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The Rider Project is Helping Riders Overcome Rider's Block and Create Riding Breakthroughs

2024-10-15T21:41:46-04:00January 15, 2020|Looking Back, News|

Equestrians Learn in One Day, No Horse Required, Workshops The Rider Project announces it’s newest program to the riding public, the Whole Rider Workshop. This one day (or entire weekend) curriculum brings equestrians indoors to educate them on the best way to communicate with their horse(s). The Rider Project is [...]

Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa Named Chairs of USET Foundation Take Me To Tokyo Gala

2024-10-15T21:41:46-04:00January 14, 2020|Looking Back, News|

Wellington, FL – Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa will join honorary chairmen Lou and Joan Jacobs as chairs of the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation’s Take Me To Tokyo gala, to be held on Friday, January 17, in Wellington, FL. The gala, hosted by the Jacobs at their Deeridge [...]

Verdades Retires – We Will Miss You Diddy

2024-10-15T21:41:47-04:00January 10, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

Laura Graves has announced the retirement of her Rio Olympic bronze medal partner Verdades less than 7 months before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Graves made the announcement via her Instagram account. “It is with both a heavy heart and a grateful mind that today, I announce [...]

In Memoriam – KWPN Foundation Stallion Jazz Passed Away

2024-10-15T21:41:47-04:00January 9, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

KWPN foundation stallion Jazz, the most significant sire for dressage breeding in the KWPN studbook, has passed away. He was 29 years old. "With pain in our hart, but mainly with gratitude for all he has meant to us and to dressage sport, we had to say goodbye to the [...]

Sydney Schimack Honored as 2019 Vaulter of the Year

2024-10-15T21:41:47-04:00January 7, 2020|Looking Back, News, Vaulting|

US Equestrian is proud to recognize Sydney Schimack (Laporte, Colo.) as the 2019 Vaulter of the Year. Schimack, who competed for the bronze medal-winning U.S. Vaulting Team Squad at the FEI Vaulting World Championships for Juniors, stood out among the applicant pool based on her 2019 competition scores, personal essay, [...]

Rising to the Driving Challenge with Continued USET Foundation Gift-Matching Initiative

2024-10-15T21:41:47-04:00January 4, 2020|Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Looking Back, News|

Gladstone, NJ – Misdee and James Miller, Steve Wilson, and Laura Lee Brown initiated the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation Driving Challenge in 2017 with a goal of raising $1,200,000 for the U.S. Equestrian High Performance Driving program, and today, the loyal supporters and active drivers remain committed to [...]

Does Lunging Someone Else’s Horse Put Your Amateur Status at Risk?

2024-10-15T21:41:48-04:00January 3, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Endurance, Eventing, Looking Back, News, Para Equestrian, Polo, Show Jumping Daily, Vaulting, Western HorsesDaily|

Question: I work as a groom, but I also compete myself in the amateur jumpers. I occasionally lunge horses for other clients, but I was just told that this revokes my amateur status as lunging is considered training! Is it true that just lunging a horse could revoke or put [...]

Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit Celebrates Another Successful Year

2024-10-15T21:41:48-04:00January 3, 2020|Looking Back, Western HorsesDaily|

The Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit celebrated another successful year with a tsunami of entries throughout 2020's five-day event, which was an extra day due to the incredible popularity of the event. Taking place at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center, top Quarter Horses and riders from North America and [...]

In Memoriam – Janne Rumbough's Armas Zumbel

2024-10-15T21:40:56-04:00December 31, 2019|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

U.S. Grand Prix rider Janne Rumbough had to say goodbye to her international Grand Prix stallion Armas Zumbel. The horse was put to sleep on 27 December 2019 as he suffered from severe melanoma. "My beautiful Armas Zumbel and “soulmate “ passed on the rainbow yesterday, he had bad melanomas," [...]

Donating Your Horse to a College Riding Program – What to Consider

2024-10-15T21:40:57-04:00December 28, 2019|Looking Back, News||

Q: I’m no longer able to ride and show my horse regularly, so I’d like to donate my horse to a college riding program. Is there anything that I need to consider before doing this? A:  Good question, and there are a number of things that need consideration. The first [...]

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