In an amazing comeback, Helen McNaught won the second grand prix of the HITS Desert Circuit, piloting Lariccello to the blue in the $50,000 EMO class on Sunday, Jan. 29. McNaught ruptured a neck vertebrae late last year during a schooling incident at her Outwoods Farms, based in Castro Valley, CA. “This is my first […]
Kate Considine and Caretano took top honors at the first major hunter test of the 2012 HITS Desert Circuit season, winning the $5,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix on Sunday, Jan. 29. A trainer at the Lakeview Terrace-based Willowbrook Stables, Considine topped the field of 39 starters, riding for Hannah Goodson-Cutt, now studying t at Georgetown University. […]
The year-end West Coast jump circuit has undergone further fine-tuning, with a particular emphasis on the World Cup qualifier dates. Two months after Blenheim EquiSports and the Langer Equestrian Group announced a reshuffling of their fall show schedule, Dale Harvey has signed on with two events produced through his Palms West – the Del Mar […]
Temecula, CA-based rider Susan Hutchison has been named the West Coast representative to the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s 2012 Olympics selection team. Hutchison joins fellow grand prix champions Mark Leone and Chris Kappler to participate in a series of observation events. The trio will be in Wellington, FL, for the March 19-25 selection trials, advising U.S. […]
The California Department of Food and Agriculture reported today that it has confirmed three new cases of neuropathogenic Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1) at the quarantined Orange County premises where the disease surfaced earlier this month. That brings to a total of eight confirmed positive horses on the premises of that particular facility. All exposed horses […]
Two-time Olympic team gold show jumper McLain Ward broke his leg during a fall on course at the $30,000 Surpass Grand Prix in Wellington, Fla. on Jan. 14. Ward was riding Oh d’Eole, who veered coming out of a combination, tumbling to the ground and unseating the rider. The mare was unhurt. Ward was transported […]
CINCINNATI, OH – To cap off a record-setting year, dressage superstar Steffen Peters added one more record to his résumé on Saturday, Jan. 14, at the United States Equestrian Federation’s Pegasus Awards dinner, becoming the first person to score the USEF’s Equestrian of the Year title three times. Peters (San Diego, CA) won the top […]
They served on the front lines, the back lines and everything in between. The horse in war was an indispensible partner, and an estimated eight million of them died in WWI. “The soldier came to regard his horse almost as an extension of his being,” wrote J.M. Brereton in his book The Horse in […]
LAS VEGAS, NV – The results are in and the 2012 Miss Rodeo America has been crowned: Mackenzie Carr, of Vernonia, Oregon. Carr served as Miss Rodeo Oregon 2011, and during the new year, she will travel more than 100,000 miles representing Miss Rodeo America, Inc. and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Contestants were judged […]
Responding to entreaties from its elite jumper clients, the Langer Equestrian Group has installed high performance footing at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. The first major event to take advantage of the upgrade was the $50,000 Grand Prix of Los Angeles CSI-W, which utilized the Equidome and adjacent warm-up ring Nov. 19. LEG CEO Larry […]
