Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Reuters Tiamo Trocadero ) Reuters Tiamo Trocadero certainly has nothing left to prove at age 23. The Hanoverian stallion has been winning at grand prix dressage since he was eight years old. He earned scores over 70% at top CDIs in Europe, was an alternate for the British Olympic dressage team in 2000, and took his American amateur owner, Karin Reid Offield, to multiple USDF year-end awards at the FEI level. Today, Tiamo is standing at Little Bit Farm in...

Photo by David Mullinix (Hillary Dobbs and Marengo.) Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, and Marengo won the $30,000 Battenkill Grand Prix, presented by The Equinox Resort, on Sunday, July 18, at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. Dobbs are Marengo are no strangers to the winner’s circle at the Vermont Summer Festival, having won two grand prix events in 2009. This year, the pair faced off against 23 other challengers. In the first round, a total of four horse-rider combinations were able...

Photo Courtesy Equine Resources International (John Nicholson) Pfizer Animal Health and American Horse Publications (AHP) presented John Nicholson with the ninth annual Equine Industry Vision Award at a ceremonial breakfast held during the AHP 2010 40th Anniversary Seminar in Lexington, KY. Established in 2002, the Equine Industry Vision Award was the first of its kind to showcase innovation and recognize ingenuity and service across the entire equine market. Nicholson has earned this honor for...

With the Langer Equestrian Group (LEG) show season in full swing, there have been several shows at each venue for riders to rack up points and help their trainers win a fabulous trip to the beautiful Marriott’s Maui Ocean Club Resort, courtesy of LEG. The top five finishers also earn a bonus check for their accomplishments. Maui trips are awarded to the professionals whose students earn the most points at the Woodside, Colorado, Verdugo Hills and Woodside Dressage series, as well as a fifth...

The Kentucky Spring Horse Show got underway on May 12 at the picturesque Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. A brief thunderstorm rolled through during the day's competition, but in the afternoon the sun started to appear and riders had the opportunity to compete for top prizes in the Main Stadium. Pablo Barrios of Venezuala took home two blue ribbons after winning the $5,000 Open Jumper 1.40m class with G & C LaGran, and capturing the $5,000 Open Jumper 1.45m victory aboard G & C Quick Star....

The 2010 Kentucky International Equine Summit, presented by the University of Louisville Equine Industry Program in cooperation with the University of Kentucky Equine Initiative, concluded last Tuesday evening at the Downtown Hilton in Lexington, KY. The Summit was created with a goal of drawing in industry leaders to share in a discussion and search for solutions for some of the industry’s most important challenges, regardless of the breed or discipline. With 74 industry experts on hand as...

The Varsity Equestrian National Championships took place in Waco, TX, April 15–17 at the Heart of Texas Fair Complex. Chrystine Tauber and R. Scot Evans served as the Hunter Seat judges with Tom McBeath and Lisa Moden officiating over the Western portion. University of Georgia won the Hunter Seat championship and Texas A&M University took the victory in the Western pen. Both teams were third in the discipline that they did not win, thus creating a tie for the Overall Champion. This led to a...

Kim Severson Leads the Way with Tipperary Liadhnan (Shannon Brinkman/USEF) Lexington, KY - The gamble with the weather paid off on cross country day at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Bridgestone and the Organizing Committee was rewarded for their efforts and cancellation of the lunch break with a sunny cross country phase. The storms loomed toward the end of the day, but the competition went off unscathed and Great Britain's William Fox-Pitt held on to his lead with a text book...

Phillip Dutton is one busy man this weekend. Everyone that shipped down from True Prospect Farm knew that this was going to be a busy time for them. Phillip was originally scheduled to ride three horses (The Foreman, Waterfront and Kheops Du Quesnay), at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event presented by Bridgestone. He was then supposed to hop on a plane Sunday night to ride Woodburn at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials next week. Then things blew-up. Literally. Iceland's...

Kentucky experts report that eastern tent caterpillar numbers are up for the third consecutive year, although populations vary from location to location. According to Lee Townsend, University of Kentucky (UK) College of Agriculture entomologist, now is the time to check wild cherry and related trees for eastern tent caterpillar activity to determine whether management is necessary. “The tents are easy to see now,” he said. “Many of the small nests out on limbs have been abandoned because...