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Schedule for Participants – Drive A Test With Andrew Counsell – A Judges Seminar January 30-31, 2024

2024-01-30T20:00:24-05:00January 29, 2024|Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Featured|

We have transformed our farm to host 2 days of learning and insight with Andrew Counsell, on Tuesday and Wednesday - January 30-31, 2024. We are now full, and here are the participants taking advantage of this unique opportunity. The focus will be on The Driven Dressage Test from the [...]

Grand Oaks USEF 2024 Combined Driving Event – Prize List, Schedules and Results

2024-03-22T07:43:52-04:00January 25, 2024|Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Featured, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

The USEF Grand Oaks Combined Driving Event and Combined Test, January 25-28, 2024, will kick start the National Combined Driving Season at the elegant and recently upgraded Grand Oaks Resort, in Weirsdale, Florida. Follow this page for schedules and results. Volunteers Always Needed - Sign Up here Follow the official [...]

EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award Presented to Neda DeMayo

2024-10-29T21:25:38-04:00January 20, 2024|Western HorsesDaily|

Neda DeMayo received the EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award at the Pegasus Awards Dinner on January 14, 2024, during the US Equestrian Federation (USEF) Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The EQUUS Foundation and the USEF established the Humanitarian Award in 2009 to honor a member of the equestrian world who has [...]

Andrew Counsell Appointed to the FEI Driving Committee

2024-01-15T17:59:06-05:00January 15, 2024|Driving Daily, Driving Ponies||

FEI level 4 Judge Andrew Counsell from Great Britain has been appointed by the FEI Board as the new member of the FEI Driving Committee. Counsell takes the seat of Joaquin Medina Garcia, who was elected as Chairman of the FEI Driving Committee in November at the FEI Generals Assembly [...]

William “Bill” Steinkraus and Fiona Baan

2024-01-03T12:29:59-05:00January 3, 2024|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back|, , , , |

This 1994 photo of two of America's greatest legends, now passed, but never forgotten. Icons of Equestrian Sport they were longtime comrades, whose legacy lives on with two of the sports most prestigious awards honoring US Equestrian talent each year. Fiona Baan - December 21, 1938 – June 19, 1994 [...]

Natalie Lamping a US Dressage Legend

2024-10-29T14:13:57-04:00January 2, 2024|Driving Daily, Looking Back|, , |

Natalie Lamping has moved to Ocala and still has a full time travel and judging schedule, she is also hosting her own Facebook page LampPost  "Lihting the Way to C" where she shares so pearls of wisdom and helpful tips for riders. As a judge and as a trainer, Lamping [...]

Sissy Spacek and Libby Anderson 2002

2024-08-07T12:17:44-04:00December 31, 2023|DressageDaily, Looking Back|, |

A great show series and "a blast from the past" was the VADA Celebrity Freestyle, will held in Keswick, Virginia, (near Charlottesville) at the historical Keswick Hunt Club Showgrounds. The mastermind of this event which ran from 2002-2004 Cynthia "Tigger" Montague had some incredible celebrities from the Virginia countryside, who [...]

Isabelle Ehman Sets Her Sights On SUV Top Prize of the WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship

2024-08-07T12:17:46-04:00December 24, 2023|Featured, Looking Back, Show Jumping Daily|, |

Seventeen-year-old Isabelle Ehman of Milton, GA, trains with Don Stewart and is leading the national standings with almost twice as many points as the second-ranked rider. Having already competed in the Premier Cup three consecutive times, Ehman is making the championship class a goal for her final junior year. “I [...]

Journals For Equestrians With A Passion For The Process

2024-08-07T12:17:46-04:00December 21, 2023|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Eventing, Looking Back, Shop|

Make this your New Year's Resolution for the future.  Nancy Later Lavoie, accomplished dressage trainer based in Wellington is a long time force with a special touch in helping her students. A certified Mindfulness Coach, she has taken the principles applied in other sports  to the Dressage arena. Carousel Coaching  [...]

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