France’s Pénélope Leprevost won the Grand Prix of Austria CSI5*, but it’s Aussie Edwina Tops-Alexander and Swede Rolf-Göran Bengtsson who won the day on Sept. 22. This marked the high point of the eleventh stop on the Global Champions Tour and the pair are in a tie for first as they head to the circuit […]
Jessica Springsteen has purchased Vindicat W, the 10-year-old KWPN gelding British rider Peter Charles rode to team Gold at the 2012 Olympics. Springsteen, a 20-year-old U.S. rider with Olympic aspirations of her own. She was on the long list of United States Equestrian Federation contenders for the London Games. She has spent the past few […]
McLain Ward scored his second HITS Pfizer $1 Million win in three years, riding to blue aboard Antares F at the Sept. 9 event in Saugerties, NY. Ward also won the inaugural Pfizer Million aboard Sapphire in 2010. With the tunes of headline act Michael McDonald of Doobie Brothers fame playing in the background, Ward […]
At 19, Olivier Philippaerts of Belgium has become the youngest show jumper in history to win the $1 million CN International Grand Prix, Sept. 9 at the 2012 Spruce Meadows tournament in Canada. In a generational twist, his father Ludo came in third. The USA’s Beezie Madden and Simon placed second in the 1.60m contest. […]
Germany bounced back from its disappointing Olympics with a stellar BMO World Cup win at Spruce Meadows, jumping to victory in a super-tough class that saw the U.S. finish fifth (a tie with Canada) and 2011 champions France unable to advance to the second round. So commanding was the Deutscheland lead that anchors Christian Ahlmann […]
The Chantilly leg of the Global Champions Tour featured nine U.S. show jumpers in the grand prix, with Beezie Madden making it all the way to No. 2 on Simon. It was Hans-Dieter Dreher of Germany that triumphed at the July 21 grand prix on his dark bay stallion Magnus Romeo, but with a week […]
There’s a new presence on the West Valley horse scene, the Malibu Creek Equestrian Center, which in August opened under new management on the site formerly known as Pegasus. That comes as welcome news to those who had heard the venue might be developed for non-equestrian use. But owner Philip Atwell says he’s in it […]
HITS, Inc., together with the show organizers of Blenheim EquiSports, Jump Del Mar, Sacramento International and Langer Equestrian Group, is pleased to announce the start of the 2012-2013 qualifying period for the newly formed Thermal Million Grand Prix League. The qualifying season begins August 14 and runs through the HITS 2013 Desert Circuit in Thermal, […]
Steve Guerdat of Switzerland and Nino de Buissonnet won the Individual Olympic Gold Medal for show jumping today in London, delivering two clear rounds over a very exacting course. Gerco Schroder of the Netherlands took Silver riding Landor S, and Ireland’s Cian O’Connor got Bronze, for his ride on Blue Lloyd 12. At the end […]
The British show jumping team clinched Olympic Gold today, fending off a fierce challenge by the Netherlands that was settled in a jump-off with the Silver-winning Dutch team. Saudi Arabia took Bronze. The sky may have been darkening, but the mood of the crowd was decidedly bright as 23,000 cheering fans gave a standing ovation […]
