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Danish Team Rider Mikala Münter Becomes American Citizen, to Ride for USA
6 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Danish Team Rider Mikala Münter Becomes American Citizen, to Ride for USA
WELLINGTON, Florida, Oct. 26, 2018--Mikala Münter, who rode for Denmark at the 2014 World Equestrian Games and the 2015 European Championships, became an American citizen Friday, 15 years after moving to Florida with her family. She intends to ride under the United States flag Read More
Dressage Freestyle Degree of Difficulty to be Used at All 2019 Florida Winter Circuit Grand Prix As FEI Proposes Implementation for Championships, Western Europe World Cups
6 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Dressage Freestyle Degree of Difficulty to be Used at All 2019 Florida Winter Circuit Grand Prix As FEI Proposes Implementation for Championships, Western Europe World Cups
The Florida winter dressage circuit will use the "degree of difficulty" program for all Grand Prix freestyles in 2019 while the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) completes a proposal to make the system mandatory for championships, games, finals and the World Cup Western European League series. Read More
West Coast Dressage Festival Expands to Six Events in 2019, Global’s Big Money Circuit Shuffles Calendar to Boost Nations Cup
6 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on West Coast Dressage Festival Expands to Six Events in 2019, Global’s Big Money Circuit Shuffles Calendar to Boost Nations Cup
The West Coast Dressage Festival that debuted with a circuit of four shows in California this year has scheduled a similar circuit for next winter and added two late-year CDIs in 2019. The winter-long Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. has shuffled its six international big money events in a move to boost participation in the only Nations Cup offered outside Europe Read More
Juan Matute Guimon & Yeguada de Ymas End Sponsorship, 20-Year-Old Rider to Base Himself in Spain Instead of Florida
6 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Juan Matute Guimon & Yeguada de Ymas End Sponsorship, 20-Year-Old Rider to Base Himself in Spain Instead of Florida
Juan Matute Guimon and Yeguada de Ymas have ended their highly successful relationship of more than six years so the 20-year-old can base himself in Europe to develop into an elite competitor after he rode on the Spanish team at the World Equestrian Games that qualified his homeland for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Read More
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat & Delgado Clinch 3rd Straight Spanish Championships, Juan Matute, Jr. & Quantico Take Bronze
7 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Beatriz Ferrer-Salat & Delgado Clinch 3rd Straight Spanish Championships, Juan Matute, Jr. & Quantico Take Bronze
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat rode Delgado to the third straight Spanish Championship Saturday when the Olympic pair won the Grand Prix Freestyle while the 20-year-old Juan Matute, Jr. and Quantico Ymas took bronze in both the musical performance and the national title behind José Antonio Garcia Mena and Benzi Landro Read More
Juan Matute, Jr. & Quantico Ymas Win Segovia CDI3* Grand Prix Special for 1st European Big Tour Victory
7 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Juan Matute, Jr. & Quantico Ymas Win Segovia CDI3* Grand Prix Special for 1st European Big Tour Victory
SEGOVIA, Spain, May 13, 2018--Juan Matute, Jr. and Quantico Ymas won the CDI3* Grand Prix Special Sunday for the first Big Tour victory in Europe for the 20-year-old college student campaigning to be on Spain's team for the World Equestrian Games in Tryon Read More
Florida-Based Monica Burssens Sweeps Mexico Selection Event in Campaign for Central American & Caribbean Games Team Spot
7 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Florida-Based Monica Burssens Sweeps Mexico Selection Event in Campaign for Central American & Caribbean Games Team Spot
MEXICO CITY, May 5, 2018--Monica Burssens on Elfentanz put herself firmly into contention for Mexico's team for the Central American and Caribbean Games by winning both competitions in the second of three CDI3* qualifying events Read More
Laura Graves & Verdades Back to No. 2 in World, Behind Isabell Werth & Weihegold
7 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Laura Graves & Verdades Back to No. 2 in World, Behind Isabell Werth & Weihegold
Powerful performances by Laura Graves and Verdades at the World Cup Final boosted the American pair back to No. 2 in the world while Isabell Werth and Weihegold OLD stayed at the top ranking Read More