Conor Swail of County Down, Ireland, rode Fortis Fortuna to a memorable finish in the eighth and final $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix of the 2015 HITS Saugerties Show season. A first time visitor to HITS-on-the-Hudson, Swail rode this class for owners by Susan and Ariel Grange. Thirty-two competitors made their way through the round one course designed […]
In a rather unusual turn of events, Heather Caristo-Williams and Pablo Barrios tied for first-place in the $34,000 FEI HITS Jumper Classic at HITS Saugerties today. The event was a qualifying class for Sunday’s Canadian Pacific $1 Million Grand Prix FEI CSI-5*. Spectators were on the edge of their seats down to the end when Barrios, of Wellington, […]
Laura Chapot and Quointreau Un Prince got things rocking at the first grand prix in the million dollar week that caps the HITS Saugerties Series in Hudson Valley, NY. The duo took the blue in the $34,000 FEI Saugerties Jumper Classic today. Chapot was up against some of the globe’s top athletes including Beezie Madden, Margie Engle […]
Germany’s Marco Kutscher and van Gogh seized a phenomenal victory in the highly-charged Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Valkenswaard, with Great Britain’s Scott Brash hanging on to his overall ranking lead with only three legs left in the 2015 title race. On Aug. 15, 18 of the world’s Top 20 riders took part […]
A 12-rider jump off topped off a dramatic finale as Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and his formidable stallion Casall Ask clinched victory in the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of London, where local Scott Brash was boosted to the LGTC series lead thanks to his sixth-place finish, aboard Hello Sanctos. Brash also currently sits atop the FEI world […]
Mandy Porter and Con Capilot were the only double clear in a field of 35 horse and rider combinations at the $54,500 Land Rover Sacramento International Grand Prix CSI-W 1.60m. The Oct. 5 event was the high-performance pinnacle of the Sacramento International Horse Show World Cup Week, Oct. 1-6 at the Murieta Equestrian Center. Heiko […]
Ashlee Bond and Chela LS blew away the competition, winning the $33,000 Welcome Grand Prix by almost four full seconds at the Sacramento International Horse Show’s World Cup Week. Gusty winds threatened tents, show set-ups and anything not tightly bound down on the second day of the show, which runs Oct. 1-6 at the Murieta […]
France has won the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Jumping Final, marking a climactic close to the first-ever season of the Fédération Équestre International’s newly-configured Nation’s Cup series, now one of the richest circuits in the world thanks to a four-year pledge of support by the Saudi Equestrian Fund. From Sept. 26-29 the Olympic arena of […]
Jenni Martin-McAllister ruled the day at the $30,000 Los Angeles International Grand Prix, earning the blue ribbon on Casseur de Prix at the Sept. 22 event. Justin Resnik was second on Carisma Z. In other news, show producer the Langer Equestrian Group announced that the Los Angeles International Jumping Festival will veer from 30 years […]
A raft of high-profile show jumping horse sales has the industry talking. Most recent and splashy of the news is Dutch entrepreneur Jan Tops’ purchase, at a reported $14.8 million (€11 million), of Palloubet d’Halong, a 10- year-old Selle Francais gelding owned by Switzerland’s Hansueli Sprunger and until recently under saddle to his 26-year-old daughter, […]
