Aaron Vale concluded Week Two of the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival with a win in the $50,000 Grand Prix of Michigan. (Taylor Renner/Phelps Media Group) Traverse City, Mich. - A little rain did not stop the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival (GLEF) from putting on a fantastic event on Sunday to cap off Week Two of competition at Flintfields Horse Park with the week's highly anticipated feature class, the $50,000 Grand Prix of Michigan, presented by Peninsula Capital Management and Craig...

Wellington, FL- January 24, 2016 - Team USA and individuals once again dominated the competition at Week Two of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) $10,000 CPEDI3*. This week's U.S. team led by Chef d' Equipe Kai Team USA. Photo by Lindsay Y. McCall Handt included riders Roxanne Trunnell and NTEC Royal Dancer (Grade Ia), Rebecca Hart and Schroeter's Romani (Grade II), Angela Peavy and Lancelot Warrior (Grade III), and Margaret Mcintosh and Rio Rio (Grade Ia). Despite...

Amanda Steege guided Tony Arena’s Majestic to the High Performance Hunter Championship title during WCHR week at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. (David Mullinix Photography) East Dorset, VT - World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) competition took place throughout the third week of competition, held July 17-21, at the Vermont Summer Festival, attracting the East Coast’s top hunter riders as they prepare for WCHR Finals this fall. Professionals were among the first to...

Photo Courtesy Minitube Internationa (Biopsita with surrogate mom.) Minitube International has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will allow for genetic testing and preservation of equine embryos. The world's first foal from a biopsied and vitrified embryo transferred into a surrogate mare was born on Wednesday January 27, 2010, at Minitube International Center for Biotechnology in Mount Horeb, WI. Both the mother, "Lola," and foal are doing well. The birth of "Biopsita" marks a new era in...

Lexington, KY - The jumper action continued this evening at the Alltech National Horse Show, 128th Edition, and speed wa s the name of the game as riders competed in the $60,000 Spy Coast Farm Open Jumper Speed Stake. The speedy veteran pair of Kent Farrington and Up Chiqui dominated the class with blazing time, beating second place finishers Nicholas Dello Joio and Notre Star De La Nutria by almost four seconds. Great Britain's Scott Brash and Bon Ami rounded out the top three with a quick...

The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) continued a strong circuit of competition in its fourth week on February 3-7. The week featured the $75,000 Adequan Grand Prix, CSI** and the €100,000 Exquis World Dressage Masters Palm Beach, along with a full schedule of hunter, jumper, and equitation classes. The week four title sponsor was Adequan. Along with their week four title sponsorship, Adequan® was the title sponsor of the $75,000 Adequan® Grand Prix, CSI** on Sunday, February 7, and is...

Hunter Holloway (AnLi Kelly Durham/Phelps Media Group,) Parker, Colo. - Friday at the Colorado Horse Park, all eyes were on the equitation riders, where many talented juniors vied for valuable points in the two phases of the WIHS Equitation and the ASPCA Maclay. The riders from Equi-Venture Farm of Topeka, KS left no blue ribbon unclaimed in the three medal classes. Hunter Holloway finished on top in both WIHS Equitation classes, while Misty Redd took the blue in the ASPCA Maclay. In the WIHS...

Dressage The Palm Beach County Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in West Palm Beach, FL, hosted The Wellington Classic Spring Challenge CDI-W. On Friday, Tina Konyot and her partner from the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, Calecto V, topped the field in the Grand Prix for Freestyle scoring a 70.043%. Elizabeth Austin riding Olivier and Shawna Harding riding Come On III collected second and third place honors. Konyot took another commanding win in the Freestyle, scoring a 75.300%. Harding...

Ashlee Bond and Cornancer July 27, 2015 - Del Mar, CA - Truly a race up until the last ride, the $40,000 Racing Festival Grand Prix, presented by Equestrian Almanac, kept everyone on the edge of their seats. In the end, the talented Ashlee Bond and Little Valley Farms' Cornancer earned the mare's first Grand Prix win against a field of talented competitors. International FEI course designer Anderson Lima of Mexico set a precise course that tested both the horses and riders. With three...

Wellington, Fla. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the four athlete/horse combinations who will be representing the Adequan U.S. Para Dressage at the Perrigo CPEDI3* at Week 9 of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF), March 11-13, 2022. The following athletes and horses have been selected to the 2022 Perrigo CPEDI3* at AGDF 9 and are listed in alphabetical order: Beatrice de Lavalette (Loxahatchee, Fla.) and Clarc, a 2007 KWPN gelding owned by Elizabeth and Nicolas de...