Cassandra Kahle and Wall Street wrapped up the Swan Lake Horse Shows Summer Kick Off Classic with a win in the $25,000 Kick Off Classic Grand Prix. (Taylor Renner/Phelps Media Group) Littlestown, Pa. - The Swan Lake Horse Shows Summer Kick Off Classic concluded on Saturday with the week's highlight event: the $25,000 Kick Off Classic Grand Prix. Cassandra Kahle of Redfield Farm has had a stellar week at Swan Lake Stables thus far, winning the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby and $5,000 1....

Wellington, FL - January 31, 2016 - Leida Collins-Strijk (NED) and Don Tignanello took a clean sweep of Small Tour competition at the third week of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF), earning wins in all three classes presented by Chesapeake Dressage Institute. Collins-Strijk and Don Tignanello completed their dominating week this afternoon, earning a 75.792% in the FEI Intermediaire I Freestyle to take top honors. Michael Klimke (GER) and Djamba Djokiba followed in second place...

Lexington, Ky. - Adult amateur riders showing off their Third Level freestyles were first in the Alltech Arena early Sunday morning, but it was the final competitor down centerline who impressed the judges the most on the last day of national championship action at the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, held November 5-8, 2015 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. Julie McCrady won the Third Level Freestyle Adult Amateur Championship with her home-bred Hanoverian mare...

With Victoria Colvin aboard, Way Cool jumped to the Junior Hunter High-Score Award for the fourth consecutive year at the Hampton Classic. (McMillen photo) Bridgehampton, N.Y. - Victoria Colvin rode Dr. Betsee Parker's Way Cool to win the Large Junior Working Hunter High-Score Award for the fourth year in a row-scoring a 98 to win one class-on the way to the Large Junior Working Hunter, 16-17, Championship and the Grand Junior Hunter Championship. As the Large Junior Hunter High-Score...

David Beisel and Ameretto Traverse City, MI - July 19, 2015 - David Beisel and Ammeretto, owned by Equine Holdings LLC, wasted no time in the jump-off round to edge out Ryan Genn and Cookie Monster, owned by Wilhelm and Patty Genn, the only other double clear round of the $50,000 Flintfields Grand Prix presented by North Face Farm. The Genns kept it in the family, with Ryan's father, Wilhelm Genn, claiming third place aboard Bugatti, owned by Eduardo Leon, who were clear in the first round...

Laura Chapot is one of the many top riders in town for the 2015 Lake Placid Horse Show (The Book LLC) Lake Placid, New York - The 46th annual Lake Placid Horse Show, Presented by Sea Shore Stables, LLC, got underway on Tuesday. Many of the nation's best hunter and jumper riders have arrived at the North Elba Show Grounds as the Lake Placid Horse Shows are again hosting three fantastic weeks of top horse show competition beginning at 8:00 AM daily. The Lake Placid Horse Show runs June 23-28,...

Las Vegas, Nevada - Steffen Peters and Legolas 92 were eliminated from the Grand Prix Freestyle in the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final today following the discovery of a small amount of blood on the horse's side at the post-competition check. In accordance with the FEI Dressage Rules, the FEI Steward reported the finding of blood to the Judge at C, Liselotte Fore, who eliminated Peters and Legolas 92. Under Article 430.7.6 of the FEI Dressage Rules, elimination is automatic in...

McKayla and Hazel The Dressage Foundation's Renee Isler Dressage Support Fund has awarded a $1,000 grant to youth dressage rider McKayla Hohmann (Colfax, WI) to train her rescue pony, Humble Hazel, with Amanda Johnson. Humble Hazel is owned by Karen Lee. McKayla’s goal for the next year is to gain a better understanding of balance with her horse so that she can apply it to showing at Second Level. After her intensive training with Amanda Johnson, McKayla hopes to move on with Hazel...

Kasey Perry and Goerklintgaards Dublet (SusanJStickle.com) Wellington, Fla. - Kasey Perry (USA), coming off of a fantastic week of performances at Week 3 of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF), topped the FEI Intermediaire 1 Freestyle class, presented by Chesapeake Dressage Institute. Perry aboard Goerklintgaards Dublet scored a 72.150%, followed by Christoph Koschel (GER) on Leuchtfeuer DE finishing on a 71.225%, and Kimberly Herslow (USA) and Rosmarin placing third with a score...

Washington, D.C. - The $10,000 WIHS Adult Amateur Hunter Championship, sponsored by The Linden Group at Morgan Stanley, concluded day one at the 2014 WIHS with 27 entries showing over the first round course and the top 12 returning. Laurie Barna of Dallas, PA, finally got her victory after several top finishes in the competition in previous years. She rode her veteran mount Laguna, a 21-year-old Holsteiner gelding, to victory with scores of 78 and 81 for the winning total of 159. Jacquelyn...