Photo by ESI Photography (Laura Pfeiffer on Thorstin on course in the $10,000 U-Dump Junior/Amateur Owner Jumper High Classic) HITS Post Time Farm wrapped up a strong week of AA-rated show jumping this past Sunday, February 14, as the show grounds were buzzing with action for the opening week of the season. The big news for the rated circuit is that HITS Ocala will host a total of 12 qualifiers for the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix that will take place on September 12 in Saugerties, NY. The...

Consignors and prospective buyers gathered on October 28 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, TX to view more than 90 quality appaloosas up for auction in the 2009 world appaloosa sale, held in conjunction with the prestigious 2009 world championship appaloosa show. The highly anticipated event, hosted by the Appaloosa Horse Club (ApHC), was comprised of several sales, including the Yearling Incentive Sale, the Broodmare Incentive Sale and the Select Appaloosa Sale. Consigners and...

Tendon and ligament injury causes both economic and personal hardship for horse owners and industry professionals. A prolonged period of lay-up and rehabilitation is necessary, but whether the horse will be sound at the end of the rehabilitation period is uncertain. Lameness due to tendon and ligament injury is common in performance horses, affecting up to 25% of racehorses over a career and accounting for up to 43% of injuries in event horses, but it is also common to companion horses. Chronic...

Mother Nature gave exhibitors a fine weather send off for the finale week of the Atlanta Fall Classics. And what a busy week it was with NCE Championships, a $10,000 Junior/Amateur Owner Jumper Classic, $10,000 Children’s and Adults Jumper Classic, and another $25,000 Grand Prix presented by EMO Insurance. The covered arena at the Georgia International Horse Park played host on Saturday evening to the Equestrian Travel sponsored National Classic Equitation Finals [NCE] with spectators enjoying...

Lexington KY - The US Show Jumping Team of Laura Teodori/Kasoar D’Uxelles; Lacy Morrone-Cramer/Ulyssess Van De Krekebeke; Georgina Bloomberg/Metropolitan, and Mario Deslauriers/Vicomte D settled for second place in today's Nations Cup competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After two rounds of competition, the US Team finished tied with Brazil with 11 faults, forcing a jump-off for the win. US Team Chef d'Equipe Michele Grubb elected to send back Deslauriers, who ended today's battle with...

Though the Spalding Labs United States Eventing Association (USEA) Young Event Horse West Coast Championships ran until the sun set at the Galway Downs International Three-Day and Horse Trials, spectators were treated to performances by some of the best young event prospects in the country. Robyn Fisher rode Rose Sullivan’s Clair de Lune SE, a Holsteiner Stallion by Contendor and out of L’Vienna Z, and scored an 83.90% to win the Five-Year-Old Championship, while she also rode her own Dutch...

Seventeen-year-old Jessica Springsteen was the biggest star at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show as her famous parents cheered her on. She bested 237 riders over two rounds of competition, and a four-ri Jessica Springsteen (Photo by Al Cook) der work-off to win the nation's top equitation prize, the Pessoa/USEF Hunt Seat Medal Final. Course designer Steve Stephens, in conjunction with judges Ellen Raidt and Leo Conroy, were very specific about the distances they required between related...

Following in the tradition of the finest registries in Europe, Eurosport Auctions, Ltd. presents the Horses Unlimited Sport Horse Auction on Sunday, October 18, 2009. The event will offer almost 30 quality young prospects, current show competitors and breeding stock, the talents of which have been proven not only in the international dressage arena, but in jumping and equitation as well. These represent some of the finest Hanoverian, Oldenburg, RPSI, Holsteiner and Westfalen bloodlines...

This year, the Spalding Labs/United States Eventing Association (USEA) Young Event Horse (YEH) Championships will be held Thursday, October 15, in conjunction with the Fair Hill International CCI and are gearing up to provide an exciting competition. Young horses are coming from all over the Eastern half of the U.S. to participate. FEI judge Joachim Dimmek of Germany is returning this year to head the judges' panel, and he will be joined by Cathy Tucker-Slaterbeck and Sport Horse conformation...

Lexington, KY - Tucker Johnson (Hobe Sound, FL) drove to the top of the leader board at the CAI-A4 Donaueschingen (GER) after a strong performance in the dressage phase. Driving his team of four horses, Johnson topped a tough field, including some of Europe’s best drivers. His score of 42.75 left him with a narrow lead after the first phase of the competition over Theo Timmerman of The Netherlands on 42.88. The marathon gets underway Friday at 1 pm local time. For complete results and...