Luis Larrazabal and G&C Flash won the $10,000 Vineyard Vines Welcome Stake, presented by Manchester Designer Outlets, on Thursday, August 2, at the 2012 Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. (David Mullinix Photography) East Dorset, VT – Venezuela’s Luis Larrazabal earned an exciting victory in the $10,000 Vineyard Vines Welcome Stake, presented by Manchester Designer Outlets, on Thursday, August 2, at the 2012 Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. The six-week...

Badminton, UK - A trio of British girls head the leaderboard after the Dressage phase at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), the first leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2011. Ruth Edge (GBR), in pole position with the excellent score of 33.3 penalties on the 17-year-old Two Thyme, winner at Luhmühlen in 2007, is no stranger to the limelight in this phase – indeed, she regularly wins national titles in this discipline. “There’s always a lot of pressure on...

Elkton, Md. – Eventing athletes at the MARS Maryland 5 Star CCI5*-L and USEF CCI3*-L Eventing National Championship had their chance to tackle Ian Stark’s cross-country courses on Saturday. Windy and cool conditions helped keep the equine athletes energized to get around the undulating terrain at Fair Hill. Caroline Pamukcu and HSH Connor. ©Devyn Trethewey/US Equestrian USEF CCI3*-L Eventing National Championship Caroline Pamukcu (Springtown, Pa.) finished cross-country day...

Enschede, Netherlands – The 2023 FEI Eventing Nations Cup Netherlands CCIO4*-NC-L, held at the Military Boekelo-Enschede from October 5-8, proved to be a serious competition with 112 combinations and 12 teams competing in the final Nations Cup series event of the year. With Chef d’Equipe Leslie Law at the helm, the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team of James Alliston and Karma, Jennie Brannigan and Connory, Phillip Dutton and Denim, and Cassie Sanger and Fernhill Zoro finished in fourth...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian has announced the athlete and horse combinations selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the 2023 Santiago Pan American Games hosted in Santiago, Chile later this month. Jumping competition will begin on October 31, with the team looking to secure their qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. There are three Olympic qualification allocations available at the Pan American Games awarded to the three highest-placed and previously non-qualified...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – The 2023 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – West concluded on Sunday at the Blenheim International Jumping Festival with Phases III and IV. The youth athletes rode a jumper-style course in front of judges Linda Hough and Lauren Hough for Phase III, the jumping phase, which had a multiplier of two for the overall weighted scores of the competition. After the scores were calculated, Camilla Jerng, Paige Walkenbach, Zadie Stack,...

Oirschot, Netherlands – Five U.S. athletes and their ponies made the journey to the FEI Driving World Championship for Combined Ponies, which took place Aug. 30-Sept. 3 at Steenhof Stables in the Netherlands. The championship featured single, pair, and four-in-hand ponies with teams and individuals from nine countries competing for world champion titles. Katie Whaley. ©Krisztina Horváth/Hoefnet The U.S. contingent included singles drivers Amy Cross and Hilary Mroz-Blythe, pair...

Lexington, Ky.– US Equestrian is pleased to announce The Dutta Corp./USEF Eventing High Performance Flight Grant recipients. Established for eventing athletes who are targeting the 2024 Olympic Games, the grants were awarded to Will Coleman and Chin Tonic HS and Boyd Martin and Fedarman B. US Equestrian awarded the two air transportation grants with a value up to $20,000 each to be used toward horse flight expenses for the combinations as they aim for Les 5 Étoiles de Pau CCI5*-L...

Aachen, Germany – The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team finished eighth in the final standings at the conclusion of competition in the FEI Dressage Nations Cup CDIO5* at CHIO Aachen this week on a team total of 422.609. Germany took top honors on a score of 468.285, while Denmark took second on a score of 460.097, and Great Britain in third on a 459.756. “There are certainly things we will take away from this competition and look at moving forward as a program. It wasn’t the...

Aachen, Germany - The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team rounded out their first day of competition in the Prize of Family Tesch FEI Dressage Nations Cup CDIO5*, with combinations contesting the FEI Grand Prix test. Overall, the team sits on a combined score of 213.630 and stands in eighth place overall. Anna Buffini (San Diego, Calif.) and FRH Davinia La Douce were the highest-placed U.S. combination, scoring a 72.804% from the judging panel as the last combination to compete today. Competition...