Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu and Jaccardo named Canada’s Dressage Athlete and Dressage Horse of Year, Jill Irving Dressage Owner of 2026…
Adelinde Cornelissen made a superhuman effort to overcome a mistake as a result of a laser-like focus on showing Jerich Parzival at his best, enough to claim a second gold medal in the Grand Prix Special at successive European Championships…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 20–Adelinde Cornelissen rode Jerich Parzival to victory in the Grand Prix Special to repeat as the first individual gold medalist of this year’s European Championships, overcoming an expensive course error that was minor compared with mistakes that…
The European Championships, continental though they may be, offer amazing prformances by most of the best horses and riders in the world. Although other countires, notably the U.S., produce world class combinations as their haul of Olympic and World Equestrian…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 18–At the European Championships Thursday, Denmark, Sweden and Spain qualified teams for the Olympics in London in 2012. The three countries will join host Great Britain and Germany, The Netherlands and the United States who qualified at…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 18–Great Britain made dressage history with their first ever gold medal and a record team score at the European Championships Thursday, led by a stunning performance by Carl Hester on Uthopia to beat the other black stallion,…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 17–Charlotte Dujardin is 26 years old and began competing international Grand Prix for the first time just five months….
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 17–Charlotte Dujardin rode the stunning nine-year-old Valegro to a personal best score to give Great Britain a “dream start” and a big lead over Germany on the first of two days of Nations Cup competition at the…
When the British dressage team saddles up for the European Championships this week, they will have a real shot at their first ever gold medal, but no matter the result it will be a major step toward possible unprecedented Olympic…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 16–The much-awaited showdown between the relatively new dressage power Great Britain and long dominant Germany for Nations Cup supremacy begins Wednesday, but the battle for individual medals is wide open…
When Bart Poels flew into Florida from his home in Belgium in 2007 to look at an opportunity to build a competition arena, he could not have guessed the revolution he would help spark in horse show footing in the…