Lobby at Pet Oasis/ The ARK at JFK (AnthonyCollins.nyc) New York, NY – February 13, 2016 – Today, The ARK at JFK announces the official opening of its Phase 1 services, which include The ARK Pet Oasis, Equine & Livestock Export Center and Aviary In-Transit Quarantine. The opening of Phase 2 is expected to take place in Q2 2017, which will include a full-service ARK Import-Export Center (“IEC”) featuring Equine Quarantine/Import, Grooms’ Lounge and The ARK...

Christine McCrea competing at The Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows. (The Book, LLC) North Salem, New York –The Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows are set to kick off Tuesday, May 10, with an exciting schedule of equestrian competition and spectator-friendly events at Old Salem Farm in the rolling hills of North Salem, NY. Competition runs Tuesday-Sunday for two consecutive weeks on May 10-15 and May 17-22 and features over 130 hunter and jumper classes each week, boasting something for...

Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous at the 2015 event. (SusanJStickle.com) Wellington, Fla. - The 2016 Asheville Regional Airport Wellington Eventing Showcase, presented by Wellington Equestrian Realty, will be held on February 5-6 at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Twenty-two top Eventing riders from four countries will compete in this three-phase competition for $75,000 in prize money. In the inaugural year of the event, Boyd Martin (USA) and Trading Aces took home top honors...

Lexington, Ky. - Adult amateur riders showing off their Third Level freestyles were first in the Alltech Arena early Sunday morning, but it was the final competitor down centerline who impressed the judges the most on the last day of national championship action at the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, held November 5-8, 2015 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. Julie McCrady won the Third Level Freestyle Adult Amateur Championship with her home-bred Hanoverian mare...

Woodside, California - Lauren Billys, of Sanger, Calif., guided Ballingowan Ginger to a four-fault show jumping round to grab the lead (51.0) in the CIC3* at the Woodside International Horse Trials. Debbie Rosen, of Calabasas, Calif., stands second on The Alchemyst (54.5), and Jolie Wentworth, of Crockett, Calif., stands third on Good Knight (58.2). The Woodside International Horse Trials are the first event in the 2013/2014 season of the Adequan/USEA Gold Cup Series. Billys, 25, and...

Jazz Johnson Merton and Kingston were awarded the Amateur-Owner Grand Hunter Championship (Kendall Bierer/Phelps Media Group) Buffalo, NY - The third day of the 67th Buffalo International Horse Show (BIHS) opened to low temperatures, but nothing short of heated competition. The morning was filled with an action-packed hunter schedule, where horse and rider combinations vied for the top honors and prize money in their respective divisions. Today the Amateur-Owner Hunters named not only their...

Woodside, CA - James Alliston survived a bittersweet day at the Woodside International Horse Trials, presented by Equine Insurance of California and Professional’s Choice. It was a day of both exciting victory and disconcerting defeat for him. Alliston, of Castro Valley, Calif., did win the CIC3*, but with Tivoli (52.6), not with Jumbo’s Jake, the horse who’d been leading after the first day’s dressage and show jumping. And he also won the CIC2* on Mojo. Jolie Wentworth...

Devon, PA - Laura Chapot, who has consistently won Open Jumper Leading Rider titles and Open Jumper Championships at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair in early June, will be competing at the Devon Fall Classic, Sept. 13-16, in an attempt to win those titles at the end of the summer as well as in the beginning. But she will have plenty of tough competition, as a number of Olympic medalists, including Joe Fargis and Lisa Jacquin, are also competing at Devon. Chapot, of Neshanic Sation, N.J.,...

Jonathan Holling of the United States won the Volvo Bromont CCI3* Three Day Event, The Todd Sandler Challenge, with Downtown Harrison. Representatives of title sponsor Volvo Canada presented Holling with the Todd Sandler Trophy. (Cealy Tetley) Bromont, Quebec – Jonathan Holling of the United States won the 2012 Volvo Bromont CCI3* Three Day Event, The Todd Sandler Challenge, on Sunday, June 10, in Bromont, Quebec. The CIC3* division was won by Karen O’Connor of the United States. It...

From left to fight: Craig Collins, Equestrian Management Group; MPP Sylvia Jones (Dufferin-Caledon); Charles Sousa, Ontario Minister responsible for the Pan/Parapan American Games; Ian Troop, Chief Executive Officer for TO2015; Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport); MP David Tilson (Dufferin-Caledon); Regional Councillor Richard Whitehead of Town of Caledon; and Mike Gallagher, President of Equine Canada (ShootPhoto.ca) Palgrave, Ontario - Caledon Equestrian Park in Palgrave, Ontario, was the...