Gladstone, NJ - Land Rover North America, as the official vehicle sponsor of the USEF, today announced that they will host off-road test drives during the second week of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Dressage Festival of Champions, beginning today, June 14 through Sunday, June 17. The 2012 USEF Dressage Team, looking to compete in London this summer, will be selected based on their performance at this competition. The USEF Dressage Festival of Champions will take place at the...

The Global Dressage Festival presents a dressage series of clinics by renowned international dressage trainer and competitor Anja Plönzke of Germany. A Anja Plönzke (Maxemilian Schreiner) nja Plönzke has enjoyed a successful career in dressage. In 2011, she won the prestigious World Dressage Masters (WDM) Nurnberger Award riding her current horse Le Mont d'Or. The Nurnberger Award is given to the rider receiving the most points in the WDM Series. For the last twelve years Anja has...

South Woodstock, VT - The Green Mountain Horse Association, South Woodstock, Hitching Post Farm, South Royalton and Huntington Farm, South Strafford, VT are teaming up to create a new program for event riders for 2012. The Vermont Eventing Challenge is a year end awards program for riders competing in Vermont’s USEA recognized Horse Trials. Annie Penfield owner of Strafford Saddlery Shop is pleased to support the goal of the program to promote event competition at many levels in the state...

Temecula, CA - In only it's second year, the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event, part of the Professional Riders Organization's PRO Tour Series to be conducted in Temecula, California November 3 - 6, 2011, is quickly becoming the place to be. The Professional Riders Organization announced today that fifteen horses will be shipped on Air Horse One, H.E. Tex Sutton Forwarding's Boeing 727 from three locations on the east coast of the United States to compete at the Galway...

Aurora, CO - The Canadian National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show will make its debut at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, August 15-20, 2011. In April the AHA Board of Directors voted to approve the move of "Canadian Nationals" from Regina, Saskatchewan, to its new home in Brandon where "the facilities are designed for horse shows [and] has management in-tune to horse show needs," said Arabian Horse Association (AHA) President Lance Walters in a March 22...

Bromont, Quebec – JustWorld International will once again partner with the annual L’International Bromont, bringing fun and fundraising to the two-week show jumping tournament held July 20-24 and July 27-31 in Bromont, Quebec. The humanitarian organization will kick off its first of three fundraising efforts on Saturday, July 23, with the popular JustWorld International Horseless Horse Show, scheduled to take place at 5 p.m., immediately following the Speed Derby. Competitors will...

Chester Weber. Courtesy of HippoEvent. Altenfelden, Austria - The 20th anniversary of the CAI Altenfelden is history. It was an event with top sport performances by competitors from 18 nations. Chester Weber, the American driving sport star and winner of the king class (the four-in-hand horse class) said, “I like the nice atmosphere of the Altenfelden competition. The people are all very friendly and try to support the competitors the best they can. During this competition I have the...

Danielle Fleegle with Waterloo and his trainer, Adrian Griner. (Photo courtesy Danielle Fleegle.) Westminster, MD - Danielle Fleegle knew something was wrong. She just had to figure out what that “something” was. Eventually, she did. And a horse named Waterloo went from nearly put down – twice – to a star. In 2010, the horse once known primarily for his bucking, won a PHR Silver Stirrup Award and became the CBLM Training Level Champion and GAIG Reserve Training Level Champion. “I’m so glad that...

Laura and O Lordy++//. (Photo by Suzanne Sturgill.) Aurora, CO - It makes sense that the Arabian Horse Association’s Amateur of the Year would be the owner of the High Point Horse of the Year—it’s happened before. Laura Wolsey of Langley, B.C. and her gelding O Lordy++// (The Firelord+/ x Hi Passion) were recently given the AHA annual honor. In 2010 however, the AHA High Point Horse was also named Equine Canada’s High Point Horse for Breed Sport, the United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF)...

SAUGERTIES, NY - Less than two weeks after announcing plans for a $100,000 Hunter Final for its popular 3’3” Devoucoux Hunter Classic, HITS has decided to quintuple the purse and make history again by offering the richest hunter class in the sport of show jumping. The $500,000 HITS 3’3” Hunter Prix Final will be a culmination of more than 30 Devoucoux Hunter Prix qualifying classes offered at all HITS horse shows from January 19 through September 4, 2011. The Final will be take place September...