Gladstone, NJ - December 8, 2010 - This year during their fundraising event, the United States Equestrian Team Foundation recognized the Whitney Stone Cup recipient McLain Ward. The award is given to an active competitor whose consistent excellence in international competition, and whose standards of sportsmanlike conduct and contributions as an ambassador for the sport and for the USET, exemplify the Team's highest ideals and traditions. In 2009, Ward was unstoppable as he consistently...

Kelsey Kimbler riding CAHR Junior (Photo by Paschal Karl) Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is pleased to announce Kelsey Kimbler as the winner of the 2010 USEF Youth Sportsman's Award, sponsored by Breyer Animal Creations®. Kimbler was selected from an outstanding group of youth representing their respective recognized breed and discipline affiliates from across the country. An avid endurance competitor from Aberdeen, SD, she was nominated by both the Arabian Horse...

Left to Right: Rodrigo Pessoa, Brianne Goutal, Patricia Griffith, Kent Farrington, Charlie Jayne, an (Phelps Media Group) WESTPORT, CT - November 24, 2010 - After the roaring success of the Fete Cheval in 2010, there was no hesitation to start making plans for an even more spectatcular event for the 2011 Winter Equestrian Festival - and more spectacular it will be! Elizabeth Press, Clea Newman Soderlund, and Visse Wedell have signed on as Co-Chairs of the Fete Cheval, which will be held on...

Nick Maupin and Coco Mojo. (Photo by Howard Schatzberg. ) Kansas City, MO - Nick Maupin rode Coco Mojo to the championship win in the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Saddle Seat Medal Final presented by Elisabeth M. Goth. The final took place November 20 as part of the United Professional Horsemen's Association (UPHA) American Royal National Championship Horse Show in Kansas City, MO. With this win, Maupin made history by becoming the first male rider to win the "Saddle Seat Triple...

Chris Payne and Clooney during the Kentucky Fall Classic (Photo by Holly Whiteman) Lexington, KY- November 17, 2010 - It was a weekend full of gorgeous and unseasonably warm weather for the Kentucky Fall Classic. The event was held in the New Alltech Indoor Arena November 11-14, 2010 and featured the areas top hunters and jumpers. Alliy Moyer took home both the champion and reserve champion honors in the Junior Hunter division. She showed Safari to the championship prize and was awarded the...

Melanie Smith Taylor (Photo © 2010 Mike Maple) Buffalo, NY - November 17, 2010 - The Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center (BTRC) has been a busy facility over the last few weeks, and most recently concluded its twelfth annual George Morris Clinic. Next on the calendar for BTRC is the 2010 USHJA Emerging Athletes National Training Session, which will be held November 19-21, 2010. The BTRC is the only indoor riding facility located in the city of Buffalo. It has been the site of a therapeutic riding...

Alissa Kinsey & Grisset (©Flashpoint Photography ) Conyers, GA—November 14, 2010—Classic Company’s Season Finale event, the Atlanta Fall Classics, is a virtual cornucopia of equestrian competition with everything from Zone Championships to a $25,000 Adult-Child Jumper Classic to a show jumping Grand Prix just in the first week. “We always like to end our year big!” Classic Company President Bob Bell quipped. Friday’s kick off of head to head competition began with the USHJA National Hunter...

Hayley Barnhill and Podest, 2010 ASPCA Maclay National Championships (Photo Credit: Rebecca Walton/PMG.) Syracuse, NY - November 7, 2010 - Today marked the final day of competition at the 2010 Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament featuring the 127th National Horse Show. The highlight event at the Oncenter Complex in Syracuse, NY, was the 2010 ASPCA Maclay National Championships. Riders worked all year to qualify for this event and after three phases of competition and it was 17-year-old...

Toronto, Ontario – A fresh, young competitor stood the International show jumping division on its head tonight, winning a five-way, five nation jump-off, besting top riders from Canada, America, Ireland, The Netherlands and Great Britain to claim the $100,000 FEI World Cup Grand Prix at the 88th Royal Horse Show. Brianne Goutal, 22, of New York, NY, led a field of 25 starters including a former World Champion, an Olympic Gold Medalist and all the members of Teams Millar and Whitaker, the “First...

McKinley Harvey with George Williams. (Photo courtesy of the Harvey Family.) Lincoln, Nebraska, November 1, 2010 - Thanks to Renee Isler (MA), a young equestrian from Colorado was able to participate in the FEI Junior/Young Rider Dressage Clinic held in Parker, Colorado on October 23-24, 2010. McKinley Harvey applied and was accepted to this United States Dressage Federation program, but needed a financial boost to make it happen. McKinley’s dream was fulfilled, because of Renee, who...