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The United States Equestrian Federation has debuted a new website, Experience Eventing, geared toward attracting investors to syndicates that support the discipline at the high-performance level. “During the first half century of Three-Day-Eventing, all international teams were produced from national armies, and so horses and riders were chosen and paired by command authority,” the site’s […]
Mar 20 2012 | Posted in
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Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum notched her first major victory aboard her new grand prix horse, Cantano, taking the blue in the $32,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic, March 17 at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach, FL. Michaels-Beerbaum―who was born and raised in Los Angeles and now rides for Germany―got the ride aboard the 12-year-old Holsteiner […]
Mar 19 2012 | Posted in
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The dark horse rode to victory at the $263,380 Grand Prix Hermès Sunday, March 18, at the Grand Palais in Paris, with 35-year-old Ukrainian rider Katharina Offel beating such top competitors as Germany’s Christian Ahlmann, who came in second, Ireland’s Bill Twomey (third), Germany’s Ludger Beerbaum (fourth) and Gerco Schroeder of the Netherlands (fifth). “This […]
Mar 19 2012 | Posted in
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The United States Equestrian Federation has released the list of riders that submitted applications for the U.S. show jumping team for the 2012 London Olympics. Included on the list are West Coast riders Cara Anthony, Karl Cook, Saer Coulter, Lucy Davis, Rich Fellers, Duncan McFarlane and Will Simpson. (Ashlee Bond and Kirsten Coe recently relocated […]
HBO has canceled the horse racing series “Luck” after only one season on the air. The decision was made after a third horse died in the filming of the show, from Hollywood heavyweights David Milch and Michael Mann. R.T. Fitch, author of the blog “Straight from the Horse’s Heart”, on Tuesday broke the news that […]
John French and Small Affair trumped a field of 38 to take the blue in the $25,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix that capped the 2012 HITS Desert Circuit. It was a contentious battle, and at the end of the Sunday, March 11, class only three names dominated the top seven slots, with French sitting atop with […]
The first riders for the Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping Final (19 – 22 April) have officially confirmed their trip to Indoor Brabant. In total, 23 entries have been confirmed and there are still 22 invitations outstanding with participants yet to inform the FEI of their plans. Confirmed to compete in the show jumping finals […]
Mar 15 2012 | Posted in
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Steffen Peters and Ravel wowed the crowd with another precision riding tour de force at the 2012 Dressage Affaire, March 8-11 at the Del Mar Horse Park. The duo took the blue ribbon in the $5,000 FEI Rancho Valencia Grand Prix Special, an Olympic qualifier, on Sunday, March 11, with a score of 80.289%. Guenter […]
Mar 13 2012 | Posted in
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While the concept of the “flash sale” is not new to regular readers of Vogue and WWD, it’s still somewhat novel in the equestrian world, where LA Saddlery owners Tabitha Knaub and Renee Spurge have made it a centerpiece of their newly relaunched online store, www.lasaddlery.com. More than just an electronic presence for their brick-and-mortar […]
Nick Haness, who finished second in the $500,000 Diamond Mills Hunter Prix last year, is off to a great start qualifying for the 2012 championship, cleaning up on the HITS Desert Circuit hunter prix division. Haness, of San Clemente, CA, took first and second place at the $5,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix in Thermal on March […]
Mar 8 2012 | Posted in
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