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U.S. Riders Head to Pan American Endurance Championship

by Kathleen Landwehr | 9/24/2013 12:53:41 PM

Lexington, KY – Three individuals will represent the U.S. at the Pan American Endurance Championship on September 26. McCamey Kimbler, Mallory Capps, and Mae Chase-Dunn have traveled to Trinidad, Uruguay with Chef d’Equipe Emmett Ross to contest the championship. The Pan American Endurance Championship has divisions for both Senior and Young Riders/Juniors, as the competitors travel 120km in an attempt to earn top honors. Seventeen-year-old Kimbler (Aberdeen, South Dakota) will...

Kent Farrington and Blue Angel Claim the 16th Annual New Albany Classic

by New Albany Classic PR | 9/23/2013 11:12:45 AM

Kent Farrington & Blue Angel (Curtis Wallis) New Albany, OH - In front of a sellout event the 16th annual New Albany Classic Invitational Grand Prix & Family Day presented by JPMorgan Chase & Co. proved to be a nail biter as 31 horse and rider combinations vied for the $125,000 purse and the Authentic Cup on the John G. McCoy Show Field. Named by the North American Riders Group as the #1 Specialty Equestrian Event in 2012, The Classic drew more than 20,000 people and raised over $1....

Ashley Foster and Leena L In Perfect Form to Capture the ASPCA Maclay Regional Finals at Southeast Medal Finals

by Carrie Wirth for Phelps Media Group, Inc. International | 9/23/2013 11:04:12 AM

Barbara Ann Merryman, Ashley Foster and Haley Waters (Randi Muster) Jacksonville, FL - The highly- anticipated ASPCA Maclay Regionals were held on the final day of the 2013 Southeast Medal Finals at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center. Ashley Foster of Brookeville, MD executed Allen Rheinheimer's course flawlessly aboard Leena L, owned by KMW Ponies LLC, to take home the coveted prize out of a total of 39 riders. Her life-long friend, Haley Waters earned the second place prize with an...

Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville Win Plantation Field International CIC3*

by Plantation Field Horse Trials | 9/22/2013 11:23:55 PM

Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville (Jenni Autry) Unionville, PA - The sixth annual Plantation Field International Horse Trials weekend concluded Sunday with an exciting finish in the CIC3*, as Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville smoked the course to finish double clear and 13 seconds inside the time. Halpin led wire to wire all weekend, and she won the event on a very impressive dressage score of just 37.8. While Halpin said Saturday she didn't intend to go for time Sunday and...

Barbara Ann Merryman Pilots El Paso to Victory in the Phelps Media Group Southeast Junior Medal

by Carrie Wirth for Phelps Media Group, Inc. International | 9/22/2013 5:32:30 PM

Barbara Ann Merryman and El Paso (Randi Muster) Jacksonville, FL - The third day of the 2013 Southeast Medal Finals was another busy day at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center. Highlights included the Children's Adult Jumper Championship, the Phelps Media Group Junior Medal with an astounding number of entries in its second year- over 60 entries, and the Southeast Adult Medal Final. For the second year in a row, Dr. Juan Gamboa and his incredible horse, Partizan, captured the lead of the...

Olivia Champ is Champion in Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search West

by Jennifer Walker for LEG Up News | 9/22/2013 2:55:31 PM

Los Angeles, California - After placing second in last year’s Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals West, 15-year-old Olivia Champ (Karen Healey and Michelle Morris, trainers) came back to win it all this year. “This is the most fun day at the horse show and the most amazing final in the entire country,” Champ remarked. “This final is really important to me because it really tests you as a rider and it’s all about how you can ride a jumper...

Champ Leads Platinum Performance USEF Talent Search Finals West After Two Phases

by From an edited release by LEG Up News | 9/21/2013 1:09:41 PM

Los Angeles, California - Following the completion of Phases I and II of the Platinum Performance/USEF Talent Search Finals West Olivia Champ (La Canada Flintridge, California) holds the lead heading into Saturday’s final two phases. Phase I After a demanding Flat Phase where USEF Talent Search Final judges Jimmy Torano and Mandy Porter worked the riders in groups of eight, Olivia Champ (Karen Healey Stables, Trainer) took the lead with a strong score of 90. On her heels was Jayme Omand...

Sinead Halpin, Manoir De Carneville Take Lead in Plantation Field CIC3*

by Plantation Field Horse Trials | 9/21/2013 5:54:26 AM

Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville (Jenni Autry) Unionville, PA - All three CIC divisions saw exciting conclusions to dressage on the first full day of competition at Plantation Field Horse Trials. In the CIC3*, Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville set an incredibly high benchmark toward the end of the division, scoring 37.8 to hold a commanding lead. Halpin and Manoir De Carneville were meant to compete in Europe this fall, but a freak injury in July at Chattahoochee Hills kept Halpin...

Great Rides Earn Big Scores On Second Day of California Dressage Society Championships

by Yellow Horse Marketing | 9/21/2013 5:21:51 AM

Fresh off a European tour, David Blake & "Ikaros" returned home to California to win the CDS Grand Prix Horse of the Year title (Jennifer M. Keeler) Rancho Murieta, CA - Five rings of championship dressage competition continued Friday at the Rancho Murieta Equestrian Center in Murieta, CA for the 46th Annual California Dressage Society Championship Show, held in conjunction with the CDS Young Horse Futurity (including the Cal-Bred Futurity), the Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 7...

Olivia Champ Holds on to Lead After Gymnastics Phase at Talent Search West

by LEG Up News | 9/21/2013 3:58:46 AM

Burbank, CA - Judges Jimmy Torano and Mandy Porter wasted no time posing questions to the 33 riders who tackled the Gymnastics Phase of the Platinum Performance/ USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals West. The course started with a canter rail to a vertical with a landing rail, and the rail fell often. Riders then had to trot into a grid comprising a trot rail to a vertical then 23 feet to an oxer followed by 21 feet to another oxer. Hannah Von Heidegger (Will Simpson, trainer) found the best...