The United States Equestrian Federation, Inc., announces that official bids are now being accepted to host the following Dressage Championships for 2006: • 2006 USEF Junior Dressage Team Championship • 2006 USEF Dressage Seat Medal Finals • 2006 USEF/Markel Young Horse Dressage Selection Trials (Eastern, Central and Western) for the 2006 FEI World Breeding Championships for Young Horses in Dressage • 2006 USEF/Markel Young Horse Dressage National Championships Bid applications are available on...

Lexington, Ky . – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the competitions approved by the USEF Board of Directors to host CCI4*-S, CCI3*-L and Advanced level events during the 2023-2027 competition cycle under the new Eventing Calendar Process. The new process is designed to produce the most effective U.S. sporting calendar to properly develop and prepare High Performance horses and athletes to be competitive at international long format competitions and Championships both in the U.S. and...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce that the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., has been named as the host location for the 2020 USEF Junior Hunter National Championships – East Coast from August 23-24. The United States Hunter Jumper Association Gladstone Cup Equitation Classic presented by Intermont Equestrian at Emory & Henry College will also be held at the Kentucky Horse Park on these dates. The Championships will be held in conjunction with the...

Lexington, Ky. - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is now accepting applications to host the 2017 and 2018 FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships. The purpose of conducting an application process for host site selection is to provide the USEF with a group of potential venues from which to choose a site that offers facilities and amenities worthy of hosting the FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships. The disciplines of dressage, endurance, eventing,...

Amy Miller & U.S.-bred Encore won the CDS Young Horse Futurity for Five-Year-Olds (Jennifer M. Keeler) Burbank, Calif. - As the third day of championship dressage competition concluded at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank, Cal., a new crop of champions proudly wore new tricolor sashes while a "grand dame" of the international Grand Prix arena was honored during evening festivities at the 47th Annual California Dressage Society Championship Show, held in conjunction with the Great...

Tracy Fenney on course in the $40,000 HITS Grand Prix at HITS Commonwealth Park in Culpeper, Virginia. Fenney and MTM Farm’s MTM Centano picked up a win and the first qualifying opportunity for the 2012 $1 Million Grand Prix. ESI Photography. CULPEPER, VA – After posting a top-20 finish in the 2011 Pfizer Million, Tracy Fenney of Flower Mound, TX, wasted no time in preparing for next year’s $1 Million Grand Prix. On Sunday, she and MTM Farm’s MTM Centano rode to victory in the...

Katie Prudent, pictured here on Sassacaia III, bids to become the first four-time winner of the Amer (Kenneth Kraus/PhelpsSports.) Tampa, Fl - With this year's edition of the $200,000 Gene Mische American Invitational presented by G & C Farms just over a week away, the line-up for the Saturday night showdown is all set, and this year's roster of riders is one of the best in the 38-year history of this long running Tampa tradition. Ten Olympic veterans will go head to head at the 'Super Bowl of...

Nancy Kempe and her new Isabel stallion Cupido Interagro accept a custom made saddle from Cary Walla (Photo courtesy of Darcy Scott.) Wellington, FL – Almost 300 guests were in attendance at the 2011 Lusitano CollectionTM International Horse Auction when dressage rider Nancy Kempe purchased her dream horse, a beautiful Lusitano Isabel stallion named Cupido Interagro, that she described as “the love of her life.” The four-year-old stallion with a sterling pedigree was the highest selling horse...

The Extreme Mustang Makeover will offer two of what has become the definitive test of horsemanship when it debuts the Gatorland Extreme Mustang Makeover during Lynn Palm’s Women Luv Horses event, April 3-5, 2009, and returns to the Midwest Horse Fair for the second consecutive year, April 17-19. Applications must be received no later than December 1 for both events. “The Midwest Horse Fair and the people of Wisconsin welcomed our Mustangs with wide open arms and we’re thrilled to be going...

Even tropical storm Hanna could not stop the competition at The Laurels at Landhope, September 5-7 in West Grove, PA. With hard ground from a dry summer, drivers in the advanced, intermediate, and preliminary divisions got through dressage, but some had concerns that the hard going would be too rough for them. "If there was anything that had me worried, it was that we wouldn't get the rain. I would have scratched. I was not going to sacrifice my 'A' team to the ground," said Lisa Stroud after...