Suzanne Smith (Paradise, Texas) and Branson (Brando x Hoppenhof’s Merel), her 2015 German Riding Pony gelding, made the trek from Texas to Florida to compete in their first intermediate national championship together, and Spring Fling was worth the trip. Photo - Suzanne Smith and Branson. (©Leslie Potter/US Equestrian) “It’s a [...]
At the conclusion of four exciting days of driving competition at the 2024 Spring Fling CDE, five new USEF Combined Driving National Champions emerged. With both veteran teams and some new faces gracing the winner’s circle, it was an enticing look at some of what’s to come for the sport [...]
Jennifer Thompson and Funnominial CG (Alex x Phenomeen) won the USEF Combined Driving National Championship for Advanced Single Horses this week at Garden State CDE held at the Horse Park of New Jersey. Photo: MBDixon Photography Thompson (Lodi, Wisc.) and her own 2010 Dutch Warmblood gelding took an early lead [...]
Five U.S. athletes and their ponies made the journey to the FEI Driving World Championship for Combined Ponies, which took place Aug. 30-Sept. 3 at Steenhof Stables in the Netherlands. The championship featured single, pair, and four-in-hand ponies with teams and individuals from nine countries competing for world champion titles. [...]
Marin Roth (Bloomington, Ill.) has both a bronze and silver USEF Dressage Seat Medal to her name, and this year, she added a gold. Riding her own 2014 Zweibrucker gelding, Erin Meadows Jägermeister, she earned a score of 88% from the judges. Korey Denny (Williston, Fla.) finished in a close [...]
Emily Miles (Paola, Kan.) and Sole Mio, Leslie Waterman’s 2014 Hanoverian stallion, earned the top score of 70.092% in the USEF Developing Horse Grand Prix Test, clinching the national championship for the division. Ali Potasky (Versailles, Ky.) and INXS, the 2013 Dutch Warmblood gelding she co-owns with Kathy Priest, had [...]
Miki Yang (Los Altos Hills, Calif) took a second win in the young rider division with Grey C Carrus, a 2014 Oldenburg gelding owned by Four Winds Farm, scoring a 73.382% in the FEI Young Rider Individual Test and winning the overall national championship for the division. Kat Fuqua and [...]
The competition wrapped up on Sunday at the 2023 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. After a week of weather ups and downs, riders and spectators were rewarded with a comfortably cool day at HITS Chicago at Lamplight Equestrian Center for the seventh and final day, which saw the final five [...]
In the children division, Maryn Geck (West Linn, Ore.) and Laura Geck’s 2015 Hanoverian gelding, Herr Karlson, earned their second victory with a 76.796% in the FEI Children Individual Test and won the overall championship. Scoring a 76.083%, Lizzie Oshman and Webster were second in the individual test and the [...]
After her championship win in the 5-year-old division, Madeleine Bendfeldt (GER) came back to win a second young horse national championship with her 4-year-old Hanoverian gelding Zapatero. Petra Warlimont (Evergreen, Colo.) was the reserve champion with her own Deambulo PWD, a 2019 Hanoverian gelding, while Lindsey Holleger (Middletown, N.Y.) placed [...]
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