Wayne, Ill. – Competition continued in the 2015 Markel/USEF Young & Developing Horse National Championships at the Lamplight Equestrian Center with the preliminary tests for the Six-Year-Old and Developing Horse Grand Prix competitors. Sitting atop the leaderboard in the six-year-old division is Gallant Reflection HU, ridden by Lisa Wilcox. Taking a commanding lead in the Developing Horse Grand Prix were WakeUp and Emily Miles. FEI Six-Year-Old Young Horse Preliminary Test Lisa Wilcox...

Tracy Fenney and MTM Personalized (Kendall Bierer) Lexington, Ky. – For grand prix rider Tracy Fenney, the 2015 USHJA Pre-Green Incentive Championship was nerve-wracking, yet it did not keep the Texan from riding to the top of the hunter championship event on Thursday. Fenney ranked second after the first day of competition, and stayed consistent throughout the three-day event, topping the leader board with MTM Personalized and besting a field of the 30 top qualified horses from the...

Scott Stewart and Evermore rank first on the opening day of the 2015 USHJA Pre-Green Incentive Championship. (Kendall Bierer) Lexington, Kentucky - August 11, 2015 - In its third year, the USHJA Pre-Green Incentive Championship has reached record numbers with 160 horse and rider combinations vying for the coveted 2015 championship title. It was Scott Stewart who topped the field on the open day, showing Rivers Edge's Evermore to the pinnacle of the placings for the opening round of...

Lexington, Ky. - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named an additional combination to represent the United States at CICO3* Aachen, held in Aachen, Germany, August 12-14. The U.S. has now been invited to send a full team of four athlete-and-horse combinations. The following combination has been named as the fourth member of the U.S. Team: Colleen Rutledge (Frederick, Md.) and her own Covert Rights, a 2006 Thoroughbred Cross gelding The U.S. Team will also include (in ranked...

Winn Alden and Attila, with owners Ernie and Betty Oare, and Samantha Pleasant Fielding, assistant director of riding at Chatham Hall Lexington, VA - August 8, 2015 - Betty and Ernie Oare just purchased Attila a month ago, and Winn Alden only sat on the gelding for the first time on Friday, but following the $2,500 USHJA National Hunter Derby at the Lexington National Horse Show, the owners, rider and talented gelding seemed every bit the veteran winning team. In their first time in the show...

Lexington, Ky. - The stage is set for the 2015 US Pony Finals to begin at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. From August 4-9, over 800 ponies from across the country will compete with their youth riders in hunter, jumper, and equitation classes. Through Saturday, competition for the US Hunter Pony Championships presented by Sallee Horse Vans will take place. Riders will vie for championships in Small, Medium, and Large Regular Hunter and Green Hunter divisions. The Hunter Pony...

Bratislava, Slovakia – A team of up-and-coming athletes will represent the U.S. in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup at CSIO3*-W Bratislava, July 23-26 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Under the guidance of Chef d’Equipe DiAnn Langer, the team consists of Audrey Coulter, Allyssa Hecht, Michael Hughes, and Hannah von Heidegger, all of whom are competing on their first senior team. The U.S. team has drawn eighth in the order of 13 teams. Coulter (San Francisco, Calif.) has climbed from the Young...

Wilhelm Genn and Bugatti win the $50,000 Grand Prix of Michigan, presented by the Ingram Family, closing out the second week of competition. Traverse City, MI - July 12, 2015 - Wilhem Genn has won over 100 grand prix in his career, and today he added the $50,000 Grand Prix of Michigan, presented by the Ingram Family, to his list of accolades. Genn beat out seven other jump-off contenders for the lion's share of the earnings, riding Bugatti to the swift time of 37.900 seconds. Keith Bollotte...

Falsterbo, Sweden – The Falsterbo Horse Show presented by Longines will host elite equestrian competition this week as dressage and show jumping teams arrive from many countries. The United States will be represented in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup competition by an accomplished team of show jumping athletes. Guided by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland, the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team has drawn second in the order. “Our hopes are always high up. We are up against stiff...

Lexington, Ky. - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) will host two Youth Dressage High Intensity Training Sessions for youth athletes August 1-3 in Gladstone, N.J., and September 25-27 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Modeled off the USEF/USET Foundation Pipeline Clinics, these sessions will be led by George Williams, USEF Dressage Youth Coach, and/or Charlotte Bredahl-Baker, USEF Assistant Dressage Youth Coach. Athletes will participate in educational sessions throughout each three-day...