ASHA Board First Vice President Vicki Gillenwater (left) and President Judy Werner (right) present t (Photo by Brice Carr, American Saddlebred Horse Association) Louisville, KY - At the 2010 Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS), held every August in conjunction with the Kentucky State Fair, the American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) recognized its 2010 ASHA Youth Scholarship recipients, as well as the winners of the ASHA Junior Judging Contest, in center ring of...

Bridgehampton, NY - Olympic Gold medalist Leslie Howard, of Darien, CT, rode Jeans Glove Varnel to victory in the $15,000 Speed Derby amidst the gray clouds and sporadic downpours, Friday morning at the Hampton Classic Horse Show. The threat of Hurricane Earl kept the attendance to a minimum with only 18 deciding to participate. David Tromp was the first to go on Renoir Du Buisson, owned by Beyaert Farm. They had a clear round in a time of 84.705 seconds and set the standard for the class. The...

Bridgehampton, NY - Competitors at the Hampton Classic Horse Show continued to enjoy sunny skies on Wednesday morning as an ample field of 73 lined up for the $7,500 Wölffer Estate Open Jumper (1.35m) class. Several tried, but only one tasted sweet victory and that was Shane Sweetnam riding Belle Bleu S, owned by Spy Coast Farm, LLC. "It was a very fast class," said Sweetnam. "I knew the way it had been the last couple of days that you had to be going as quick as you could to be able to win the...

Darragh Kenny on Looping Star (Shawn McMillen Photography/Hampton Classic) Bridgehampton, NY--August 31, 2010- Darragh Kenny 22, of County Offaly, Ireland, had the "luck of the Irish" on his side winning both jumper classes in the Grand Prix ring at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Tuesday. Kenny won the Brown Harris Stevens Open Jumper (1.40m) FEI Table A class riding Looping Star and the Newsday Open Jumper class (1.35m) earlier in the day on Bazooka de Muze. Both horses are owned by Missy...

DULUTH, Ga. — August 2010 —Bluntly challenging more than four decades of conventional wisdom, Merial today announced a new equine educational campaign urging horse owners to stop arbitrarily utilizing year-round or rotational deworming programs. Instead, horse owners and veterinarians should collaborate to apply the dwindling supply of effective deworming products more strategically – and more effectively. “Multiple studies from across the country have shown entire classes of dewormers are no...

Tina Konyot congratulates Calecto V (Susan Stickle) Dressage The second weekend of competition in the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of in Gladstone, NJ at the USET Foundation Headquarters. This week saw National Champions crowned in the Junior, Young Rider, and Brentina Cup divisions. The Grand Prix division, which served as the USEF Selection Trial for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games also wrapped up with a second Grand Prix on Friday and the Grand Prix Freestyle on Sunday....

Meagan Davis and Bentley (SusanJStickle.com Photo) Gladstone, NJ – Bentley just couldn’t help but to create a little excitement, he had been on his best behavior since arriving at the USET Foundation Headquarters but there was an instant in the left half-pass of the Young Rider Individual Test that the overnight leader of the National Young Rider Dressage Championship at the 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of Champions had a moment of indiscretion. Meagan Davis (Stone Ridge, NY) rode...

David Mullinix Photography (Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, riding Marengo won the $30,000 Manchester & The Mountains Grand Prix, Presented by Hand Motors, on Sunday, August 8) East Dorset, Vermont — Hillary Dobbs, 22, of Sussex, NJ, and her mount, Marengo, capped off week five at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT, by successfully defending their title in the $30,000 Manchester & The Mountains Grand Prix, Presented by Hand Motors, on Sunday, August 8. The win by Dobbs and Marengo...

Tina Konyot and Calecto V (SusanJStickle.com Photo) Gladstone, NJ – The Grand Prix kicked off the third day of competition at the 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of Champions and the Grand Prix Special gave the fans another opportunity to see the best dressage horses in the country in the freshly renovated Dick and Jane Brown Dressage Ring at the historic USET Foundation Headquarters. Saturday’s Grand Prix winner was not going to be denied. Tina Konyot (Palm City, FL) and Calecto V put...

Kyndall Harper and Whiz Bang Boom (Waltenberry Photo) Dressage In Austria at the Fritzen CDI4*, Chris Hickey and Cabana Boy finished seventh in the Prix St. Georges and eighth in the Intermediaire I. Riding in the Grand Prix for Special, Tina Konyot and Calecto V scored a 69.02% to finish fourth and were then seventh in the Grand Prix Special. In the Grand Prix for Freestyle, Catherine Haddad guided new partner Winyamaro to a fifth place finish, the pair scored a 71.55% in the Grand Prix...