The All American Cup, in concert with the American Saddlebred Museum, is offering a Farm and Stallion bus tour on Friday, July 11, 2008. For the complete list of famous stallions that will be seen, please visit www.allamericancup.org/index . Reserve a spot on the tour in advance and DVDs featuring memorable interviews with Marty Mueller, Bob Ruxer, Don Harris, and Donna Moore will be available the day of the tour at a discounted price. Order all four and receive a bonus DVD, “Off of the Editing...

The 2008 Final of the HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing will take place in Deauville, France, September 18-21, introducing FEI’s global partner for eventing, HSBC, as the series’ new title sponsor. The HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing Final will be the main attraction of the prestigious R.I.D.E. (Les Rencontres Internationales des Disciplines Equestres) event organized by A.S.O. (Amaury Sport Organisation), renowned for managing major large-scale sporting events. The 40 best riders from the 17...

Bob Bell, President of the horse show management firm The Classic Company, is delighted to announce that the 2007 Atlanta Fall Classic, held annually at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, will expand from two exciting weeks to three (October 31-November 18). In addition, the super-sized show will offer four supplementary Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) point-eligible classes. According to Bell, the option to boost the Atlanta show and offer the additional WIHS...

Nathalie Bouckaert Pollard on West Farthing during the Fair Hill International Three-Day Event (Shawn Hamilton) Fair Hill, MD – Nathalie Bouckaert Pollard proved the leader in the third day of eventing at Fair Hill, finishing the show jumping course of the 2005 USEF National Three-Star Eventing Championship to exuberant applause. The final ride on the 12-year-old British Sport Horse gelding, West Farthing, was good enough to clinch the overall win at the 2005 championship, which took...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has announced dates and locations for the USEF National Eventing Championships to be held in the fall of 2013. A total of eight National Titles will be on the line as championship competition is held at three prestigious venues. The USEF National Open Horse Trial Championship for the Jack Le Goff Trophy will be held September 26-29 in conjunction with the Nutrena USEA American Eventing Championships. Competitors will vie for the...

Lexington, Ky. - The application deadline for the 2023 Driving and Para Driving World Championships is Thursday, June 15, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Applications and additional information on the selection procedures are available here . The 2023 FEI Para Driving World Championship will take place in Exloo, Netherlands, from August 23-27. The 2023 FEI Driving World Championship for Ponies will take place in Oirschot, Netherlands, from August 30 – September 3. The 2023 FEI Driving World...

Lexington, KY - The United States will be represented by one horse-and-rider combination at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Test Event, August 16-18, 2013. The Le Haras National Du Pin CCI2* will be held at Haras du Pin in Caen, France. Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp (East Sussex, England) will ride her own nine-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding, HHS Cooley at the CCI2*. To learn more about the 2013 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France visit; https://www....

Congratulations to all the reining athletes from the U.S. who have successfully qualified for the USEF Selection Trial for the Adequan U.S. Reining Team. Competing at competitions throughout the United States, the high-performance reining competitors listed below have successfully met the qualification criteria to be able to advance to the Official Selection Trial—the place and time where the Adequan U.S. Reining Team will be selected for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG)....

Photo by Ken Braddick (A frisky Satchmo with rider Isabell Werth during the vet check.) All 16 horses that were presented for veterinary inspection were passed Wednesday to start in the €100,000 (US$138,000) Exquis World Dressage Masters at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Three German combinations, three Dutch, six from the U.S., three from Canada and one pair from Denmark will perform in the €10,000 (US$14,000) Nürnberger Versicherungsgruppe Grand Prix at 1 p.m. It is the only...

Hickstead, winner of the Individual Gold and Team Silver Medals at the 2008 Olympic Games under Canada’s Eric Lamaze, is now available for breeding in North America. Hickstead is a 1996 brown Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 16 hands. Sired by Hamlet, his dam is Jomara, by the well-known and recently deceased stallion, Ekstein. Hickstead’s bloodlines also feature such prominent show jumping names as Nimmerdor, Notaris, Ulft, Le Mexico and Joost. Based on his performance record, Hickstead was...