Parker, CO - July 27, 2016 - The Adequan®/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) have commenced at The Colorado Horse Park (CHP) in Parker, CO, hosting three of the Olympic disciplines featuring dressage, eventing, and show jumping competition from Wednesday, July 27, through Sunday, July 31.The facility will host 175 entries representing the United States, Canada and Mexico. Allison Hopkins and Rusty 324 (SusanJStickle.com) The dressage...

Lexington, Ky. – The Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) came to a close on Sunday at the Kentucky Horse Park with the awarding of the 2015 event’s final medals. In the CH-J 1* portion of the USEA North American Junior Eventing Championship, Area II claimed Team Gold, and Area II rider Camilla Grover-Dodge rode to the Individual win. Area III’s Diane Portwood earned top honors in the CCIYR2* division. In...

Lyman, Maine – Para-Equestrian Dressage riders, Veterans, and Para-Drivers are looking forward to Carlisle Academy’s Para-Equestrian Pipeline Training Camp scheduled May 26-30, 2015. Carlisle Academy in Lyman, Maine, a Premier Accredited PATH Center and national leader in grassroots development for para-equestrian sports, has been the educational link for developing athletes and coaches. Carlisle along with the United States Para-Equestrian Association (USPEA) and the United States...

Stephen B. Macfarlane, 59, died following surgery in Louisville on January 11. Macfarlane had spent his lifetime as a multi-faceted horseman, winning championship titles in American Saddlebred, Roadster, Pony and coaching competitions. Macfarlane had just returned to Kentucky from his winter home in Ft. Meyers, FL. He had been taking blood-thinning medication for a diagnostic procedure scheduled later this week, when he suffered a head injury resulting in edema that could not be controlled...

Lexington, KY – Three junior riders, Jordan Coyne of New Port Richey, Florida, Zazou Hoffman of Santa Monica, California, and Renick Townsend of Wellington, Florida, served as excellent ambassadors of equestrian sport as they represented the United States in the CSI-Ch B Bogotá, Colombia, July 13-17, an FEI sanctioned jumping event for children. Thirteen-year-old, Renick Townsend competed against 43 riders from 12 countries and four continents to claim the championship title as well as the...

Lexington, Ky. – Kaeley Arterburn has been crowned the 2020 USEF Saddle Seat Adult Amateur Medal Final champion at the 84 th Annual Lexington Junior League Charity Horse Show. In the last class of the morning session on Wednesday, July 8, six competitors demonstrated their skill during group railwork, and then executed an intricate individual pattern designed by judges Cindy Mugnier (Belchertown, Mass.), Jimmy Robertson (Simpsonville, Ky.), and Tim Roesink (Hebron, Ohio). In the 20 th...

Shelburne, Vt. – The American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA) is set to host the 2019 Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show® . The annual Grand National competition is shaping up to be another monumental event in this show's long history. More than 900 of the world's finest Morgan horses from across the United States and Canada will meet in Oklahoma City, Okla., from October 12-19 for a chance at a piece of more than $250,000 in prize money. Since 1973,...

Louisville, Ky. - Celebrating its 115 th year, the World’s Championship Horse Show was held at the Kentucky State Fair’s famed Freedom Hall from August 19-26, 2017. With purses totaling over $1 million, the World’s Championship Horse Show is the crown jewel of competitions for American Saddlebreds, Hackney Ponies, and Roadster horses. Nearly 2,000 horses and ponies competed for the coveted trip down Freedom Hall’s victory lane, and exhibitors ranging from 7-year-olds to...

Parker, Colo. -The 2016 Adequan®/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC), presented by Gotham North, kicked off on Wednesday at the Colorado Horse Park. On Tuesday evening, the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation hosted a welcome party. The festivities, held at Harmony Equine Center, consisted of a parade of athletes, dinner, a bounce house, a mechanical bull and a dunk tank for exhibitors to enjoy as they geared up for the weeklong competition. The...

2016 grant recipient Judy Dettore (Photo courtesy of the Dettore Family) Lexington, Ky. --- The USHJA Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to award 2016 USHJA Foundation Gochman Family US Pony Finals Grants to Judy Dettore, Riley Hogan and Cecillia Machado. Each grant recipient will be given an opportunity to compete at the 2016 US Pony Finals. "We had many impressive applicants this year, and we're very excited that with the support of the Gochman Family we were able to award this...