San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – Thursday welcomed the start of competition at the 2023 FEI Longines Jumping Nations Cup USA, the first FEI Jumping Nations Cup ever in the state of California. The NetJets™ U.S. Jumping Team took to the Oaks International Grand Prix Field at Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Center, marking the start of their week of competition culminating with Sunday’s $200,000 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup USA. The day started with the CSIO5* Familiarization...

Lexington, Ky. – Tamie Smith and Mai Baum led heading into the final day of competition at the 2023 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event Presented by MARS Equestrian™. With the pressure on, the pair maintained their composure and jumped a clear round to earn the win in impressive fashion. Smith and Mai Baum ended a 15-year drought by being the first U.S. combination to win at Kentucky since 2008. In addition to the overall title, the duo won the Land Rover/USEF CCI5*-L Eventing...

The Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian™ is a dream competition for many aspiring eventing athletes. The same is true for LRK3DE first-timer Sydney Solomon of Dayton, Md. After attending the event as a spectator 15 years ago, Solomon set her sights on Kentucky, and she has worked hard and endured challenges to get here. Solomon, 26, makes her debut with Early Review CBF, a 2009 Hanoverian mare bred and owned by Laurie Cameron, and hopes for a positive...

Lexington, Ky . – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the NetJets ® U.S. Jumping Team at the 2023 FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of Mexico at San Miguel de Allende CSIO5* from April 27-30. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland. The following athletes have been named to the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team and are listed in alphabetical order: Natalie Dean (Palo Alto, Fla.) Kent Farrington (Wellington, Fla.) Bliss Heers (Las Vegas, Nev....

Carol Lavell, a renowned international dressage athlete, trainer, and instructor, passed away on March 27, 2023, at her home in Fairview, N.C., at age 79. Carol Lavell and Gifted at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. ©Bob Langrish Lavell was a frequent U.S. Dressage Team member from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. With the Hanoverian gelding Gifted, Lavell led the U.S. team to team bronze at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The pair were part of the U.S. dressage teams for the inaugural FEI...

Lexington, Ky. -- US Equestrian announces the appointment of Anna Brooks Thomas as Director of Driving. Thomas joins the organization after nearly two years with the University of Virginia athletics department football office in the Atlantic Coast Conference, where she most recently served as Director of Player Engagement (March 2022-23) and previously served as Assistant Director of Football Operations (June 2021-March 2022). Anna Brooks Thomas, US Equestrian Director of Driving (©US...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the NetJets ® U.S. Jumping Team at the 2023 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of USA at San Juan Capistrano CSIO5*. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland. The following athletes have been named to the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team and are listed in alphabetical order: Karl Cook (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) Nick Dello Joio (Wellington, Fla.) Lillie Keenan (New York, N.Y.) Laura...

Ocala, Fla. – Chester Weber earned a milestone victory this weekend, posting his 20 th career USEF National Championship title in the Advanced Four-in-Hand division. The win took place on home soil for Weber at the 2023 Live Oak International, held on his family’s scenic farm in Ocala, Fla. ©Devyn Trethewey/US Equestrian Weber drove his team of bay KWPN geldings, First Edition, Julius V, Kadora, and Kasper D, in the dressage and cones phase. The veteran competitor Amadeus...

Wellington, Fla. – The NetJets U.S. Jumping Team finished fifth in their first team event of the season in the $150,000 FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4* in Wellington, Fla. The team, comprised of Natalie Dean and Acota M, Mimi Gochman and Celina BH, Mavis Spencer and Carissimo 25, and Adrienne Sternlicht and Faquitol-S, completed the competition on a final team total of 32 faults after two rounds of competition, which featured 11 different nations competing under the lights at...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce that Neue Schule will continue as an Official Partner and the Official Bit of US Equestrian. Neue Schule has been a US Equestrian partner since 2015. New for this year, Neue Schule becomes the title sponsor of the Neue Schule/USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship and the Neue Schule/USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship. Both of these prestigious champions will take place at the U.S. Dressage Festival of...