Frederic Wandres rides his Olympic gold medal mount Bluetooth OLD to win Hagen Nations Cup Freestyle, USA’s Christian Simonson on Fleau de Baian 3rd…
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….
LONDON, Dec. 13, 2016—Although Carl Hester’s life will be “different for a while” with the retirement from competition of Valegro that dominated the past five years of dressage boosting it into the mainstream in Britain and embraced by legions of…
With the retirement of Valegro at London Olympia this week, dressage-news.com asked Alan Davies, groom of the 14-year-old KWPN gelding, and Carl Hester, part-owner of the horse, coach and mentor of rider Charlotte Dujardin, to share some memories…
Australian dressage judge Susan Hoevenaars made it known Monday she has been diagnosed with “early stage” breast cancer and will go into the hospital at the end of the week for further treatment…