July 26, 2017 - Del Mar, CA - After two days and three phases, Hunter Siebel and Laura Wasserman's Boss were crowned Overall Grand Champions of the 2017 USEF Junior Hunter National Championship - West. Earning second in the classic round and first in both the under saddle and the handy, the pair rose to the top with a grand total of 262.6 points. After winning the Large Junior Hunter 15 & Under division, Augusta Iwasaki and Lyn Pederson's Small Affair emerged as Overall Reserve...

Aachen, Germany – The United States sent 18 equestrian athletes and fielded two FEI Nations™ Cup teams to compete at the World Equestrian Festival CHIO Aachen, in Aachen, Germany July 14-23. “It’s the Wimbledon of our sport, there is no question,” said Robert Ridland, Chef d’Equipe of the Hermès U.S. Show Jumping team. “It is one of the most prestigious places to compete. The top riders are all saying: we are bringing our ‘A’ game...

KALISPELL, Mont. (July 23, 2017)- When teammates Cornelia Dorr (Sir Patico MH), Lily Geelan (Luksor), and Melanie Rousseau (Sullivan) qualified for the Adequan/FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North, the excitement was palpable. The long hours of training, commitment and sacrifice had paid off - they were headed to the big show. However, before hitting the road, they needed to overcome several major obstacles. None had a team or the accompanying...

KALISPELL, Mont. (July 22, 2016)-- Spirits were high today as family and friends gathered at the Adequan/FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC), at The Event at Rebecca Farm, to celebrate a successful day of cross country for Team Canada's Young Rider team. Team Canada's combined score totaled 180.8 penalties, which was just enough to hold off second place team, Area 1/Area IV team at 182. April Simmons of Team Canada laughed,...

KALISPELL, Mont. (July 21, 2017)-- In the final division of the day, Heather Morris topped the CCI3* division leaderboard at The Event at Rebecca Farm with a dressage score of 46.1 on the Team Express Group, LLC.'s, Charlie Tango. Morris, Wildomar, Calif., expressed initial doubts about the test. "He was little sassy as usual. My warm up was off. So I went to the ring flustered and he got a little tense. And I just thought it was awful," Morris commented. The 2017 Event at Rebecca...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian has named the following combinations as nominated entries for the 2017 FEI World Driving Championships for Ponies, August 15-20, in Minden-Kutenhausen, Germany: Pair Pony Katie Whaley (Paris, Ky.) with her own Tommy, a 2003 Welsh Cross gelding, and Tanner, a 2006 Welsh Cross gelding, and Barbara Sims’s Night Flyer, a 2000 Welsh Section C gelding Single Pony Leslie Berndl (Newcastle, Calif.) with Teressa Kandianis’s Sweetwater’s Zorah Belle, a...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian has announced the athletes that will participate in the 2017 World Equestrian Festival CHIO Aachen, July 14-23, in Aachen, Germany. CHIO Aachen will showcase The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team and Hermès U.S. Show Jumping Team in FEI Nations Cup™ action, as well as two additional dressage athlete-and-horse combinations, two eventing athlete-and-horse combinations, four vaulters, and one four-in-hand combined driver in individual competition. The...

Chester Weber and his team during the cones phase. (Photo courtesy of PicsofYou.com) Ocala, FL - From a record 11th national title for four-in-hand’s Chester Weber to two-time NFL Superbowl linebacker Max Montoya scoring a win in the Intermediate Pair Horse division, this year’s Live Oak International Combined Driving had it all. Ocala, Florida, known as the ‘Horse Capital of the World’ saw hometown hero, Chester Weber drive Jane Clark’s KWPN geldings to an...

Jacob Arnold will begin a mentorship under Chester Weber in January 2014 (PicsofYou.com) Ocala, Fla. - New year. New opportunities. Just ask Jacob Arnold, who begins a mentorship under Chester Weber in January 2014 as the inaugural apprentice driver in the Live Oak Combined Driving, Inc. Developing Driver Program. “Though Live Oak Combined Driving has always been involved in the ongoing development of many drivers, this new program will begin with Jacob Arnold as the first apprentice...

Jacob Arnold wins the FEI Single Horse Division at The Little Everglades Combined Driving Event. (PicsofYou.com) Dade City, FL – USEF 2011 Junior Equestrian of the Year, 19 year old Jacob Arnold wins the hotly contested FEI Single Horse Division for the second year in a row at the CAI-B Little Everglades International CDE held February 23-26, 2012. This year, driving Marie Quist’s Hackney Horse, Halstead’s Shale (Hal), Jacob’s win is an important finish in the second...