Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce that the next DEI Community Conversation, “Harnessing Accessibility and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities,” will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, April 14, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET. Hosted in partnership with RespectAbility , this conversation will focus on the lived experience of people with different disabilities in the equestrian industry and beyond, as well as offer 10 tips for disability etiquette. Para...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is now accepting bids to host the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions in 2022, 2023, and 2024. The deadline for applications is Friday, April 23, 2021. Beginning in 2022, Festival of Champions will include the /USEF Para Dressage National Championship. Additionally, the USEF Young Horse Dressage National Championships will include a division for 7-year-old horses for the first time in 2022. In total, the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions includes 16...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Para-equestrian dressage competition got underway Sunday at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Twenty-seven Grade III and Ib competitors representing 24 countries took to the main arena at the Deodoro Equestrian Center to perform the Team test, the first of two tests in team competition. Angela Peavy (Grade III) and Sydney Collier (Grade Ib) got the U.S. team off to a solid start, putting the U.S. provisionally into third place among the 14 nations, following day one...

Team competition in Reining, Dressage, and Para-Equestrian Dressage finishes up tomorrow. Here are the approximate rides times for Americans competiting on Tuesday. You can watch all of these rides live at www.FEITV.org . Reining - Competition starts at 2:45am ET Mandy McCutcheon & Yellow Jersey are 16th in the order Shawn Flarida & Spooks Gotta Whiz are 33rd in the order Tom McCutcheon & Dun Git A Nicadual are 38th in the order Dressage - Competition starts at 2:00am ET Laura...

First horses of the 2014 Games compete in Reining, Dressage, and Para-Equestrian on Monday. Below are the riders, and the time that you can watch them. All times are ET (and their early!). Add six hours to get their ride times in local (Normandy) time. Dressage: Tina Konyot & Calecto V 3:35am ET Adrienne Lyle & Wizard 9:24am ET Reining (competition starts at 2:45am ET): #3 in the order: TroyHeikes & Lil Gun Dunnit #13th in the order: Andrea Fappani & Custom Cash Advance #31 in...

Greenwich, UK - The Para-Equestrian Dressage portion of the 2012 Paralympic Games came to a close on Tuesday with Freestyle Test being ridden in Grades IV, III and 1a. Donna Ponessa was the lone U.S. representative on the day, performing her Grade 1a Freestyle in front of the Ground Jury of Kjell Myhre, Lilian Iannone, Gudrun Hofinga, Sarah Rodger and Freddy Leyman. Ponessa (New Windsor, NY) closed out the 2012 Paralympic Games for the U.S. in fine style scoring 70.75% with Wesley...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation has named the team for the 2012 Paralympic Games. The four athletes representing the U.S. in London turned heads at the Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championship and Selection Trial held in Gladstone, NJ in June. The following two U.S. team veterans and two rising stars will compose the team: Rebecca Hart (Unionville, PA) and Jessica Ransehousen's Lord Ludger Jonathan Wentz (Richardson, TX) and Kai Handt's NTEC Richter Scale...

Wellington, FL - Transplanted Australian dressage rider Ilse Schwarz and Don Joseph were the High Score Award winners on the first day of the Global Dressage Festival National 2 Horse Show receiving 72.581% in the First Level Test 3 - Open on Tuesday. Christopher Hickey of Colora, MD and Hilltop Farm's Balissa HTF took top honors for the remaining two days at the Stadium show grounds of the Global Dressage Festival (GDF) earning 75.323% in the USEF First Level Test 3 - Open on Wednesday and...

Lexington, KY - U.S. Athletes wishing to be considered to compete at the 2012 Paralympic Games must complete their 2012 Paralympic Games Registration. Registration must be completed online by April 1, 2012. In order to receive registration information all interested individuals should email Laureen Johnson at [email protected] the following information: 1.Name as it appears on Passport 2. Email Address To learn more about the 2012 Paralympic Games Online Registration visit; https://www.usef....

The London 2012 Paralympic Games look set to take Paralympic Equestrian into the history books for many reasons, as we get one step closer on the eve of the 200-day countdown (11 February). Sales of Paralympic Equestrian tickets for London 2012 have already broken records. More than 40,000 tickets were sold before Christmas last year, dramatically overtaking the previous record of 33,000 for the 2008 Paralympic Equestrian events held in Hong Kong. Mexico will also be making its Paralympic...