Theodore O’Connor, the 2007 Farnam/Platform® USEF Horse of the Year, known as Teddy to his adoring fans, and his rider Karen O’Connor, were honored with a special treat at the 2008 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. The special treat was a pail of Platform® Treats with the winning pair pictured on the label. Picturing the Farnam®/Platform® USEF Horse of the Year and his rider on the label of Platform® Treats is a tradition begun in 2006 with the inaugural winner of the award, Brentina and her...

Lexington, KY -- Show Jumper Laura Kraut, who won the USEF Selection Trials for Show Jumping in March and the $500,000 Grand Prix of Charlotte (NC) in April, continued her winning ways in Europe over the weekend of March 17-18. With Miss Independent, Kraut won the CSI4* Masters class at Antwerp in Belgium. As a result of this victory Kraut picked up a new car, winning a BMW ll6i. She also won the CSI4* Prijs Kyra K class on Olympia 90 and as a result of these victories was named the show’s...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) announced that the 2008 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships will award prize money of over $146,000 divided among the nine regions. Champions will each receive $314 in prize money, a jacket and an embroidered cooler provided by Tuff Rider, Inc. Reserve champions will each receive $210 in prize money and a lead shank from the Great American Insurance Group, title sponsor of the championships. Every year Great American...

Because proper dental care is vital to a horse’s overall health, the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) is launching a campaign to promote the need for horses to receive a thorough oral examination at least once a year. Designed to reach horse owners, the campaign kicked off in April and run through 2008. It is important to catch dental problems early. Horses with dental problems may show obvious signs, such as pain or irritation, or they may show no noticeable signs at all....

The final week of the Aiken Spring Classic was win-win for Daniel Geitner of the Aiken-based DFG Stables. At the Aiken Finale, which concluded at the Highfields Events Center on Sunday, Geitner led the victory gallop in this week’s highlight event, the $30,000 Carolina Real Estate Co. Grand Prix, as well as both Young Jumper Championships. Riding the Rhinelander mare Sympa, owned by Mrs. Charles Bostwick, Geitner bested 13 horse-and-rider teams in Sunday’s Grand Prix. He also placed seventh in...

Lexington, KY ­– Oregon rider Rich Fellers improved his overnight third place ranking in the Rolex FEI World Cup Final today in Goteborg, Sweden to finish second overall just two penalties behind Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Shutterfly. A former Californian – but now riding for Germany ­– Michaels-Beerbaum won the Final in 200 and Shutterfly was the 2007 FEI Horse of the Year. Riding Harry and Mollie Chapman’s Irish Sport Horse stallion Flexible, Fellers had four faults in the first round of...

Lexington, KY ­– Oregon rider Rich Fellers improved his overnight third place ranking in the Rolex FEI World Cup Final today in Goteborg, Sweden to finish second overall just two penalties behind Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Shutterfly. A former Californian – but now riding for Germany ­– Michaels-Beerbaum won the Final in 200 and Shutterfly was the 2007 FEI Horse of the Year. Riding Harry and Mollie Chapman’s Irish Sport Horse stallion Flexible, Fellers had four faults in the first round of...

Lexington, KY - Becky Holder and Courageous Comet made it very clear from the first moment ‘Comet’ set foot in the Shelia C. Johnson Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park that they meant business in the dressage. Becky Holder and Courageous Comet Flash Their Winning Trot (Mike McNally) And business on the day of Holder’s 39th birthday meant a winning dressage mark at the 2008 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Presented by Farnam. “I’m absolutely over the top,” said...

Equestrian Events Inc. (EEI), organizer of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Farnam, is excited to offer equestrian sport fans their very own piece of eventing history in the form of a fully restored DVD. In 1978, over the course of four very hot and humid days, an enthusiastic crowd of over 170,000 people converged upon the brand new Kentucky Horse Park to attend the World Three-Day Event Championships, also organized by Equestrian Events, Inc. Thirty years later, EEI Executive...

Allan Ehrlick from Campbellville, Ontario, Canada, took home top honors for this year’s Amateur High-Point Achievement Award with 451 points. Ehrlick showed four horses in 10 shows—three purebreds and one Half-Arabian. Most of his points were earned on Dal-Apollo, (Sea Ben Ben Bilal x Rudaynah), a 13-year-old purebred gelding who earned Ehrlick two national championships, two reserve national championships and six Top 10s at the 2007 Sport Horse Nationals in Lexington, VA, and Canadian...