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German dressage legend, Isabell Werth, posted her second victory of the season at the eleventh and last leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League in ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Taking maximum points with Emilio on home ground in Stuttgart last November, she did it again when the pair were runners-up to compatriot …
Friday marked the first day of international show jumping at this year’s edition of The Dutch Masters with the pinnacle class coming from the VDL Groep Prize. Held under the bright lights of the Brabanthallen, the world’s best horse and rider combinations gathered to take on Louis Konickx’s technically designed 1.55m course. Fittingly, the first …
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 …
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 …
An ecstatic Camille Carier Bergeron punched the air in delight at the end of her test in the Mission Control Grand Prix Special CDI3* during Week 8 of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, FL. She was right to celebrate as her score of 71.511%, with Finnländerin, shot to the top of the …
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 …
Kevin Kohmann (USA) rode to the top of the leaderboard in Friday night’s Piaffe Lounge FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix Freestyle during Week 8 and with it booked his place in the World Cup™ Final in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in April. The 35-year-old Kohmann, who is enjoying a sterling season with Dünensee, captured the winner’s …
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 …