Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 26 After winning the Grand Prix on Wednesday (72.47%) and the Grand Prix Special (69.82%) on Thursday, Codi Harrison and her own Katholt’s Bossco danced to victory in today’s Neue Schule/USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship. “He was right with me the whole way, he felt great,” Harrison said. “The drop in temperature […]
Emma Smith, a 25-year-old USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist and USDF-certified instructor based in Delano, Minnesota, is chronicling her trip to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, where she is competing in the Brentina Cup U25 Grand Prix with Stedemann, a 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Stedinger—SPS Weissendra, Hardenberg Donnerschwee) donated to her through the nonprofit Dressage4Kids. […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 25 Despite her extensive competitive resumé, Sabine Schut-Kery came into the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions without visions of grandeur, so when her victory with and Gorgeous Latino in the Markel/USEF Young Horse National Championship for 7-year-olds was announced, she got a little teary-eyed. “I was just super happy, but I didn’t come […]
Emma Smith, a 25-year-old USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist and USDF-certified instructor based in Delano, Minnesota, is chronicling her trip to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, where she is competing in the Brentina Cup U25 Grand Prix with Stedemann, a 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Stedinger—SPS Weissendra, Hardenberg Donnerschwee) donated to her through the nonprofit Dressage4Kids. […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 24 In the face of sweltering temperatures and stiff competition in the Neue Schule/USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship, Christian Simonson and Son Of A Lady kept their cool today to earn the national championship title with a score of 73.26%. “Winning this championship means a lot,” Simonson, 20, Ventura, California, said. “I […]
Emma Smith, a 25-year-old USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist and USDF-certified instructor based in Delano, Minnesota, is chronicling her trip to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, where she is competing in the Brentina Cup U25 Grand Prix with Stedemann, a 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Stedinger—SPS Weissendra, Hardenberg Donnerschwee) donated to her through […]
Three countries have put themselves forward to hold the 2026 FEI World Eventing Championships, according to a shortlist of bidders for the 2026 FEI World Championships released Thursday by the Fédération Equestre Internationale. The shortlist comprises five organizing committees who have applied to host events in various disciplines: The FEI Board will allocate the 2026 […]
With a score of 76.78%, Cynthia Screnci won her second of three para-dressage classes offered this week at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions and, with it, the 2023 Adequan/USEF Para Dressage National Championship. Screnci, 56, Boca Raton, Florida, rode Sir Chipoli, a 16-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Sir Donnerhall—Vivalucienne TKS, Carabas) that she owns with […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations who will comprise the U.S. Eventing Team for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The eventing portion of equestrian competition will run Oct. 27-29 at the Escuela de Equitación Regimiento Granaderos in Quillota, Chile. Four combinations will compete as a team with one traveling […]
Television personality Helen Ketchum once famously said “Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.” For Lauren Billys Shady, 35, a two-time Olympic eventer who represents Puerto Rico, those words couldn’t be truer. California-born and raised, Shady was competing in her first Fédération Equestre […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 26 After winning the Grand Prix on Wednesday (72.47%) and the Grand Prix Special (69.82%) on Thursday, Codi Harrison and her own Katholt’s Bossco danced to victory in today’s Neue Schule/USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship. “He was right with me the whole way, he felt great,” Harrison said. “The drop in temperature […]
Emma Smith, a 25-year-old USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist and USDF-certified instructor based in Delano, Minnesota, is chronicling her trip to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, where she is competing in the Brentina Cup U25 Grand Prix with Stedemann, a 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Stedinger—SPS Weissendra, Hardenberg Donnerschwee) donated to her through the nonprofit Dressage4Kids. […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 25 Despite her extensive competitive resumé, Sabine Schut-Kery came into the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions without visions of grandeur, so when her victory with and Gorgeous Latino in the Markel/USEF Young Horse National Championship for 7-year-olds was announced, she got a little teary-eyed. “I was just super happy, but I didn’t come […]
Emma Smith, a 25-year-old USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist and USDF-certified instructor based in Delano, Minnesota, is chronicling her trip to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, where she is competing in the Brentina Cup U25 Grand Prix with Stedemann, a 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Stedinger—SPS Weissendra, Hardenberg Donnerschwee) donated to her through the nonprofit Dressage4Kids. […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 24 In the face of sweltering temperatures and stiff competition in the Neue Schule/USEF Intermediaire I Dressage National Championship, Christian Simonson and Son Of A Lady kept their cool today to earn the national championship title with a score of 73.26%. “Winning this championship means a lot,” Simonson, 20, Ventura, California, said. “I […]
Emma Smith, a 25-year-old USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist and USDF-certified instructor based in Delano, Minnesota, is chronicling her trip to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, where she is competing in the Brentina Cup U25 Grand Prix with Stedemann, a 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Stedinger—SPS Weissendra, Hardenberg Donnerschwee) donated to her through […]
Three countries have put themselves forward to hold the 2026 FEI World Eventing Championships, according to a shortlist of bidders for the 2026 FEI World Championships released Thursday by the Fédération Equestre Internationale. The shortlist comprises five organizing committees who have applied to host events in various disciplines: The FEI Board will allocate the 2026 […]
With a score of 76.78%, Cynthia Screnci won her second of three para-dressage classes offered this week at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions and, with it, the 2023 Adequan/USEF Para Dressage National Championship. Screnci, 56, Boca Raton, Florida, rode Sir Chipoli, a 16-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Sir Donnerhall—Vivalucienne TKS, Carabas) that she owns with […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations who will comprise the U.S. Eventing Team for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The eventing portion of equestrian competition will run Oct. 27-29 at the Escuela de Equitación Regimiento Granaderos in Quillota, Chile. Four combinations will compete as a team with one traveling […]
Television personality Helen Ketchum once famously said “Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.” For Lauren Billys Shady, 35, a two-time Olympic eventer who represents Puerto Rico, those words couldn’t be truer. California-born and raised, Shady was competing in her first Fédération Equestre […]
