Singapore - The Equestrian competition at the first ever Youth Olympic Games started today with the first round of the Team Competition at the Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre. The Nations Cup format is familiar (two round competition over the same course), but the similarities stop there because at this event there are six regional teams (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, and South America), each with five athletes; the best three scores from each of the two rounds to count....

David Mullinix Photography (Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, riding Marengo won the $30,000 Manchester & The Mountains Grand Prix, Presented by Hand Motors, on Sunday, August 8) East Dorset, Vermont — Hillary Dobbs, 22, of Sussex, NJ, and her mount, Marengo, capped off week five at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT, by successfully defending their title in the $30,000 Manchester & The Mountains Grand Prix, Presented by Hand Motors, on Sunday, August 8. The win by Dobbs and Marengo...

Lexington, KY - August 7, 2010 - Another beautiful day greeted riders at the Kentucky Summer Classic, presently held at the Kentucky Horse Park. It was a very victorious day for rider Michael Murphy and mount Corrado, earning two back-to-back blue ribbons during both of today's highlight events in the equitation ring. The Covered Arena featured the competitive Pessoa/USEF Hunter Seat Medal that attracted over 50 riders. Due to such a large entry figure the class was split into two sections (A...

Horse Shows by the Bay Series II concluded on Sunday afternoon with the week's highlight event, the $30,000 Grand Traverse Bay Grand Prix. Spectators from all over the region came out to the beautiful Flintfields Horse Park Sunday afternoon to enjoy the beautiful weather and watch some of the country's best compete at the highest level of show jumping competition. Twenty-six entries showed over the difficult course set by Brazil's Guilherme Jorge, and it was Scott Lenkart and Impulsive that...

Photo by David Mullinix (Hillary Dobbs and Marengo.) Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, and Marengo won the $30,000 Battenkill Grand Prix, presented by The Equinox Resort, on Sunday, July 18, at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. Dobbs are Marengo are no strangers to the winner’s circle at the Vermont Summer Festival, having won two grand prix events in 2009. This year, the pair faced off against 23 other challengers. In the first round, a total of four horse-rider combinations were able...

Wayne, IL-June 27, 2010- It was another beautiful day at the Lamplight Equestrian Center where the USEF Para-Dressage Selection Trials are occurring for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Riders and their top mounts entered the arena in front of spectators, their peers and international judges. The three judges included Chris Porterfield (GBR), Lillian Iannone (ARG), and Carlos Lopes (POR). Saturday was the individual competition, which will be counted alongside Friday’s team tests,...

Photo by Lauren Fisher/PMG (Lisa Goldman and Morocco won the $10,000 SJHOF High Junior/AO Jumper Classic.) It was a fantastic day for 21-year-old Denise Wilson of Oconomowoc, WI, and Blue Gate Farm LLC's Life is Life 15 when the pair raced to victory in Saturday afternoon's $30,000 Showplace Productions Grand Prix. Held in the beautiful Grand Prix Ring at the Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, IL, the grand prix was the first of three in the 2010 Showplace Spring Spectacular Horse Show...

Peter Cashman was born the youngest of nine in 1951. He was raised in Garden City, NY, where his father, John Cashman, Sr., a harness racing judge, introduced him to horses. He began to ride at the age of six. It was not until he was 12 that he fell in love with harness racing. His brother-in-law, Billy Popfinger, saw Peter's interest in Standardbreds and hired him as a groom at Monticello Raceway. He spent his summers at the raceway getting familiar with the care and maintenance that a barn...

Photo by ESI Photography (Peter Leone and Nerval de la Batia win their first Grand Prix of the season at HITS Culpeper.) Peter Leone and Nerval de la Batia, owned by the Beaupre Group, are on the road to the Pfizer Million as they took home the victory in Sunday's $40,000 EMO Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, to highlight the Commonwealth National. "It means a lot to me to come here and kick-off the season," said Leone of Greenwich, CT, who competed in his first of eight needed...

The 2010 Kentucky International Equine Summit, a biennial event to be held on Monday and Tuesday, April 26 and 27, in Lexington, KY, and sponsored by the University of Louisville Equine Industry Program in cooperation with the University of Kentucky Equine Initiative, will feature more than 70 speakers and panelists dealing with a range of future challenges facing segments of the international and domestic horse industry. Dr. Veronique Julliand of AgroSup, Dijon, France, responsible for a...