Carlingford JD Brings Color to the U.S. Team (Fire and Earth Photo) Lexington, KY - People and horses from around the world are descending on the Kentucky Horse Park for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. With the world's largest airlift of horses already underway, horses from every corner of the earth are making their way to the Kentucky blue grass. The U.S. squad is represented by an international group of horses of all shapes and sizes too, here is a glimpse of the four-legged athletes...

Ocala, FL ­– Two USEF National Driving Championships are up for grabs at the CAI-A Ocala running March 27-30, 2008. Known as the Live Oak Plantation Combined Driving Event presented by Budweiser, the showcase of the country's best drivers and horses is taking place at Chester Weber's Live Oak Plantation in Ocala, FL. The competition also serves as the second USEF Selection Trial for two of the World Driving Championships. The USEF Single Horse Championship got the day started and dressage was...

Lexington, KY – Jamie Saults, who was USEF Director of Reining for three years, has returned to manage the USEF Endurance High-Performance program through this summer’s 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. Jamie takes the program over from Mary Lutz, Director of Endurance and Para-Equestrian, who tragically died in a riding accident on June 9th. Jamie left the USEF in 2005 to dive into the world of political campaigns but is glad to be back in the horse world. “I have loved...

Ocala, Fla. – Combined driving competitors started the season off strong this week at the 2023 Spring Fling CDE hosted by the Florida Horse Park. This year, the event hosted USEF Combined Driving National Championships for CAI3* Advanced Pony divisions, CAI3* Pair Horses, and all Preliminary divisions. In total, seven national championship divisions were contested at the event. Suzanne Smith and Branson. ©Leslie Potter/US Equestrian USEF Preliminary Single Pony National Championship...

Driving Sport Committee News US Equestrian welcomes the following new members to the Driving Sport Committee which oversees the FEI Non-Olympic discipline of Combined Driving at USEF: Anna Koopman, a PATH-certified instructor as well as active driver. John Porter, an FEI Driving Steward and Organizer. Steve Wilson, a four-time Advanced Pair horse National Champion and two-time US Team driver. Additionally, USEF President Thomas O’Mara requested letters of motivation from Driving Sport...

The International Equestrian Federation (FEI), United States Equestrian (USEF) and Las Vegas Events have announced the force majeure cancellation of the FEI World Cup™ Finals 2020 in Las Vegas. The annual equestrian competition, featuring the Olympic disciplines of Jumping and Dressage, was scheduled for 15-19 April at the Thomas & Mack Center. Shannon Brinkman Photography “It is very regrettable that next month’s FEI World Cup Finals in Las Vegas have had to be cancelled,...

CCI4*-L leader Waylon Roberts and Lancaster (Shannon Brinkman Photo) Fair Hill, Md. - After a nail-biting day of exciting cross-country action at The Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International Three-Day Event (FHI), a few new names grace the top of the leaderboards. The CCI4*-L division saw a major shuffle in the standings, after overnight leaders had trouble on Derek di Grazia's course. Canadian Waylon Roberts moved into first with Lancaster. In the CCI3*-L, Woods Baughman moved up one position...

Harrisburg, Pa. - October 14, 2017 - Following a 28-year-long drought, the team from Zone 7 finally had their moment at the top of the podium winning the Neue Schule/ USEF Prix des States Team Championship and Individual Championship Phase II at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, presented by The Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund. Zone 5 captured the silver medal and bronze went to Zone 1. The Zone 7 team was led by Chef d’Equipe Martien Van Der Hoeven and consisted of Briley Koerner,...

Lexington, Ky. – The FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018 (WEG), which take place Sept. 11-23, 2018, at the Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in Mill Spring, N.C., US Equestrian, in conjunction with the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) and TIEC, are beginning to prepare spectators and athletes alike for the phenomenon that is the WEG. Since 1990, the WEG has been held every four years, halfway between the Summer Olympic Games cycle, and brings...

Lexington, Ky. – Team show jumping competition took center stage in the Rolex Stadium at the 2015 Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) on Thursday. Para-dressage riders simultaneously vied for their Team medals in the discipline’s first appearance at the NAJYRC, and riders covered ground across the Kentucky Horse Park and beyond in the 2015 endurance race. In the USHJA North American Junior and Young Rider Show Jumping...