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HITS Ocala Winter Circuit Week I Sunday Jumper Round-Up Featuring the $50,000 Tuffrider/Equine Couture Grand Prix

by HITS Horse Shows | 1/27/2016 11:38:59 AM

Ocala, Fla. - Jumpers converged at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala, Florida, on Sunday to compete for big money and big opportunities in the $50,000 Tuffrider/Equine Couture Grand Prix, $7,500 U-Dump Jr/A-O Jumper Classic and the $1,000 S.A. Comunale Adult Jumper Classic. Lisa Goldman and Morocco on their way to a $50,000 Tuffrider/Equine Couture Grand Prix (ESI Photography) $50,000 Tuffrider/Equine Couture Grand Prix Morocco and Lisa Goldman from Hawthorne Woods, Illinois, sped past the rest of...

Team USA Wins Another CPEDI3* in Wellington and Dominates Competition

by edited Lindsay Y. McCall | 1/25/2016 12:37:01 PM

Wellington, FL- January 24, 2016 - Team USA and individuals once again dominated the competition at Week Two of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) $10,000 CPEDI3*. This week's U.S. team led by Chef d' Equipe Kai Team USA. Photo by Lindsay Y. McCall Handt included riders Roxanne Trunnell and NTEC Royal Dancer (Grade Ia), Rebecca Hart and Schroeter's Romani (Grade II), Angela Peavy and Lancelot Warrior (Grade III), and Margaret Mcintosh and Rio Rio (Grade Ia). Despite...

Phillip Dutton Honored With 2016 Whitney Stone Cup from USET Foundation

by Phelps Media Group | 1/25/2016 9:35:04 AM

Jim McNerney, Phillip Dutton and S Tucker S Johnson (Phelps Media Group) Wellington, Fla. - The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation is pleased to announce that top ranked eventing rider Phillip Dutton of West Grove, Pennsylvania, is the recipient of the 2016 Whitney Stone Cup. The award is presented annually to an active competitor who displays consistent excellence in international competition and high standards of sportsmanlike conduct while serving as an ambassador for the United...

Springsteen's Rockin' Rio Raises Record $1.5 Million for USET Foundation

by Edited, Phelps Media Group | 1/25/2016 8:14:33 AM

Wellington, Fla - On Friday, Jan. 22, the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games benefit, Rockin' Rio, at Louisburg Farm in Wellington, Florida. With more than 600 guests in attendance, Rockin' Rio featured honorary chairs Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen. The celebratory evening included award presentations, an elegant dinner, a surprise performance by Springsteen and a lively auction, which helped raise more than $1.5 million dollars...

Juan Manuel Luzardo and Stan Win the Inaugural Longines FEI World Cup Jumping, Valle de Bravo, presented by Scappino

by Jackie McFarland, EqSol for Valle de Bravo | 1/24/2016 10:01:23 AM

Juan Manuel Luzardo and Stan (Anwar Esquivel Photo) Valle de Bravo, Mexico – History was made this week as Valle de Bravo hosted the biggest FEI event in Latin America. With 175 horses, 81 international riders and 14 countries represented in this CSI4*, the competition reached new heights south of the border. In the inaugural Longines FEI World Cup Jumping qualifier, twenty-eight horse and rider combinations galloped through the Longines arch at the entrance to the arena attempting to...

Arabian Horse Foundation Announces Equine Research Funding

by Arabian Horse Association | 11/18/2015 10:14:36 AM

Aurora, Colo. – The Arabian Horse Foundation has announced $11,000 in equine research funding for support of projects studying Equine Metabolic Syndrome, Juvenile Idiopathic Epilepsy, and hoof imbalance and lameness. This latest round of equine research funding brings the total given by the Foundation in the last eight years to over $65,000. An award of $6,400 will provide continued support for two projects headed by Dr. Samantha Brooks at the University of Florida (Gainesville): one...

Alexandra Ozymy Wins $5,000 North American League Low Junior/Amateur-Owner West Coast Final, Presented by UltrOZ

by Classic Communications | 11/17/2015 4:33:03 PM

Alexandra Ozymy is presented her Las Vegas National Horse Show trophy from Brian Collins, Director of Sales and Marketing for UltrOZ (McCool) Trumbull, Conn. - ZetrOZ, Inc., manufacturer of the UltrOZ Elite low intensity therapeutic ultrasound system, congratulates Alexandra Ozymy of Coppell, TX for winning the $5,000 North American League (NAL) Low Junior/Amateur-Owner West Coast Final, Presented by UltrOZ, at the Las Vegas National Horse Show, November 10-15, at the South Point Arena &...

Kelley Farmer Stacks $100,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Leader-board at National Sunshine Series II; Takes Home First and Third

by HITS Horse Shows | 11/12/2015 3:34:02 PM

Kelley Farmer and Dalliance on their way to a $100,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby win at National Sunshine Series II in Thermal, Calif. (ESI Photography) Thermal, Calif. - The long-awaited HITS USHJA International Hunter Derby Tour is officially under way after Saturday’s first of four $100,000 nationwide events. Under the lights of the HITS Desert Horse Park Grand Prix Stadium, hunter riders from across the west coast and beyond gathered to take their chance at the two round derby...

Certified Horsemanship Association Awards CHA School Horse of the Year Award to Purebred Polish Arabian Sir Dar from Experience Equus in Aledo, Texas

by Arabian Horse Association | 11/10/2015 9:25:26 AM

It wasn’t just people that won at this year’s CHA Awards Banquet during the CHA International Conference in Amarillo, TX on October 24, 2015. One special horse won an award and four additional finalists had a spotlight shone on what they do in their careers as school horses. Out of the five school horses nominated for the CHA School Horse of the Year Award sponsored by Stone Model Horses, it was Sir Dar who captured the final honors for Experience Equus of Aledo, TX. The award was...

372 Competitors, 36 States, 9 Regions, 1 Dream: To Ride at the US Dressage Finals Presented By Adequan®

by Jennifer M. Keeler, Yellow Horse Marketing | 11/6/2015 11:17:56 AM

Molly Schiltgen and Leisl TF earned their first ribbon today from the 2015 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®. Photo by Susan J. Stickle Under glorious skies and with unseasonably warm temperatures the third edition of the annual US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® got underway Thursday at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Riders took advantage of a full day of open competition with Dressage in the Bluegrass classes to prepare for their Championship performances over the...