At 21, Nayel Nassar stunned onlookers at the Spruce Meadows North American tournament, beating Olympians and seasoned vets in the $35,000 Progress Energy Cup July 5. Nassar rides for Egypt and is based in Palo Alto, CA, where he is a third-year student at Stanford University studying economics. He was born in Chicago, and raised […]
Today’s USEF ranked list for the U.S. Olympic reveals who got their tickets punched for London 2012: Rich Fellers, Beezie Madden, Reed Kessler, McLain Ward and Charlie Jayne are poised to ship out as the U.S. Show Jumping Team. Sitting at No.’s 4 Ward and Antares F have Jayne and Chill RZ breathing down their […]
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 North American Junior and Young Rider Championship Zone 10 team finals took place at the Blenheim June Classic I, June 6-10 at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park in San Juan Capistrano. Both Junior and Young Riders rode towards a cumulative high point standing over the course of the week. By Sunday, the top […]
McLain Ward announced Monday that he is retiring his Olympic mount Sapphire, who helped bring home the Gold in 2004 and 2008. The Belgian Warmblood mare is 17 this year, and sat out most of the 2011 season following a right front ligament injury sustained at the Winter Equestrian Festival. “As I’ve said before, if […]
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 […]
Seventeen-year-old Reed Kessler is the youngest rider to make a play for the Olympic gold ring, and she got there on a horse that competed in her first grand prix only weeks before the trials. Not only did Kessler and her mare, Cylana, make the cut for try-outs, they were No. 1 on the […]
Following the conclusion of the USEF Olympic Selection Trials for the U.S. Show Jumping Team, the United States Equestrian Federation has released the following ranked athlete/horse combinations to the USEF Long List for the U.S. Show Jumping Team for the 2012 Olympic Games. In addition to the 20 who made it through all four rounds […]
