Attention all juniors interested in competing in the 2009 Adequan/USEF National Pony Jumper Championships. The 2009 Adequan/USEF National Pony Jumper Championships selection procedures and qualifying periods have been approved and are now available on the Jumping Discipline page of the USEF website at https://www.usef.org/Contentpage2.aspx?id=natjumping Please direct questions to Jennifer Haydon, Director of Show Jumping for National Programs at [email protected] or (859) 225-6911. ENDS

The futurity grace period deadline to nominate mares and stallions for 2008 foals is Friday, April 25. Nomination forms are available for download from the association's website at www.saddlebred.com/Prize-forms . The Kentucky Amateur, Kentucky and National Futurity programs paid over $272,000 to participants in 2007. For more information on American Saddlebred Registry Prize Programs, including futurities, please contact Patricia Edwards by calling (859) 259-2742, ext. 320, or e-mail p....

(Lexington, KY) − The United States Equestrian Federation has opened the process for awarding media credentials for the Collecting Gaits Farm/ USEF 2007 Festival of Champions, presented by Paul Miller Auto Group, to be held June 14-17, 2007, at the historic Gladstone headquarters of the United States Equestrian Team (USET). This competition will serve as a Selection Trial for the upcoming 2007 Pan American Games and boasts five championships throughout the weekend. Those members of the...

Lexington, KY—As it did in the fall of 2006, ASHA will once again offer live streaming video of the TSE/Tattersalls Saddlebred sale via its website, www.saddlebred.com. The TSE/Tattersalls Spring Sale, as conducted by Teater Saddlebred Enterprises, Inc., is Friday and Saturday, April 13-14, 2007. ASHA will broadcast live over the Internet (webcast) both days of the sale in its entirety. The webcast will offer action of each horse for sale as it is presented and allow viewers to listen in on the...

The American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) intends to webcast all three days of the 2006 Fall Sale at Tattersalls, as conducted by Teater Saddlebred Enterprises, Inc. The ASHA has previously provided streaming video of the Kentucky State Fair World’s Championship Horse Show on its Internet website, www.saddlebred.com , and plans to do the same for the Fall Sale on Thursday, October 26, through Saturday, October 29. A live streaming video feed will become available shortly before the start...

The latest updated SEI helmet list has the GPA Speed Air Helmet on it. This list was last updated on April 19, 2006. For those who would like to see photos of this helmet, please visit www.gpa-sport.com/us-gpa.htm , click on "NEWS GPA" in the upper right-hand corner, scroll down to "Speed Air Helmet on GPA Website" and click on the link in the last sentence in this section, "For further information, click here." For the latest listing of equestrian helmets, visit www.seinet.org/CPL/astm1163_04a....

Votes Due by December 30 Attn: All Publications, Stations, Independent News Media Websites Please select three horses from the list below, whom you feel are most deserving of the inaugural 2005 Farnam®/ Platform™ • USEF Horse of the Year title, one of the most prestigious awards the USEF offers. The five finalists for Horse of the Year are: Authentic, owned by Abigail Wexner; Brentina, owned by Peggy Thomas; Cefnoakpark Bouncer, owned by Sybil Humphreys, WR Sonaskada+//, owned by...

The 21st Annual Wisconsin Limited Breeders Stallion Service Auction will take place Saturday, January 14, 2006, at the Radisson Hotel in Pewaukee, WI, a suburb of Milwaukee. A silent auction and complimentary cocktails will begin at 4:30 p.m. with dinner starting at 6 p.m. The stallion service auction will follow at 7 p.m. The Wisconsin Limited Breeders Stake awards 40% of the auction revenue to the winning weanling, with 75% going to the weanling owner and 25% to the stallion owner. The prize...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) is pleased to announce the new USDF Breeder of the Year Award program, which will be initiated for the 2006 competition season, which started October 1, 2005. This is a year-end award, based on performance in a given competition year. Breeders of dressage performance horses and breeders of dressage in-hand horses will be able to vie for top honors. Scott Hassler, Chairperson of the USDF Sport Horse Committee, stated, "Over the last few years, a...

The American Holsteiner Horse Association (AHHA) announces their 2005 Breeding Stock Approvals Tour, October 1-15, 2005. The AHHA has 11 different sites across the United States and Canada that will be hosting sites for the 2005 Approvals Tour. Additionally, there are three small sites scheduled for 2005 outside the October tour. To get applications and instructions, contact the AHHA central office, or visit their website at www.holsteiner.com .~~~