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Peter Lutz & Katriona. Photo ©Sportfot Wellington, Fla. – January 18, 2026 — A long and determined road led Peter Lutz and Katriona to win the $140,000 Southern Arches CSI3* Grand Prix and close out Week 2 on the grass derby field at the 2026 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Katriona, an 11-year-old Dutch-bred mare (Kannan …
Nina Mallevaey & Destine to Be, winner of the $32,000 Adequan® CSI3* WEF Challenge Cup Round 1. Photo © Sportfot Wellington, Fla. – January 12, 2026 — Last to go in the jump-off of the $32,000 Hermès 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic, Lillie Keenan (USA) took the win abroad 9-year-old Chagrin D’Amour to close the final …
Nina Mallevaey & Destine to Be. Photo © Sportfot Wellington, Fla. – January 9, 2026 — It has been a big week for French national champion Nina Mallevaey. In the first release of the FEI rider rankings for 2026, she made her debut in the world’s top 10 at no. 8 before winning the $32,000 …
Christian Kukuk & Checker 47. ©Ashley Neuhof Photography WELLINGTON, Fla., Aug. 26, 2025 — In a report conducted after the 2025 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), $538.2 million in economic impact was cited for Palm Beach County as a result of the 13-week event running January through March. WEF attracts 31,000 competitors from over 50 countries …
Liza Towell Boyd & Ondine D’Orleans. Photo © Sportfot World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Week at the 2025 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) came to a celebrated peak at Wellington International on Saturday evening. The country’s best hunter combinations went head-to-head in the $150,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular with a win for Liza …
Patricia Griffith & Divine Romance. Photo © Sportfot Patricia Griffith opened World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Week at the 2025 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) with a champion tricolor in Section A of the Equine Tack & Nutritionals 3’6” Green Hunter division on Thursday. An impressive hunter lineup took to the International Arena at Wellington International …
Exactly one year ago, Cydello claimed his first grand prix victory with Richard Vogel (GER) on the derby field at Wellington International, and the duo repeated history, taking the win again Sunday in the $140,000 WeatherTech CSI3* Grand Prix to wrap up Week 2 of the Winter Equestrian Festival. Out of a field of stellar …
In the $1,500 USHJA Pony Hunt & Go Derby on Friday afternoon, it was pony superstar Lilly Ward of Brewster, NY who took home top call aboard Woodlands Corduroy, owned by her father and six-time U.S. Olympian McLain Ward. With a score of 175, Lilly convincingly took the top spot and embarked on what she …
The final week of the 2024 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) came to a close on Sunday with a victory for USA’s Eve Jobs and her own High Point VDL (Tinka’s Boy x Indoctro) in the $62,500 Vogel CSI2* Grand Prix in the main arena at Wellington International. Thirteen weeks of exceptional jumper, hunter, and equitation …
Germany’s Christian Kukuk and Checker 47 clinched a win in the $500,000 Rolex CSI5* Grand Prix during the finale ‘Saturday Night Lights’ of the Winter Equestrian Festival’s (WEF) 2024 season on March 30. From final draw, Kukuk made his Wellington debut a winning one in the last of a 12-week run of FEI competition in …