Qualifying for the 2018 World Equestrian Games at Tryon for dressage and most other equestrian disciplines begins Jan. 1 with the American organizers projecting a record number of horses and riders competing at show grounds that did not even exist…
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 18, 2016–Germany’s Jan-Dirk Giesselmann and Real Dancer FRH posted a personal best score to win the CDI4* Grand Prix Freestyle Sunday, the second victory for the pair that began Big Tour in the summer of 2015…
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 18, 2016–Two-time Olympic rider Dorothee Schneider rode Sammy Davis Jr. to win the Louisdor Prize Sunday, Germany’s Developing Grand Prix Championship….
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 17, 2016–Norway’s Isabel Freese rode Vitalis to win the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal Saturday, only the second non-German rider to capture the Prix St. Georges Special for seven to nine-year-old horses that is a pillar in Germany’s development of…
FRANKFURT, Germany, De. 17, 2016–Anabel Balkenhol rode Dablino FRH to victory in the CDI4* Grand Prix Special Saturday posting double wins at the Festhallen Reitturnier on her 2012 Olympic mount and rounding out the most successful of seven years at…
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 16, 2016–Anabel Balkenhol and Dablino FRH won the CDI4* Grand Prix Friday for the fourth win of the year for the German 2012 Olympic partnership…
LONDON, Dec. 14, 2016–Carl Hester and Nip Tuck win the London International Horse Show World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle for the second year in a row for the British Olympic team silver medal partnership….
LONDON, Dec. 14, 2016–Valegro gave a farewell performance of his rousing British-themed 2012 Olympic Grand Prix Freestyle in a two-stage ceremony that produced thunderous applause from the packed Olympia exhibition hall that rider Charlotte Dujardin was trying hard to hold…
The Nations Cup series for 2017 will expand to a record eight competitions on both sides of the Atlantic with the restoration of Hickstead, England to the schedule after a break for a year…
LONDON, Dec. 13, 2016–Celebrations to farewell Valegro from competition began in the storied century-old Olympia exhibition hall Tuesday night, a packed house of 7,500 spectators gearing up for what will surely be a tear-filled, goose-bump inducing retirement a day later….
