Isabell Werth and Heike Kemmer have made their intensions clear that they want a spot on the German Olympic Dressage Team. At the first German Olympic Selection Trial at Hof Kasselmann in Hagen, Germany, the two ladies won the big tour classes and scored magical mid seventies percentage marks. Isabell [...]
In the first leg of the USET I-I Championships qualifying class, the CDI Prix St. George, Montango and Steffen Peters beat out a large class of competitors with a score of 72.083 percent. Steffen and Lord Chalk Hill were reserve with a 68.250, followed by Nick Wagman and his own [...]
Another owner who was particularly happy with her horse’s winning ride on Friday was Jen Hlavecek whose Weltino’s Magic won his Third Level Test 1 with a score of 68.2 percent under the skillful riding of Shannon Peters.The win was especially sweet for Jen as she remarked that “Magic gave [...]
The Del Mar CDI is an Olympic Selection Trials qualifier as well as a National Festival of Champions qualifier. The competition brings out owners of the top horse and rider combinations, such as former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, longtime dressage rider and supporter Anne Romney, who show [...]
After five second place finishes with five different horses at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Presented by Farnam, Phillip Dutton brought last year’s runner-up, Connaught, back to the Kentucky Horse Park and won convincingly with a masterful clear round in the show jumping.The 15-year-old Irish Thoroughbred gelding, who is owned [...]
Becky Holder and Courageous Comet made it very clear from the first moment ‘Comet’ set foot in the Shelia C. Johnson Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park that they meant business in the dressage. And business on the day of Holder’s 39th birthday meant a winning dressage mark on the [...]
Ask Martin Collins Enterprises, a British-based manufacturer and installer of synthetic riding surfaces, for a reference and the company could give you one from the Queen of England, but it’s not the royal seal of approval that matters most to Martin Collins, it’s the seal of approval from riders [...]
Life has taken another turn as we are coping with the sudden and unexpected loss of my beloved Mom, soul mate, best friend and inspiration. Known well by many of our friends, Renie has traveled with us to many shows, Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, Young Horse Championships, Dressage at [...]
A familiar face on the International Dressage scene, Oded Shimoni, is a veteran of two World Equestrian Games, two European Championships and has qualified two horses for the Olympic Games. Oded is presently training and teaching at Arlene "Tuny" Page’s world-class facility, Still Point Farm in Wellington, Florida.Oded promotes few [...]
The United States Dressage Federation is excited to announce that world-class trainer and rider, Kyra Kyrklund, is returning to conduct her third Adequan/USDF National Symposium. This year's symposium will be held December 6-7 in Denver, CO. Originally from Helsinki, Finland, Kyra won the Finnish Championships ten times from 1972 [...]
