Lexington, Ky. – The U.S. Para-Equestrian Dressage Team presented by Deloitte will compete in its second competition of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) winter circuit, taking place January 19-21, in Wellington, Fla. The U.S. will compete against Canada beginning with the FEI Team Test for all grades on Friday, which will count 50% toward the overall team score. The FEI Individual Test for all grades follows on Saturday, which will count 50% toward the overall team score. In...

US Equestrian’s "Competition & Member Summit: Facing Challenges Together" got the organization’s Jan. 17-20 Annual Meeting started a day early on Tuesday in Lexington, Ky. The summit grew out of feedback from US Equestrian’s members, competition organizers, licensed officials, experts, and staff. It brought the equestrian community together to address some of the issues expressed by individual members, licensed officials, competition organizers, experts, and staff...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to introduce the 2017 Horses of Honor. Voting is now open online . The 2017 National and International Horse of the Year will be awarded Friday evening, January 19 at the Horse of the Year Awards dinner during the US Equestrian Annual Meeting in Lexington, Ky. Learn more about the five 2017 Horses of Honor: National Horses of Honor Co Fan S (Tietse x Oeke Fan S/Fabe) 2002 Friesian gelding Owner: Little River Friesians, LLC Co Fan S is an exquisite...

Good pasture management can also help reduce intestinal parasites. (physyk/Adobe Stock) Here’s the bad news: worms are becoming resistant to our efforts to kill them, thanks in part to traditional deworming protocols that called for dosing horses every two months. That was the thinking when the first broad-spectrum dewormers (also called anthelmintics) hit the market back in the 1960s, but over the decades that protocol helped the worms become less sensitive to the medicine. “And...

Harrisburg, Pa. - Leading through all three rounds of the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Finals, 18-year-old Taylor St. Jacques (Glen Allen, Va.) proved herself to be just what judges Tamara Provost (Westfield, Ind.) and Jack Towell (Camden, S.C.) were looking for as they awarded her first place and the gold medal for her performance. Taylor St. Jacques, the 2017 Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Finals Champion (© Al Cook – www.alcookphoto.com) A total of 257 of the...

Fair Hill, Md. – Spectators and competitors enjoyed a thrilling day of cross-country at The Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International Three-Day Event, where international pairs proved their mettle over Derek di Grazia's challenging track. Colleen Rutledge held on to her lead in The Dutta Corp./USEF CCI3* Eventing National Championship with Covert Rights, and Tamra Smith and Sunsprite Syrius kept their lead in the The Dutta Corp./USEF CCI2* Eventing National Championship. A fast...

Fair Hill, Md. – Spectators were greeted with crisp, fall weather Friday at the 2017 The Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International Three-Day Event. At the conclusion of the dressage phase, Selena O’Hanlon (Ontario, Canada) and Foxwood High, a 14-year-old Canadian Sport Horse, lead the CCI3* division with a score of 39.4. Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights (Carla Duran for Shannon Brinkman Photo) Second place belongs to Colleen Rutledge (Frederick, Md.) and her 11-year-old Thoroughbred...

US Equestrian has agreed to participate in a joint fundraising and equine relief effort launched by Equestrian Canada, US Equestrian, the Pan American Equestrian Confederation (PAEC) and the Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation to serve horses impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The USEF Equine Disaster Relief Fund has received remarkable support from the equine community with more than $400,000 raised to date in response to the devastation and flooding caused recently by Hurricane Harvey....

Lexington, Ky. – The FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018 (WEG), which take place Sept. 11-23, 2018, at the Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in Mill Spring, N.C., US Equestrian, in conjunction with the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) and TIEC, are beginning to prepare spectators and athletes alike for the phenomenon that is the WEG. Since 1990, the WEG has been held every four years, halfway between the Summer Olympic Games cycle, and brings...

Tryon, N.C. - For the first time in history, the Adequan USEA Gold Cup Final was run with cross-country as the last phase. When severe weather hit the USEA American Eventing Championships (AEC) presented by Land Rover and Nutrena ® in Mill Spring, N.C. earlier in the week, the cross-country phase had to be postponed from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning due to the emergency vehicle access and allowing the footing time to dry out. This put a new twist on the Final as the top 10 pairs ran...