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A trip across the ocean is continuing to prove fruitful for France’s Morgan Barbançon at the 2023 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF). In Thursday afternoon’s qualifying event for ‘Friday Night Stars’ Grand Prix Freestyle, the Douglas Elliman Real Estate CDI4* Grand Prix saw Barbançon boast the top two scores in the stadium at Equestrian Village. …
It was a long and nail-biting wait for Kerrigan Gluch (USA) to discover that she had won the Fair Sky Farm CDI3* Grand Prix Special. She was first to go, mid-morning, on Saturday of week 10 of the 2023 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, FL. When the class finished, mid-afternoon, Gulch’s name was …
The International Arena at Wellington International — permanent home of show jumping’s Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) — hosted the CaptiveOne Advisors CDI5* Grand Prix Freestyle and the CDI5* Grand Prix Special, sponsored by Wellington Equestrian Realty, on Friday, March 17. This show during week 10 marks a change of venue for the five-star classes at …
Week 10 of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) is well underway in Wellington, FL, with the second day of competition welcoming a robust line-up of twenty horse-and-rider combinations into the Stadium at Equestrian Village to contest the Fair Sky Farm Grand Prix CDI3* for Special. France’s Morgan Barbançon brought victory home on her own …
Loxahatchee, FL (March 15, 2023) – Some of the best examples of the modern competitive Lusitano horse were on display during February’s 2023 US Lusitano Conference, held this February at May Faire Oaks in Loxahatchee. On day two, attendees and riders enjoyed a targeted day of dressage training with one of the legends of the …
The final leg of the Western European League in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NED) brought the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022/2023 qualifying season to a close and, with just three weeks to go before the action gets underway at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2023 in Omaha (USA), the Definite Entries are confirmed. It’s been another busy …
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games will host equestrian sports 27 July through 6 August at the iconic Palace of Versailles. For athletes in the Olympic disciplines of Dressage, Eventing, and Jumping, the biggest objective on the road to Paris remains qualification. Some key nations — including host nation France — have secured their quota places, with these National …
The final day of action in Perrigo CPEDI3* week nine of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) hosted freestyle para action in all five grades. The four-time Paralympian Rebecca Hart (USA) added yet another blue ribbon to her trophy cabinet in the Grade III class. She recorded her third victory from three starts this week …
Great Britain’s Lottie Fry and her superstar stallion Glamourdale won the eleventh and last leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022/2023 Western European League at the Dutch Masters in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NED). On an afternoon that proved challenging for a number of horse-and-rider combinations, the reigning double-individual world champions quickly recovered after a surprising moment …
The Para Equestrian Digest speaks to Australia’s Emma Booth, 31, about her work with training Thoroughbreds for para sport and the role horses have played in her life since the car accident that left her paralysed in 2013. About The Para Equestrian Digest The FEI launched The Para Equestrian Digest in February 2022. The online …