Grass Lake, Mich. – The 2016 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships sponsored by Deloitte and Selection Event for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games continued Saturday with competitors performing the FEI Individual Test, the second of three tests in the competition. Maintaining her position atop the High Performance Division leaderboard is Grade Ia athlete Roxanne Trunnell and Royal Dancer with a score of 72.754%. In the National Division, Grade III athlete Pamela Hardin and...

Grass Lake, Mich. – The 2016 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships sponsored by Deloitte and the Selection Event for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games began Friday with competitors performing the FEI Team Test, the first of three tests in the competition. In the National Division, the field of five is led by Grade Ib athlete Laurietta Oakleaf with Niekele fan Busenitz. Currently topping the High Performance Division is Grade Ia athlete Roxanne Trunnell and Royal Dancer....

Grass Lake, Mich. – The 2016 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships sponsored by Deloitte and the Selection Event for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games began Friday with competitors performing the FEI Team Test, the first of three tests in the competition. In the National Division, the field of five is led by Grade Ib athlete Laurietta Oakleaf with Niekele fan Busenitz. Currently topping the High Performance Division is Grade Ia athlete Roxanne Trunnell and Royal Dancer....

Credit: SusanJStickle.com & Moonfyre Photography Grass Lake, Mich. – The country’s top para-dressage athletes and horses have gathered at the Waterloo Hunt Club this week to compete in the 2016 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships sponsored by Deloitte and the Selection Event for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Five athlete-and-horse combinations are entered in the National Division, while eight combinations plan to compete in the High Performance Division. Of the...

Grass Lake, Mich . – The country’s top para-dressage athletes and horses have gathered at the Waterloo Hunt Club this week to compete in the 2016 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championships sponsored by Deloitte and the Selection Event for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Five athlete-and-horse combinations are entered in the National Division, while eight combinations plan to compete in the High Performance Division. Of the 11 athletes scheduled to compete this weekend, nine...

McLain Ward and Tina La Boheme Win $40,000 Devon International Speed Stake (The Book, LLC) Devon, Pa. - Some might call it luck, some might call it hard work, most would call it both. Whatever it is, McLain Ward has it. Notching his eighth international victory in a row, Ward rose to the top of the field once again, claiming the $40,000 Devon International Speed Stake CSI4* sponsored by Green Drop. Piloting Tina La Boheme to the fastest clear round, Ward once again led the lap of honor in the...

Devon Olivier and Karisma riding Training for the University of Georgia Red team (USEA/Shelby Allen Photo) Lexington, Va. - The Inaugural USEA Intercollegiate Championship came down to a nail-biting finale with the first and second place teams separated by less than a point. It was The University of Georgia (UGA) Red Team who hunkered down this weekend to finish victorious, walking away with the top spot. The Bulldogs won on a combined score of 99.06, advancing ahead of the overnight leaders,...

Bailey Doloff and Diva (Lauren Baker/Phelps Media Group) Littlestown, Pa. - As the rain continued to fall over Swan Lake Horse Show, riders donned their white breeches and braved the elements to compete in Sunday's series of jumper classics. The day began with the $1,500 NAL/WIHS/M&S Child Classic, in which Bailey Doloff and Diva took and held an early lead with a jump-off time of 29.781 seconds. Aside from clocking the fastest time of the division, the duo's quick round was the...

Louise Serio and El Primero (The Book LLC) North Salem, N.Y. – Louise Serio of Kennett Square, PA, piloted El Primero to top call in the $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, presented by The Gochman Family, on Saturday at the Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows, running through May 22 at Old Salem Farm in North Salem, NY. Highlighting competition on the Grand Prix Field, Lucy Deslauriers (USA) and Lisa Deslauriers' Hester captured the $15,000 Under 25 Grand Prix, presented by T...

Madison Goetzmann and Play It Again (The Book LLC) North Salem, N.Y. - Madison Goetzmann, 16, of Skaneateles, NY, rode to victory in the $5,000 Equitation Challenge aboard West Hill's Play It Again on Saturday at the Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows, running May 10-15 and May 17-22 at Old Salem Farm in North Salem, NY. Highlighting Saturday’s hunter competition, Kelly Tropin of New York, NY, piloted her own Chablis to Grand Amateur-Owner Hunter Champion, while Penny Brennan flew to a...