Austrian dressage rider, Ulrike Prunthaller, and her trainer, Frederick Atschko, have been suspended from compettion for nine months for training methods that a District Court of Innsbruck arbitration panel determined to be “painful and illegal.”…

The International Olympic Committee Executive Board on Tuesday recommended 25 core sports–including equestrian–for the 2020 Olympic Games at a city still to be selected…

The Palm Beach Dressage Derby celebrates its 30th anniversary as the oldest event in South Florida and it paved the way to a current calendar of the world’s most intensive calendar of dressage shows, 12 CDIs among a total of…

Emma Weinert, who left Australia four years ago to work with Shannon and Steffen Peters after she staged a symposium Down Under for the U.S. Olympian, competed in her first ever Grand Prix at the national CDS Mid-Winter competition in…

DEL MAR, California, Feb. 10–Günter Seidel competed Coral Reef Wylea in their first Grand Prix since arriving in the United States two months ago, making a big first impression with a winning score of 72.234 per cent in the national…

WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 10–Juan Matute who rode for Spain in three Olympics is coming out of retirement from international competition to attempt to qualify for a rare, possibly unprecedented, team made up solely of the same family members that he…

VEJER DE LA FRONTERA, Spain, Feb. 10–The Spanish Olympic team partnership of Daniel Martin Dockx and Grandioso on Sunday completed a sweep of two weeks of Grand Prix competition at Sunshine Tour CDI3 events with a succession of personal best…

WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 9–Two Swans Farm, a dressage showcase and a center of high performance training clinics, was sold at a premium auction Saturday. Carol Cohen who created and owned the property would not disclose the purchase price but it…

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Feb. 9–Katherine Bateson-Chandler’s plan for Alcazar has moved into a higher gear after a visit from her longtime coach Carl Hester and it showed in a national Prix St. Georges Saturday that she views as a…

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Feb. 8–Lars Petersen rode Mariett, the Danish Warmblood mare that was feared would not recover from a serious foot injury that took two years to heal, won the WCD Spring Challenge CDI3* Grand Prix Friday with…