The American Sportpony Registry is pleased to announce that it is in the process of changing the name to the North American Sportpony Registry in order to reflect a commitment to Sportpony breeders residing in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

As a reminder to all dressage riders, the 2008 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions will be held in San Juan Capistrano, CA, over the weekends of June 20–22 and June 27–29. This Festival of Champions will feature the national championships for the Intermediaire I, Young Adult “Brentina Cup”, Young Rider and Junior divisions, and will be held in conjunction with the USEF Selection Trials for Dressage. Division ranking lists are currently posted on the USEF website, but in...

World titles will be up for renewal and grabs this year as the 12th FEI World Endurance Championship edge their way closer. Indeed, from November 6-9, 2008, Terengganu in Malaysia will be host to defending, aspiring and future world champions. The nominated entry date and definite entry dates for the 2008 FEI World Endurance Championship are: Nominated Entry: August 21 Definite Entry: October 1 These dates have been chosen in order to acknowledge combinations that have performed at the highest...

In order to provide a unique benefit to USEF competitions and help promote the submission of electronic results, USEF has launched the 2007 Computer Hardware Grant Program. In 2007, USEF upgraded all workstations throughout the entire organization, and instead of disposing of these workstations, they are being offered to competitions that may have a use for them. Even though these workstations are three years old, they are excellent for running Windows XP, but lack the resources to fully run...

The box office of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final 2008 in Göteborg (SWE) was opened on Monday, September 3, 2007. The telephone lines of the Scandinavium arena, where the Final will be held from April 24-27, 2008, were taken by storm, and 25,000 tickets were gone in an instant. The most popular fixture is Sunday, April 27, 2008, with as much as 40% of the tickets already booked. So in order to see this exciting competition marking the 30th anniversary of the FEI World Cup™ Jumping...

A limited number of tickets for next month’s Good Luck Beijing—Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 10th Anniversary Cup, the equestrian competition featuring both overseas and local riders, will be allocated to members of the public from Monday, July 16. To qualify for tickets, one would need to log on to the officially dedicated website of The Equestrian Company (EqCo) at www.equestrian2007.org to answer a simple question about eventing in equestrian sports to stand the chance of...

As a reminder to all riders and owners of four-, five- and six-year-old dressage horses, the 2007 Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships, sponsored by Markel Insurance, will once again be held at the Kentucky Horse Park, September 14–17 in Lexington, KY. In order to be eligible for this championship program, an Application of Intent must be submitted to the USEF office. The initial deadline is almost here—JUNE 15. Applications are available on the Markel/USEF Young Horse...

Lexington, KY – In cooperation with the Las Vegas World Invitational, one of the world’s premier show jumping events for 2005, the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has arranged for a portion of select ticket sales to benefit U.S. teams and athletes in their quest to compete in the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. When USEF members call or log online to order tickets, a reference to the code “USEF,” will ensure that 5% of each ticket sale will...

As a reminder to all junior dressage riders, the 2005 USEF Junior Dressage Team Championship, sponsored by Collecting Gaits Farm, the Dutta Corporation and Performance Sales International will be held at Dressage at Devon, September 27-October 2. In order to be eligible for this championship program, an Application of Intent must be submitted to the USEF office by Monday, August 1. Applications are available on USEF.org . For more information, contact Jennifer Keeler, Sport Manager--Dressage,...

As a reminder to all riders and owners of five- and six-year-old dressage horses, the 2005 USEF/Markel Young Horse Dressage National Championship will be held at MSEDA Dressage at the Park, September 9-11 in Lexington, KY. In order to be eligible for this championship program, an Application of Intent must be submitted to the USEF office by Friday, July 1. Applications are available on the Federation website here . For more information, contact Jennifer Keeler, Sport Manager -- Dressage, at...