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Devon Horse Show Remains a North American Riders Group (NARG) Top Rated Event

by Phelps Media Group | 2/26/2016 11:11:37 AM

Devon Horse Show Remains a North American Riders Group (NARG) Top Rated Event Devon, Pa. - The 120th annual Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, set to get underway May 26 through June 5, 2016 at the famed show grounds can now close the books on last year's show with another top ranking from the North American Riders Group (NARG). The annual report by NARG noted "the splendor of Devon" and went on to say, "With its timeless charm, the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair once again is among the...

New National Hunt Seat Medal Finals Introduces Bracket Format

by National Collegiate Equestrian Association | 2/2/2016 9:39:38 AM

National Collegiate Equestrian Association's NCEA Junior Hunt Seat Medal Approved by United States Equestrian Federation Waco, Texas -- Today, the National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) announced the United States Equestrian Federation's (USEF) approval to form a new national 3'3" equitation class: the NCEA Junior Hunt Seat Medal. Open to all USEF and Equine Canada licensed competitors, NCEA Junior Hunt Seat Medal finalists will earn national visibility and increase their...

Dortmund to Host FEI World Cup™ Vaulting 2015/2016 Final

by Louise Parkes/FEI | 1/26/2016 10:18:15 AM

Dortmund (GER) has been confirmed as the venue for the Final of the FEI World Cup™ Vaulting 2015/2016 series from 3-6 March 2016. The FEI Bureau had originally allocated the Final to Vienna (AUT), but when the Vienna Organising Committee announced on 18 November 2015 that their event was cancelled, the application process was re-opened. Bids were subsequently received from Dortmund and Saumur (FRA). Germany’s Jannis Drewell, the reigning European Male Individual champion, has been...

Anna Ford Named 2015 EQUUS Foundation/USEF Humanitarian Award Recipient

by EQUUS Foundation | 1/21/2016 11:17:00 AM

Anna Ford, Program Director of New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program in Marysville, Ohio, was honored as the 2015 recipient of the EQUUS Foundation/USEF Humanitarian Award at the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Pegasus Awards Dinner on Friday, January 15, 2016, during the Federation's Annual Meeting in Lexington Kentucky. Anna Ford and Lynn Coakley Presented to Anna Ford by Chrystine Tauber, USEF President (left) and Lynn Coakley, EQUUS Foundation, President (right), the...

Adrienne Sternlicht Wins Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series Final

by Classic Communications | 11/3/2015 2:44:09 PM

Adrienne Sternlicht and Providence (Rebecca Walton for Phelps Media Group) Lexington, Ky. - Adrienne Sternlicht, of Greenwich, CT, won the Show Jumping Hall of Fame (SJHF) Jumper Classic Series Final at the National Horse Show at the Kentucky Horse Park on October 31. Riding her 8-year-old mare Providence, owned by Starlight Farms, Sternlicht topped a field of 32 horses, 11 of which made it to the jump-off. Sternlicht then rode Providence to the only fault-free ride in the jump off, finishing...

One-Two Finish for Emanuel Andrade Launches Him to Top of Hagyard Challenge Standings

by Phelps Media Group | 8/25/2015 1:48:29 PM

Emanuel Andrade and Boy IV (Kendall Bierer/PhelpsSports.com) Lexington, Ky. - A one-two finish in Friday's $10,000 Hagyard Welcome Stake during the KHJA Horse Show has vaulted Venezuela's Emanuel Andrade to the top of the Hagyard Challenge Series standings. The young rider took home the win aboard Boy IV, and finished second with Bon Jovi by just 3/100ths of a second. Combined with a victory during the Kentucky Spring Classic, Andrade now sits atop the Hagyard Challenge Series standings...

Tracy Fenney and MTM Reve Du Paradis Cash in at Chicago with $50,000 Win Vision Grand Prix Victory

by Kendall Bierer | 6/13/2015 11:43:44 PM

Tracy Fenney and MTM Reve Du Paradis win the $50,000 Win Vision Grand Prix at the Spring Spectacular II Wayne, IL - June 13, 2015 - Less than half a second would separate the top three placeholders during the $50,000 Win Vision Grand Prix, sponsored by LUXMAX USA, at the Spring Spectacular II on Saturday. The lead continued to change hands throughout the jump-off, with each consecutive rider gaining speed and taking risks in an attempt to seal their place at the top of the leader board. Today...

Order of Go for Great American $1 Million Grand Prix at HITS Ocala Released

by HITS E-News | 3/20/2015 5:12:45 PM

Ocala, Fla. - HITS, Inc. is pleased to share the official Great American $1 Million Grand Order of Go for the second jewel in the HITS Triple Crown of Show Jumping. On Monday, March 23 at 6pm, World Cup champions, Olympic Gold Medalists and Grand Prix heroes will converge in the Ocala Horse Properties Stadium at HITS Post Time Farm for a chance at the richest purse in show jumping and world-wide fame. HITS will livestream the Great American $1 Million Grand Prix on USEF Network . offering...

USEF Updates Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team for CSIO4* Ocala

by USEF Communications Department | 2/4/2015 1:45:00 PM

Lexington, Ky. - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has updated the entry for the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team for the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup presented by Edge Brewing Barcelona at CSIO4* Ocala, in Ocala, Fla., February 11-15, 2015. The following riders will represent the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team at CSIO4* Ocala (in alphabetical order): Georgina Bloomberg (New York, N.Y.) For Georgina Bloomberg, the daughter of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a...

USEF Names Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team for CSIO4* Ocala

by USEF Communications Department | 1/14/2015 5:00:37 PM

Lexington, Ky. - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is pleased to announce the riders who will represent the United States on the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team in Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup competition at CSIO4* Ocala, in Ocala, Fla., February 11-15, 2015. The following riders will represent the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team at CSIO4* Ocala (in alphabetical order): Georgina Bloomberg (New York, N.Y.) For Georgina Bloomberg, the daughter of former New York City mayor...