Time-Outs, Travails & Tidbits of WEG Travelers…

SAUGERTIES, New York, Sept. 18–Cesar Parra, an Olympian for his native Colombia but now an American citizen, rode the 14-year-old Dutch gelding Olympia to easy victories in the Prix St. Georges and Intermediaire I at the New England Dressage Association’s…

GLADSTONE, New Jersey, Sept. 16–GPA has provided safety helmets to the riders on the U.S. and Canadian dressage teams at the World Equestrian Games in the first such donation of protective head gear for dressage competitors at a world championship…

The Dutch, German and Spanish dressage team horses for the World Equestrian Games arrived at the temporary quarantine center in Cincinnati Thursday on the first of 11 flights from Europe in the largest airlift of horses in history…

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Sept. 16–Muhammad Ali, a Kentucky native, will join the cast of nearly 1,500 people and almost 200 horses in the opening ceremony for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games a week from Saturday…

Dressage-news.com, a premier Internet news site for the Olympic discipline, plans complete coverage by two photojournalists of the World Equestrian Games that starts in Kentucky on Sept. 25…

GLADSTONE, New Jersey, Sept. 13–Taking advantage of the newly refurbished U.S, Equestrian Team Foundation headquarters, the American dressage team is in the second of two weeks of intense training before heading to the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept. 13–The latest International Equestrian Federation rankings place all four Dutch and German combinations to compete at the World Equestrian Games in the top 20…

ACHLEITEN, Austria, Sept. 13–Victoria Max-Theurer, Austria’s top rider and two-time Olympian, has scratched Augustin OLD from the World Equestrian Games to eliminate the stress of transatlantic travel on the 10-year-old stallion that underwent major colic surgery last year…