Chicago Hunter Derby (Caroline Weeden riding at the 2009 Chicago Hunter Derby) Chicago, IL - August 9, 2010 - In less than a month, the $25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby (Chicago Hunter Derby) Presented By CN returns to Annali Farm in Antioch, IL. The derby will occur on August 29, 2010 and will feature the best hunter horses and riders, top catering of food and drinks and the farm will provide a wonderful backdrop for the derby course. The one-day affair features a brunch starting at...

Photo by Flying Horse Photography (Reuters Tiamo Trocadero ) Reuters Tiamo Trocadero certainly has nothing left to prove at age 23. The Hanoverian stallion has been winning at grand prix dressage since he was eight years old. He earned scores over 70% at top CDIs in Europe, was an alternate for the British Olympic dressage team in 2000, and took his American amateur owner, Karin Reid Offield, to multiple USDF year-end awards at the FEI level. Today, Tiamo is standing at Little Bit Farm in...

Are you tempted to cut your grass, then rake it into soft, fragrant, tasty piles of clippings for your horse to nibble? According to equine nutrition expert Dr. Juliet Getty, this should be the last thing you encourage your horse to eat. It has to do with that extra step: raking. Grass clippings that stay on the pasture after mowing, where they can dry in small amounts, are generally not a problem. But never gather them into piles to feed them to your horse. It’s partly because clippings are...

The 71st New England Morgan Horse Show will be broadcast live via pay-per-view over the Internet at www.morganhorsevideos.com , a website by Hawk Multimedia. Sessions from the Grandstand Ring will be available starting Sunday, July 25, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, through Saturday, July 31. You can watch individual days live from the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Northampton, MA, priced at $12.95 and $14.95 per day with Championship and All Access packages for $34.95 and $64.95. Each day's performances...

The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) has announced the dates and locations for the 2011 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships: USDF Region 1 (October 20-23) at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, VA; USDF Region 2 (September 22-25) at Majestic Farm in Batavia, OH; USDF Region 3 (October 14-16) at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala, FL; USDF Region 4 (September 9-11) at the North Iowa Fair Grounds in Mason City, IA; USDF Region 5 (November 4-6) at WestWorld of...

Photo by Howard Schatzberg Enthusiasts looking for an established multi-breed show need search no further...the United Professional Horsemen’s Association (UPHA) Chapter 5 Horse Show will be held on May 5-8, 2010, in the Hale Arena at the American Royal Complex in Kansas City, MO. This illustrious show began its 23-year history in May of 1987 under the guidance of some of Missouri’s finest horseman, including Art Simmons, Ron Hulse, Bill and Sonny Sutton, Jimmy Miller, Janet Green, Bev...

Photo by Bob Moseder (Saddlebreds, and other breeds, compete year after year at the Devon Horse Show. Shown here is Callaway's Mystical Moment.) The Saddlebred Friends of Devon are currently under way preparing for the 2010 Devon Horse Show, set to take place Thursday, May 27, through Sunday, June 6, in Devon, PA. In preparation for this year’s event, the Devon Horse Show has completely replaced the footing in the Dixon Oval, using all-weather footing designed to meet the needs of all breeds...

McLain Ward and Rothchild (Randi Muster/Mustphoto.com) Lexington, KY - Jumping got underway at the 2010 Rolex/FEI World Cup Final in Geneva, and the horses and riders stretched their legs over the courses in the Palexpo Arena in Geneva, Switzerland before the big events got going on Thursday afternoon. The American contingent is already winning at a fairly rapid rate. McLain Ward, who has been picked as one of the favorites to with the Final after his runner-up performance in 2009 with...

The 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions will return to Gladstone, NJ, August 6–8 and August 13–15. The Festival of Champions will once again feature the National Championships for the Grand Prix, Intermediaire I, Young Adult “Brentina Cup,” Young Rider, and Junior divisions, in addition to the Selection Trial for the U.S. Dressage Team for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The initial deadline for World Equestrian Games/Grand Prix National Championship...

Photo Courtesy American Vaulting Association (Patti Skipton of Warm Beach Vaulters received the AVA's Trainer for the Year Award for 2009.) At their recent Annual Convention, the American Vaulting Association (AVA) presented Lifetime Achievement Awards, the highest award of the AVA, to Jeffrey Ashton Moore and Jan F. Garrod, whose efforts over the past 40 years have been instrumental to the recognition, growth and continued high standards of the sport of equestrian vaulting. At the same event,...