Scott Brash pockets a cool $1.8 Million for his victory in the CP International, presented by Rolex, at the Spruce Meadows Masters Tournament riding superstar mount Hello Sanctos. Brash makes history as the first rider to in the three years of its existence to conquer the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping by winning a trio […]
The Marshall & Sterling Insurance League Finals, which runs through Sunday at HITS Saugerties, is at capacity, according to show management, who welcomed riders from around the country to compete at a national level. “It’s sold out again,” HITS CEO Tom Struzzieri said. “We can only take 500 horses.” Now in its 24th year, the […]
Beezie Madden and Simon decisively won the HITS CP $1 Million FEI 5* Grand Prix today, taking home a $330,000 slice of the pie for the horse’s owner Abigail Wexner. The duo was the only team with a clear round over Steve Stephens razor’s edge of a course, and they did it in a speedy 88.320, […]
Five Olympians, international riders from Germany, Mexico, Ireland and Canada and two past HITS $1 Million title-holders are on the list of 41 riders unveiled by HITS to compete in its CP $1 Million FEI CSI 5* presented by Wells Fargo later this afternoon, making for what is sure to be an event spectacle. (Watch […]
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 […]
The spectacular new Tops International Arena sport horse venue in Holland opened its doors to the public this month, hosting the Longines Global Champions Tour from 13th – 16th August. Jan Tops, the Olympic gold medalist and businessman who founded the Global Champions Tour in 2006, is married to show jumping champion Edwina Tops-Alexander. The Tops’ have […]
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 […]
