McLain Ward and Rothchild, Winter Equestrian Festival 2011. Lexington, KY - EquiFit, inc., makers of distinctive high-performance equine products, announces the new 'Get EquiFitted' program for riders at the 2011 Adequan FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) from July 27-31, 2011. The 'Get EquiFitted' program will be offered to the top-placing Junior and Young Rider Individual Show Jumping competitor who is wearing...

Westport, CT - The results of Round 2 of America's Favorite Equestrian are in. Five equestrians in each of the eight disciplines that participated in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games have moved onto Round 3. America's Favorite Equestrians Round 3: Dressage: Todd Flettrich, Courtney King-Dye, Debbie McDonald, Steffen Peters, Guenter Seidel Driving: Tucker Johnson, Lisa Singer, Suzy Stafford, Rochelle Temple, Chester Weber Endurance: Garrett Ford, Becky Hart, Dave Rabe, Julie Suhr,...

Lexington, KY - The Sibley Equine Conservancy was awarded a $10,000 grant from Breyer Animal Creations, Pequannock, NJ, and the Equine Land Conservation Resource (ELCR) on Sunday, May 1, in an awards presentation held during the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Bridgestone. The grant is part of a three-year program run by Breyer and the ELCR designed to identify and award grants to local equine organizations around the United States to help them preserve land for equestrian use....

Badminton, England - Mark Todd and NZB Land Vision win the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials after a nail-biting finale that went right to the wire. Courtesy of the Badminton Horse Trials: https://www.badminton-horse.co.uk Just a single pole separated the top 12 going into this afternoon’s final showjumping phase and Mark kept a clean sheet to claim the title for a fourth time, 31 years after he first won Badminton aboard Southern Comfort. At 55, this makes Mark the oldest winner...

Richard Spooner and Lady Like. (Photo by Sportfot©.) Wellington, FL - It was a fun night of competition with a highlight event, the $50,000 Vita Flex Match Races, at the 2011 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Advancing through five rounds of races, it was Richard Spooner (USA) and Lady Like, owned by the C&S Partnership LLC who finished as the winners. In the final round, they topped Daniela Cordero of the Dominican Republic and T Cavalier. The FTI WEF's tenth week of competition, sponsored by...

Wellington, FL - The 2011 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in cooperation with the North American Studbook will host three Young Horse Shows this year, one each month in January, February, and March. The shows will be held on January 25, February 22 and March 22, all Tuesdays, in the Mogavero Ring at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Spy Coast Farm has generously signed on as the title sponsor of the Series, which will conclude in December 2011 with a Young Horse Final at the Palm...

Goosebumps and Cookie Beck earned multiple blue ribbons in Wednesday's Green Conformation Hunter div (Photo © 2010 Lauren Fisher/PMG) Cazenovia, NY - November 3, 2010 - The 2010 Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament featuring the 127th National Horse Show continued with its second day of competition on Wednesday with the start of the professional, amateur-owner, and junior hunter divisions. Horses and riders showed two rounds over fences and went under saddle in the day's competition....

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – November 2, 2010 – Since 2007, the Reining Horse Sports Foundation (RHSF) has produced a unique, entertaining event sponsored by 4R Performance Horses to help the children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Oklahoma – the 4R Performance Horses Celebrity Slide. The location is Oklahoma City; the venue is the NRHA Futurity & Adequan® North American Affiliate Championship Show; and the date is Friday, December 3. The following celebrities are taking time from their busy...

Fair Hill, MD - Youthful enthusiasm combined with practiced precision led the way at the 22nd annual Dansko Fair Hill International Festival in the Country. The thirty-three horse field includes a broad range of competitors, including Olympians and riders that have just returned from the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Amateur rider and former Young Rider Nate Chambers, Vienna, Virginia, was really pleased with the performance of his 14 year-old warmblood gelding, Rolling Stone II....

Clark Montgomery Wins From Gate to Wire with Loughan Glen (Stockimageservices.com) Elkton, MD - There was a plenty at stake at the Dansko Fair Hill International, as 44 CCI2* horses and 24 CCI3* horses went to task in the USEF National Eventing Championships over Sally Ike's show jumping courses on a perfect October day. Hannah Burnett did something no one has ever done, the 2009 National CCI2* Champion returned to Fair Hill with Richard Thompson's St. Barths and finished on her dressage score...