Tonight at 7:30 PM, NBC Olympic coverage will be doing a profile on Dressage featuring the Team USA and Jan Ebeling and Rafalca, the dressage horse owned by Ann Romney in partnership with Jan’s wife Amy Ebeling and Beth Meyer. The interview will be with NBC’s Health correspondent Dr. Nancy [...]
Greenwich, UK - The U.S. Olympic Eventing Team climbed into fifth place with three strong cross country rounds around Sue Benson's testing cross country course against the stunning backdrop of Greenwich Park. Germany continues to lead the team effort on a score of 124.7 followed closely by Great Britain (130.2) [...]
Semaneiro Interagro and Viajor Interagro, owned by Mr. Alvaro Coelho da Fonseca, competed in the pairs driving category. (Photo: Interagro Lusitanos)Itapira, Brazil – The world-renown Interagro Lusitanos won a bevy of ribbons during the Exposição Internacional do Cavalo Lusitano – the 31st International Lusitano Show held in Brazil. Interagro Lusitanos, [...]
Caroline Roffman and Pie at the 2012 USEF Dressage Festival of Champions (Photo: SusanJStickle.com)Lexington, KY - The success of the USEF Dressage Developing Clinics was on full display in June at the USEF Dressage Festival of Champions held at the USET Foundation Headquarters in Gladstone, NJ, with participants scoring top [...]
Sue Benson Course DesignerJapan and Italy at the Top after Dressage“The difficulty is up and downhills and some of the technical fences will be very difficult when she is tired,” commented Japan’s Yashiaki Oiwa after he rode Noonday De Conde to a record setting first place finish after Eventing Dressage. [...]
The Eventing saw a dramatic finish on Day 2 as Japan's Yoshiaki Oiwa took the lead with only four riders to go. He seemed bemused after his commanding performance, saying he had been concentrating more on his country's team prospects rather than the Individual competition. Oiwa said: 'In training yesterday [...]
Left to right: Michele Hundt from ShowChic, Olympian Lars Petersen, Krystalanne Shingler of ShowChic and Olympian Bent Jensen Wellington, FL - It was a night of divination at ShowChic dressage boutique in Wellington, as Olympic dressage riders Bent Jensen and Lars Petersen evaluated the horses and riders competing at [...]
Japan’s Yoshiaki Oiwa and Noonday de Conde produced a sensational test to take the individual lead in the closing stages of Eventing dressage at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park (GBR) today. The quiet-spoken 36-year-old admitted afterwards that he could hardly believe it. “I’m a bit shocked”, he [...]
Equine athletes competing at the Olympic and Paralympic equestrian events in Greenwich Park will have the best possible veterinary care available to them at the on-site Veterinary Clinic, a temporary facility constructed specially for the London 2012 Games. The state-of-the-art Clinic, built in the incredibly short timeframe of just three [...]
July 29, 2012, London, England - Hawley Bennett-Awad of Langley, BC, is the highest-placed member of the Canadian Olympic Team for Eventing, holding down 31st position following the conclusion of dressage, the first of three phases comprising the Eventing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, GBR. Bennett-Awad, 35, [...]
