Boekelo, The Netherlands – The Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team had fantastic performances at the Military Boekelo-Enschede CCIO3* as they competed against 10 countries in the Nations Cup competition. The determined efforts of Matt Brown and Super Socks BCF, Buck Davidson and Copper Beach, Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp and HHS Cooley, and Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous earned the U.S. team the Silver medal with a final score of 197.00. Brown and Super Socks BCF were the top Americans with an...

Boekelo, The Netherlands – The Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team had another day of splendid performances at the Military Boekelo-Enschede CCIO3* as they took on Sue Benson’s challenging cross-country track. The U.S. Nations Cup team of Matt Brown and Super Socks BCF, Buck Davidson and Copper Beach, Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp and HHS Cooley, and Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous are currently in third place with a score of 170.10. Lauren Kieffer and Landmark’s Monte Carlo had a...

Freddie Vazquez and Esprit de Vie (Kendall Bierer/Phelps Media Group) Mettawa, Ill. - Messenger Hill Farm's Freddie Vazquez and Esprit De Vie won the $30,000 Showplace Fall Classic Championship Grand Prix, at Lamplight Equestrian Center in their first outing since the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Vazquez, encouraged by the Puerto Rico Equestrian Federation, went on a down-to-the-wire journey to find a new Pan Am mount when his beautiful bay Zangersheide stallion Zippo Z, sustained a minor bone...

Jennifer Waxman and Falcon won the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby at Great Lakes Equestrian Festival IV. (Phelps Media Group) Traverse City, MI - July 26, 2015 -It was a bittersweet ending in the hunter ring at the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival Sunday as the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, the younger brother class of Saturday's USHJA International Derby, wrapped up the four-week series for many Traverse City competitors. For Jennifer Waxman and her own Falcon, out of Chagrin...

Lexington, Ky . – A warm and sunny afternoon at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., set the stage for the first phase of competition in the final USEF National Combined Driving Championships of 2014. Drivers entered the dressage arena at the Kentucky Classic CDE in order to take their first steps toward a National Title. Misdee Wrigley Miller (Picsofyou.com) USEF National Pairs Championship Misdee Wrigley Miller (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.) sits atop the leaderboard in the 2014 USEF...

Jordan Larson, Mandy McCutcheon, Andrea Fappani, Shawn Flarida, and Jeff Petska (Shannon Brinkman Photo) Caen, France - The U.S. contested five World Championships during the first week of the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, with international veterans demonstrating why they have had such longevity in the sport, and new faces turning heads with outstanding performances on the world’s biggest stage. More than 500 athletes took part in competition at five venues across Normandy,...

Le Pin-au-Haras, France – The heart of the eventing discipline was on display Saturday at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games with the cross country phase taking center stage at Le Pin National Stud in Le Pin-au-Haras, France. The FEI World Team and Individual Eventing Championship saw 87 combinations set out on a world championship-caliber 5,982m, 33-obstacle cross country course designed by Pierre Michelet (FRA). Due to wet conditions, the course was shortened from 6,500m, with...

Julie Welles and Twan won the $50,000 Vermont Summer Celebration Grand Prix on August 9 (David Mullinix Photography) East Dorset, Vt. - Julie Welles of Wellington, FL, and Twan triumphed in the $50,000 Vermont Summer Celebration Grand Prix on August 9 during the final week of the Vermont Summer Festival horse show in East Dorset, Vt. The six-week equestrian competition runs July 2 through August 10 at Harold Beebe Farm in East Dorset, Vt. A total of 10 entries found their way to a clear round...

Gabriella Salick and Centuria 2 (Captured Moments Photography) Del Mar, Calif. - A host of talented equestrians came out to play on a crystal clear afternoon at the Showpark Summer Festival, closing out a busy week of competition. Twenty-seven entries vied for the top prize in the $30,000 Summer Festival Grand Prix, presented by Mary's Tack & Feed, on an intricate course designed by Venezuela's Leopoldo Palacios. Featuring a technical layout with many related distances that covered...

Leaders in the CCI2* Individual Standings (left to right) Nicole Doolittle (Area III), David Ziegler (Canada/Alberta), and Hannah Bundy (Canada/Ontario) (Brant Gamma Photography) Lexington, Ky. - Eventing CCI1* (Junior) and CCI2* (Young Rider) riders started their journey to the medal podiums today with the dressage phase of the USEA North American Junior and Young Riders' Eventing Championship. The CCI2* riders finished their dressage tests in the evening with Canada/Ontario jumping into...