Feb 22, 2012
NCHA Medication Webinar
NCHA Medication Webinar: at 5:00 PM Central Time Today
The National Cutting Horse Association will hold a medication webinar today February 22 at 5:00 PM Central Time. You can access the webinar from NCHA’s home page.
What you want to know and what you need to know!
The webinar will cover the policy, the testing and the results.
Dr. Jerry Black will introduce and give a summary of the new policy, Dr. Scott Stanley will discuss the UC Davis lab and procedures and Dr. Mike Martin will discuss the event testing procedures including the actual drawing of the blood/urine in the medication stall, labeling, shipping and security protocol. More info...
Feb 22, 2012
Jennifer Alfano Rides Maggie May to Top Honors at HITS III Ocala Winter Festival
Ocala, Florida
The success within the hunter rings continued this week for SBS Farms at the HITS III Ocala Winter Festival. Professional rider Jennifer Alfano guided numerous horses to the top honors this past week, including riding the young Maggie May to the High Pre-Green Hunter Championship.
Maggie May is a six-year-old Bradenberger mare owned by Billie Steffee, who Alfano showed to the championship tricolor in the High Pre-Green Hunter division. The young mare is always improving, and the pair took two blue ribbons over fences and the second place award for their efforts in the under saddle.
"She has been great, I am really excited about her this year. She keeps getting better and better every week, and she is really growing up a lot," Alfano explained. "It's really fun to be a part of her coming along, and being able to watch it all unfold."
More info...
Feb 22, 2012
Southeast Medal Finals
Jacksonville, FL
The Southeast Medal Finals will be a new indoor hunter, jumper and equitation horse show attracting the top riders from USHJA Zone 4 and beyond.Southeast Junior 3' Medal Finals
To be held at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center, Jacksonville, FL, featuring a large indoor colosseum with 3,000 seats, two outdoor ring and 500 permanent stalls.
Southeast Adult 3' Medal Finals
ASPCA Maclay Regionals
Region Three Maclay Equitation Classic
Florida Equitation Classic
Zone 4 USEF Pessoa National Hunt Seat Medal Finals
Zone 4 USEF Adult Medal Finals
Zone 4 $10,000 Children's Jumper Championship
Zone 4 $10,000 Adult Jumper Championship
Zone 4 Children's Hunter Championship
Zone 4 Adult Hunter Championship
Zone 4 Children's Hunter Pony Championship More info...
Feb 22, 2012
California’s Dressage Riders Begin Olympic Journey at This Weekend’s Mid-Winter Dressage Fair CDI-W/Y/J in Burbank
Burbank, CA
The 2012 Mid-Winter Dressage Fair CDI-W/Y/J, which begins Thursday, February 23 in Burbank, CA and continues through Sunday, February 26, is the first West Coast qualifying competition for the 2012 Olympic Games Dressage Team Selection Trials and will provide a glimpse of some of the country’s most exciting new horse and rider combinations.
An international field of ten horses and riders will contest the CDI Grand Prix division, headlined by American dressage superstar and Olympian Steffen Peters with his spectacular new partner, “Legolas.” In only their second show together, Peters is bringing Akiko Yamazaki’s ten-year-old Westfalen gelding to the Mid-Winter Dressage Fair for their FEI competition debut and the pursuit of crucial qualifying scores to hopefully join his famous stablemate “Ravel” in consideration for an invitation to London. Additionally, fellow Olympian Guenter Seidel will present his new mount, Toyon Farm’s “Fandango”, but will be competing for top honors against his famous 2009 World Cup Finals “Phantom of the Opera” Pas de Deux partner Elizabeth Ball and “Orion”, as well as perennial favorites Kathleen Raine with “Breanna”; Canada’s Lindsey Stroh riding “Lancelot”; Yvonne Losos de Muñiz and “Liebling II” representing the Dominican Republic; and Jan Ebeling with “Rafalca”, who represented the USA at last year’s Reem Acra/FEI World Cup Dressage Finals. More info...
Feb 22, 2012
USEF Names Riders for CSIO Wellington
Wellington, FL
The following riders have been named by the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) to represent the U.S. in America's only Nations Cup which will be held in Wellington, FL on March 2, as part of CSIO Wellington. The Palm Beach International Equestrian Club's International Arena will host some of the best horses and riders from across the globe as they vie for top honors in the $75,000 FEI Nations Cup presented by G&C Farm.
The United States will be represented by the following four riders who have each been entered on two horses:
Beezie Madden (Cazenovia, NY) on Abigail Wexner's Cortes 'C' and Simon
Cortes 'C' is a 10-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding
Simon is a 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding More info...
Feb 22, 2012
Global Dressage Festival 1st National Competition Launches
Wellington, FL
The first of four nationally recognized competitions on an unusual schedule of mid-week shows instead of weekends was launched Tuesday at the new Global Dressage Festival with fewer than 50 entries over three days but lots of enthusiasm from riders.
“This is great for young horses,” said Austria’s Gabriele Stumpf, an adul amateur who is spending her second winter in Florida and competed her Stereo Love in First Level Test 3. “It’s nice and quiet and the weather is beautiful.”
The first national competition, recognized by the U.S. Equestrian Federation for championship qualifications and year-end awards, came after the first two CDI World Cup events at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center’s Stadium complex that includes the newly built multimillion dollar dressage venue.
The mid-week competitions were designed to provide riders and horses with a less stressful environment than during the big money CDI events on weekends and allow trainers competing at the top level to devote time to students without conflicting starting times. Some trainers said it was an opportunity to show sale horses in a competition. More info...
Feb 21, 2012
Andres Rodriguez picks up his second victory of the week in Sunday’s $50,000 HITS Grand Prix at HITS Ocala
Ocala, FL
Venezuelan rider Andres Rodriguez had an unbelievable week at HITS Ocala. On Thursday, he won the $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, and came back three days later to take first again in Sunday’s $50,000 HITS Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health. Both wins came aboard Caballito, owned by ARAO Enterprises LLC. Rodriguez seems to have his sights locked on making it to this year’s Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix.
Rodriguez, now of Wellington, Florida, was one of 37 competitors to navigate the course designed by International Course Designer Martin Otto of Munster, Germany. More info...
Feb 21, 2012
Kate Conover and Peron win the $10,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix at HITS Ocala, while Caroline Sykes captures the $1,500 HITS 3’ Hunter Prix
Ocala, FL
Kate Conover and Redfield Farm’s Peron captured the $10,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix on Sunday. Conover, a professional rider for Emil Spadone, finished in third place last September at the inaugural Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix Final. As one of the most talented riders in the sport today, Conover is once again on the path towards America’s richest hunter class.
Excitement was in the air as 61 entries navigated a first round course designed by Doug Russell of Ocala, Florida. The second round featured the 12 top professionals of the day, eager to secure the blue ribbon with the best overall two-round score. More info...
Feb 21, 2012
Kelle Earnheart, Sandra McBride Bonanza 4-Year-Old Non-Pro Co-Champions
Glen Rose, Texas
Co-Champions Kelle Earnheart with red-hot mare Dual With Style and Sandra McBride with emerging prospect Loreyna both marked 219.5s during Saturday’s 4-Year-Old Non-Pro finals and each earned a $15,329 check as the 30th annual Bonanza Cutting ended in Glen Rose, Texas.
Earnheart, 26, Weatherford, Texas, already a career earner of more than $1.2 milion as a cutter, continued a recent hot streak with her latest co-star, Dual With Style (Reys Dual Badger x Moms Stylish Pepto x Peptoboonsmal). Earnheart and the same mare were also winners at mid-January’s Abilene Spectacular Cutting in Abilene, Texas, and Co-Reserve Champions at early February’s Tunica Futurity in Tunica, Miss.
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Feb 21, 2012
The Dressage Foundation's Equestrian Fundraising School Inaugural Session is Underway!
Lincoln, Nebraska
Major General Jonathan R. Burton, Chairman of The Dressage Foundation Board of Directors, proudly announces the opening of The Dressage Foundation’s Equestrian Fundraising School, offering lessons in fundraising and giving. “The School has been in the planning and development stage for the past two years, and its inaugural class of students began on January 3, 2012.”
“The Dressage Foundation has a growing family of funds that awards grants and scholarships to help equestrians pursue their dreams in horsemanship and horsemastership. Now, there is help in learning how to fund those dreams through our Equestrian Fundraising School,” said Michael Poulin, Olympian and Vice-Chairman, The Dressage Foundation Board of Directors. “We invite you to take a look at this new opportunity today.” More info...
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