Lexington, Ky. The U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions has been named as the home for all 14 USEF Dressage National Championships in 2018. Hosted at the Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Ill., from August 21 through 26, the Markel/USEF Young and Developing Horse Dressage National Championships as well as the USEF Young Adult ‘Brentina Cup’ Dressage National Championship presented by Dressage Today will be hosted in conjunction with the other dressage divisions. The U.S. Dressage...

Harrisburg, Pa. - Dozens of qualified top junior jumper riders from across the nation are descending on Harrisburg, Pa., this week to vie for team and individual medals in the 2017 Neue Schule/USEF National Junior Jumper Championships. The Pennsylvania National Horse Show (October 12-21) is again hosting this exciting competition at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, the show’s home for over seven decades. The championship event is a thrilling competition consisting of...

Barcelona, Spain - The Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team of Lauren Hough, Laura Kraut, Beezie Madden, and McLain Ward claim the silver medal at the Longines FEI Nations Cup Jumping Final at CSIO5* Barcelona. Led by Chef d'Equipe Robert Ridland, the U.S. team finished on four faults. More information to follow. The USEF International High Performance Programs are generously supported by the USET Foundation, USOC, and USEF Sponsors and Members.

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian (USEF) is pleased to announce the dates for the eighth annual Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week (RDHMW) from January 2-5, in Wellington, Fla. Designed to identify and develop the next generation of U.S. equestrian team talent, participants will receive instruction from experts in a variety of aspects of horsemanship. Robert Dover provides feedback during “Olympian Experience” presented by Dressage Today (Taylor Pence/US Equestrian) Past...

Woodstock, England – Kim Severson and Cooley Cross Border finished on their dressage score of 37.8 to win the Ssangyong Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials CCI3*. More information and photos to follow. The USEF International High Performance Programs are generously supported by the USET Foundation, USOC, and USEF Sponsors and Members.

Kasey Perry-Glass and Goerklintgaards Dublet (SusanJStickle.com) Gladstone, N.J. – Some of the country’s top dressage combinations have converged at the United States Equestrian Foundation (USET) Foundation headquarters at Hamilton Farm to compete in The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. From May 18-21, the historic venue will play host to three national championships: USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship, USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship,...

There are IHSA shows both for hunt seat and for Western riders, like 1988’s IHSA National Champion and Stock Seat Equitation Individual High Point Rider Meg Rothermich (Miami University of Ohio), shown with coach Ken Copenhaver. (Photo Courtesy Bob Cacchione/IHSA) The Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association ’s National Championships, which take place May 4-7 at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena in Lexington, also will commemorate the IHSA’s 50 th anniversary this...

Leah Lang-Gluscic and A.P. Prime (Adam Brennan/picturesbyab.com) Leah Lang-Gluscic Leah Lang-Gluscic completed her first Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event in 2016 aboard A.P. Prime. “Last year was the first time that we attempted all the phases successfully. “Rolex is a spectacle, in the best way possible. You think you’re going to get there and it’s going to be this long week of waiting. But with A.P., in particular, I had such a huge fan base for him that I was occupied...

We caught up with professional groom Max Corcoran, who was an important part of the famed O’Connor Event Team for more than a decade before establishing her own business, Max Corcoran Horse Care, in 2012. She also teaches horse management as a clinician for US Equestrian’s Emerging Athlete Eventing Program, the United States Eventing Association, and the Equine Management Training Center in Axton, Va. When your horse is in work, thoroughly groom him or her at least once a day:...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian has named the following combinations to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for the Stillpoint Farm FEI Nations Cup™ CDIO3*, March 21- 25, in Wellington, Fla., at the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF): Shelly Francis (Loxahatchee, Fla.) and Patricia Stempel’s Doktor, a 2003 Oldenburg gelding Direct Reserve Horse Patricia Stempel’s Danilo, a 2004 Hanoverian gelding Olivia LaGoy-Weltz (Haymarket, Va.) and her own Lonoir, a 2004 Danish...