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Featured competition was pint-sized as pony hunters took to the grass derby field at Equestrian Village on Friday of Week 9 at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Emi Richard of Middlefield, CT won the $5,000 USHJA Pony Derby, presented by MARS Equestrian™. Sixty-two small, medium, and large ponies took to the field, competing at their …
A glittering cast of athletes, including eight of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty riders in the latest world rankings, will line out for round two of the inaugural Longines League of Nations™ in Ocala, USA on Saturday 23 March 2024. With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games looming ever larger on the …
The Dutch Masters, one of the four shows that makes up the sport’s ultimate prize, the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, returns from 7-10 March with a packed schedule of sport and entertainment. This iconic show, which was first staged in 1967, attracts the world’s finest horse and rider combinations to the impressive Brabanthallen …
British Olympic champion Ben Maher celebrated a banner week at Wellington International during Week 8 of the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). He capped the final day on Sunday with a victory in the $200,000 JTWG, Inc. CSIO4* Grand Prix aboard Point Break, owned by Charlotte Rossetter and Pamela Wright. Five pairs jumped clear over courses …
Ten nations brought forth teams to compete in the $150,000 CSIO4* Nations Cup, presented by Florida Coast Equipment, the highlight event of Week 8 at Wellington International’s Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). With no shortage of team spirit, the four-rider squad from Ireland — Darragh Kenny, David O’Brien, Cian O’Connor, and Shane Sweetnam, led by chef …
The BrainJuice Under 25 series returned to Wellington International during Week 8 of the 2024 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Under the lights of the International Arena, the penultimate competition of the series welcomed fifty of the season’s best young riders to the $32,000 BrainJuice U25 Semi-Final Grand Prix. The course tested the young riders once …
Loxahatchee Groves, FL (March 1, 2024) – The second evening Grand Prix of The Ridge at Wellington Groves’ 2024 Florida line-up went off on Friday, February 23rd, one of three chances to jump under the lights in their oversized Grand Prix ring this season. Over a course set by FEI Jaime Morillo, thirty combinations vied …
The world collides at Wellington International as the CSIO4* Nations Cup takes up the spotlight during the Winter Equestrian Festival’s (WEF) Week 8, presented by Florida Coast Equipment. Opening the prestigious week, Ben Maher (GBR) clinched the $32,000 Adequan® CSIO4* WEF Challenge Cup Round 8 on Thursday as a qualifier for Sunday’s $200,000 CSIO4* JWTG, …
Competition during the Lugano Diamonds-sponsored Week 7 of the 2024 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) culminated in the $62,500 Ethel M Chocolates CSI2* Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon with a win from Laura Chapot (USA). Chapot and her longtime partner, the Laura and Mary Chapot-owned 19-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Chandon Blue (Chacco-Blue x Landcapitol), were one of …
Swedish superstars Henrik von Eckermann and Peder Fredricson had to settle for the minor placings when young Dutchman, 24-year-old Lars Kersten, stole the show at the fourteenth and final leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League in Gothenburg (SWE). Kersten, who is trained by his father, Pieter, set the standard …