Stables, clubs and businesses nationwide are invited to compete for $100,000 cash and prizes by growing their business. Washington, D.C., April 7th, 2016 - The Time to Ride Challenge, in its third year in 2016, is now open for registration. Stables, clubs, businesses, and all other horse professionals are welcomed to visit timetoride.com and take the first step towards growing their businesses by introducing new people to horses and expanding the entire industry. The Challenge will award...

Ocala, Fla. - As the curtains closed on Ocala Week VII, jumpers competed for a blue-ribbon victory in Sunday's $50,000 Ring Power Grand Prix, $7,500 U-Dump Junior/Amateur-Owner Jumper Classic and $1,000 S.A. Comunale Adult Jumper Classic. Harold Chopping and Basje winning the $50,000 Ring Power Grand Prix. (ESI Photography) $50,000 Ring Power Grand Prix In an exciting ten-horse jump-off, Harold Chopping from Southern Pines, North Carolina, riding Basje, owned by Kendra Bullington, scored...

Steffen Peters and Legolas 92 (Terri Miller) Del Mar, Calif. – As 2016 Olympic Games qualifying kicks into high gear, the West Coast will see its largest field of international Grand Prix competitors of the year to date as 17 horse/rider combinations square off during this week’s California Dreaming Productions’ Dressage Affaire CDI3*/Y/J/U-25, being held March 10-13 at the Del Mar Horse Park. As the competition heats up, once again dressage fans from around the world will be...

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...

Devon Horse Show Remains a North American Riders Group (NARG) Top Rated Event Devon, Pa. - The 120th annual Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, set to get underway May 26 through June 5, 2016 at the famed show grounds can now close the books on last year's show with another top ranking from the North American Riders Group (NARG). The annual report by NARG noted "the splendor of Devon" and went on to say, "With its timeless charm, the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair once again is among the...

Vanessa Mannix and Dooley's Deluxe (Sportfot) Wellington, Fla. - Week six of the 2016 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) began Wednesday morning with jumper competition at The Stadium at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, FL. While hunters take center stage on the main show grounds for World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) week, the international jumpers get a fresh change of scenery competing in both the International Ring and the Derby Field at The Stadium...

Wellington, Fla. - Two-time Olympic team and 2015 Pan American Games individual gold medalist McLain Ward (USA) jumped to a thrilling victory on Saturday night in the McLain Ward and Rothchild (Sportfot) $380,000 Fidelity Investments® Grand Prix CSI 5* at the 2016 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Ward and his longtime mount Rothchild raced to the top of an eight-horse jump-off in front of a packed house at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum...

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,...