With six USEF National Dressage Championships and selection for U.S. Dressage Team for the 2012 Olympic Games on the line, the 2012 USEF Dressage Festival of Champions will be a nail-biter this year. Running the two weeks from June 8-10 and June 14-17, ponies to grand prix contenders will be vying for national titles at […]
Call it a Cinderella ending! Lane Clarke, last in the ring on the Irish Sport Horse McLord’s First John, rode off with the blue ribbon at the Langer Equestrian Group’s $30,000 Memorial Day Grand Prix, May 28 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Jenni Martin-McAllister was a close second on Union Jack, and Clarke third […]
McLain Ward announced Monday that he is retiring his Olympic mount Sapphire, who helped bring home the Gold in 2004 and 2008. The Belgian Warmblood mare is 17 this year, and sat out most of the 2011 season following a right front ligament injury sustained at the Winter Equestrian Festival. “As I’ve said before, if […]
Following the cancellation in late April of the 2012 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials due to flooding, a clarification of what it takes to win the Rolex Grand Slam of eventing was issued by the United States Equestrian Federation and Rolex. The Grand Slam prize of $350,000is awarded to any rider who consecutively wins each […]
The Mitsubishi Badminton Horse Trials have been cancelled for the first time since 1987 due to rain and flooding. The CCI4* eventing competition had been scheduled to take place May 4-7 in England. The news comes as a major disappointment to British eventers preparing for the 2012 Summer Olympics, as well as for countryman William […]
The Saudi Equestrian Fund is providing a fresh infusion of financing to the FEI Nation’s Cup Series, which the Fédération intends to freshen-up and rebrand. Announcing the agreement to 250 delegates at the opening of the Fédération Equestre Internationale Sports Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, today FEI president HRH Princess Haya informed delegates that the SEF […]
With a single rail down in the show jumping ring, William Fox-Pitt and Parklane Hawk of Great Britain won the 2012 Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event on April 30. The USA claimed second and third, with Allison Springer and Arthur and Boyd Martin and Otis Barbotiere propelled into third on the strength of a clear […]
The 91st Annual Flintridge Horse Show ― the first organized by Dale Harvey and his Palms West ― is an unqualified success even before the first hoof hits the arena tomorrow. The stabling sold out and a wait list was started weeks in advance of the event, which runs through Sunday. A cocktail party hosted […]
Rich Fellers and Flexible are the new Rolex FEI Jumping World Cup champions―the culmination of a story 13 years in the making. In 1999 Flexible’s sire, Cruising, came in second to Rodrigo Pessoa’s legendary Baloubet de Rouet at the World Cup Finals in Gothenberg, Sweden. In 2008, Fellers and Flexible finished second to Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum […]
The USA’s Rich Fellers and Flexible claim the Rolex FEI World Cup of Show Jumping in a nail-biting jump-off with Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat and Nino Des Buissonnets that saw the team from Sherwood, OR, win by nearly a full second. Switzerland’s Pius Schwizer and Carlina came in third, with a rail and one time fault […]
