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Michele Bondy and Sonnenbergs Kain Earn Top Honors in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Four-Year-Old Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T23:06:53-04:00May 13, 2023|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

Michele Bondy (Wilsonville, OR.) rode Sonnenberg’s Kain to top honors in the USEF Four-Year-Old Test of the Markel/USEF Young Horse Four-Year-Old Dressage National Championship. Bondy helped display the lovely movements of Sonnenberg Farm, LLC’s four-year-old KWPN gelding to earn a score of 8.46 from the judges. “We had a super [...]

Caroline Hordum and Lion King – A Roaring Success at Global Dressage Festival 12

2024-10-15T22:55:14-04:00April 7, 2023|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

Living and training in Wellington, Florida, has proved to be ideal for Caroline Hordum and her six-year-old chestnut gelding, Lion King. The pair continued their winning streak this past weekend at the final Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) dressage competition in Wellington. The dynamic pair went into the competition with [...]

FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Final 2023 Omaha – Titles for the Taking  

2024-10-29T15:18:14-04:00March 23, 2023|Looking Back, News, Vaulting|

Anticipation is building for the FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Final, taking place outside Europe for the first time in Omaha, USA, from the 6th – 8th April. Joining the World’s best in Jumping and Dressage for an epic week of competition, the top ranked Vaulters will aim to ‘go large’ [...]

Iberian Horses Dominate at  the Global Dressage Festival 2023

2024-10-15T22:51:49-04:00March 19, 2023|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|, |

It was a long and nail-biting wait for Kerrigan Gluch (USA) to discover that she had won the Fair Sky Farm CDI3* Grand Prix Special. She was first to go, mid-morning, on Saturday of week 10 of the 2023 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, FL. When the class [...]

King’s Pleasure Poised to Add a New Jewel to his Crown at AGDF 10

2024-10-15T22:51:55-04:00March 16, 2023|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

The only thing that was standing in the way of two-time Pan American Games reserve rider Endel Ots making his next prediction for Heidi Humphries’ black KWPN stallion, King’s Pleasure, was CDI experience, and soon they can check that off the list, as Ots and the 2022 Markel/USEF Seven Year [...]

Dressage at Devon 2022 Draws to a Close with FEI Freestyle Performances

2024-10-15T22:38:15-04:00October 3, 2022|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|

Dressage at Devon came to a close Sunday, featuring the final freestyle performances of the FEI Young Rider and Intermediate I division performances. Despite a rainy start to the day, competitors kept the energy alive at the historic venue to end the week on a high note with their musical [...]

Endel Ots Frames the Future for Zen Elite and King’s Pleasure

2024-10-15T22:34:45-04:00September 21, 2022|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Whether you prefer to call it a coincidence or manifesting a goal, the only thing more spine-tingling than the performance that clinched the inaugural Markel/USEF Young Horse Seven-Year-Old Dressage National Championship title for Endel Ots and King’s Pleasure at the US Dressage Festival of Champions at Lamplight Equestrian Center is [...]

SenSational Finish in the USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T22:35:04-04:00September 5, 2022|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , , |

The USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship came to a close with the exciting freestyle portion of the competition. Laura Graves (Geneva, Fla.) and SenSation HW, Carol and Scott McPhee’s 2013 Westphalian gelding, performed a masterful freestyle to finish second in the class with a score of 76.005%. The week’s [...]

M.K. Connatser and Blitz und Donner Win USEF Pony Rider Dressage National Championship Title

2024-10-15T22:35:04-04:00September 5, 2022|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

The five youth athletes and their ponies rode their second test to determine the winning pair of the USEF Pony Rider Dressage National Championship. M.K. Connatser and Blitz und Donner had a quality ride in the FEI Pony Rider Individual Test to win the class with a score of 66.981%. [...]

Endel Ots and King’s Pleasure Clinch Markel/USEF Young Horse Seven-Year-Old Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T22:32:46-04:00August 29, 2022|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News||

Fifteen combinations closed out Festival of Champions riding the FEI Seven-Year-Old Final Test of the Markel/USEF Young Horse Seven-Year-Old Dressage National Championship. Endel Ots and King’s Pleasure won the test with a score of 7.8129. Ots (Wellington, Fla.) and Heidi Humphries’s 2015 KWPN stallion clinched the inaugural championship with a [...]

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