Are you an International Friesian Show Horse Association (IFSHA) Member in Good Standing? Are you available to catch handle or ride horses for the 2010 IFSHA World & Grand National Championships? IFSHA already has IFSHA members looking for professionals to show their horses in-hand, so we want to make sure that they know the resources that are available to them. The information that you provide will be available in the next issue of the IFSHA E-News. Please respond back to...

Lexington, KY —The 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games today launched a Business Opportunities Web page, which will house bidding opportunities for potential suppliers. Current bidding opportunities will be posted on https://www.alltechfeigames.com/content.aspx?id=3936. This page will be updated on a regular basis to reflect new bid requests. The Games will feature world championship competitions in eight equestrian disciplines and will be held at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park September...

Very good news for the international equestrian community as FEI TV (www.feitv.org) will offer live streaming and extensive Video on Demand coverage from the first leg of the HSBC FEI Classics, the Rolex Three Day Event in Lexington, KY. The provisional schedule for the live broadcasts is as follows: Cross-Country - Saturday, April 24, 2010: 15:00-22:00 CEST / 13:00-20:00 GMT; Jumping - Sunday, April 25, 2010: 19:00-20:30 CEST / 17:00-18:30 GMT. Please check www.feitv.org for broadcasting times...

Unseasonably wet Fall conditions and ensuing reports of widespread mold in harvest crops have horse owners highly concerned about the possible presence of illness-causing, and sometimes fatal, toxins with every bag of horse feed they tear open. To ensure that mycotoxins do not get into the feed mill, much less their feed, Pennfield Equine Feed Technologies puts the horse first by investing in a highly effective rapid detection chemical test to identify and eliminate tainted ingredients before...

Jon May of HorseFlicks recently posted a video on the construction of the Morgan Horse Pavilion at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Follow the progress of the recent building at www.youtube.com/watch?v=brgdLb6CXAI .

Gladstone, NJ – The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is launching a new Show Jumping initiative for Young Riders beginning in the summer of 2010. Some of the most exciting up-and-coming riders in the U.S. will have the opportunity to apply for and participate in the 2010 Show Jumping Young Rider Tour. The USEF Jumping Department has posted the Selection Procedure and Application for the 2010 Show Jumping Young Rider Tour on the Show Jumping High Performance page at www.usef....

2009 USEF Farnam/Platform Horse of the Year (Shannon Brinkman/USEF Archives) Louisville, KY – Annually, five of the USEF’s 130,000 registered horses achieve so much in a year that they are named USEF Horses of Honor and enter the running for the title of Farnam®/Platform™ Horse of the Year. In 2009 all five of these horses were nothing short of remarkable. But one forever changed the face of his sport, and with that, Ravel was voted the 2009 USEF Farnam®/Platform™ Horse of the Year. It began in...

Photo by Whitney Allen (Carly Anthony and Ricky Neal) Carly Anthony, 19 of Redmond, WA, and Richard “Ricky” Neal, 17 of Pasadena, CA, were named the inaugural winners of the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) Emerging Athletes Program National Training Session. For their amazing accomplishments, Carly and Ricky will each receive 30 days of advanced training with a high-performance athlete, as well as $1,500 in gift certificates from Dover Saddlery to purchase show clothes. When...

With the close of the 2009 competition year and in anticipation of the United States Equestrian Federation’s annual Pegasus Awards celebration in January, the Federation is proud to announce the candidates in line to become the coveted 2009 Equestrian of the Year. Known as the USEF Equestrians of Honor, these seven stars of equestrian sport across breed and discipline have each been named recipients of one of seven different competitive trophies awarded during the Pegasus Awards on January 16...

Photo USEF Archives (Top equestrian athletes sign autographs at the USEF booth.) This weekend the USEF highlighted its new National Affiliation with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) during a presentation of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) disciplines at the AQHA World Championship Show. Bobby Murphy of Kentucky Horse Shows, LLC, was brought in as the producing director for the USEF showcase, which was held on Friday, November 20. The event showcased the...