Nineteen-year-old Los Angeles rider Ricky Neal jumped to victory at the CSIOY Hagen Grand Prix in Germany. Neal was one of five U.S. young riders that participated in a four-city Nation’s Cup tour of Europe this summer. Riding as a team, the U.S. teens showed stellar form, winning in Austria on June 11, taking second […]
Pegasus Equestrian Center has scheduled its third Hunter/Jumper show. Taking place June 25, 2011. this one will feature a Thoroughbred division. Proprietress Erin Rorabaugh promises “a fun-filled day of great classes and great prizes!” Rorabaugh said she conceived the series after hearing from many local riders that there was a need for one-day shows […]
Olympic champion Eric Lamaze, 43, is celebrating after securing the No. 1 slot on the Rolex World Jumper Rankings this week. The Canadian’s back-to-back Grand Prix wins at La Baule and Rome on the super-stallion Hickstead have put him 111 points ahead of 31-year-old Kevin Staut of France, who had topped the Rolex Rankings since […]
National Horse Show president Mason Phelps, Jr., announced in May that E. Hunter Harrison was named chairman of the board for the National Horse Show Association of America Ltd. Born in Tennessee, Harrison served for many years as president and CEO of the Canadian National Railway before retiring in 2009. He has left a legacy […]
On June 3 the Netherlands galloped off with first place at the Nation’s Cup in St. Gallen, finishing on a mere 5 faults. Rich Fellers and Flexible placed second at the Longines Grand Prix of Switzerland. In the third round of the FEI summer Cup series, Great Britain and the home team of Switzerland tied […]
Chris Pratt and Cruise won the $100,000 Grand Prix of Del Mar on May 7. Riding Indigo Farms’ 11-year-old gelding, he delivered double-clear rounds and a snappy jump-off time that put him ahead of second-placed Saer Coulter and Springtime and third-seat Nicole Shahinian-Simpson on Candle Light Van De Warrande, the only other combinations to leave […]
Tom Struzzieri founded Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS) in 1982 and had long since made his mark on the hunter-jumper world when he decided to up the ante by creating the richest grand prix in the U.S., launching the Pfizer $1 Million in 2010. Not content with that, he went on to gift the […]
Christian Ahlmann and Taloubet Z recorded Germany’s fourth consecutive World Cup jumping championship May 1 at the Leipzig Exhibition Centre in Germany. Canada’s Eric Lamaze claimed the second-place prize, with the Netherlands’ Jeroen Dubbeldam notching third in a hard-fought contest that included two qualifiers, April 28-29, leading up to the May 1 Rolex/FEI World Cup […]
HITS, Inc. has announced the 2012 HITS Desert Circuit will begin on Jan. 24 and run for six weeks at the HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, Calif. The company simultaneously announce that it has received approval from the USEF and the FEI to once again offer four CSI2*-W World Cup Qualifiers at the show. […]
From the early 1960s through the mid 1980s, the U.S. was a dominant force in the world of show jumping. Represented by a dynasty of equestrian elite including Frank Chapot, William Steinkraus, Mary Mairs Chapot, Kathy Kusner, Conrad Homfeld and Joe Fargis, our team won at every major venue in the world. What is often […]
