Lexington, Ky. – The NetJets U.S. Jumping Team will compete in the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Canada on Sunday, June 2. The competition is part of the Langley Odlum Brown BC Open, taking place Wednesday, May 29, through Sunday, June 2, at Thunderbird Show Park. It also serves as the last qualifying competition in the North America, Central America & Caribbean division for the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final in October. In addition, Junior and Children’s FEI Nations...

Eric Lamaze and Fine Lady 5 (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - The seventh week of competition at the 2016 Winter Equestrian Festival continued on Thursday with the $130,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 7 featured in the International Ring at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center and a win for Eric Lamaze (CAN) and Fine Lady 5. The victory marks Lamaze's fourth win in the series this year, including wins in weeks two and three with Rosana du Park, and a win week four aboard...

Lexington, Ky. - The U.S. sends a promising team into Friday’s Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup presented by Longines at the CSIO5* Falsterbo in Sweden. Under the guidance of Chef d’Equipe DiAnn Langer, Ashlee Bond-Clarke, Catherine Pasmore, Georgina Bloomberg, and Brianne Goutal will look to secure top results for the United States over a Christian Wiegand-designed track. The American contingent has drawn second in the order of eight teams. Bond-Clarke (Hidden Hills, Calif.) will ride...

Darragh Kenny and SIEC Ledgepoint (The Book LLC) North Salem, N.Y . - In the $5,000 Open Jumper 1.40m at Old Salem on Thursday, it was another win for Darragh Kenny (IRL), this time riding Gabriela Mershad's SIEC Ledgepoint. To ensure that the grass Grand Prix Field is as good as it can be for the duration of the horse shows, classes were moved to the sand ring today in the rainy weather. Winning the $5,000 Open Jumper 1.40m class for the second day in a row was Darragh Kenny. He rode...

Temecula, Calif. - With the top-scoring dressage test and a four-fault show jumping round, Kristi Nunnink and R-Star have claimed a substantial lead in the CIC3* at the Galway Downs International Horse Trials. Their score of 51.9 faults gives the pair a 5.1-fault lead over second-place Jolie Wentworth on GoodKnight (57.0) and John Michael Durr on Esprit De La Danse (57.6). With first place in the CIC3* worth $2,500, course designer Sarah Dubost set a course with a very tight optimum time....

McLain Ward and Zander jumped their way to a win in the $75,000 AIG Grand Prix, presented by Zoetis, at HITS Saugerties this weekend (©ESI Photography) Saugerties, NY - McLain Ward’s mount Zander proved that he is coming into his own in the grand prix ring on Sunday. The nine-year-old gelding was purchased by Ward of Brewster, New York and Grant Road Partners a year and a half ago and picked up several respectable wins over the last year, the most recent being this weekend’s $75,000...

Caitlin Ziegler and Butragenia (Spruce Meadows Media Services) Calgary, AB – The Spruce Meadows Summer Tournaments continue this week at the 'Canada One,' held June 25-30. Today was full of team competition and camaraderie, with the Paramount Resources Prix des Nations competitions held for junior and amateur riders at levels 1.10m-1.40m. There was also a 1.00m Friends of the Meadows Prix des Nations. Caitlin Ziegler, a member of the 1.40m Prix des Nations winning team who has...

Eduardo Menezes flying on La Fleur 4 (McCool) San Juan Capistrano, CA - On yet another great day in Southern California, a small but stellar group of international competitors took on the challenge presented by world-renowned course designer Linda Allen in the $30,000 June Classic I Grand Prix, sponsored by St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Previous to this event, Hannah Heidegger dominated the final qualifier for the 2013 North American Junior & Young Rider Championships and young...

Shane Sweetnam and Cyklon 1083 (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - Irish show jumper Shane Sweetnam is on a roll during week five of the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) with a set of back to back wins in Friday's $6,000 Spy Coast Farm 1.40m speed and jump-off classes to follow up a victory in Thursday's $8,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Classic. All three wins were on Spy Coast Farm owned horses - the 1.45m aboard Everly Chin de la Pomme and Friday's 1.40m speed aboard...

Small but mighty: pony "Donar's Diablo" won the CDS Training Level Open Horse of the Year title, with rider Kelly Phillips and owner Kim Crandall. (Jennifer M. Keeler) Burbank,CA - Final championship ribbons were presented Sunday in Burbank, CA for the 45th Anniversary California Dressage Society Championship Show Presented By HorseShow.com, held in conjunction with the CDS Young Horse Futurity (including the Cal-Bred Futurity), the Great American Insurance Group/USDF Region 7 Dressage...