Mill Spring, N.C. - Five horse-and-athlete combinations have been chosen to represent the United States at the FEI World Equestrian Games™ (WEG) Tryon 2018. Cade McCutcheon (Aubrey, Texas) will represent the U.S. in Tryon, riding Custom Made Gun, a seven-year-old Quarter Horse stallion owned by Tim and Colleen McQuay. His father, Tom McCutcheon, will ride The Wizster, an eight-year-old Quarter Horse gelding owned by Turnabout Farm. Cade McCutcheon and Custom Made Gun (Waltenberry)...

North Salem, N.Y. - Caroline Garren picked up her second gold medal from the Adequan®/FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC), presented by Gotham North on August 4 at Old Salem Farm. She added the win in the United States Dressage Federation (USDF) North American Junior Individual Championship to her record with a score of 70.14%, after having helped her Region 3 team to the team gold earlier in the week. Bianca Schmidt, from Region 4, claimed the silver medal, while Chase Robertson...

North Salem, N.Y. – Several athletes concluded their 2018 Adequan®/FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC) presented by Gotham North experience by competing in the USHJA North American Show Jumping Individual Farewell Competitions on Saturday, August 4. Mexico’s Camila Saad Vega and Doncella Granith Chief topped the children’s class while Zone 3’s Barbara Ruziska and Elonie earned the blue ribbon in the combined junior and young rider class. USHJA North...

Lexington, Ky. – Sixteen of the country’s top adult saddle seat equitation riders competed for the title of 2018 USEF Saddle Seat Adult Amateur Medal Final Champion at the Lexington Junior League Charity Horse Show on Wednesday, July 11. Amongst a competitive field, Victoria Walz (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) riding Reedann’s Heir to Glory, her 14-year-old Saddlebred gelding, stood apart to win the Final. Judges Besty Boone (Concord, N.C.), Karen Homer Brown (Georgetown, Ky.), and...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian (USEF) is pleased to announce participants for the eighth annual Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week (RDHMW). The clinic will be held in Wellington, Fla. at the Global Dressage Venue from January 2-4 and Hampton Green Farm on January 5. Designed to identify and develop the next generation of U.S. equestrian team talent, training sessions will feature intense, mounted sessions led by internationally acclaimed American athletes and trainers and daily...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian (USEF) is pleased to announce the dates for the eighth annual Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week (RDHMW) from January 2-5, in Wellington, Fla. Designed to identify and develop the next generation of U.S. equestrian team talent, participants will receive instruction from experts in a variety of aspects of horsemanship. Robert Dover provides feedback during “Olympian Experience” presented by Dressage Today (Taylor Pence/US Equestrian) Past...

Lipica, Slovenia – The world’s best pair drivers have traveled to the famed Lipica Stud Farm to prove their mettle against stiff competition in the FEI World Driving Championships for Pairs from September 20-24. The U.S. team of Kathrin Dancer, Vernon Helmuth, and Steve Wilson will drive under the expert guidance of Chef d’Equipe Laurie Astegiano, Assistant Chef d'Equipe Danielle Aamodt, and Team Coach Thorsten Zarembowicz. After a week of intensive training in Austria,...

Tryon, N.C - It was a wet day at the Tryon International Equestrian Center for the second day of dressage competition at the 2017 USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Land Rover and Nutrena. Marilyn Little (Frederick, Md.) and Jacqueline Mars, Robin Parsky, and Phoebe and Michael Manders’ RF Scandalous currently lead the Adequan USEA Gold Cup Final Advanced division for the USEF Open Horse Trial National Championship by less than two points on a 27.8. Little and the...

Lexington, Ky. - A field of 18 competitors vying for the 2017 USEF Saddle Seat Adult Amateur Medal Final title kicked off the evening session at the Lexington Junior League Charity Horse Show on Wednesday, July 5. Following the competitive field's display of equitation skills, 28-year-old Reagan Upton was named the 2017 USEF Saddle Seat Adult Amateur Medal Final Champion. She became only the second person to be a two-time champion of the Final and the first ever back-to-back champion. Upton...

Boekelo, The Netherlands - The U.S. contingent had a respectable performance in the solid international field of 97 combinations in the Military Boekelo-Enschede CCIO3*. Land Rover/USEF Eventing Competition Grant recipient Lauren Kieffer and Meadowbrook’s Scarlett led the way as the top U.S. pair in fourth place. Lauren Kieffer and Meadowbrook's Scarlett (Libby Law Photography) Kieffer (Middleburg, Va.) began the competition with a fabulous dressage test aboard Marie Le Menestrel’s...