Chris Nelson and Inside Out at the $40,000 HITS Grand Prix (Photo by © ESI Photography) CULPEPER, VA (October 4, 2010)--The road to the 2011 $1 Million Grand Prix kicked-off on Sunday when Chris Nelson and Lazy Creek Ranch's Inside Out captured the win in the final HITS Grand Prix of the year, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, at the Culpeper Finals. Nelson, of Flower Mound, Texas, and nine-year-old Inside Out were one of 14 horse-and-rider combinations to ride the course designed by Marina...

Lexington, KY - Sunday's endurance competition is part of the FREE video-on-demand now being posted to USEFNetwork.com. View raw footage from the last hour and a half of the competition as well as highlights. More will be added later today! Make sure to bookmark the Endurance page at USEF Network: https://www.usefnetwork.com/WEG2010/Endurance/

Wellington, FL - Three JustWorld International fundraising initiatives took place throughout North America on Friday and Saturday, August 27 and 28, 2010. Three separate horse show communities came together for one great cause - to raise money and awareness for the benefit of JustWorld project sites in Brazil, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras and Senegal. During the Thunderbird Summer Festival show jumping tournament held at the Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, BC, the local equestrian community...

Jean Sheptoff and Peaches, winners of the $35,000 Grand Prix at the Fieldstone Summer Showcase (Photo Credit: Anne Gittins ) Halifax, MA -August 28, 2010- Jean Sheptoff and Peaches galloped to victory in the $35,000 Fieldstone Summer Showcase Grand Prix, held on the all-grass Grand Prix field at the Fieldstone Equestrian & Show Facility in Halifax, MA. The Grand Prix is the highlight of the Summer Showcase, which runs August 24-29 and features top-notch equestrian competition, great prize...

Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Michelle Parker and Socrates de Midos) In honor of the Fourth of July holiday weekend and to wrap up four weeks of competition managed by Blenheim EquiSports, the $25,000 Red, White & Blue Grand Prix presented by the St. Regis Monarch Beach, invited 19 horse-and-rider duos onto the Michel Vaillancourt-designed course at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park. Vaillancourt remarked, “I think today’s course dimensions are very worthy of this class. It is...

The Ohio Morgan Horse Association is gearing up for their Buckeye Morgan Challenge Horse Show, to be held August 13-15, 2010, in Wilmington, OH. The latest announcement is the addition of the American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA) Reining Seat Medal and United Professional Horsemen's Association (UPHA) Morgan Challenge Cup classes to its slate of more than 100 classes. The Reining Seat Medal will be Class 28A and will run as the last class Friday morning and the Morgan Challlenge Cup is Class...

Erin Alberda and Collo 5 (Stockimageservices.com Photo) Dressage Dressage riders on East coast celebrated the holiday weekend at the CDI3* Allentown at the Horse Park of New Jersey. Elisabeth Austin and her Dutch Warmblood Olivier took home wins in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special. On the small tour Cesar Parra and Olympia performed beautifully, winning the Prix St. Georges with a score of 71.789% and the Intermediaire I with 71.000%. For complete results please click here . This week...

Photo by Bill Alphin (BW-Callista received the North American Breeders Futurity Four-Year-Old.) Dressage at Devon is pleased to announce that the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) has chosen the show for its 2010 Symposium and General Assembly. WBFSH delegates and its famed international membership comprised of the world's top breeders will attend Dressage at Devon for the foal and young horse breed classes, as well as the FEI young horse competitions. "The DAD breed division...

After 24 prior attempts to win the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, trainer Todd Pletcher finally snagged the victory he’d been waiting for his entire career. This Saturday, his super protégé Super Saver will try for the second jewel in horse racing’s ever-elusive Triple Crown. But before the call to the post on NBC, watch as history is made for another legend in the equine industry as Great Britain’s William Fox-Pitt chases his Rolex Kentucky CCI**** dream. 2010 marks his ninth attempt at...

The deadline to submit renewals for American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) youth clubs and charter clubs, as well as ASHA Youth Scholarship applications, is Friday, April 30. The purpose of ASHA scholarships is to encourage, support and recognize participation in all aspects of the American Saddlebred industry, as well as to strengthen the American Saddlebred industry and breed through education. Scholarships are awarded only to high school graduates or those students whose graduation is...