Cardi (Team Cardi LLC) Welsh Cob stallion North Forks Cardi recently piaffed and passaged his way to four impressive wins in Intermediaire II classes at the Festival of the Horse and the Golden State Dressage Show. Competing against all breeds in a field traditionally dominated by warmblood horses, this eleven year old Welsh Cob stallion, standing 14.3 1/2 hands high, produced his best ever score of 67% and also qualified for the Grand Prix Freestyle, earning a 62% for their Grand Prix ride....

Vaulter Bree Krebel will be a featured clinician at the 2012 Western States Horse Expo (Western States Horse Expo) Sacramento, CA - The Western States Horse Expo is pleased to announce that vaulting coach Bree Krebel will be a featured clinician during year's event. Krebel has recently created a new program, "Vaulting for Equestrians," which she hopes will help develop new programs across the country. The Western States Horse Expo is scheduled for June 8-10, 2012 at the Cal Expo Fairgrounds...

Olympian Margie Engle and Ashland Farms' Lord Spezi (ESI Photography) Saugerties, NY – This year, HITS Saugerties will be in a qualifying frenzy as riders spanning the spectrum of levels will make HITS Championship Weekend the last stop on their summer show schedule. Highlighting the schedule at HITS-on-the-Hudson this spring and summer will be the 14 qualifiers for the famed Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix , seven for the second-annual Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix Final and seven for...

The 20th Annual Live Oak International got underway today on the serene grounds of Live Oak Plantation, also home to leading Thoroughbred breeding and training facility, Live Oak Stud in Ocala Florida. The Live Oak International represents the very best that combined driving competition has to offer and the event traditionally attracts the best drivers from around the world. "This really is the premier event in the country," according to the Technical Delegate Ed Young and U.S. Driving Team...

Darragh Kenny of Ireland, pictured riding Wannahave, is a frequent grand prix competitor at the Vermont Summer Festival (David Mullinix Photography) East Dorset, VT — The Vermont Summer Festival will return to East Dorset, Vermont, for six consecutive weeks of competition running July 4 through August 12, 2012. New England’s largest hunter/jumper competition, the 2012 Vermont Summer Festival will offer more than $750,000 in prize money, making it the richest sporting event based on...

Wellington, FL - The World Dressage Masters Palm Beach presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach will be officially under way at 12:30 pm on Thursday, January 26th, when 15 of the world's top international dressage horses are presented at the FEI horse inspection. The Jim Brandon Equestrian Center is, for the second consecutive year, the venue for this unique and exciting event, which is organized by Wellington Classic Dressage. "The International Polo Club team has come into the Jim...

Laurie Moore rode Cynthia Hunting’s Zonnerhall to the highest score at the International Sport Horse Palm Beach Show Loxahatchee, FL – Dressage trainer Laurie Moore reunited with her former equine partner Zonnerhall, owned by Cynthia Hunting, at the International Horse Sport Palm Beach Show and the reunion proved to be award winning as the duo captured the high score at the show. Moore and Zonnerhall earned a 77.903% in the USEF First Level Test of Choice to ride away as the winner of The...

Cian O'Connor and Everything Capture First G&C Farm 1.45m Jumper Victory Wellington, FL - The FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) kicked off competition today with hunter/jumper classes in 10 rings. In the International Arena, Olympian Cian O'Connor (IRL) scored the first win of the season with Everything, owned by Abdulla Humaid Al Muhairi, in the G&C Farm 1.45m Jumpers. The first week of the FTI WEF runs through Sunday, January 15, and is sponsored by Surpass....

Katy, TX - As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, Nordic Lights Farm wrapped up the 2011 show season during the Final Chase Horse Show at the Southwest Equestrian Center in Katy, Texas. Eirin Bruheim claimed the winning honors during the $5,000 Open Jumper Mini Prix aboard Cicero 75, as well as the High Junior/Amateur-Owner Jumper Championship. Her sister Lene Bruheim was also very successful, earning top honors in the hunter, jumper, and equitation rings. Eirin and her talented mount Cicero...

Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Stallion MRA Donny Boy shown by William Bagliani. Don Stine Photography. Aurora, CO - The Arabian breed's premier sport horses gathered for the Ninth Annual Sport Horse National Arabian and Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Sport Horse Nationals) at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., from Sept. 28 – Oct. 2, 2011. Unique among breed shows, Sport Horse Nationals offers classes in the sport horse divisions for registered Arabian, Half-Arabian and...