Rich Fellers got off to a great start on the HITS Desert Circuit, winning the $32,000 HITS Desert Classic on Colgan Cruise, the youngest of three grand prix horses he brought to Thermal. “She is a young, up-and-coming grand prix horse and I wasn’t expecting much before the circuit started, but I guess I […]
The Swedish team came out the winners at the Promotional League Final in Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 25, and will now rejoin the elite eight-nation FEI Nations Cup series in 2012. It took a monumental effort from last-line Swedish rider Rolf-Goran Bengtsson to seal the coveted qualifying spot. Despite the fact that three of the opposing […]
Karl Cook soared to the winner’s circle at the Del Mar International Horse Show Welcome Stake on Sept. 29, clocking 58.63 on Uno de Laubry. Richard Spooner and Billy Bianca were hot on his heels, trailing by 13 seconds. “It was really exciting because the first horse in the ring won the class. Kark Cook […]
Demi Stiegler was tops among 41 entries in the United States Equestrian Federation Show Jumping Talent Search Finals West, which concluded Sept. 24 at the L.A. International Jumping Festival in Burbank. “It was amazing!” said Stiegler, who trains with Archie Cox and Robyn Stiegler. “I was sixth coming into Phase III, and I knew from […]
How fitting that John French took off for the Riviera immediately after the Hunter Challenge at Blenheim Equisports. He had a lot to celebrate ― having won first and second place at the June 12 event! Thirty horse and rider combinations took to the expansive grass field at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park in […]
The $10,000 Memorial Day Grand Prix at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center may have been light on horses―a result of the EHV-1 scare that had so many Southern California barns in lockdown―but spectators turned out in force for the May 30 event, which took place under sunny skies and a billowing breeze on the LAEC’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
With $78,600 in prize money for the circuit, Oregon-based rider Rich Fellers won both the Catena Leading Grand Prix Rider and Platinum Performance Leading World Cup Rider honors on the HITS Desert Circuit, which ran Jan. 25-March 13 in Thermal, Calif. On Feb. 5 the duo began accelerating its World Cup drive with a blue […]
