The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) announced another record-breaking year at the 2006 NRHA Futurity Prospect Sale held during the NRHA Futurity at the Oklahoma State Fair Park. The top-selling futurity prospect went for $195,000. It’s the latest in a string of record-breaking sales on horses at the NRHA Futurity sales the past few years. The Futurity Prospect Sale is just one of three sales held each year at the NRHA Futurity. Also included are the NRHA Breeders Showcase Sale and the...

Rick Silvia, owner of Dream Street Stallions, received notification that his Hanoverian stallion, Lullaby, is approved as an elite stallion for 2007 with the American Hanoverian Society (AHS). Prior to his import to the United States, Lullaby earned impressive scores on his 300-day performance testing at Landgestute Celle Stud and holds a lifetime stallion approval from both the Hanoverian and Oldenburg Verbands. This 16.3-hand chestnut stallion brings together the some of the top Hanoverian...

Offield Farms is pleased to welcome Lingh to its fine collection of stallions. Lingh was the reserve champion at the World Cup Finals in 2005 and 2004, and also on Holland’s Silver medal-winning team at this year’s FEI World Equestrian Games. He joins Tiamo Trocadero, the Olympic reserve horse for the 2000 British team in Sydney, and Hexagon’s Louisville, the 2006 United States Dressage Federation (USDF) Amateur Grand Prix Horse of the Year and member of the 2004 National Dutch “B” Team. Lingh...

The HorseTV Channel’s January programming schedule features all new premieres from popular competitions and series including Free Rein: FEI World Equestrian Games 2006, Kleo The Misfit Unicorn, AQHA’s Best of the West, FEI World Cup Jumping 2006/2007, Spirit of the Equestrian and HorseFlicks . “January’s schedule provides a fond look back at exceptional programming from past years as well as introduces a whole new slate of exciting premieres to take us into the new year,” said Rachel Falleroni,...

With U.S. qualifying more than half over, the race to earn berths in the 2007 Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final is tightening up. Final qualifying events in both the East and West Coast Leagues will decide which horses and riders will represent the U.S. in the World Cup Final in Las Vegas, April 18-22, 2007. Las Vegas, the world’s premier city for exciting entertainment, will once again be the backdrop for the 2007 Rolex FEI World Cup™ Finals in both jumping and dressage. In 2005, the FEI...

Will Harris, co-Junior Equestrian of the Year (Doug Shiflet) Lexington, KY – New York’s Brianne Goutal and Tennessee’s William Harris have been named Junior Equestrians of the Year by the United States Equestrian Federation® and will be honored during the Federation’s annual gala – The Pegasus Awards – on January 12, 2007, in Louisville, KY. It is the first time in over a decade that two youths have been named co-recipients of one of the...

American Quarter Horses take center stage Sunday, January 7, on NBC Sports Television at 1:30 p.m. Eastern/10:30 a.m. Pacific for the America’s Horse Championships presented by Ford Trucks. The one-hour special is based at a portion of the FedEx Open competition at the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) World Championship Show in Oklahoma City and highlights the reining and cutting competitions along with other features. “We were so pleased with the response from viewers and NBC last...

The Washington International Horse Show, one of the world’s leading equestrian events, will remain at Verizon Center, its home since 2000, for at least two more years. The contract extension ensures the show will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2008 in the heart of Washington, D.C., its namesake city. “Washington has been our home for almost half a century, and we are so pleased to be able to continue this very special equestrian tradition in this historic city. Verizon Center is part of our...

The Board of Directors of The EQUUS Foundation, Inc., an all-volunteer fund raising and fund granting 501(c)(3) charity, will award grants to 37 charitable organizations that promote the positive use of the horse for the benefit of the general public, horse welfare and equestrian sport as a whole in 2006, up from 28 in 2006. In just four years since its establishment in August 2002, The EQUUS Foundation has awarded over $600,000 in grants, with over $250,000 awarded in 2006. The idea for The...

Karen Healey Stables hosted a clinic with renowned trainer and clinician George H. Morris on December 8-10, 2006 at Shelburne Farms in Hidden Valley of Westlake Village, CA. The clinic was organized by Karen Healey, the trainer and owner of Karen Healey Stables. The clinic had three divisions of riders: open jumpers, jumper 3’9”-4’, and advanced equitation. Each division had three sessions over the three days of the clinic. There were 25 riders total, and the clinic saw over 40 auditors for the...