Week VI will feature a World of the Horse presentation and will welcome Freya Farms’ prize American Mini. Saugerties, NY — Barns were full, rings hosted non-stop action and entries were sold out for Week V at HITS-on-the-Hudson as almost 2,000 horses docked at the show grounds, making HITS Saugerties their summer home. Week V featured two more chances to qualify for the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix and one opportunity for riders to gain points toward the Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix...

Canada's YR Reining Gold team, l-r: Lisa Hiebert, Kylie Wasiuta, Jessica Green, Nancy Pratch (Photo: Diana De Rosa). Lexington, KY - High-quality runs and terrific scores from a field of top-quality reining horses and the continent's most elite junior and young rider athletes made for a spectacular night at the 2011 SmartPak Reining Team Championships at the Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North. Canada reclaimed the top of the...

Thursday at the 2010 USEF Annual Meeting saw a blizzard of meetings and attendees rushing from one conference room to the next in an attempt to cover as much ground as possible and to share in ideas and opinions on a vast slate of topics. Licensed Officials, Connemara/Welsh, Roadster, Arabian, Eventing, Dressage, Hackney, Breeders, National Show Horse, Morgan, Western and Carriage Driving were just some of the breeds and disciplines of equestrian sport that had committee meetings during the day....

The International Friesian Show Horse Association (IFSHA) has expanded its 2006 Horse of the Year awards and recognition program to include points earned in four new open American Driving Society- (ADS), United States Equestrian Federation- (USEF) and United States Dressage Federation-recognized competition categories. The IFSHA board of directors is also pleased to announce the enhancement of its existing Horse of the Year program to reward those IFSHA members who compete their Friesian-bred...

Lexington, Ky. – The national federations of the FEI North American Youth Championships are pleased to announce they are now accepting applications to host the 2024, 2025, and 2026 FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC) for Dressage and Jumping, in addition to a National Eventing Team Championship for Juniors and Young Riders. US Equestrian and the organizing committee National Federation must receive applications before 5:00 p.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, for consideration. 2022...

Herning, Denmark – The final day of the Mustang Corp. FEI World Vaulting Female Championship saw two U.S. combinations finish inside of the top ten, with Kimmy Palmer taking fifth overall, as the highest placed athlete for the team with an overall score of 8.415, and Tessa Divita taking ninth on a combined score of 8.122. Emily Rose finished in twenty fifth overall with a combined score of 7.423. Kimmy Palmer in her freestyle. ©US Equestrian Palmer (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) impressed...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce a new partnership with N2 Saddlery as the Official Dressage Saddle of US Equestrian and the U.S. Dressage Team beginning with the 2022 season. With two out of three riders on Silver Medal winning-squad riding in N2 saddles – Adrienne Lyle on Salvino, and Sabine Schut-Kery on Sanceo – N2 Saddlery founder and owner, Sue Newell saw the historic moment as the impetus for making the “right partnership at the right time. As...

Harrisburg, Pa. - Dozens of qualified top junior jumper riders from across the nation are descending on Harrisburg, Pa., this week to vie for team and individual medals in the 2017 Neue Schule/USEF National Junior Jumper Championships. The Pennsylvania National Horse Show (October 12-21) is again hosting this exciting competition at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, the show’s home for over seven decades. The championship event is a thrilling competition consisting of...

Compiègne, France – The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team finished 5th overall at the 2017 CDIO5* Compiègne on Sunday. With a combined score of 454.5 points, the U.S. team, comprised of Shelly Francis, Arlene “Tuny” Page, and Kathleen Raine finished behind Denmark and ahead of Belgium. Shelly Francis and Danilo (Photo Credit: Agency Ecary) Additionally, Francis (Loxahatchee, Fla.) and Danilo, Patricia Stempel’s 2004, Hanoverian gelding finished 5th in...

Lexington, Ky. – The Team Championship of the US Pony Jumper National Championships took place Friday evening in the Alltech Arena as teams competed in the two-round Nations Cup format. Following the first round, the top teams came back to jump the same Jasen Shelley-designed course in round two, with a total of 32 combinations jumping for individual classification. For the 2016 US Pony Finals presented by Collecting Gaits Farm, the Zones 5/6 team stood atop the podium. The team,...