Susan Hutchison and Ziedento July 25, 2015 - Del Mar, CA - Veteran team Susan Hutchison and Ziedento (owned by St. Bride's Farm) earned yet another victory in the $10,000 1.40m Jumper Classic, presented by CardFlex Financial, at the Showpark Racing Festival. With fifty-six entries in the class, many of them also experienced teams, Hutchison topped them all and took home the blue. International FEI Course Designer Anderson Lima of Mexico considered the large number of entries and variety of...

Jennifer Alfano and Candid were shining stars in the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby at Equifest I. (Phelps Media Group) Wayne, IL - July 24, 2015 - Equifest I featured the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby at Lamplight Equestrian Center. Twenty-nine riders took the opportunity to show off their horses to the judges Frank Willard, Pat Bostwick, Oliver Brown and Thom Brede. Dean Battaglia designed the derby track in the scenic Wisconsin Equine Main Hunter Ring with bending lines and long...

Kalispell, Mont. – Competition got underway on Friday for the CCI3* division at The Event at Rebecca Farm. Following the dressage phase, USEF Land Rover Competition Grant recipients Kurt Martin and Delux Z are in third place on a score of 47.0. Martin (Middleburg, Va.) and his own and Caroljean Martin’s 2005 Irish Sport Horse gelding performed a flowing test to put them near the top of the leaderboard in a talented field. “It really was a personal best for my horse, and to...

Daniel Bedoya and Quattro (Phelps Media Group) Lexington, KY - July 23, 2015 - Standing at 18 hands with a large stride to match his height, Daniel Bedoya's Quattro has the ability to leave strides out all over the course, and that is exactly what he did on Thursday night at the Kentucky Horse Park. Bedoya and Quattro bested 10 other contenders in the jump-off in Rolex Stadium to win the $25,000 Hagyard Lexington Classic. A total of 42 horse-and-rider combinations competed over the first...

Bratislava, Slovakia – A team of up-and-coming athletes will represent the U.S. in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup at CSIO3*-W Bratislava, July 23-26 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Under the guidance of Chef d’Equipe DiAnn Langer, the team consists of Audrey Coulter, Allyssa Hecht, Michael Hughes, and Hannah von Heidegger, all of whom are competing on their first senior team. The U.S. team has drawn eighth in the order of 13 teams. Coulter (San Francisco, Calif.) has climbed from the Young...

Kurt Martin and Delux Z (Shannon Brinkman Photo) Kalispell, Mont . – A small but mighty field of 14 combinations are ready to compete in The Event at Rebecca Farm CCI3* taking place July 23-26, 2015. Amongst the talented pairs performing are USEF Land Rover Competition Grant recipients Kurt Martin and his own and Caroljean Martin’s Delux Z. Traveling from the East Coast, Martin (Middleburg, Va.) will guide the 2005 Irish Sport Horse gelding through his first CCI3*. The pair has...

Sovereign is stepping up to the plate for Lisa Goldman. Traverse City, MI - July 22, 2015 - The fourth and final week of the all-new Great Lakes Equestrian Festival got underway this morning, and many familiar faces returned to the beautiful Grand Prix Ring at Flintfields Horse Park to make their mark during the last week of competition. Lisa Goldman stole the show in the Grand Prix Arena, riding away with wins in both the 1.40m and 1.35m classes. Her ride in the 1.40m atop her new horse of...

Derek Braun and Lacarolus (Photo by Shawn McMillen Photography) Lexington, KY - July 22, 2015 - On the first day of the Kentucky Summer Horse Show, it was the first horses in the ring that dominated the competition. Both Derek Braun and David Blake led their classes at the Kentucky Horse Park wire-to-wire to win the 1.40m Open Jumpers and the 7-Year-Old Jumpers, respectively. As the first pair to go in the one round 1.40m Open Jumpers in the Rolex Stadium, Braun and MRN Family Corp's...

Kaitlyn Van Konyenburg and Wish List (Captured Moment Photography) Del Mar, Calif. - The 2015 US Junior Hunter National Championship West Coast came to a close on Tuesday, following two days of competition at Del Mar Horse Park. More than 50 of the country’s top juniors headed to the championship to complete three phases in front of the judging panel of Bucky Reynolds, Scott Williamson, and Chris Wynne over Joe Lombardo-designed Classic Round and Handy Hunter courses, which both counted...

(c) ESI Photography Ashton Alexander and Quinta Bella, owned by Signe Otsby, earned the highest score in the $5,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix at HITS-on-the-Hudson IV on Saturday. SAUGERTIES, New York - July 22, 2015 - Ashton Alexander and Quinta Bella, owned by Signe Otsby, took first place in the $5,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix at HITS-on-the-Hudson IV. Alexander and Quinta Bella earned the highest score in Round 1, a 90, and came back in Round 2 to earn an 89, for a total of 179 in Saturday’s...