Kevin Babington and Mark Q take the $34,000 FEI Thursday Prix at HITS Ocala CSIO4* (ESI Photography) Ocala, Fla. - Day two of international competition in the Ocala Horse Properties Stadium at HITS Ocala CSIO4* continued with the $34,000 FEI Thursday Prix, a qualifying opportunity for the $150,000 Ocala Grand Prix on Sunday, February 15. Excitement for the Friday’s Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ was in the air as Kevin Babington of the Irish Show Jumping Team, and Mark Q, co-owned with...

Harrie Smolders and Exquis Walnut de Muze (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - The 2015 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) began its sixth week of competition, sponsored by Salamander Hotels & Resorts, on Wednesday with a win for Harrie Smolders (NED) and Exquis Walnut de Muze in the first international jumper class of the week. Smolders and his veteran partner of eight years blazed to victory in the $34,000 1.45m speed class to kick off the week. Richard Jeffery of Great Britain is the course...

Ocala, Fla. - A star studded 41 entries competed in the $50,000 HITS Grand Prix held in the picturesque Ocala Horse Properties Stadium. Kirk Webby from White House Station, New Jersey, came out on top of the line up on Brando Du Rouet owned by the Tolleshunt Investment Group. Kirk Webby and Brando Du Rouet Win the $50,000 HITS Grand Prix in HITS Ocala (ESI Photography) Competing over Bernardo Cabral’s course of 16 jumping efforts within the 83 second time allowed narrowed the field to a...

Wellington, Fla. - Competition in the CDI5* presented by Diamante Farms came to a conclusion on Saturday at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival with the United States leading the way in the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle Test. After a third-place finish on Thursday in the Grand Prix, Kathleen Raine (Murrietta, Calif.) and Jennifer Mason, David Wightman, and her own 14-year-old Hanoverian mare, Breanna, went two spots better to earn victory for the Americans. The pair completed the Grand Prix Special...

Brianne Goutal and Ballade van het Indihof (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - Week five of the 2015 Winter Equestrian Festival, sponsored by Ariat® International, concluded on Sunday with a win for Brianne Goutal (USA) and Ballade van het Indihof in the $127,000 Ariat® Grand Prix CSI 3*. After topping Friday's $34,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 5, Goutal and the 14-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare (Thunder van de Zuuthoeve x Heartbreaker) continued their winning form into...

Lucy Davis and Old Oak Farm's Barron (ESI Photography) Thermal, Calif. - Twenty-three-year-old Stanford University student Lucy Davis, riding Old Oak Farm’s Barron, took top prize in the $50,000 HITS Grand Prix CSI-W2*, presented by OSPHOS®, an FEI World Cup Jumping qualifier under the lights in the Grand Prix Ring at HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California, Saturday night. Davis and Barron were the only horse-and-rider team to go double-clear, and did so in 46.52 seconds, in...

Will Simpson and Monarch International's Katie Riddle (ESI Photography) Thermal, Calif. - Will Simpson took one more HITS Desert Circuit Grand Prix win Sunday afternoon, on Monarch International’s Katie Riddle in the $30,000 SmartPak Grand Prix. This is Simpson’s sixth Grand Prix win so far at HITS Thermal. Simpson topped a field of 41 riders – including eight others who made it to the jump-off – going double-clear and completing the second round in 43.203 seconds to...

Ocala, Fla. - HITS, Inc. is pleased to announce the participating athlete list for the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup, presented by Edge Brewing Barcelona, Friday, February 13 at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala, Florida. After relocating in 2015, the Ocala event is the only official United States qualifier for the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Final held in Barcelona, Spain later this year. The HITS Organizing Committee, in conjunction with the USEF, invited select nations to partake in the...

Kathleen Raine and Breanna at the 2013 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions presented by The Dutta Corp. (SusanJStickle.com) Wellington, Fla .- Competition in the CDI5* presented by Diamante Farms came to a conclusion on Saturday at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival with the United States leading the way in the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle Test. After a third-place finish on Thursday in the Grand Prix, Kathleen Raine (Murrietta, Calif.) and Jennifer Mason, David Wightman, and her own 14-year-old...

Kelley Farmer and Mindset (Kendall Bierer/Phelps Media Group) Wellington, Fla. - An underdog rose to the top of the ranks Friday at The Ridge at Wellington's second annual Hunter Derby Days. Mindset is the rising superstar of Rose Hill Farm, bought for Lilli Hymowitz to show in the Small Junior Hunter division, but professional hunter rider Kelley Farmer captured the $15,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby victory with consistent rounds and finesse on the turf derby field. Farmer and...