COLORA, Maryland, Feb. 3–Christopher Hickey will be competing Witness, an-eight-year-old gelding acquired by Hilltop Farm, Inc. where he is the head trainer…

Debbie McDonald, Olympic and World Equestran Games medalist and World Cup champion, was thrown from a horse in Southern California Tuesday, and said that wearing a safety helmet helped her escape severe brain injury…

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Feb. 2–Tickets for the European Dressage Championships to be held in Rotterdam Aug. 17-21 went on sale Wednesday at www.ecdressage2011.com…

The British Equestrian Federation has announced that the British Grooms Association and the Showing Council have joined the 16 independent equestrian bodies as members of the BEF, and the addition of new board members…

The Right Not to Wear a Helmet…

LOXAHATCHEE, Florida, Feb. 1–Caroline Roffman has taken over the ride on Beemer, the 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding that Lars Petersen has competed for the past two years in the U.S. and Europe with mixed results…

A week after the decision that dressage riders competing in sanctioned U.S. national level competitions must wear a safety helmet on show grounds, there was widespread adoption even at FEI level at national shows in Florida and California although the…

LOXAHATCHEE, Florida, Jan. 29–International Horse Sport this weekend launched the first in an expanded calendar of dressage shows at a rearranged Equestrian Estates, the longtime home of the Palm Beach Dressage Derby World Cup qualifying competition…

Steffen Peters, who rode Ravel to win the World Cup Final in 2009, confirmed Friday he will skip the event for this year so as to compete in the World Dressage Masters CDI5* in Florida…