Lexington, KY – In a conference call held today in cooperation with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), five members of the U.S. 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) team answered a wide range of general media questions. On the phone from Germany were dressage team members Guenter Seidel from Cardiff, CA, and Debbie McDonald from Hailey, ID; vaulting team members Elizabeth Ioannou from Saratoga, CA, and Blake Dahlgren from Sun Valley, CA; and on the phone from Florida was show jumper...

In order to show in the weanling division of the Kentucky and Kentucky Amateur Futurity, 2006 foals must be conditionally registered on or before the Kentucky State Fair World’s Championship Horse Show post-entry closing date of Monday, July 10; blood typing or DNA results must be received in the Registry office on or before Friday, August 18. All horses, including American Saddlebred Registry Futurity entries, must be entered properly on printed entry forms furnished by the Kentucky State Fair....

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation® is pleased to announce the United States representatives to the FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Championship for Young Horses in Dressage, to be held August 3-6, 2006 in Verden, Germany. The results of all three USEF/Markel Young Horse Dressage Selection Trials were tallied and horses from each age group (five-and six-year-olds) with an average score of at least 7.5 from the two weighted, selection trial classes were ranked to form the...

Susan Summers, riding Mags Motivator, finished first in a ride time of 9:54:59 at the CEI*** 100-mile endurance ride in Ashland, MT, on Sunday, June 11. Her average ride time of 10.48 miles per hour put her four minutes ahead of second-place finisher, Heather Stevens, riding RSA Count Laquen. Forty riders took the trail in the 4:30 a.m. eastern Montana dawn. The trail would take them over ranch land and through the Custer National Forest. Twenty-six FEI riders began this third and last...

Courtney King went six-for-six at the Windy Hollow Hunt Summer I Dressage show, held June 10-11, at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, NJ. King exhibited three horses in six classes and claimed victory in all six competitions. King’s winning mounts were Harmony’s Wyoming, Jubilant and Idocus. High scores of the show were awarded by level/type and two of King’s mounts earned the high score in their respective divisions--Harmony’s Wyoming earned the Open High Score (79.444%) for first...

The World Equestrian Festival, perhaps the largest single week's horse show in the world, began Wednesday in Aachen, Germany, with the United States announcing a top team for the Samsung Super League. Aachen CHIO has added championship vaulting to the lineup of show jumping, dressage and four-in-hand driving that will be contested by 145 athletes from 23 nations on more than 400 horses, in front of what is expected to be well above 300,000 spectators during the five days of competition. For...

Lexington, KY – The following horse and rider combinations have been named to the United States Equestrian Federation 2006 Eventing Winter Training List for the period of January 15, 2006 through March 26, 2006: East Coast Stuart Black of Bluemont, VA, with Fleeceworks Starlight Stephen Bradley of Leesburg, VA, with Brandenburg’s Joshua Stephen Bradley of Leesburg, VA, with From Darren Chiacchia of Springville, NY, with Windfall 2 Will Coleman of Gordonsville, VA, with Second Hope...

Gladstone, NJ – Taking a year off from competing doesn’t work for everyone, but it paid off for Scott Monroe of Sharon, CT, who drove his way to his first national championship at the 2005 USEF National Combined Driving Singles Championship, part of the CAI-B Gladstone Driving Event, September 22-25. Driving his 11-year-old Morgan gelding, Bethesda After Dark (Shadow), Monroe bested a field of 12 single horses with a smooth dressage test; a precise, blistering trip through the eight obstacles...

For the first time in Kentucky Horse Park history, reining will take a dizzying spin to center stage, as the park plays host to the inaugural Adequan®/ United States Equestrian Federation Open Reining Championship, the USEF National Youth Reining Championship, presented by Markel Insurance and Hagyard-Davidson-McGee, and the final qualifying competition in preparation for the 2005 FEI (International Equestrian Federation) World Reining Masters Series Finals—all in the same week, August 23-28....

Carol J. Plough May 5, 1955 – May 16, 2005 Lexington, KY – Accomplished dressage athlete and Olympic hopeful Carol J. Plough suddenly passed away in Riverside, California on Monday, May 16, 2005. The United States Equestrian Federation and its members join the equestrian world in expressing deepest sympathy to her family and friends. Known as an accomplished horsewoman with a natural gift for putting people at ease, Carol was well-loved in and out of the dressage ring. In 2004, Carol was...