Wellington, Fla . - The Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team placed second in a highly competitive $150,000 FEI Nations Cup at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Competing in a seven-team field, the team of Georgina Bloomberg, Audrey Coulter, Laura Kraut, and Beezie Madden ended on a two-round total of eight faults. U.S. Team Takes Second (Sportfot) Leading off for the U.S. was Bloomberg (New York, N.Y.) with Gotham Enterprizes, LLC’s Lilli, who set a positive tone for the evening, jumping...

Laura Graves is a Week 8 AEGT Judge. (MA Brakenridge/PSdressage.com) American Equestrians Got Talent has its eighth audition of the season TOMORROW, March 1, at 7:45 p.m. at the White Horse Fashion Cuisine and it is open to the public! Plan to arrive around 6:30 p.m. to ensure efficient food service before the show begins. American Equestrians Got Talent is excited to announce this week's judges: Laura Graves, United States Grand Prix Dressage Champion in 2015 Lisa Wilcox, Olympic Dressage...

Chris Pratt and Cruise winning the $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix (ESI Photography) Thermal, Calif. - Friday’s $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix kicked off grand prix competition at Desert Circuit II, with 35 riders and horses eager to start the weekend with a win. The time allowed was the challenge of the day, with five clearing the course with no rails down, but only two doing so within the 84 second time allowed. Only Chris Pratt of Lake View Terrace, California, and Michelle Parker of San...

American Equestrians Got Talent has its third audition of the season on Tuesday, January 26th at 7:30 p.m. at the White Horse Fashion Cuisine and it is open to the public! Plan to arrive around 6:30 p.m. to ensure efficient food service before the show begins. American Equestrians Got Talent is excited to announce this week's judges: Laura Kraut, an Olympic Show Jumper Carmine Gialanella, a Radio DJ of Wild 95.5 Margaret Duprey, owner of Cherry Knoll Farm and dressage rider Chip McKenney,...

Aurora, Colo. – The inaugural Regional Breeding Challenge Cups were recently awarded at the 2015 Arabian Horse Association (AHA), Arabian & Half-Arabian U.S. National Championship Horse Show. Bronze trophies were handed out based on an accumulation of points by horses showing at the U.S. Nationals in Tulsa, Okla. The AHA membership is divided into 18 geographical regions across North America. Regions 1 through 18 all had horses attending and representing their breeders at this...

Lexington, Ky. - The Brooke, the world's largest international equine welfare charity, has announced the selection of Emily Marquez-Dulin for the newly created position of executive director for their American division, Brooke USA. Ms. Marquez-Dulin will advance Brooke USA's objective to introduce donors in the United States to their unique mission: alleviating the suffering of working horses, donkeys and mules in the world's poorest countries. At least 100 million working equines...

Gladstone, N.J. – Victoria (Tori) Colvin of Loxahatchee, Fla. led the 2015 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals East from start to finish. With her signature grace under pressure, the young superstar revealed the innate equestrian intuition for which she is famous, besting the field of 61 to win the French Leave Memorial Perpetual Trophy. Earning the highest score in each of the four phases of competition, Colvin was crowned champion aboard Betsee Parker’s...

Emanuel Andrade Wins 2015 Hagyard Challenge Series $50,000 Leading Rider Award (Kendall Bierer/Phelps Media Group) Lexington, Ky. - For the third year in a row, the $50,000 Hagyard Leading Rider Award was presented to a Venezuelan rider, but this time it was to young rider Emanuel Andrade. At just 19 years old, Andrade has taken the international show jumping scene by storm. He kicked off the Hagyard Challenge Series with a win during the Kentucky Spring Classic, and then went on to place first...

Katherine Bundy and Levkoi (Rebecca Walton/PhelpsSports.com) North Salem, N.Y. - Every year, junior riders from around the country strive to earn points to qualify for the ASPCA/NHSAA Maclay Regional Championships. On Saturday, 37 of those young, qualified riders gathered at the American Gold Cup CSI4*-W to compete in the Region 2 ASPCA/NHSAA Maclay Regional Championships and to vie for their shot to ride at the esteemed ASPCA Maclay Horsemanship Championship Finals at the National Horse Show...

Stephanie Don, Elizabeth McDougald, and Sarah Davis (l to r) (Shawn McMillen Photography) Lexington, Ky. - The 2015 US National Pony Jumper Championship, held as part of the US Pony Finals, came to an exciting conclusion on Saturday night with Individual titles up for grabs. Fifteen competitors came back to jump a fourth round over Marc Donovan’s challenging course, with combinations producing their best performances of the week. ? Stephanie Don and Elizabeth McDougald entered the Alltech...