Richard Spooner and Billy Bianca (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - California's Richard Spooner and Billy Bianca led the victory gallop in Friday afternoon's $32,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Classic at the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). California native Ashlee Bond followed in a close second with her mount Apache, while Great Britain's Scott Brash and Bon Ami finished third. The ninth week of competition at the FTI WEF, sponsored by the Bainbridge Companies , will continue...

Thermal, CA – As the final days of the 2012 HITS Desert Circuit approach, Chris Pratt of Lake View Terrace, California shifted things into high gear when he and Indigo Farms, LLC’s Cruise beat out 54 other starters to take the top prize in Friday’s $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health. Pratt’s victory is his first of the season after he and Cruise finished fourth in the $53,000 Chartis Grand Prix CSI2*-W, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, last...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) announced today the four competitions which will host the 2012 US Show Jumping Team Observation Events. These events will play an important role in selecting the U.S. Show Jumping Team for the 2012 Olympic Games. Following the USEF Selection Trials at the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival March 21-24, 2012 - a Long List of athlete/horse combinations will be ranked. Any of these combinations wishing to continue in the Olympic...

Steffen Peters and "Legolas" made their international competition debut a winning one. (Jennifer M. Keeler) Burbank, CA - West Coast riders began their journeys toward qualification for the Olympic Games today in Burbank, CA as part of the Mid-Winter Dressage Fair CDI-W/Y/J. Contesting the FEI Grand Prix Test, a very competitive field of eleven international riders and horses impressed the FEI judges Jean-Michele Roudier (5* FRA), Linda Zang (5* USA), Cara Whitham (5* CAN), Eddy de Wolff (4*...

Lili Hymowitz Sweeps the Gotham Small Pony Hunter Division with a Little "Bit of Love" Nougat du Vallet and Katie Dinan (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - Eighteen-year-old Katie Dinan (USA) and Grant Road Partner's Nougat Du Vallet led the victory gallop in the $50,000 Horseware Ireland CSI 2* Grand Prix this afternoon at the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF). Running through April 1, 2012, the FTI WEF will award more than $6 million in prize money throughout its 12-week...

Wellington, FL - Week two of the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival has begun, and the main class in the International Arena today was the $8,000G&C Farm 1.45m Jumpers. Matt Williams (AUS) and Bolero van't Heike, owned by Matt Williams, took the win in the class. The second week of the FTI WEF runs through Sunday, January 22, and is sponsored by Wellington Equestrian Realty. The 2012 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of competition that conclude on April 1, 2012, and...

Twenty one nations are celebrating their Olympic qualification today, 9 January, which marks the 200-day countdown to London 2012 and 100 years of equestrian sport in the Olympic movement. Eleven countries have now secured the opportunity to join the nine nations already qualified at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2010 in Kentucky and hosts Great Britain at London 2012 through a series of nail-biting qualifiers held around the world for their Olympic Group. Australia, Belgium,...

Reed Kessler and Ligist. Photo: Rebecca Walton/Phelps Media Group. Harrisburg, PA – Junior jumpers were in the zone tonight at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, running October 13-22, 2011 in the state capital of Harrisburg. Reed Kessler of Armonk, NY, soared to victory in the first phase of the $7,500 United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Junior Jumper Individual Championship, sponsored by Randolph College. With a smooth and controlled round, Kessler and her own horse, Ligist,...

Lexington, KY – The United States Equestrian Federation has named the following horse/rider combinations for the 2011 Pan American Endurance Championship being held in Santo Domingo, Chile, October 22, 2011. The following horse/rider combinations will represent the U.S. at the Pan American Championship (listed in ranked order): Name/Age/Hometown/Horse/Breed/Age/Sex/Owner John Crandell III/49/West River, MD/Heraldic/Arabian/13/Gelding/John Crandell JR Meg Sleeper/43/Frenchtown, NJ/Syrocco...

The Top Six WCHR Riders: Jenny Karazissis, Scott Stewart, John French, Elizabeth Boyd, Kelley Farmer, and Hunt Tosh. Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. Upper Marlboro, MD - The best six hunter riders in the country this year - Scott Stewart, Kelley Farmer, John French, Jenny Karazissis, Hunt Tosh, and Elizabeth Boyd - competed in the WCHR Professional Finals presented by the John R. Ingram Fund. The head-to-head unique competition saw John French of San Juan Bautista, CA, jump to the top of the...