Lexington, KY - The USEF has named the following horse/rider combinations to the Definite Entry for the Adequan U.S. Reining Team for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games to be held September 25-October 10, 2010, at the Kentucky Horse Park. The following horse/rider combinations have been named to the Adequan U.S. Reining Team (in ranked order): Rider/Age/Hometown/Horse/Age/Breed/Sex/Owner Shawn Flarida/41/Springfield, OH/RC Fancy Step/6/Quarter Horse/Stallion/ Buffalo Ranch Tom...

Attention junior riders interested in competing at the 2011 USEF National Junior Jumper Championships! The 2011 selection procedures and qualifying periods for this championship are now available on the USEF web site’s jumping discipline page: https://www.usef.org/Contentpage2.aspx?id=natjumping New for 2011, zones will be able to send a fifth horse/rider combination to compete as an individual. This fifth-ranked horse/rider combination will be the traveling replacement horse/rider combination...

Lexington, KY – Short listed Para-Equestrian athlete Holly Bergay has had to withdraw her horse from consideration for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Per the USEF Selection Procedure for the US Para-Equestrian Team, this horse rider combination has been replaced and Erin Alberda (Woodinville, WA) has moved up into the tenth spot on the ranking with Delectari. Ten horse/rider combinations will represent the United States in Para-Equestrian at the Kentucky Horse Park during the...

Kassie Barteau Thanks Toscano (SusanJStickle.com) Gladstone, NJ – The 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions got off to a flying start on Friday afternoon as the Intermediaire I National Championship kicked off a competitive two weekends featuring the best dressage riders in the United States. Highlighted by the National Grand Prix Dressage Championship which is also serving as the USEF Selection Trial for Dressage for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, these...

Photo by ESI Photography (Lillie Keenan riding Chansonette Farm’s C Coast Z in the $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby.) The landscape of the Pfizer Million took a major turn during HITS-on-the-Hudson IV when Olympians McLain Ward, and Margie Engle each reached the eight qualifying Grand Prix classes needed to become eligible for the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix that will take place at HITS-on-the-Hudson on Sunday, September 12. Engle of West Palm Beach, FL, and Ward of Brewster, NY,...

Dressage Competing at the prestigious CDIO Aachen, Tina Konyot put in stellar performances in the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special and the Grand Prix Freestyle. Starting off on Thursday in the Grand Prix, Konyot and her stallion Calecto V scored a 68.602% for a 14th place finish. In the Special, the pair put in a solid test to finish 10th with a 70.333%. Continuing to progress, Konyot and Calecto performed their Freestyle on Sunday receiving an outstanding score of 73.643% for eighth place. Also...

Buck Davidson and My Boy Bobby win at The Fork (US Eventing) Dressage Competition was underway on both coasts this week with the CDI3*/Y/J Burbank, CA (Festival of the Horse) and the Dressage at Equestrian Estates in Loxahatchee, FL. Jan Ebeling dominated the Grand Prix in Burbank, coming in first on Rafalca and second on Sandrina. Guenter Seidel and U II were third. In the Grand Prix Special it was Seidel who triumphed with a score of 69.875%, narrowly beating out Ebeling and Rafalca. Ebeling...

Photo by ESI Photography (Emma Kennedy, the owner and rider of Summer Hill, captured Sunday's $5,000 Pony Commotion. ) The Ocala Winter Finals wrapped up another exciting week of show jumping that included two of the four remaining qualifying grand prix classes this winter for the Pfizer Million at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala, FL. Maryland’s Tracy Magness captured the win in the $25,000 HITS Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, aboard Mr. and Mrs. John Barko’s Tarco Van Ter Moude for...

On Saturday, the best horses and riders from the hunter divisions competed for the top prize in the $15,000 WIHS Hunter Classic Derby at the Washington International Horse Show. After two rounds of competition it was Scott Stewart, of Ocala, FL, and Way Cool that led the victory gallop after they earned a total score of 170.9. Earlier in the day the Washington Pony Equitation Classic Finals were held, with Madeyln Keck and Tango receiving the top call and earning the blue ribbon. The champions...

At the Irish Draught Horse Society of North America (IDSNA)/United States Eventing Association (USEA) Future Event Horse (FEH) classes in Lexington, VA, held in conjunction with the IDHSNA National Show, it was Diane Halpin's Llangollyn LL who trotted away with the Grand Championship at the end of the day. Shown by Bruce Griffin, the stunning two-year-old Hanoverian filly scored a commendable 81.1% in the Two-Year-Old Fillies class before claiming the Grand Championship in the final class of...