Victoria Birdsall, Alex Parrish, Josephina Nor and Taylor Siebel emerged as Conference champions in the regular season of the 2009 Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series. The Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series conducted its 2009 series with classes at more than 100 horse shows across the nation, giving competitors an abundance of opportunities to accumulate points throughout the year. The Series featured separate divisions for amateur-owner and junior...

As the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation Holiday Fundraiser draws closer, many exciting performances have been announced for the feature event. SUCCEED® and Wellington Classic Dressage will be hosting the Holiday Gala Fundraiser, December 11-12, 2009, to benefit the USET Foundation. The venue for the fundraiser will be the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL. The two nights of exciting performances will include Pony Club Mounted Games featuring Gina Miles, Cathy...

Following in the tradition of the finest registries in Europe, Eurosport Auctions, Ltd. presents the Horses Unlimited Sport Horse Auction on Sunday, October 18, 2009. The event will offer almost 30 quality young prospects, current show competitors and breeding stock, the talents of which have been proven not only in the international dressage arena, but in jumping and equitation as well. These represent some of the finest Hanoverian, Oldenburg, RPSI, Holsteiner and Westfalen bloodlines...

By Brice Carr The American Saddlebred Horse Association's (ASHA) American Saddlebred Daily magazine, which contains daily competition results, feature stories, and photos from the previous day's action at the Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS), is available online. American Saddlebred Daily is a daily publication created by ASHA, and provided to WCHS attendees on site at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY, each day throughout the course of the show. The publication is...

Subscribers may also tune in before performances, as well as during breaks in the competition, to view promotional Saddlebred tribute videos such as I Can Fly, Unforgettable (Don Harris), It Had to be You (Jean McLean Davis), and Still the Same (Carter Cox, Robert Lewis, Bill Wise, the Teaters, Bill Munford, Donna Moore, and others). The implementation of this trial chat functionality is an effort by ASHA to offer webcast subscribers the opportunity to carry on dialog with other Saddlebred...

The Future Event Horse and Young Event Horse competitions at The Ark in Monroe, NC, that were originally scheduled for Friday, October 9, have been moved to Sunday, October 11. Please see The Ark's website at www.whynotanamericanark.com for updated information and times, or contact Dr. Abbey Dondanville at [email protected] Click on the series logos on the USEA homepage for more information on the Young and Future Event Horse classes at .

Two notable Saddlebred enthusiasts, Carson Kressley and Molly Kregor, are scheduled to be guests on Tuesday, August 25, on The Joe B & Denny Show, a central Kentucky sports radio show co-hosted by former University of Kentucky men's basketball coach Joe B. Hall, and former University of Louisville men's basketball coach Denny Crum. Kressley and Kregor will be appearing on the show to discuss the American Saddlebred, and to help promote the 2009 World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS), currently...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) is pleased to announce and congratulate its new USDF Certified Instructors from the testing held July 18-19 at Post Oak Farm in Gainesville, GA. The USDF Instructor Certification program is designed to set a standard of excellence in dressage training and instruction in the United States and to educate dressage riders, instructors, and aspiring instructors. New USDF Certified Instructors include Donna Gatchell of Nokesville, VA; Ana Gilmour of...

Lexington, KY – With excitement building toward the annual U.S. showcase for future international dressage horses, the USEF has announced the final entries for the 2009 USEF National Developing Horse Dressage Championship presented by the Dutta Corporation & Performance Sales International and the 2009 Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships. National Championships in four age divisions will be contested August 21 – 23, 2009 in the picturesque setting of Lamplight Equestrian...

Lexington, KY – Due to an unprecedented number of ponies entered in the Regular Pony Division, the following schedule change has been made. The Small Regular Ponies will Model and Hack on Thursday (Aug 6)afternoon following the completion of the Green Ponies Over Fences. The Medium and Large Regular Ponies will Model and Hack on Friday (Aug 7) as scheduled, and the Small Ponies will go Over Fences following the completion of the Large Pony division on Friday. The Welcome Party has been...