Tina Konyot congratulates Calecto V (Susan Stickle) Dressage The second weekend of competition in the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of in Gladstone, NJ at the USET Foundation Headquarters. This week saw National Champions crowned in the Junior, Young Rider, and Brentina Cup divisions. The Grand Prix division, which served as the USEF Selection Trial for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games also wrapped up with a second Grand Prix on Friday and the Grand Prix Freestyle on Sunday....

Photo by ESI Photography (Jennifer Alfano and Fantabulous on course in the $10,000 Devoucoux Hunter Derby at HITS Ocala. ) The 2010 HITS Ocala Winter Circuit was certainly a successful tour for HITS Ocala Veteran Callan Solem. The accomplished equestrian found victory in the Grand Prix ring several times during the eight-week horse show circuit at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala, FL, including a win in the $50,000 Ring Power Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, on Allison, owned by Quiet...

Photo by ESI Photography (Jennifer Alfano and Fantabulous in Sunday's $10,000 Devoucoux Derby at HITS Ocala. ) HITS Ocala celebrated another action-packed week of AA-rated competition featuring the best in show jumping, as the Ocala Tournament wrapped up on Sunday, March 7. Members from the Marion County Chamber of Commerce enjoyed an outing at HITS Post Time Farm on Thursday and had the opportunity to experience first-hand the excitement and energy that makes Marion County and Ocala, FL, an...

Universal Sports will broadcast the Equestrian Global Champions Tour this Saturday, May 23, at 8:50 a.m. ET LIVE from Hamburg, Germany, on www.universalsports.com/equestrian . The coverage will also air on Universal Sports television later in the day at 5 p.m. ET. The Global Champions Tour (GTC) invites the world’s top 30 riders, according to Rolex rankings, to compete in the most prestigious championship in show jumping. This third leg of the tour will be hosted by the historic German Jumping...

Lexington, KY – The following changes to the CSI/CSIO aka the USEF Computer List will become effective March 17, 2009. Changes in Bold/Italics/Underlined and Strikethrough . • Page 3, 2nd paragraph under SELECTION of the Selection Procedure for CSIO/CSI Competition Discretionary Selection: “However, with the approval of the Show Jumping High Performance Committee and the Executive Committee or these committees’ designees, the chef d’Equipe shall have the authority...

The FEI World Cup™ Dressage for Young Riders is an incredible competitive opportunity for the world’s future dressage stars. The FEI World Cup™ for Young Riders will take place in Frankfurt, Germany, in December 2007 (exact dates to be determined). The United States will receive an invitation for one representative. Riders may earn qualifying freestyle scores in U.S. CDI-Y competitions, and scores are automatically tracked and rankings are maintained by USEF. For more information and to view...

Gladstone, NJ – Riding through the chill, the rain and the mud of New Jersey’s wettest weekend in months, Julie Welles of West Simsbury, Connecticut, was awarded the Championship title at the 2005 USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals East on October 8-9, proving she not only had the stamina required to win the multi-phase Finals, but the skill and ingenuity to make her riding skills shine, despite the elements. “I had a positive outlook coming in. I went in and rode the best...

Lexington, Kentucky – Stonecroft Farm’s homebred I’m First (CF First Night Out x That Special Face) vindicated his owner’s and trainer’s longstanding faith in him by becoming the World's Champion Five-Gaited Stallion Monday evening under the guidance of Nelson Green. The chestnut stallion, foaled in 2000, is a graduate of the American Saddlebred Registry futurity programs. He won the Two-Year-Old Five-Gaited Stake in 2002. He also won the Three-Year-Old...

Beezie Madden on Authentic (Diana DeRosa) Authentic Top U.S. Money-Winning Horse; Aaron Vale Top U.S. Rider in Money Won Lexington, KY – The year-end report of the USEF Computer List is an important comprehensive annual analysis of the show jumping performances of U.S. and foreign riders in dozens of statistical categories. 2004 has proven to be a banner year for show jumping with a record amount of prize money up for grabs. In 2004, the total money won worldwide at Grand Prix events...

Mette Rosencrantz enjoyed her three CDI class wins with "Mosegaards Rico" at Woodside. (Jennifer M. Keeler) Woodside, C A - Despite the pressure of National Championships in Gladstone, NJ hovering less than one month away, beautiful weather and a spectacular setting in California allowed dressage riders and horses to enjoy themselves at the Woodside Spring Dressage CDI*/Y/J in Woodside, CA, May 18 - 20, 2012. As a valuable qualifier for the Northern California region, horses and riders competed...