(Lexington, KY) – Adrienne Sternlicht on the seven year old gelding Vanity Fair, won yesterday’s 2005 Wild Horsefeathers / USEF Green Pony Hunter Championship. The championship was held as part of the USEF Pony Finals being held August 10-13 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. As champion, the twelve year old Adrienne and “Coco,” a large pony, walked away with the Brownland Farm Perpetual Trophy, a Royal Rider Dress Sheet, a ten-inch Revere bowl keeper trophy and a Pessoa saddle. Her...

Twenty participants will be selected to attend a Richard Jeffery Show Jumping Design clinic, to be held September 15-18 during the United States Eventing Association's American Eventing Championships at the Carolina Horse Park in Raeford, NC. Participants will be chosen from completed applications. Enrollment priority will be for current course designers; each application should include a resume of course design experience in both cross-country and show jumping, as well as the applicant's...

The 110th Annual Monmouth County Horse Show, New Jersey’s longest running and most prestigious equestrian competition, will be recognizing one of New Jersey’s finest equestrians, Frank Chapot. The show, held at East Freehold Park, in Freehold, NJ, runs August 17-21, 2005. Renowned equestrian Frank Chapot, of Neshanic Station, NJ, will be honored during very special ceremonies prior to Sunday’s featured event, the $30,000 Stillwell-Hansen Grand Prix. Ceremonies are scheduled for shortly after...

More than 230 items have been donated for the 2005 Annual American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) Auction, which takes place Wednesday and Thursday, August 24-25, during the World’s Championship Horse Show in Louisville, KY. Last year, the auction raised more than $40,000 for the ASHA youth scholarship program and other youth programs. Some of the notable items are a fine harness by Walsh Harness, a personalized charcoal horse portrait by James Crow and the cover of the American Saddlebred...

Officials of the Hampton Classic Horse Show announced on August 1 that there will be a new fund-raising element at this year’s annual equestrian event. The Hampton Classic is building a new Southampton Hospital jump to be used during the $100,000 Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate Grand Prix. Spectators and table patrons will be given the opportunity to pledge any amount they wish to be paid each time a horse and rider clear the new Southampton Hospital Jump during the grand prix....

The International Andalusian and Lusitano Horse Association (IALHA) presents the IALHA National Championship Show from October 18-23, 2005. The show will take place at the Will Rogers Equestrian Center, in Fort Worth, TX, in the W.R. Watt Arena. The public is welcome and admission is free to all events. The 2005 IALHA National Show will include championship classes in Western and English disciplines, driving, saddle seat, halter, youth, amateur and traditional classes, such as Doma Vaquera and...

Lexington, KY – The United States Equestrian Federation will host the draw for the Adequan® / USEF Open and Youth Reining Championship at its open house on Friday, August 26, during Fiesta in the Park, the reining event slated for August 24-28 at the Kentucky Horse Park. “The entire USEF staff is looking forward to kicking off the reining championships by hosting the draw at our national headquarters. It is extremely exciting for the USEF to have these championships right in our own backyard,...

Henry Pfeiffer, who competed in his first grand prix at Horse Shows By The Bay I, posted the only double clear to win the Grand Traverse Bay Grand Prix on Fox Meadow Farm’s seven-year-old gelding, Preston. Pfeiffer's goal was just to go clean in the jump-off, and when he pulled off the win, he said that he felt like he swallowed his heart. English Riding Supply, a proud sponsor of Horse Shows By The Bay, provided the winner with Veredus show jumping boots. The Grand Traverse Bay Grand Prix was...

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is protecting Kentucky's multi-billion-dollar stake in its equine and cattle industries from an outbreak of vesicular stomatitis (VS) that has spread through four southwestern states. The Department has expanded its VS embargo to 20 counties in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Four counties were added to Kentucky's embargo on July 27 after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed cases in La Plata and Mesa counties in Colorado, Rio Arriba...

The Equus Projects, a company that partners professional dancers with horses and their riders, will perform three original works for dancers, horses and equestrians at the 2005 Ox Ridge Summer Dressage show, one of the most elegant and prestigious dressage shows in the nation. This three-day international competition, held August 19-21, will draw riders from all over the world to earn qualifying scores for the Olympic Games, the World Equestrian Games and the World Cup Finals, as well as for...