The Jump for the Children Horse Show Celebrates 30 Years
Thursday, October 03 2013 by Editor
The grand prix from last year. Photo by Anne Gittins Photography.
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Triple Play for Canadian Dressage Olympian Ashley Holzer at Devon CDI-W
Wednesday, October 02 2013 by Editor
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Capital Challenge Horse Show Begins with Equitation Weekend Division Championships
Tuesday, October 01 2013 by Editor
Upper Marlboro, MD – September 28, 2013 – The Capital Challenge Horse Show began today at the Prince George’s Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, MD. This is the first day of the Capital Challenge Equitation Championship Weekend, presented by Bigeq.com . The Capital Challenge Horse Show runs through Sunday, October 6
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“Dream Team” Makes Debut Thursday In Fall Polo Season Opener at Palm City Polo Club
Tuesday, October 01 2013 by Editor
WELLINGTON, FL-Sept. 26, 2013– -Hall of Famer Mike Azzaro will team with rising young stars Juancito Bollini, Grant Ganzi and Wes Finlayson on Casablanca in the Prisa Invitational when the fall polo season gets under way Thursday at Palm City Polo Club in Boca Raton
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Barbara Ann Merryman Pilots El Paso to Victory in the Phelps Media Group Southeast Junior Medal
Sunday, September 22 2013 by Editor
Jacksonville, FL – September 21, 2013 – The third day of the 2013 Southeast Medal Finals was another booming day at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center.
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Washington International Horse Show CSI 3* Increases Prize Money for 2013
Monday, July 22 2013 by Editor
Tuesday Evening to Highlight High Performance Hunters Prize List Featuring Other Enhancements Now Available Online Washington, D.C. – July 22, 2013 – The 55th Washington International Horse Show CSI 3* (WIHS) is pleased to announce an increase in the prize money awarded this year in the open jumper and hunter divisions. WIHS will offer nearly half a million dollars in total prize money in 2013, more than a $70,000 boost from 2012! The official prize list for 2013 competition is now available online at www.wihs.org , featuring some exciting new changes to the schedule
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Ward Leader
Saturday, June 01 2013 by Editor
Wednesday evening, May 29, at the Dixon Oval, featured a grab-bag of events designed to enlighten and entertain spectators who think of The Devon Horse Show as primarily a hunter/jumper venue. But it is much more than that, and in fact the logo of the show, founded in 1896, is a hackney pony reflecting the show’s origins in the meeting of wealthy landowners on “The Main Line” to improve the quality of horses and ponies pulling carriages and buggies. Equestrian disciplines competing at The Show are as varied as Saddlebreds, Roadsters (trotting horses), Hackney Horses and Ponies, Friesians, Coaching and Carriage Pleasure Driving in addition to Hunters, Jumpers and Equitation. There is a thriving Country Fair in conjunction with The Show featuring 63 vendors of all sorts selling clothes, hats, jewelry, furniture, toys, games, pottery and antiques, food, arcade games, a ferris wheel and a merry go round. Dressage in honored with a six day show of its own in the September. So when 7:00 rolled around on Wednesday evening there was a full schedule of events including jumpers, side saddle, hackney ponies, five and three gaited horses and coaching. Buried within that list was class 366, the Five Gaited Special at 9:20 P.M. The organizers had put together a class bound to get some attention. Riding “five gaited horses” were 5 of the top jumper riders in the country
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