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Michele Bondy Takes Top Honors in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Four-Year-Old Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T21:31:02-04:00August 23, 2019|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 [...]

Emily Miles Wows at the Markel/USEF Young Horse Five-Year-Old Dressage National Championship

2024-10-15T21:31:02-04:00August 23, 2019|DressageDaily, Featured, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

Emily Miles and Sole Mio wowed the judges and spectators with a phenomenal FEI Five-Year-Old Preliminary Test in the Markel/USEF Young Horse Five-Year-Old Dressage National Championship. Leslie Waterman’s five-year-old Hanoverian stallion demonstrated his light but powerful gaits with Miles in the irons to earn a score of 8.90. Photo:  Emily [...]

Kathy Priest Best Field in the Markel/USEF Developing Horse Prix St. Georges National Championship

2024-10-15T21:31:03-04:00August 23, 2019|DressageDaily, Looking Back|

Kathy Priest (Versailles, KY.) rode Damon’s Fantasy to the win in the FEI Prix St. Georges Test of the Markel/USEF Developing Horse Prix St. Georges National Championship. Priest and her eight-year-old Oldenburg mare bested a competitive field with a score of 72.745%. Their test’s highlights included quality trot work, canter [...]

Endel Ots and Lucky Strike Arrive At The US Festival of Champions Ranked # 1 in the Intermediaire Small Tour

2024-10-15T21:31:07-04:00August 20, 2019|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

Endel Ots and Lucky Strike have had their share of “luck”, but like most “lucky” horse and rider champion combinations their journey has been a product of hard work and dedication. This summer many fans thought Ots and Lucky Strike’s luck had run out when they experienced a big blow [...]

Omega Alpha Healthy Horse Award Presented to Kevin Kohmann During GDCA Season Opener CDI

2024-10-15T21:17:11-04:00March 16, 2019|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News, Wellness|

The Gold Coast Dressage Association Season Opener, held at the Global Dressage Stadium at PBIEC in Wellington, FL was everything that rider Kevin Kohmann was hoping for on his first ride in Intermediare 2 on the elegant Danish Warmblood, Sanchez. “We were really, really conservative in there,” Kohmann describes about [...]

Endel Ots and Lucky Strike: Palm Beach Derby CDI Wins Ignite Pan Am Team Dreams

2024-10-15T21:17:15-04:00March 15, 2019|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

A kind eye, incredible work ethic and three “really good gaits” convinced Wellington, Florida horseman Endel Ots and his father, Max, to take a chance six years ago on a lanky three year-old Hanoverian (Lord Laurie x His Highness) dressage prospect he had tried out in Belgium, called Lucky Strike. [...]

Bids Open for the 2020 and 2021 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions Location

2024-10-15T21:12:16-04:00December 3, 2018|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, |

US Equestrian is now accepting bids for the 2020 and 2021 Dressage National Championships, hosted as the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. These championships include the USEF Grand Prix National Championships, USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championships, USEF Brentina Cup Dressage National Championships, USEF Junior Rider Dressage National Championships, USEF [...]

New Champions Crowned on Third Day of 2018 US Dressage Finals

2024-10-15T21:09:01-04:00November 12, 2018|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

More champions were crowned on the third day of competition at the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, being held November 8-11 in Lexington, Ky. Photo - Catherine Fleming Kuhn and Washburn SW, 2018 (Photo Credit: copyright susanjstickle.com) SenSation HW Lives Up to His Name in First Level Open Championship [...]

Martin Kuhn Weathers the Storm to Win on Second Day of 2018 US Dressage Finals

2024-10-15T21:09:01-04:00November 11, 2018|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , |

Friday morning at the 2018 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington dawned with the type of weather conditions more suitable for staying in bed than having the ride of one’s life. Hailing from New Berlin, Ill., Martin Kuhn (Region 4) is no stranger [...]

Candescent Finds Her Calling on First Day of 2018 US Dressage Finals

2024-10-15T21:09:02-04:00November 11, 2018|DressageDaily, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, News|, , , |

It’s hard to miss New Jersey’s Alice Tarjan and Candescent when they enter the ring, and the elegant black Hanoverian mare’s extravagant movement and mistake-free performance caught the attention of not only spectators but also the judges on the first day of the 2018 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, [...]

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