The 112th Devon Horse Show and Country Fair is Thursday, May 22, through Sunday, June 1, in Devon, PA. New this year is a United Professional Horsemen's Association (UPHA) Pink Ribbon class. Last fall, the UPHA introduced the program to help horse shows engage communities, showcase the show horses and raise much-needed funds for breast cancer research, awareness and treatment. The designated class at Devon is the UPHA Pink Ribbon Ladies Five-Gaited class on Wednesday evening, May 28. Devon also...

The Carolina Horse Park announces the addition of a new hunter-jumper competition May 22nd-25th, 2008 to benefit the Carolina Horse Park Foundation. This year’s event will be held in Raeford, NC, at the 'Carolina Horse Park', located just minutes from the Southern Pines-Pinehurst area. The show was previously produced by Rush Management at the Pinehurst Training Track. John and Pam Rush generously donated their show date to the CHP for its use as an annual benefit horse show. The competition...

The Inaugural Kentucky International Equine Summit 2008 will be held in downtown Lexington, KY, April 28-29 at the Radisson Hotel. The two-day event is being sponsored by the Equine Industry Program in the College of Business at the University of Louisville in cooperation with the Equine Initiative in the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky. In addition, the American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) has been noted as one of four sponsoring organizations of the summit. “We’re...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) announced that 2008 preliminary award standings for the Adequan/USDF Year-End Awards, including the Adequan/USDF All-Breeds Awards, are now available on the USDF website, as well as archived award results for the previous two competition seasons. Anyone who logs into the USDF site can access the most up-to-date award standings and monitor these standings throughout the competition year. Archived results are available only to those individuals who are...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) announced that it has created a new Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed to enable members and businesses to receive the most up-to-date USDF news and headlines. RSS is an internet protocol that transmits a news feed in real time and is automatically updated as new items become available. These feeds make it possible for people to keep up with all of the current news and happenings at USDF on their personal webpages or homepage, with RSS capabilities....

The Youth Mundial has been moved to Medellin, Colombia. The Dominican Republic was not able to fulfill the responsibility so Confepaso voted to move it to Colombia. There is some interest among youth and their families to represent the U.S. at this international competition. In order to select the U.S. team, the Paso Fino Horse Association (PFHA) Youth Committee has set the qualifying workshops/shows for the following dates and locations: March 22, 2008 Ocala FL Contact: Diego Bravo at...

During a meeting on Monday, March 10, 2008, the Board of Directors for the National Horse Show Association of America, Ltd. approved with a unanimous vote for the move of the 125th National Horse Show to the Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament in Syracuse, NY. The show will run from October 29-November 2, 2008, at the Oncenter Complex. Officially, the show will be titled as the Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament featuring the 125th National Horse Show. After the 2007 National...

Bill Wilson, a 72-year-old from Pekin, IN, was named to the American Endurance Ride Conference’s (AERC) Hall of Fame at the association’s awards ceremony, held March 1 in Reno, NV. Wilson completed 24 of 25 50- to 55-mile competitions for a total of 1,775 miles in 2007, and has a total of 21,645 miles of endurance completions to date. He is also a trails advocate and a willing worker for preservation and building of trails. The horse named to AERC’s Hall of Fame for 2007 was CH Catch Me If You...

Lexington, KY- The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Executive Committee has approved the dates and locations for the following 2008 USEF Hunter National Championships. • The 2008 USEF Pony Finals National Championships will be August 13–17 in Lexington, KY. Five championships will make up Pony Finals, including the Adequan®/USEF National Pony Jumper Championship (Individual); the Adequan®/USEF National Pony Jumper Championship (Team); Wild Horsefeathers/USEF National Green Hunter Pony...

Lexington, KY --The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Executive Committee has approved two important high-performance driving initiatives for 2008. USEF National Championships Announced Dates and Locations for the 2008 USEF National Driving Championships are as follows: the 2008 USEF National Four-in-Hand Championship and the USEF National Single Horse Championship will be held simultaneously at the Live Oak Combined Driving Event in Ocala, FL, March 27-30. Please visit the Live Oak...