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USEF Network Will Broadcast Live from Live Oak International

by USEF Network Communications | 3/13/2013 4:03:20 PM

Lexington, KY - From March 21-24 USEF Network will be producing and broadcasting from the Live Oak International CAI/CSI Combined Driving and Jumping event in Ocala, FL. Jumping and driving from Live Oak will be streamed live, online, on the event's USEFnetwork.com coverage page . The Marathon and Cones phases of the driving competition will be streamed live, as well as the $50,000 Live Oak International CSI2* Grand Prix on Saturday and the $33,000 CSI2* Hollow Creek Farm Winning Round on...

U.S. Para-Equestrian Drivers Complete Dressage Tests in Breda

by Andrew Minnick | 8/30/2012 6:30:00 PM

Breda, The Netherlands - Competition at the 2012 FEI World Para-Equestrian Driving Championships for Singles commenced Thursday at the Outdoor Brabant in Breda, The Netherlands. All three competitors on the U.S. Team successfully completed their dressage tests and the team sits in 4th place on a score of 124.0 Veteran Diane Kastama's 57.40 was the best score of the day for the Americans and it has her tied for 13th individually. Kastama (Arroyo Grande, CA), who is driving the de Ronde's...

Weber Tops the Field in Cones and Dressage at Altenfelden

by JRPR | 6/29/2012 8:28:45 AM

Weber’s dressage score was a 36.86, a huge lead over the second place of 50.82 and the third place score of 53.25. (www.hippoevent.at) Altenfelden, Germany – Combined Driver Chester Weber, the nine-time USEF National Four-In-Hand Champion, showed off his outstanding dressage abilities during the 2012 Altenfelden International Driving Event, handily driving away with the top four-in-hand dressage score. Weber’s dressage score was a 36.86, a huge lead over the second place of 50.82...

Graburn Produces Wire-to-Wire Victory to Claim Second USEF National Single Horse Championship

by Helen Murray | 4/15/2012 4:34:49 PM

Raeford, NC - The USEF National Single Horse Championship concluded Sunday afternoon at the Carolina Horse Park, with the cones phase shaking up the final standings. Time faults and balls down proved extremely costly for competitors all day at the Southern Pines CDE, which hosted the USEF National Championship. Sterling Graburn seized the lead in the Single Horse division during Friday’s dressage and refused to relent over Richard Nicoll’s challenging marathon and cones courses to...

Field of 14 Set to Vie for USEF National Single Horse Champion Honors at the Southern Pines CDE

by USEF Communications Department | 4/11/2012 2:29:16 PM

Lexington, KY - A strong field of 14 drivers is set to contest the USEF National Single Horse Championship this weekend at the Carolina Horse Park in Raeford, NC. Held in conjunction with the Southern Pines CDE, competition will run April 13-15 and will be doubly important as it also serves as a Selection Trial for the 2012 Singles World Driving Championship, which will be held in Lezirias, P Robin Groves drives for her second National Championship title this weekend. (Picsofyou.com) ortugal,...

Marathon Day: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

by James Mather Miller, guest contributor, C.A.A and U.S.E.F | 8/28/2011 9:00:00 AM

Everyone in the U.S. camp entered marathon day knowing they needed a strong drive from at least two Americans. What they didn’t anticipate was the order of finish. Throughout the 2011 season, Joe Yoder has proved to be a strong marathon driver and was certainly expected to be the strongest of his 2011 teammates. Kathrin Dancer has also been a good marathon driver in her career but the driver with the least experience and the most to prove was clearly Misdee Miller. Dancer led the charge...

Chester Weber Wins Fahrderby at Riesenbeck, Moves Into Number One Spot for the FEI World Cup Standings

by Team Weber | 7/27/2011 4:48:31 PM

Combined Driver Chester Weber, America’s reigning four-in-hand driving champion, shows his winning form in the Four-In-Hand competition at the Riesenbeck CAI. (Photo courtesy of My Elisabeth Weber). Riesenbeck, Germany – If you are superstitious you might credit combined driving champion Chester Weber’s fourth winning weekend in Europe to his team’s “four lucky rabbit’s feet.” Team Weber’s companion mascot, a hefty black rabbit named Kainzi, joined them...

2011 Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show Qualifying Point Standings Posted

by Brice Carr/ASHA | 4/23/2011 12:11:22 PM

Lexington, KY - Point standings for qualifying in Pleasure, Park, and Park Pleasure at the 2011 Kentucky State Fair World’s Championship Horse Show (WCHS) are now posted on the American Saddlebred Horse Association’s (ASHA) website, https://www.asha.net/WCHS-Results . There are two sets of qualifying lists: 1) "Pre-Qualified," means that the horses’ competition records indicate they have met the minimum qualification requirement of having competed in at least six classes at...

This Week in International Disciplines - April 5

by USEF Communications Department | 4/5/2011 2:58:00 PM

Allie Slusher and Last Call Win at Galway Downs (Josh Walker/USEA) Dressage This week, at the final CDI-W in the United States, Jan Ebeling secured his trip to the 2011 Reem Acra World Cup Final with Rafalca. The pair won the Grand Prix at the Festival of the Horse CDI-W in Burbank, CA on a score of 69.298%. Guenter Seidel and U II were second with 65.830% and Shannon Peters rounded out the top three with Odyssey on a score of 65.766%. Ebeling kept the winning going, scoring again in the Grand...

This Week in International Disciplines - March 30, 2011

by From the USEF Communications Department | 3/30/2011 12:05:00 PM

Dressage American dressage rider Catherine Haddad capitalized on an eighth place finish in the Freestyle at the final Reem Acra/FEI Western European League World Cup Qualifier in s' Hertogenbosch, to earn a trip to the Final on Winyamaro. Haddad, who is based in Germany, has had consistent results throughout Europe at these important Qualifiers and will be representing the United States in Leipzig, Germany at the 2011 Reem Acra/FEI World Cup Final April 27 - May 1. Please visit the USEF World...