Rounding out a big year for the talented rider from Charlotte, North Carolina, Brooke Doss and her mother Ann's 10-year-old Oldenburg Wescott (by West Coast out of Doramber), clinched the BLM Intermediare I Championships in Lexington, Virginia, Sunday, October 20th. With a score of 71.375, FEI "O" judge Francis Verbeek, [...]
Some have referred to Klaus Balkenhol as a "miracle worker" for achieving team silver at the 2002 World Equestrian Games, but if one looks at the record, US Dressage began to make its mark in 1976 Olympics, winning team bronze under the tutelage and guidance of the late Col. Bengt [...]
Horse shopping for Christmas? Why travel all over the country when you can have a quality selection of top Sporthorses all in one easily accessed location. Make plans to attend the the popular Eurosport Auctions LTD annual sale in Remington Virginia, held each year, the first Saturday in December (December [...]
Camden, SC - The 2002 Region III Dressage Championships sponsored by the American Bankers Insurance Company and the United States Dressage Federation will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 8,9,10, 2002 at the Westfall Arena hosted by South Carolina Dressage and Combined Training Association and The Heritage Dressage ClassicThe [...]
After she had competed with "a horse of a lifetime", Mary Alice Malone, owner of Iron Spring Farm, decided it was time to "have fun". When Malone retired Contango, her 1999 Grand Prix ABIG/USDF Region I & CBLM Finals Champion, from the show ring, she bought a Friesian stallion, then [...]
The small glitch of winning only the bronze individual medal instead of the gold at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, can easily be forgotten now. Ulla Salzgeber has reinstated herself as the leading dame of the dressage world by impressively winning the first qualifier [...]
The 2003 USA Equestrian Dressage Tests for Training through Fourth Level are now available for purchase. These new editions become effective with the 2003 competition year (which begins December 1, 2002) and will remain in use for the next four years. Order forms are available on the Federation website, or [...]
Presented by Driving Essentials, Inc./Glinkowski CarriagesGladstone, NJ—October 17, 2002—Lisa Singer of Chadds Ford, PA, took the lead in the Triple Crown of Driving, presented by Driving Essentials, Inc./Glinkowski Carriages, after winning the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Pairs Championship at the Gladstone Driving Event, the second leg of the Triple [...]
Horse and Rider is the latest in the Nature series broadcast on PBS. This episode was more than two years in the making and explores the deep bond between equines and humans. Using the sports of dressage, polo, and cutting, Horse and Rider delves into how the relationship between horse [...]
Barrett Wins First British Dressage Title - Lisa Wilcox and Ernst Hoyos, Clinicians at 2002 Belgian Dressage Weekendby Astrid AppelsThe end of every show season in Europe is usually characterized by a series of national dressage championships to celebrate another year of hard labeur, training and showing of Europe's prime [...]
