Para-Equestrian Dressage Riders. Eleven horse and rider combinations entered the ring to showcase their Team Tests in front of FEI Ground Jury Hanneke Gerritsen 5* (NED), Marco Orsini 4* (FRA), and Ulf Wilken 5* (SWE). After traveling from Wellington, Florida in January, to Toronto, Canada, and then on to the Del Mar Horse Park, Canadian Lynne...

Mill Spring, N.C. – The 2022 eventing season came to a close on Sunday with the final day of The Dutta Corp. Tryon International Three-Day Event, and new national champions emerged in the CCI4*-L and young rider team and individual divisions. The Dutta Corp. USEF CCI4*-L Eventing National Championship The top three entries were separated by less than a single rail at the start of Sunday’s show jumping phase. Overnight leader Dan Kreitl (Muncie, Ind.) riding Kay Dixon’s 2013...

US Equestrian’s "Competition & Member Summit: Facing Challenges Together" got the organization’s Jan. 17-20 Annual Meeting started a day early on Tuesday in Lexington, Ky. The summit grew out of feedback from US Equestrian’s members, competition organizers, licensed officials, experts, and staff. It brought the equestrian community together to address some of the issues expressed by individual members, licensed officials, competition organizers, experts, and staff...

Thermal, Calif. - Spectacular competition and superior prize purses continue as the ever-present theme in Week III of the HITS Desert Circuit. Jumpers vie for the money in the $100,000 Purina Animal Nutrition Grand Prix and the $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix. Rich Fellers and Lux Lady on their way to a $100,000 Purina Animal Nutrition Grand Prix win. (ESI Photography) $100,000 Purina Animal Nutrition Grand Prix Desert Circuit III was in full swing as the $100,000 Purina Animal Nutrition Grand Prix...

Ben Maher and Urico (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - British superstar Ben Maher added an unprecedented fifth grand prix win to his tally at this year's FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) with a win in Saturday night's $125,000 Horseware Ireland Grand Prix CSI 3* aboard Jane Clark's Urico. Competing in the tenth week of competition at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, FL, Maher topped Lauren Hough (USA) and Ohlala, and Daniel Deusser...

Shane Sweetnam and Amaretto D'Arco (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - The FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) continued on Thursday with round ten of the $32,000 WEF Challenge Cup Series and a victory for Irish rider Shane Sweetnam and Spy Coast Farm's Amaretto D'Arco. In a twelve horse jump-off, the pair was fastest of just two clear rounds, topping Canada's Tiffany Foster and Victor, owned by Torrey Pines Stables and Artisan Farms LLC. Sponsored by Artisan Farms, week ten...