Elizabeth Halliday-Sharp and Fernhill By Night (Libby Law Photography) Lexington, Ky. - The first U.S. horse-and-rider combination performed their dressage test Thursday for the FEI Nations Cup competition at the Military Boekelo CCIO3*. Elizabeth Halliday-Sharp and Fernhill By Night took to the dressage arena in front of the judging panel of David Lee (IRL), Andrew Bennie (NZL), and Ciska Van Meggelen-Peek (NED) at the historic venue in Boekelo, The Netherlands. Halliday-Sharp (East Sussex,...

Lexington, Ky. - Two big championships for young equestrians will be contested at the 2013 Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, Pa. this week. The Randolph College/USEF National Junior Jumper Championships will be held over three nights from Thursday through Saturday, and the Pessoa/US Hunter Seat Equitation Medal Finals presented by Randolph College will take place all day Sunday. The Randolph College/USEF National Junior Jumper Championships include an individual championship and a...

Leslie Berndl (PicsofYou.com) Lexington, Kentucky - Leslie Berndl held a double digit lead entering the cones phase of the Kentucky Classic CDE Sunday. She and Uminco held onto that advantage and emerged from the rain as USEF National Single Horse Driving Champions. Berndl (Newcastle, California) earned an 11.00, good for third place in the phase, and finished with a 141.53 total score. She was second in the dressage phase, second on the marathon, and the most consistently good single horse...

Chester Weber, Ten Time USEF National FOur-in-Hand Driving Champion (Pics of You) Lexington, Kentucky - Rain fell for most of Sunday morning at the Kentucky Classic CDE, it fell so hard that Competition would eventually be stopped, but not before two individual drivers hit career milestones. Leslie Berndl earned her first USEF National Single Horse Driving Championship, and Chester Weber made it an official decade of dominance with his impressive and unprecedented tenth USEF National...

Springtown, Texas - It was a tale of two teams in Texas on Saturday as No.7 Baylor and No.8 Texas Christian met in an early season in-state clash. TCU had the better western team, and Baylor was the dominant hunt seat team. But the TCU reining team was the only squad able to secure an outright, 5-0, sweep. In doing so they made the difference in a hard fought 11-9 win. Baylor won equitation on the flat 3-2 and TCU edged out an equal 3-2 victory in horsemanship. TCU was able to pick up one point...

Manhattan, Kansas - The No.6 Texas A&M Aggies had a tough task awaiting them in Manhattan. It was their season opener and their opponent was a Kansas State's WIldcats team coming off of a confidence boosting win over rival Oklahoma State. “We made some early-season mistakes today and they cost us the meet,” Texas A&M Head Coach Tana McKay said , and she may have been right, but the lack of mistakes and overall good riding by the Wildcats had just as much to do with it....

Twisther and Reid Patton (Shawn McMillen Photography) Upper Marlboro, Maryland - The course itself was the biggest obstacle in the $10,000 North American Junior/Amateur-Owner Challenge Cup Final Round. There were 30 entries in tonight's final round, which was held in jump-off format. There was only one clear round over the course designed by Steve Stephens. It featured wide oxers and challenging distances; 18-year-old Reid Patton was the only rider to find the key to a clear on Twisther, a...

Gladstone, NJ - Seventy of the top junior and young riders have flocked to U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation Headquarters in Gladstone, N.J., this week for the annual Platinum Performance USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals East. Ronnie Beard and Anne Kursinski will serve as judges and course designers for the four-phase competition which will be held October 4-6. Competition officially gets underway Saturday morning with Phase I, Flatwork. Competitors will then return to the Dick and Jane...

Lexington, Ky. - Registration is now available for the 2013 USEF Young Horse Championship Symposium. The Symposium will take place November 8-10, 2013 in the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park. U.S. team coaches and their representatives from dressage, driving, eventing, hunter, and jumping will gather to share their excitement about this new program and explain the details of each discipline's competition criteria for the 2014 USEF Young Horse Championships and Festival. The USEF...

Greg Crolick and Grey Street with last year’s winner Melissa Feller and Geoff Teall (Jennifer Wood Media, Inc) Upper Marlboro, Maryland - Twenty-eight entries lined up to compete in the $5,000 WCHR Developing Pro Challenge. With equal scores of 88 in both rounds, Greg Crolick and Adrienne Marciano's Grey Street jumped to victory with a total 176. Close behind in second place was Jamie Taylor on Cipriani. They received scores of 87 and 88.66 for a total of 175.66. Taylor Adams and Taken were...