Ocala, FL - February 15, 2011 - It wasn't just an illusion when Taylor McMurtry and her own Just An Illusion won Sunday's $50,000 EMO Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health. The horse-and-rider combination celebrated their first Grand Prix win ever to conclude the Ocala Winter Classic. "I'm so happy!" exclaimed McMurtry, 18, who found her way to the top on a beautiful sunny day at HITS Post Time Farm. "I'm overwhelmed. Especially since it was my goal to win a Grand Prix this year, I am...

Attention Dressage Show Managers: Please discard any and all score sheets for all FEI freestyles and Young Horse tests downloaded before 2011. Although the dates on the bottom of the score sheets have not been updated, the FEI has posted revised score sheets for all FEI freestyles and Young Horse tests. The calculation of errors has changed based on new FEI rules, and these changes are reflected on the new score sheets. Please contact Jeannie Putney at [email protected] with questions. ENDS

Lexington, KY - The 2011 American Saddlebred Reference Directory is now available online, via the American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) website. The American Saddlebred Reference Directory is the breed’s most comprehensive publication each year, and the only breed publication distributed to the entire ASHA membership. The publication will soon be distributed to ASHA members, and in the meantime, ASHA members can log in and access the electronic version of the Reference Directory at...

Margie Engle and Indigo at the Syracuse Invitational (Photo credit: Reflections Photography.) Syracuse, NY - November 6, 2010 -The fast paced action continued in downtown Syracuse today. The featured class of the night was the $100,000 Detwiler Fenton FEI World Cup Qualifier of Syracuse presented by G&C Farm. The great US rider, Margie Engle, out rode 27 riders representing six countries to take the lionshare $100,000 purse. As she stepped into the arena as the last of three qualifiers of the...

Las Vegas, NV - Las Vegas National excitement begins Thursday, November 4th at 7 p.m. The competition kicks off on Thursday with the $30,000 FEI Welcome Jumper Classic, presented by Royal Champion, at 7 p.m. The excitement continues Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. with the $30,000 Las Vegas Speed Classic, presented by CardFlex. And don’t miss the highlight event of the week, the $50,000 Las Vegas National World Cup Qualifying Grand Prix, made possible by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, with a hot...

Chris Nelson and Inside Out at the $40,000 HITS Grand Prix (Photo by © ESI Photography) CULPEPER, VA (October 4, 2010)--The road to the 2011 $1 Million Grand Prix kicked-off on Sunday when Chris Nelson and Lazy Creek Ranch's Inside Out captured the win in the final HITS Grand Prix of the year, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, at the Culpeper Finals. Nelson, of Flower Mound, Texas, and nine-year-old Inside Out were one of 14 horse-and-rider combinations to ride the course designed by Marina...

Lexington, KY - Sunday's endurance competition is part of the FREE video-on-demand now being posted to USEFNetwork.com. View raw footage from the last hour and a half of the competition as well as highlights. More will be added later today! Make sure to bookmark the Endurance page at USEF Network: https://www.usefnetwork.com/WEG2010/Endurance/

Jean Sheptoff and Peaches, winners of the $35,000 Grand Prix at the Fieldstone Summer Showcase (Photo Credit: Anne Gittins ) Halifax, MA -August 28, 2010- Jean Sheptoff and Peaches galloped to victory in the $35,000 Fieldstone Summer Showcase Grand Prix, held on the all-grass Grand Prix field at the Fieldstone Equestrian & Show Facility in Halifax, MA. The Grand Prix is the highlight of the Summer Showcase, which runs August 24-29 and features top-notch equestrian competition, great prize...

The Ohio Morgan Horse Association is gearing up for their Buckeye Morgan Challenge Horse Show, to be held August 13-15, 2010, in Wilmington, OH. The latest announcement is the addition of the American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA) Reining Seat Medal and United Professional Horsemen's Association (UPHA) Morgan Challenge Cup classes to its slate of more than 100 classes. The Reining Seat Medal will be Class 28A and will run as the last class Friday morning and the Morgan Challlenge Cup is Class...

After 24 prior attempts to win the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, trainer Todd Pletcher finally snagged the victory he’d been waiting for his entire career. This Saturday, his super protégé Super Saver will try for the second jewel in horse racing’s ever-elusive Triple Crown. But before the call to the post on NBC, watch as history is made for another legend in the equine industry as Great Britain’s William Fox-Pitt chases his Rolex Kentucky CCI**** dream. 2010 marks his ninth attempt at...