Shane Sweetnam and Amaretto D’Arco Capture $25,000 Hagyard Lexington Classic Victory at Bluegrass Festival Horse Show
Sunday, August 19 2012
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Lexington, KY – August 17, 2012 – The lights were bright in the Rolex Stadium as the onlookers cheered on their favorite horse and rider combinations in a highly competitive 14-horse jump off. It was the $25,000 Hagyard Lexington Classic that took center stage tonight, seeing a field of 50 entrants vie for the top
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Lionshare Farm Wins Top Honors at US Pony Finals and The Jumper Classic
Sunday, August 19 2012
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Wellington, FL – August 16, 2012 – The US Pony Finals is the much-anticipated, celebrated annual event held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. The finest ponies and young riders earn the opportunity to compete at the event, which showcases our country’s future top equestrians. US Pony Finals proved very successful for trainer,
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Scott Stewart Takes the Lead With Dedication in $100,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Finals at Bluegrass Festival Horse Show
Sunday, August 19 2012
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Lexington, KY – August 17, 2012 – The crème de la crème of the hunter world gathered at the Rolex Stadium for the first day of the long awaited 2012 $100,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Finals. All the attention turned toward the classic hunt course that decorated the Rolex Stadium at the Bluegrass Festival Horse
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Hunt Tosh and Rosalynn Repeat Excellence for Double Blue Ribbons at Bluegrass Festival Horse Show
Friday, August 17 2012
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Lexington, KY – August 15, 2012 – It was a welcoming day for the Bluegrass Festival Horse Show at the Kentucky Horse Park show grounds where five divisions were set to display the top hunter horse and rider combinations. The morning started off with a variation of winners while the two divisions to emerge with
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Darragh Kenny Wins $10,000 Open Jumper High Score Awards, Presented by Sir Ruly, Inc.
Tuesday, August 14 2012
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East Dorset, Vermont – For the second year in a row, Ireland’s Darragh Kenny was the winner of the $10,000 Open Jumper High Score Awards, presented by Sir Ruly, Inc. at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. Held July 4 through August 12 at Harold Beebe Farm, the Vermont Summer Festival has completed
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Pony Tails: Final Day at Pony Finals
Tuesday, August 14 2012
by janwest
This is the Final Blog from our Pony Finals Mystery bloggers! They did a great job! Wonder if we will ever discover who they are? Hello readers from R, one of the survivors of PONY FINALS 2012. Pony Finals was a great time this year and everyone had lots of fun. The Medal was very
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Victory in $75,000 Fidelity Investments® Grand Prix Goes to Candice King and Kismet 50 at The Jumper Classic®
Monday, August 13 2012
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Leslie Howard and Lennox Lewis 2 Win $15,000 Equine Insurance Speed Stake Presented by Great American Insurance Group Hampton Falls, NH – August 12, 2012 – More than 5,000 spectators came to watch the final day of The Jumper Classic®, presented by Fidelity Investments® and Audi of America. Held at the Silver Oak Equestrian Center,
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Spend “A Day in the Country” at the $50,000 Chicago Hunter Derby presented by CN
Monday, August 13 2012
by janwest
The discipline of hunters is deeply rooted in tradition, and when the USHJA High Performance Hunter Committee developed the International Hunter Derby, their goal was to bring that tradition and the art of horsemanship back to the show ring. One event that captures the essence of the class is the $50,000 Chicago Hunter Derby (CHD)
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Warm Weather and Hot Competition Take Over the Blenheim Summer Classic
Monday, August 13 2012
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“We have a lot of young jumpers moving up today so it will be a unique class,” course designer Jack Robson noted as competitors began to warm up for the $25,000 Blenheim Summer Classic Grand Prix, presented by Royal Champion. Twenty-five horse and rider combinations attempted Robson’s track, but only three were able to leave
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Tracy Magness and Tarco Van Ter Moude Triumph in $50,000 Vermont Summer Celebration Grand Prix
Sunday, August 12 2012
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East Dorset, Vermont – Tracy Magness, of Hughesville, MD, rode M/M John Bartko’s Tarco Van Ter Moude to victory in the $50,000 Vermont Summer Celebration Grand Prix, on Saturday, August 11, at the 2012 Vermont Summer Festival. In a ten-horse jump-off, Magness had the only clear round to earn the win in the final grand
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