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My Horse Damaged Property at the Boarding Barn.​ Am I Responsible for Paying for It?

2024-10-15T21:51:58-04:00August 12, 2020|Looking Back, News||

Q. I board my horse at a local stable, and unfortunately, he damaged his stall door overnight. We don’t know exactly what happened, but thankfully he wasn’t injured. However, the door will need to be replaced. It will probably cost a few hundred dollars, but there is nothing included in [...]

2020 USEF Junior Hunter National Championships East Coast Relocated to Traverse City Horse Shows

2024-10-15T21:51:59-04:00August 7, 2020|Looking Back, News, Show Jumping Daily|

US Equestrian has announced the relocation of the 2020 Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships East Coast to Traverse City Horse Shows at Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, Mich. from August 23-25, 2020. The championship, which was canceled earlier this week, was revived after Traverse City Horse Shows competition management [...]

Good News for a Change – Juan Matute Guimon is Back in the Saddle

2024-10-15T21:51:59-04:00August 6, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|

Ok, 2020 has been a challenge to say the very least. With our country struggling to balance health, economics and education there has been very little good news in the main stream media over the last few months. That said, for our equestrian community, I would like to say, can [...]

Isabell Werth Achieves Premiere Score in Achleiten

2024-10-15T21:52:00-04:00August 6, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|

The second of three CDI4* shows in Achleiten opened on Friday with world-class performances: Isabell Werth was the first rider to achieve scores of over 80 percent in two competitions with two horses in the palace garden arena on one day, Victoria Max-Theurer shone with two top performances. Isabell Werth [...]

US Equestrian Announces Launch of USEF Helmet Safety Fund to Support Virginia Tech Helmet Lab

2024-10-15T21:52:00-04:00August 5, 2020|Looking Back, News|

US Equestrian is pleased to announce the kick-off of the USEF Helmet Research Safety Fund, a fundraising effort to further the safety of equestrian athletes across all breeds and disciplines. The fund will support further research into U.S. helmet safety standards and the creation of an equestrian-specific rating system, providing [...]

Kasey Perry-Glass Retires Gorklintgaards Dublet from International Top Sport

2024-10-15T21:52:00-04:00August 4, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|

U.S. team rider Kasey Perry-Glass has decided to retire her number one Grand Prix horse Gorklintgaards Dublet from international top sport. Dublet is a 17-year old Danish warmblood gelding by Diamond Hit out of La Costa (by Ferro). Expected Retirement The pair's last competition start was the 2019 World Cup Finals [...]

In Memoriam – Contucci (May 1, 1993 – July 10, 2020)

2024-10-15T21:52:01-04:00August 4, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

Hilltop Farm sadly shares the news of Contucci’s passing last Friday. The great stallion lived a wonderful 27 years, with twenty-two of them here at Hilltop Farm. Contucci (Caprimond-Lungau) was bred in Germany by Klaus Storbeck and won the dressage portion of his 100-Day Test with an impressive 147.11 points. [...]

USEF Statement on Pony Finals and Kentucky Classic at The Kentucky Horse Park

2024-10-15T21:52:01-04:00August 3, 2020|Looking Back, News, Show Jumping Daily|, |

Last night, US Equestrian and Kentucky Horse Shows, LLC made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel the last day of the Kentucky Summer Classic Horse Show and the USEF Pony Finals competition. This decision was not made lightly, but we had to move quickly and decisively in response to [...]

USEA Young Event Horse East Coast Championships Secures New Venue for 2020

2024-10-15T21:52:01-04:00August 1, 2020|Eventing, Looking Back, News|

The United States Eventing Association (USEA) has secured a new venue for The Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse (YEH) East Coast Championships for 2020. After the Fair Hill Organizing Committee announced that the inaugural Maryland Five-Star at Fair Hill would be postponed until 2021, the USEA began accepting expressions [...]

COVID-19 Can't Stop Conesapalooza Driving Event

2024-10-15T21:50:59-04:00July 31, 2020|Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Looking Back||

During a summer of uncertainty, Suzy Stafford finds a way to safely offer a fun cones competition for local driving community. For the last five months, equestrians across the country have found themselves under stay-at-home orders and with almost all shows and clinics cancelled due to COVID-19. But as restrictions [...]

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