Harrisburg, Pa. – The exciting $15,000 USEF Prix des States Team Championship took center stage Friday evening at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Two rounds over Nick Granat’s course provided a solid test for the athletes representing their zones and vying for team medals in the 2023 USEF Junior Jumper National Championships. The podium for the $15,000 USEF Prix des States Team Championship (Andrew Ryback Photography) Zone 10 led after the first round and maintained their lead...

Gladstone, N.J. – Competition at the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East concluded on Sunday at the USET Foundation Headquarters with a 2023 champion after Phases III and IV. Athletes rode a jumper-style course for judges Anne Kursinski and Ronnie Beard during Phase III, the jumping phase, which had a multiplier of two for the overall weighted scores of the competition. After calculating the scores, Luke Jensen, Carlee McCutcheon, Joe Craver, and Amira...

Kreuth, Germany – The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) European Futurity welcomed the finals for the Level 1 and 2 Open and Level 1 and 2 Non Pro Futurity finals. Spectators enjoyed the beautiful weather in the German countryside and spectacular reining competition. Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Switzerland and United States were represented in Kreuth today. LENAS DRAWIN HIS GUN AND PREVOSTI WIN LEVEL 2 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – Competition got underway at the 2023 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – West with Phase I, the flat phase. The field of 21 youth athletes had their first chance to demonstrate their riding skills for judges Linda Hough and Lauren Hough. The flat phase allowed athletes to showcase their position and seat as well as correctness and effectiveness of the aids. Madilynn Lo Porto, riding Kentucky, holds the early lead at the 2023...

Barcelona, Spain - The NetJets U.S. Jumping Team finished fifth overall in the final round of the 2023 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final on a team total of nine faults. Germany were crowned the winners, while France finished second, and Belgium in third. Brazil finished in fourth, narrowly edging the U.S., and securing the single Olympic qualification allocation available to the highest-placed and previously non-qualified team at the conclusion of the competition. The NetJets U.S. Jumping...

Oklahoma City, OK – The $100,000-added National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Open World Championship Shootout presented by Equine Sports Medicine brought some of the best reining horses in the world to the NRHA Futurity & Adequan® North American Affiliate Championship (NAAC) Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Thursday, December 1. Last year’s champion rider Andrea Fappani had three mounts in this year’s Shootout and was victorious on Rancho Oso Rio LLC’s...

Oklahoma City, OK – The 2011 National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Derby showcased the $155,000-added Open Derby finals on Saturday, July 1 at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City, Okla. The NRHA Derby Show is the NRHA’s premiere event for the world’s best four-, five- and six-year-old reining horses and hosts to two slates of ancillary classes. During the go-round, 428 entries competed for a spot in the finals with 69 of the top-scoring horse-and-rider teams...

Photo by US Equestrian/Taylor Penced Mill Spring, N.C. – An electrifying crowd and highly competitive runs from 22 combinations proved to be just the atmosphere needed for U.S. reiners Dan Huss and Cade McCutcheon as they fought for their spot on the podium Saturday evening in the Individual Reining Final at the FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) Tryon 2018. Fresh off their gold-medal finish with the U.S. Reining Team on Wednesday evening, Huss (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and McCutcheon (Aubrey,...

Mill Spring, N.C. – The cones phase brought an exciting weekend to a close at the Tryon Fall CDE, which hosted the 2023 USEF Combined Driving National Championships for intermediate divisions. Athletes and their horses and ponies competed in the International Ring at the Tryon International Equestrian Center Louise Fox and Hidden Hollow William. ©Leslie Potter/US Equestrian Intermediate VSE National Championship Louise Fox (Haughton, La.) and her 2009 Miniature gelding, Hidden Hollow...

The Swedish team will be coming out with all guns blazing for the final of the 2007 Samsung Super League with FEI series, which takes place in Barcelona, Spain, next Sunday. An unfortunate afternoon at the second-last leg in Dublin last month saw them bringing up the rear, and they go into Sunday's decider at the bottom of the series leaderboard knowing that nothing short of a strong performance can save them from relegation. Ironically it seems that the Irish, who lost out in a valiant battle...