This year our World Show is going back to the West Coast for our eleventh Finals. In 2004 the inaugural show was held in the City of Industry. At the request and vote of the Membership the show has traveled many places including Lake St Louis, Missouri, and Del Mar, California. We are happy to be back on the West Coast and at such a beautiful facility in Burbank, California. IFSHA is the official Friesian Recognized Breed Affiliate for the Friesian Breed with the United States Equestrian...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - Savannah Jenkins jumped out to the early lead yesterday at the 2015 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals West hosted by Blenheim EquiSports after completing the flat phase and gymnastics phase of this two-day competition. She will head into today's jumping phase with a two-phase score of 202 hoping to make the ride-off against three other competitors in the 21-person field. Eve Jobs sits in second place with a two-phase score of 196.5 and...

Falsterbo, Sweden – The U.S. Dressage Team, under the guidance of Chef d’Equipe Betsy Steiner, had a day of solid performances at the first day of Nations Cup competition at CDIO5* Falsterbo. On Friday at the Falsterbo Horse Show presented by Longines, the U.S. combinations performed the Grand Prix Test, to sit fifth thus far in the Nations Cup. Catherine Haddad Staller and Mane Stream Hotmail (Rolf Stenberg / Rockmountain Studios) Susan Dutta (Wellington, Fla.) and Currency DC, Tim...

Devon, PA - June 9, 2015 – Dressage at Devon (DAD) ( www.dressageatdevon.org ) will increase the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle prize money to $15,000 at the 2015 show – bringing the CDI total to $40,000 in honor of the 40th Anniversary. “This is a big year for us and we’re going to celebrate!” said Lori Kaminski, President and CEO. “In addition to increasing the Grand Prix Freestyle prize money, we’ve added an FEI Amateur Division as well as an Amateur...

Stephanie Danhakl and Golden Rule take championship in the Amateur-Owner 18-35 3'6 Hunters (Lauren Baker/Phelps Media Group) Lexington, KY -- Stephanie Danhakl, Becky Gochman and their talented horses are no strangers to success, and today's hunter classes at the Kentucky Spring Horse Show awarded the amateur riders plenty of chances to shine atop their entries. The day began with the Amateur-Owner 18-35 3'6 Hunters, as Danhakl piloted her flashy chestnut Golden Rule to two third-place...

Krystal Wilt (Pat Hendrick Photography) The Dressage Foundation is pleased to announce that the inaugural Karen Skvarla Fund Grant has been awarded to young professional, Krystal Wilt, of Sand Lake, NY. Krystal intends to use the $500 grant to ride two horses in Eastern New York Dressage and Combined Training Association’s Gary Rockwell clinic in May. Krystal is a high school biology teacher who devotes the rest of her hours to dressage training. She would like to build her dressage...

Lyn Symansky, Jonathan Holling, Lyndsey Jordan, Buck Davidson and Jennie Brannigan during their visit to the Kentucky Children's Hospital in 2014 (Michelle Dunn) Lexington, Ky. - Four riders representing the Professional Riders Organization (PRO) who are in town to compete in the 2015 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented by Land Rover, and one rider that will be competing in the Kentucky Reining Cup, will be making a special trip to Kentucky Children's Hospital in Lexington on Tuesday,...

Sunny Drescher and Sting on their way to a HITS Equitation Championship win at HITS Ocala (ESI Photography) Ocala, Fla. - It was a picturesque evening under the lights of the Ocala Horse Properties Stadium for the return of the HITS Equitation Championship. High school senior Sunny Drescher, of Hinesburg, Vermont, and her own Sting proved that determination and drive pay off, moving up five spots from the 2014 event, to take home the blue ribbon and top honors. After ten weeks of qualifying...

Demaskus Devon, PA – Since our last glimpse of Damaskus (Don Principe x Raureif), he has proven to be quite a star, winning the Hanovarian inspection in a field of 19. He took it all in stride but his owner, Catherine Haddad Staller, was probably a bit more excited. “I am thrilled,” she said. “He showed very well.” But for Damaskus, life remains uncomplicated, spending most of his time in the pasture, playing and resting and staying close to mom. But for those...

The talented Emily Irene and scopey Take Five shine on their way to winning in the $1,500 Bit O’ Straw Hunter Classic during Marshall & Sterling Insurance League National Finals (©ESI Photography) Saugerties, N.Y. - The Marshall & Sterling Insurance League National Finals at HITS-on-the-Hudson continues, framed by lovely skies, picturesque views, with a hint of autumn in the air, riders nevertheless are battling it out for top honors and recognition after a year of qualifying events and...