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Arabian & Half-Arabian Sport Horse Championships are Nampa, ID Bound

by Arabian Horse Association | 9/18/2014 2:58:05 PM

(Don Stine Photography) Aurora, Colo. - Celebrating its 12th anniversary and its fifth year at the Ford Idaho Center Horse Park, the Sport Horse National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show is bringing athleticism to Nampa. Beginning on Wednesday, September 24 and running through Saturday, September 27, this horse show is unique - not just to the Arabian horse breed, but to other breeds as well. The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) is the only breed association that offers a Sport...

Experience Arabian Horses Through T.A.I.L Tours at the Ford Idaho Center Horse Park

by Arabian Horse Association | 9/18/2014 2:13:58 PM

Aurora, Colo. - The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) is inviting kids, teens and adults of all ages to participate in a Total Arabian Interactive Learning (T.A.I.L) Tour at the 2014 Sport Horse National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show. The horse show is hosted by the Ford Idaho Center Horse Park in Nampa, ID and the tours are designed to give horse crazy kids and adults a chance to experience Arabian horses up close. Through T.A.I.L tours, children and their chaperones learn...

Top Young Horses Ready to Be Presented at 2014 Sallie B. Wheeler/US National Hunter Breeding Championship

by Eileen Schnettler | 8/26/2014 4:36:56 PM

Lexington, Ky. - The country's best examples of hunter breeding will be on display this week on both coasts to compete in the 2014 Sallie B. Wheeler/US National Hunter Breeding Championship. Judges Linda Andrisani, of Phoenix, Md., and Daniel Robertshaw, of Camden, S.C., will travel to both coasts to assess the entrants. On August 27, young horses on the West Coast will meet at the Showpark All Seasons Summer Tournament in Del Mar, Calif. The championship then moves to the East Coast to the...

Georgia Claims NCEA National Title with 8-8 Win Over South Carolina

by www.georgiadogs.com | 4/20/2014 10:29:04 AM

Waco, Texas - The Georgia equestrian team brought home the 2014 NCEA National Championship when it defeated Southeastern Conference foe South Carolina an 8-8 (2,323.5-2,219) in a rematch of the SEC Championship on Saturday, April 19 at the Extraco Events Center in Waco, Texas. It was the program's sixth national title and the first since 2010. Georgia ends its season with an overall record of 11-4. "What an exciting day this was for our entire team," Head Coach Meghan Boenig said. "I could...

Baylor and Oklahoma State Advance to Big 12 Equestrian Finals

by Big 12 sports | 3/28/2014 10:03:34 PM

From www.Big12sports.com . Waco, Texas. - The Baylor Bears and the Oklahoma State Cowgirls are set to compete for the 2014 Big 12 Equestrian Championship on Saturday after pulling off semifinal victories over TCU and K-State at the Willis Family Equestrian Center in Waco on Friday afternoon. For the second-consecutive season, the Cowgirls entered the championship as the No. 1 seed. OSU held on to a narrow 5-4 lead over No. 4 K-State through fences and horsemanship. In the second half of the...

ADS Announces Host Venues for North American Championships

by American Driving Society | 3/19/2014 9:46:31 AM

Cross Plains, Wis. - The American Driving Society (ADS) is pleased to announce the host venues for the new head-to-head driven North American Preliminary and the North American Intermediate Championships. The Preliminary Championships will be held at the Glen Willow CDE, September 5-7 in Avondale, Pennsylvania. The Intermediate Championship will be held at the Katydid CDE, October 30 – November 2 in Windsor, South Carolina. All VSE Championships will be held at the Equestrians Institute...

Vanlandingham & Visser Tie at Ardmore CRI in Final US Qualifying Reining

by USA Reining | 2/8/2014 2:31:13 PM

Ardmore, Okla. - In the final qualifying event for riders to advance to the US Team Selection Trial for the US Reining Team at the 2014 World Equestrian Games, a tied result stood unbroken for the first place position. Sharing the top of the podium were Jason Vanlandingham of Whitesboro, Texas, who scored a 71 while showing Shiners Chic, owned by Rosanne Sternberg of Great Britain, as well as Josh Visser, also of Whitesboro riding his own Magnum With A Dream to a matching score. Drake Johnson...

Layla Choate Wins 2014 Sun Circuit Shootout Championship

by Cory Burkarth | 2/2/2014 9:30:51 PM

Layla Choate Scottsdale, Ariz - University of South Carolina junior Layla Choate won the 2014 Sun Circuit Shootout Championship on Sunday at the Arizona Sun Circuit horse show. Choate defeated opponents from South Dakota State, West Texas A&M, and Baylor to win the title. "This is a great accomplishment for Layla and we are all thriled for her today," South Carolina head coach Boo Major said. "Layla has proven herself to be one of the best, if not the best reiner at the college level so...

American Driving Society Announces Plans for North American Championship

by Maria McGinnis for ADS | 1/30/2014 11:50:08 PM

Cross Plains, Wis. - The American Driving Society (ADS) is pleased to announce plans for a new head-to-head driven North American Championship, in addition to the popular calculated Intermediate Championship offered since 2009. The North American Preliminary and the North American Intermediate Championships will be driven championships, each taking place over a single competition weekend. The original Championship will be renamed The North American Calculated Intermediate Championship and...

USEF Announces Developing Driving Program (DDP)

by USEF Communications Department | 1/21/2014 3:05:24 PM

Lexington, Ky. - The USEF launched a pilot "high performance" training program in 2012/2013 with approximately twenty drivers attending one or more clinics held in Kentucky, Florida, and North Carolina. Since there are limited training opportunities for driving at the USEF/FEI levels, the opportunity to train with an International Four-in-Hand driver and coach was overwhelmingly positive. To further this program, it is the intention of the USEF to roll out the 2014 Developing Driver Program...