Traverse City, Mich. – The second day of competition at the 2022 Adequan ® /USEF Junior Hunter National Championship – East brought horse-and-rider combinations into the ring for the under-saddle phase to be judged on their performance on the flat. Clara Propp and Arabesque. ©Andrew Ryback Photography For flatwork, the classes were divided into groups of no more than 12 entries at a time with awards given for four sections in each of the two heights. Their scores for the...

Skyhawk and Stella Wasserman. ©Leslie Potter/US Equestrian Traverse City, Mich. – Junior Hunter competitors took over the rings at Flintfields Horse Park on Thursday, with 272 entries completing the first of three phases of competition at the 2022 Adequan ® /USEF Junior Hunter National Championship - East. With overall champion titles on the line for 3’3” and 3’6” heights with four sections in each, there’s no shortage of talent on the grounds this...

Lexington, Ky. – Friday night brought a familiar scene to the Rolex Stadium as Boyd Martin (Unionville, Pa.) took a victory lap with On Cue, the 2006 Selle Francais mare he co-owns with Christine, Thomas, and Tommie Turner. The pair turned in a double clear jumping round to finish at the top of the podium in the USEF Advanced Horse Trials National Championship, held at the American Eventing Championships. “I was thrilled with On Cue,” said Martin. “She’s just...

The first day of the Individual Final competition at the Gotham North FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships, presented by USHJA, took the form of the Children’s Individual Final and the Pre-Junior Individual Final. After an exciting jump-off, Mexico took the top podium position in the Children’s Individual Final as Jimena Carrillo Watanabe donned the gold medal around her neck. In the Pre-Junior Individual Final, it was the United States’ Mia Albelo to ride away with...

Tokyo, Japan – The U.S. Eventing Team finished in sixth place out of 14 nations on the final day of competition at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and end the competition with a team total of 125.80 faults. Doug Payne and Vandiver added four jumping faults to their overall score to finish the team phase with a 43.80, and Phillip Dutton and Z added eight jumping faults to their total for a final score of 43.30. The anchor combination of Boyd Martin and Tsetserleg added a single rail to their...

At the start of 2021, US Equestrian announced the Adequan®/USEF Eventing Youth Team Challenge , a new competition series designed to build off of the North American Youth Challenge concept in a way that better fits the needs of young eventing athletes and the USEF Eventing Pathway program. In March, the YTC made its debut in Aiken, S.C., where seven Areas were represented in CCI1*, CCI2*-S and CCI3*-S competition. Crockett Miller and Mr. Panda on course at the inaugural Youth Team Challenge...

Liz Halliday-Sharp and Deniro Z. Photo: Taylor Pence/US Equestrian Ocala, Fla. – The U.S. Eventing Team hosted the first high performance training session of the 2021 competition year in Ocala, Fla. last week, welcoming athletes from the Elite and Pre-Elite Training Lists to an intensive four-day camp focused on individualized training with Erik Duvander, the U.S. Eventing Team’s High Performance Director, and the program’s new show jumping coach, Peter Wylde. The training...

Dear USEF Members, Your health, safety and well-being and that of your horses is paramount to USEF. We are continuing to closely monitor communications on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI). Effective Monday, March 16, 2020, all USEF owned...

Wellington, Fla. – The NetJets U.S. Jumping Team started their journey to the 2020 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final on the right foot, as they topped the podium in the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ USA, hosted at Deeridge Farms in Wellington, Fla., following an exciting finish determined by a two-rider head-to-head jump-off with Great Britain. The team of Jessica Springsteen (Colts Neck, N.J.), Margie Engle (Wellington, Fla.), Laura Kraut (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.), and...

Lexington, Ky. – An accomplished group of rising talent will compete at the 2019 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals, beginning with the West Coast edition of the competition, taking place September 20-21 at Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. The East Coast edition will be held October 6-7 at the United States Equestrian Team Foundation headquarters in Gladstone, N.J. An essential building block in the U.S. Show Jumping Athlete Pathway,...