Rich Fellers and Flexible aced their fourth and last Olympic observation event of 2012, winning in the $200,000 CN Grand Prix CSI-W at Spruce Meadows in Calgary on Saturday, June 16. The pair topped a field of 36 including 11 U.S. Olympic long list contenders. Kent Farrington and Uceko placed second, Reed Kessler and Mika […]
The fact that Helen McNaught and Caballo topped the leaderboard with eight faults until the 12th of 20 riders went says it all about Marina Azevedo’s course for the $100,000 Hermés Grand Prix of Del Mar, May 5 at the Del Mar National Horse Show. But it was Rich Fellers and Flexible that carried the […]
The global conquest of Rich Fellers and Flexible continues! After the intense test they just weathered in ’s-Hertogenbosch, where on April 22 they were crowned Rolex World Champions, they endured a long flight home to campaign to victory at the $50,000 Surfside Grand Prix, the first of two USEF Olympic observation classes to be held […]
We’d call him the $2 million man, except he is priceless! HITS president and CEO Tom Struzzieri is giving the U.S. its second seven-figure grand prix, the Thermal $1 Million, to cap the West Coast’s winter season, falling at the end of the Dessert Circuit in Thermal, CA, beginning in 2013. The class will […]
Rich Fellers and Flexible are the new Rolex FEI Jumping World Cup champions―the culmination of a story 13 years in the making. In 1999 Flexible’s sire, Cruising, came in second to Rodrigo Pessoa’s legendary Baloubet de Rouet at the World Cup Finals in Gothenberg, Sweden. In 2008, Fellers and Flexible finished second to Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum […]
The USA’s Rich Fellers and Flexible claim the Rolex FEI World Cup of Show Jumping in a nail-biting jump-off with Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat and Nino Des Buissonnets that saw the team from Sherwood, OR, win by nearly a full second. Switzerland’s Pius Schwizer and Carlina came in third, with a rail and one time fault […]
U.S. rider Rich Fellers and the stallion Flexible advance to Sunday’s decisive Rolex FEI World Cup Final day three enviably positioned in a tie for second place in the overall standings. Switzerland’s Pius Schwizer starts Sunday’s final rounds in first place with a total of zero faults. His countryman Steve Guerdat is tied with Fellers, […]
U.S. rider Rich Fellers and his superstar mount Flexible topped the competition on day one of the 2012 Rolex FEI World Cup Show Jumping Final, April 19 at the Indoor Brabant, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The 16-year-old Irish Sporthorse stallion has the distinction of being the oldest horse in the competition, and observers marveled that he […]
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 […]
Rich Fellers and his wife Shelley landed top of the leader board at the $50,000 Grand Prix of Los Angeles, Nov. 19. Rich and Flexible placed first in L.A. just a week after winning the Sacramento International Horse Show $50,000 Grand Prix. The two World Cup qualifiers vaulted Fellers into third place in the North […]
