Julio Mendoza Loor and Jewel’s Goldstrike captured the World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle Sunday with the highest score in three years for the American-based rider from Ecuador….
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Sept. 27–Ilse Schwarz, a dressage trainer and competitor, is providing ride-by-ride commentary of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games dressage competition on the dressage-news Facebook page…
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Sept. 27–The Dutch dressage juggernaut set the stage Monday for their first ever World Equestrian Games team gold medal while Germany made a recovery that gave them a good shot at the reserve championship while Great Britain, the…
The day started at a blistering pace, with Hans Peter Minderhoud riding Exquis Nadine (Partout x Roemer)setting the standard. He was the fifth to go and put in a really solid effort. Nadine had slipped and fallen on the concrete…
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Sept. 26–Attendance at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games began with 35,340 paying spectators for the first two days, a weekend that included the well received opening ceremony of the championships for eight horse sports held once every…
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Sept. 26–So it is a day after the opening ceremony but between watching/photographing the jog, editing photos and then trying to keep up with the training sessions of all the horses, for which there was apparently no documented…
Dressage starts at the World Equestrian Games on Monday and both the Grand Prix team competition over the first two days and the individual medals on Friday promise one of the most exciting, yes, exciting contests in the history of…
The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games formally opened Saturday with a display by a cast of about 200 horses and 1,500 people of America’s horse heritage before a near full house for the ceremony in a Kentucky Horse Park that…
The day of our arrival in Lexington, Kentucky, was considered triumphant on so many levels. We had a goal to arrive before the 8 pm close of the media accreditation which we achieved with 50 minutes to spare!…
Definite entries for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games dressage competition were released Friday night with 66 horse and rider combinations from 24 nations scheduled for the Grand Prix that will decide the team competition between 14 of those countries…
Can one of the nation’s (and quite possibly the world‘s) most prestigious and successful dressage training facilities also be a place where you can feel comfortable putting your feet up and relaxing while champion horses float by in circles before…