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 Flying Horse Photography (Michelle Parker and Socrates de Midos) In honor of the Fourth of July holiday weekend and to wrap up four weeks of competition managed by Blenheim EquiSports, the $25,000 Red, White & Blue Grand Prix presented by the St. Regis Monarch Beach, invited 19 horse-and-rider duos onto the Michel Vaillancourt-designed course at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park. Vaillancourt remarked, “I think today’s course dimensions are very worthy of this class. It is...

The wind tried to take center stage during the High Prairie Spring Classic, but nothing could unseat Bjorn Ikast, who continued to take the High Prairie jumper division by storm. A virtual fixture at the Colorado Horse Park, Ikast brought back a stunning six horses to the jump-off in the $10,000 Riders Choice High Prairie Grand Prix on Saturday. “I am very pleased to have eight grand prix horses to ride now,” Ikast said. “They are all going very well. It’s great!” Of the 16 horse-and-rider...

Equestrian Sport Productions had five strong weeks of their Spring Circuit through April and May, which included three "AA" rated, one "A" rated and one "C" rated shows. It featured three $25,000 grand prix classes, the $2,500 Derby Style Huntland Pony Classic, Low and High Junior/Amateur classes on the grass at The Stadium, and the $5,000 Driftwood 3' Derby Style Hunter Classic. While the spring shows have finished, exhibitors who want to compete in the summer months at the best horse show...

Showplace Productions is pleased to announce that respected hunter/jumper trainer Diane Carney will host several clinics during the 2010 Showplace Spring Spectacular Horse Shows. Held at the beautiful Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, IL, the Showplace Spring Spectacular will return with three consecutive weeks of competition this year, running June 8-June 25. Diane Carney of Telluride Farm in Hampshire, IL, has been both an active participant and influential trainer in the hunter and...

Photo by Lili Weik (Darragh Kerins aboard Night Train in the 2009 $125,000 Purina Mills Grand Prix.) The 2010 HITS Saugerties Spring and Summer Series is just around the corner and HITS is preparing to welcome exhibitors, spectators and sponsors to the fabulously renovated venue in Saugerties, NY. The Spring Series of horse shows at HITS-on-the-Hudson begins on Wednesday, May 26, with HITS-on-the-Hudson I and continues for three consecutive, action-packed weeks until Sunday, June 13. Each year...

Photo by Jon Kassel (Grand Prix Course at the sold out Alliant Energy Center Arena .) The 10,000 seat John Deere Coliseum at Madison's Alliant Energy Center was standing room only Saturday night as five of 38 entries passed the course's first test and were asked back for the tie-breaking round. Ultimately it was the feisty chestnut mare Happy Z and Ohio's Wilhelm Genn who laid down an unbeatable jump-off track for the win. Laura Linback and As di Villagana, competing last, also put in a...

Jennifer Wooten-Dafoe and The Good Witch (Mike McNally) Lexington, KY - It's that time again. Winter vanished and suddenly the 2010 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Bridgestone has arrived. Bigger than ever in 2010, the competition, which also serves as the USEF National CCI4* Eventing Championship, boasts many of the very best in the game both from the US and around the globe. The action gets underway at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington April 22, 2010. All eyes will be firmly...

Photo by Randi Muster (Victoria Birdsall and Baheera captured the Third Annual George Morris Excellence in Equitation Exhibition.) The 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) is winding down as it finished its 11th week of competition on March 24-28. The week featured the highlight event of the season, the $500,000 FTI Consulting Finale Grand Prix, CSI*****, along with a full schedule of hunter, jumper, and equitation classes, including the prestigious Third Annual George Morris Excellence in...

Photo by Josh Walker/USEA (Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister at the Adequan USEA Gold Cup Series CIC3* division at the Galway Downs International Horse Trials.) Overnight leader Tiana Coudray of Ojai, CA, kept her nerves in check to gallop home the winner aboard her Ringwood Magister in the CIC*** at the Galway Downs International Horse Trials. “He’s really grown up,” said Coudray, 21, of her handsome gray Irish-bred. “In so many places I gave him the opportunity to [be bad], and he wasn’t....