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Jennifer Schrader-Williams and Millione Get the Win in the Grand Prix Special

2024-10-15T21:51:48-04:00August 24, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Talented combinations delivered quality performances on the penultimate day of competition at the 2020 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions at HITS Chicago at the Lamplight Equestrian Center. Four titles were determined on Saturday in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Four-Year-Old Dressage National Championship, Markel/USEF Young Horse Five-Year-Old Dressage National Championship, Adequan®/USEF [...]

Alice Tarjan Holds Top Two Spots in First Test of Grand Prix Division

2024-10-15T21:51:49-04:00August 22, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Markel/USEF Developing Horse Grand Prix Dressage National Championships The Markel/USEF Developing Horse Dressage National Championships for Grand Prix is a show case of some of the brightest rising stars in American dressage. Twelve combinations performed the FEI Intermediate II Test on Friday, the first of two tests they’ll complete to [...]

Nothing but Praise for Spirit of Joy in the YH 6-Year-Old Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T21:51:50-04:00August 22, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Friday brought another warm and sunny day to HITS Chicago at Lamplight Equestrian Center where seven classes of the 2020 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions showcased a wide variety of horses and riders on their quest for national champion titles. Four divisions concluded and named their national champions on Friday: [...]

Gjenganger Earns High Praise in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Four-Year-Old Division

2024-10-15T21:51:50-04:00August 21, 2020|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

The youngest equine competitors of the show made their debut today with the first of two USEF Four-Year-Old Horse Tests. In a class of 15 excellent horses, one youngster stood out. Alice Tarjan’s (Oldwick, N.J.) homebred Danish Warmblood mare, Gjenganger, earned high praise from the judges. Scoring an impressive 9.5 [...]

Easy Di Fonteabeti Ymas on Top of Start to the Markel/USEF Young Horse 5-Year-Old Division

2024-10-15T21:51:51-04:00August 21, 2020|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Fourteen horse-and-rider pairs went in front of the judges in Thursday’s FEI Five-Year-Old Preliminary Test, closing out the first day of competition in the Young & Developing Horse Arena at Lamplight. In the end, Pablo Gomez Molina (Wellington, Fla.) rode Cristina Danguillecourt and Yeguada De Ymas S.L.’s striking black Rhinelander [...]

Christopher Hickey Has Winning Ride as Markel Developing Horse PSG Championship Kicks Off

2024-10-15T21:51:51-04:00August 21, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Fifteen horse-and-rider pairs took their first turns in the arena to complete their FEI Prix St. Georges Test in the Markel/USEF Developing Horse Prix St. Georges Dressage National Championship.  Christopher Hickey  (Wellington, Fla.) had the winning ride with Cecelia Stewart’s eight-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding, Stenagers Wyatt Earp. Photo - Christopher [...]

Kerrigan Gulch Over the Moon with Win in Grand Prix 12-25

2024-10-15T21:51:53-04:00August 20, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|, |

Excitement continued to grow as the second day of competition delivered excellent riding at the 2020 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. Competitors in the Adequan®/USEF Young Adult ‘Brentina Cup’ National Championship and USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship each had their second turn in the arena, and the Horseware Ireland/USEF [...]

Dr. Cesar Parra Ranked 2nd In Two Divisions Heads to U.S. Dressage Championships Once More

2024-10-15T21:51:54-04:00August 20, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|

Olympic dressage rider Dr. Cesar Parra is heading towards the 2020 USEF National Young and Developing Dressage Horse Championships in Wayne, IL, as the number #2 ranked rider on two horses, Don Cesar and Sir Beckmann with the support of Eduardo Trujillo, a fellow Colombian from Cesar’s hometown. Photo - [...]

Endel Ots Qualifies Sonnenberg’s Everdance for USEF Intermediare I Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T21:51:57-04:00August 13, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

“Congratulations to Sonnenberg Farm for breeding, and Michele Bondy for helping develop, this top international mare, and thank you so much, Charlotte Bredahl, for your coaching through the season,” a grateful Endel Ots posted to his Face Book page last week shortly after learning that he and Sonnenberg’s Everdance had [...]

Betsy Steiner Claims Final Sash of the 2020 AGDF Season on Mare Who is ‘The Full Package’

2024-10-15T21:43:10-04:00March 17, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|

Wellington, FL – March 15, 2020 – The experienced Betsy Steiner (USA) rounded out the very final class of the 2020 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) season, held at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) on Sunday, March 15. She and Whitney Bailey’s Swiss W won the FEI Intermediate I [...]

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