Chris Pratt and Cruise won the $100,000 Grand Prix of Del Mar on May 7. Riding Indigo Farms’ 11-year-old gelding, he delivered double-clear rounds and a snappy jump-off time that put him ahead of second-placed Saer Coulter and Springtime and third-seat Nicole Shahinian-Simpson on Candle Light Van De Warrande, the only other combinations to leave […]
Tom Struzzieri founded Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS) in 1982 and had long since made his mark on the hunter-jumper world when he decided to up the ante by creating the richest grand prix in the U.S., launching the Pfizer $1 Million in 2010. Not content with that, he went on to gift the […]
Horse lovers streamed through the Los Angeles Equestrian Center’s Equidome May 4-8 for the 13th Annual Fiesta of the Spanish Horse Charity Horse Show and Spectacular. Over 300 horses were in attendance over the four-day event, which included dressage and driving as well as breed-specific classes for Andalusians, Lusitanos, Friesians, Paso Finos, Peruvian Pasos and […]
Twenty-to-one shot Animal Kingdom won the 137th Kentucky Derby on May 7 in a 2 ¾-length victory over second-placed Nehro. Mucho Macho Man finished third. A total of 19 horses competed for a piece of the $2.2 million purse as a record 164,858 spectators packed Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Archarcharch pulled up lame but […]
Christian Ahlmann and Taloubet Z recorded Germany’s fourth consecutive World Cup jumping championship May 1 at the Leipzig Exhibition Centre in Germany. Canada’s Eric Lamaze claimed the second-place prize, with the Netherlands’ Jeroen Dubbeldam notching third in a hard-fought contest that included two qualifiers, April 28-29, leading up to the May 1 Rolex/FEI World Cup […]
HITS, Inc. has announced the 2012 HITS Desert Circuit will begin on Jan. 24 and run for six weeks at the HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, Calif. The company simultaneously announce that it has received approval from the USEF and the FEI to once again offer four CSI2*-W World Cup Qualifiers at the show. […]
The West winds were blowing up a gust. The posse was just riding in as tumbleweeds wheeled on the edge of town. As you turned the corner, the blacksmith’s hammer chimed over the noise of the crowds that gathered outside shops and meandering down Main Street. Santa Clarita, circa the 1800’s. None of those new-fangled […]
Stables and riding schools throughout Southern California are once again gearing up for a new crop of young summer riders. There are camps for virtually every horse lover from 5 to 18 years old—sleepaway and day camps, programs for those wishing to develop their Western, dressage and jumping skills and camps designed for riders with […]
In Leipzig, Germany, a strong field of 15 riders from nine nations contested the Grand Prix Freestyle on April 30 to bring the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Final to a close. The Netherlands’ Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival waltzed their way to victory to the strains of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite.” Denmark’s Nathalie zu […]
Classical Dressage Master Walter Zettl is teaming with Natural Horsemanship gurus Linda and Pat Parelli to produce an instructional piece for Dressage Training Online. Zettl is a longtime coach for the Parellis, and regularly conducts private dressage clinics at their Ocala facility, where session were taped for the Dressage Training Online website. “Walter is a […]
