The USEF Communications Department provided wall-to-wall coverage of several events last weekend:

Dressage:
Six USEF National Dressage Champions were crowned at the 2011 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions at the USET Headquarters in Gladstone, NJ.

Steffen Peters swept both the Intermediaire I (meaning he will lead the U.S. Dressage Team to the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara) and the Grand Prix with his international superstar Ravel.

Watch all of the tests and read the coverage here: http://usefnetwork.com/featured/2011FOC/.  

Driving:

Jimmy Fairclough put a 10 year drought behind him and won the 2011 National Four-in-Hand Driving Championships at the Laurels at Landhope CDE in Kennett Square, PA. Fairclough put together a team and drove consistently in all three phases to win his first event since he helped the U.S. to Team Silver at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games last fall. His teammate from that event (and nine-time National champion) Chester Weber was second.

Coverage and photos are available here: http://www.usefnetwork.com/featured/2011DrivingNatlChamps/.

Eventing:

The Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team had a lot to be proud of at the 2011 Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trails in Woodstock, England. Three of them jumped their way into the top 10, led by Tiana Coudray who was second on Ringwood Magister.

Photos and complete coverage are available here: http://www.usefnetwork.com/featured/EventersinEurope/.

Jumping:

At the Spruce Meadows Masters, Lauren Hough won the $100,000 Encana Cup on Blue Angel, she talks about her winning ride here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8uSARN3ySg.

All of the Spruce Meadows results are available here: http://www.sprucemeadows.com/tournaments/orderAndGo.jsp?id=29&d=2011-09-09&ty=2011.

ENDS