On a day of breathtaking sport, Germany’s Isabell Werth brought the 2019 Longines FEI Dressage European Championships to a close when claiming her third gold medal of the week in the freestyle riding her great mare Bella Rose 2. And on a day filled with personal-best performances, her compatriots Dorothee Schneider and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 25 After a successful first year competing in the Grand Prix with Don John in 2018, Nick Wagman’s 2019 has also been strong, with a trip to Europe to compete for the U.S. and being named as the reserve rider for the Pan American Games (Peru). But after returning from Europe with two Nations […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 25 Versitility is in Santa Barbara Dash’s bloodline. Her sire, San City, competed at the U.S. Eventing Association’s Young Event Horse Championships at Fair Hill (Maryland) in 2011, the same year he won reserve champion in the 5-year-old division at the 2011 Markel/USEF Young and Developing Horse championships, and he went on to compete […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 25 When Manatee came to Jami Kment’s barn four years ago from a student who had moved on to a young horse, the plain bay off-the-track Thoroughbred was meant to be a lesson horse. But as he settled into his new home, Kment began thinking he could make a good mount for her […]
Martin Fuchs became the sixth Swiss rider in the 62-year history of the event to claim individual Jumping gold at the Longines FEI European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands today. At last year’s FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Tryon, USA, and again at the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final in Gothenburg, Sweden earlier […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 25 Claire Manhard and Anna Buffini do everything good barn friends do—get their nails done, go to the movies and bond over their horses. Now they can add leading the victory gallop for the Brentina Cup Under-25 Grand Prix division at the U.S. Dressage Festival Of Champions last night to their list of […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 24 Emily Miles feels lucky to have brought one horse, WakeUp, through the young horse ranks, so to do it again with Leslie Waterman’s newly crowned Markel/USEF Young Horse 5-year-old champion stallion, Sole Mio, feels surreal. “I love that horse Mio,” said Miles, who also rode Sole Mio (Stanford—Donna-Rafaela, Donnerschwee) to the 4-year-old […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 24 Heads were turning as Paydan McLaughlin and Lily Of Chincoteague trotted down centerline this morning in the children’s team test at the U.S. Dressage Festival Of Champions. Scoring a 67.17 percent for sixth place, “Lily” held her own against some very fancy horses and ponies. The 14.1-hand pinto is a 15-year-old Chincoteague […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 24 Endel Ots experienced every horse owner’s worst nightmare when Lucky Strike had an accident in the trailer on the way to the Pan American Games (Peru) at the end of July. Ots, 34, was set to make his U.S. team championship debut, and in an instant, the opportunity he’d been working towards […]
Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 23 There’s no mistaking Alice Tarjan and Candescent (Christ—Farina, Falkenstern II) when they step into the ring. Tarjan is one of two adult amateurs contesting the 2019 USEF/Markel Developing Grand Prix championship at the Lamplight Equestrian Center (Lucy Tidd, riding Ellert HB, is the other) but she looks right at home among the […]