EVENT: Showplace Fall Classic Championship Horse Show WHAT: An "A"-rated hunter and four-star jumper horse show produced by Showplace Productions. WHERE: Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, IL, located 40 minutes west of Chicago. WHEN: September 22-27, 2009 FEATURES — $60,000 Showplace Leading Rider Series Finals — $25,000 Showplace Fall Classic Grand Prix Saturday, September 26 — $20,000 in prize money for all hunter classics — $10,000 Open Welcome Stake Thursday,...

The American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) website is once again the Saddlebred fan's home for live streaming video and complete news coverage of the World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS) at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville, beginning Sunday evening, August 23, through Saturday evening, August 29, 2009. The class schedule, up-to-date entries, results, plus the action from each class inside the ring are all part of the WCHS online experience, available on www.saddlebred.com ....

Springfield Stables, a full service equestrian facility specializing in hunters and jumpers will soon be opening its brand new, state-of the art riding facility in Mettawa, IL. As the facility prepares to open its doors, owner Gregory H. Sachs and manager and head trainer Jenn Tirrell will be taking part in the $25,000 Chicago Hunter Derby, which is being held on August 30, 2009, at Annali Farm in Antioch, IL. Hosted by Chicago Equestrians for a Cause, the Chicago Hunter Derby has lined up an...

The Future Event Horse and Young Event Horse competitions at The Ark in Monroe, NC, that were originally scheduled for Friday, October 9, have been moved to Sunday, October 11. Please see The Ark's website at www.whynotanamericanark.com for updated information and times, or contact Dr. Abbey Dondanville at [email protected] Click on the series logos on the USEA homepage for more information on the Young and Future Event Horse classes at .

Series Finale Scheduled for Kentucky National Indoor Horse Show With just one grand prix remaining in the 2009 Hagyard Challenge Series, Margie Engle of Wellington, FL, ranks in first place with 760 points. Pablo Barrios of Caracas, Venezuela, is not far behind, currently occupying second with 740 points. The Hagyard Challenge Series is a summer-long string of seven show jumping events at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Offering $215,000 in total prize money, the series will award its...

Tickets are now being sold for the annual Saddlebred Raffle, with winners to be drawn during the American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) Youth Auction, in Crowne Room A of the Crowne Plaza Louisville, during the week of the Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS). The raffle is one of ASHA's most important fund-raisers. Only 400 tickets are sold worldwide, at $100 each, for gross proceeds of $40,000. Of that, $20,000 goes into the Saddlebred Futures Fund, and $20,000 of...

Two notable Saddlebred enthusiasts, Carson Kressley and Molly Kregor, are scheduled to be guests on Tuesday, August 25, on The Joe B & Denny Show, a central Kentucky sports radio show co-hosted by former University of Kentucky men's basketball coach Joe B. Hall, and former University of Louisville men's basketball coach Denny Crum. Kressley and Kregor will be appearing on the show to discuss the American Saddlebred, and to help promote the 2009 World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS), currently...

From the USHJA Lexington, KY - After three brilliant performances, John French and Rumba will go down in history as the inaugural winners of the ASG Software Solutions/USHJA International Hunter Derby Finals. Before the start of the final day of competition, George Morris addressed the crowd gathered in the Johnson Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park. “The hunter derby courses are bringing us back to tradition, we’re surrounded by lovely horses and no doubt we’ll see a championship performance...

The first day of the FEI European and Open Para-Equestrian Dressage Championships at the Epona Riding Centre in Kristiansand, Norway on Friday, August 21, went especially well for three British and two German riders placing the Brits in the lead. Despite the heavy rain on the previous day, the dressage arena remained in excellent condition. “It is great footing here, which is impressive considering how much it rained yesterday,” said the first winner of the championships, Angelika Trabert (GER)....

Rinaldo de Craen/decraen.com (Larry Poulin is competing in his final World Championships in Hungary.) Lexington, KY - Team USA is currently in fourth position after two days of dressage at the FEI World Pair Driving Championship in Kecskemet, Hungary. Larry Poulin, Keady Cadwell and Lisa Singer are just 0.1 point behind German drivers who are defending their Gold Team medal. Mieke van Tergouw, the 1995 World Champion lady driver from The Netherlands, won the dressage, ahead of Switzerland’s...