The inaugural $50,000 CN Palm Beach Jumping Derby will be held Sunday, February 15 with some of the world's top riders racing around a 1,000-meter course that includes a Devil's Dyke and a newly created signature obstacle called the Palm Maze. Built on top of the world-famous grass Polo Field One at the original Palm Beach Polo Stadium—considered by many to be among the finest grass surfaces for horse sports anywhere in the world—the course offers 19 obstacles (23 efforts) over...

Male against female. Husbands battling wives. Established stars challenged by sparkling newcomers. Olympic Gold versus Olympic Gold. The winners were thousands of spectators who turned out Saturday night for the Battle of the Sexes at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, the first time for such an event in the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center that has been completely remodeled at a cost of $10 million. For the record, the team of 10 women scored 31 points to win $50,000 shared between...

The huge response from across the United States and Europe to the inaugural Exquis World Dressage Masters (WDM) Musical Freestyle in Wellington led to the organizers announcing Wednesday that admission to the grand prix and grand prix special will be free. The grand prix will be held Friday afternoon in the International Arena at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. The grand prix special will be held Saturday afternoon. The grand prix musical freestyle is scheduled for Saturday...

Tickets are selling fast for the Exquis World Dressage Masters to be held at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center on Friday and Saturday, January 29-30. Van Grunsven on IPS Painted Black, the USA's Steffen Peters on Ravel, Edward Gal and Hans Peter Mindehoud of The Netherlands, Ashley Holzer of Canada and another 15 riders from Europe and the Americas will compete for an unprecedented €100,000 (US$133,000) in prize money. Most fans from across North America and seven other nations are...

Olympic Gold medalist Laura Kraut will give a clinic at the Riding Academy Clinic at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) on Tuesday, February 10. The clinic will be held in PBIEC's centerpiece International Arena. It is open to riders at a minimum of level 3 jumpers. The clinic will be in two sections, from 1 to 3 p.m. and from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The fee for participants is $200. There is no charge for auditors. Reservations can be made through Rosemary Bertin at (561) 371-9598 or...

Margie Engle rode Hidden Creek's Tosca in the Dutch Warmblood mare's sixth grand prix Thursday to claim the inaugural $30,000 Braman Motorcars WEF Challenge Cup at the 2009 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. The nine-year-old mare on whom Engle, of Wellington, FL, won the seven- and eight-year-old championship in Kentucky last year, won by 1/10th of a second over Georgina Bloomberg and Curius at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Laura Bowery on Henry Jota Romano placed third....

The 2009 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) opened Wednesday to rave reviews for the $10-million makeover of the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Opening day in almost perfect weather with temperatures reaching a high of about 80 degrees F (27 degrees Celsius) saw 854 hunter and jumper trips in 10 competition arenas. The annual George H. Morris Horsemanship Clinic filled another arena. Although the premiere jumper rings, International, DeNemethy and Mogavero arenas drew 231 entries...

The finishing touches to a completely remodeled Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) were being applied on Sunday, January 4, in readiness for the opening of the 2009 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) on Wednesday, January 7. Trucks and trailers filled the streets around PBIEC bringing in horses for hunter, jumper and dressage competitions for 12 weeks of WEF, the largest and longest-running horse show in the world, which concludes March 29. The weather for the past several...

Anky van Grunsven, the most successful musical freestyle competitor in the history of dressage, Holland's Edward Gal who captivated American audiences at the World Cup Finals, and USA Olympian Steffen Peters are among riders to confirm their participation in the inaugural $140,000 Exquis World Dressage Masters CDI***** in Wellington, January 28-31, 2009. Olympians Ashley Holzer of Canada and Hans Peter Minderhoud of The Netherlands have also committed to the event at the Palm Beach...

Equestrian Sport Productions' two Christmas shows, the Christmas Festival, held December 12-14 and the Christmas A, held December 19-21, both A-rated, three-star jumper events, will be held at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center's South Grounds while the multimillion dollar improvements to the North Grounds are completed in time for the 2009 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival that starts on January 7. A $25,000 Grand Prix is scheduled during the Christmas Festival for 1 p.m. this Sunday,...