Leading Open Jumper Riders at 2009 Showplace Fall Classic Championship Horse Show (John Kassel) Annual Chicago "A" Hunter/Jumper show shares venue with and precedes Kentucky National at Lamplight Wayne, IL - August 27, 2010 - Showplace Productions, the foremost horse show production and management company in the Midwestern United States, is pleased to announce that the Showplace Fall Classic Championship Horse Show will return to the Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Illinois for a week of...

LEXINGTON, KY (August 26, 2010) Visitors who come to the Kentucky Horse Park during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games will have the added benefit of experiencing the Equine Village. The Equine Village will showcase the largest gathering of the best known equine entertainers, clinicians and breed representatives ever assembled in the US. There are five different venues for the Equine Village with each providing its own unique entertainment. The Equine Village will host many of our country's...

For immediate release: August 26, 2010 Media contact: Erin Ryder, [email protected] One month before the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, the ticket giveaway offered by Kentucky Equine Research (KER) continues. KER is giving away tickets through weekly drawings to those who sign up for its electronic newsletters, The Weekly Feed and Equine Review, between now and September 24. To enter on ker.com, go to the contest page and sign up for the KER newsletters. Current...

Driving The first of two Mandatory Outings for the drivers on the Short List for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games was held over the weekend at the Carolina Horse Park in Southern Pines, NC. Drivers Bill Long, Cindy O'Reilly, Gary Stover, and Casey Zubek worked under the guidance of US Coaches Peter Tischer and Michael Freund in a competition format. International Judge Johan Lange was also on hand to lend his expertise. All teams passed the vet check and proved over the three days that...

Merrill Murray and Courageous Lord, Five-Gaited World's Grand Champion (Photo by Jen Corcoran/E Motion Photography) Louisville, Kentucky - The 2010 World's Championship Horse Show (WCHS), held annually in conjunction with the Kentucky State Fair, was held at Louisville's Freedom Hall from Sunday, August 22, through Saturday, August 28. There was plenty of excitement at WCHS this year, as new World's Grand Champions were crowned in the Fine Harness and Three-Gaited World's Grand Championships,...

Classic Communications Contact: Marty Bauman, 508-698-6810, [email protected] Far Hills, NJ—August 15, 2010—Spectators attending the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of Champions and World Equestrian Games Selection Trials at the USET Foundation Headquarters in Gladstone, NJ, were treated to a special driving demonstration by the sharingVillage Survivor Groups’ Driving for Surviving program. sharingVillage Survivor Groups’ is a 501c3 not-for-profit New Jersey corporation...

David Mullinix Photography (Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, and Marengo enjoyed two grand prix victories at the 2010 Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT.) East Dorset, VT - The big winner at the 2010 Vermont Summer Festival proved to be 22-year-old Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ. Throughout the six-week competition that ran from July 7 through August 15, 2010, Dobbs and her mount, Marengo, scored three major victories. The first of Dobbs’ wins came in the $30,000 Battenkill Grand Prix,...

Halifax, MA - Despite rainy conditions, the Fieldstone Summer Showcase began its week-long run at the Fieldstone Equestrian & Show Facility in Halifax, MA. The Summer Showcase, which runs August 24-29, features top-notch equestrian competition, great prize money, and nightly parties. The schedule for this year's Summer Showcase is highlighted by the $35,000 Grand Prix, which will be held on Fieldstone's pristine, all grass Grand Prix field on Saturday afternoon, August 28. "Despite the...

Flying Horse Photography. (U.S. Chef d'Equipe George Morris and HITS President Tom Struzzieri.) Saugerties, NY - The inaugural Pfizer Million, with the richest purse in show jumping, scheduled for Saugerties, New York, on September 12th, will play host to a world class line-up of the country's best horse and rider combinations. That already glittering roster of stars got even brighter this weekend when HITS President Tom Struzzieri awarded one of the five coveted Manager's Wild Card picks for...

Dressage In Saugerties, NY the Centerline Events at HITS on the Hudson CDI-W took place. Coming off a strong sixth place finish at the National Grand Prix Championships at the 2010 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions, Jan Ebeling and Rafalca won both the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle. Pierre St. Jacques and Lucky Tiger (fifth at the National Grand Prix Championships) took second in both classes. Heather Mason and Glen Emeril finished just behind Canadian Amanda...