Going Out on a High AA rider Alexandra Krossen and the 12-year-old Nicene snagged the Fourth Level Freestyle Championship sash with 70.083% — the only plus-70 of the class — in what was the mare’s last-ever test at the level. Krossen has a hectic schedule at Finals with nine Championship [...]

Nicole Acosta rode the American Warmblood Cali to a 69.042% AA Third Level victory. Cali is a palomino gelding by the cremello stallion Limet Hurry and also carries Akhal-Teke blood, so his coat shimmers. Photo - Nicole Acosta and Cali captured the AA Third Level title with a 69.042% performance. [...]

Saturday, November 9, heralded the busiest day of the 2024 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, with 14 titles up for grabs from First Level to Grand Prix at the Kentucky Horse Park. The 2024 US Dressage Finals, presented by Adequan® concludes on Sunday, November 10. Injury Almost Stops Play [...]

Patricia Hughes has had a winner’s blanket firmly in her crosshairs for the past two years, and 2024 was the year in which she made it happen. The young retiree rode her own 18-year-old San Angelo to 72.658% to capture the Second Level Freestyle Championship. Photo - AA Patricia Hughes [...]

Dancing to powerful warhorse-themed music, Brie Seltser and her gift horse, the six-year-old Friesian Grietinus Fan Hoptille, strutted their way to 70.491% and the Open Second Level Freestyle Championship. Another of Seltser’s Friesians, Hylke Van De Klei, finished third on 67.491% with her student Hannah Catsulis in the saddle. Photo [...]

Eila Fisk was a little shellshocked after her victory in the Third Level Junior/Young Rider Championship with 66.958% on the 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding Quaresma from 21 starters. That was understandable considering the 16-year-old is in her first year of recognized dressage competition, has only had her horse for a year, [...]

It was fortunate that immunologist Amy Richwine did not heed the advice she was given to sell Fursten Vino when he was a youngster. Now eight, the Oldenburg gelding by Fürstenball x Sir Donnerhall has matured into a reliable, capable competitor, and the pair cruised to the AA Second Level [...]

Second to go in a class of 23 starters, Susan McLean watched her score of 69.815% on Bob Marlin go up on the scoreboard and then had an agonizing wait of more than three hours for the Fourth Level Adult Amateur (AA) class to finish. She couldn’t bring herself to [...]

It was the final horse down centerline after 13 hours of solid dressage across seven arenas that scooped the day’s richest prize on Friday, November 8, at the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®. Ali Potasky and Inxs soared to the top of the leaderboard in the Open Grand Prix [...]

Despite the mare’s lack of competition experience, Phyllis Sumner’s 10-year-old “worker bee” Jonanta M led the AA Intermediate I Championship with 68.676%, edging out Christina Morin-Graham on Ici De La Vigne by 0.5 percentage points. Photo - Phyllis Sumner and her lightly competed mare Jonanta M (by Negro) topped the [...]