Randi Thompson: Horse and Rider Awareness
Friday, April 03 2015
Randi Thompson Photo by Erik Olsen, Erikolsenpictures.com Editor’s Note: I love meeting horse people – and when they live near me, it’s even better. Randi Thompson and I both live in the Western North Carolina Mountains – not far from the new Tryon International Equestrian Center! Sidelines staff writer Lauren R.
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GumBits are Key for Nicholas Fyffe and Banzai, Winners of the GumBits Happy Horse Harmony Award
Tuesday, March 03 2015
Great teamwork earns Nicholas Fyffe (right) and Banzai LS the GumBits Happy Horse Harmony Award. (Photo courtesy of JRPR) Wellington, Florida (March 2, 2015) — Gusts of wind and unusually chilly weather at the show grounds created a difficult ride for many last week at the 2015 Adequan Global Dressage Festival, but the tense atmosphere made those truly harmonious rides all the more impressive.
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Double Olympic Gold Medalist Charlotte Dujardin Joins Brooke USA as Global Ambassador
Friday, February 13 2015
Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro (Photo Courtesy of Brooke USA) Chooses the World’s Largest International Equine Welfare Organization for First Official Charity Partnership Lexington, KY – February 13, 2015 - Double Olympic Gold Medalist and international Dressage superstar Charlotte Dujardin today announced her first official charity partnership.
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Chrissa Hoffmann: Making History and Training Horses to Their Fullest Potential
Monday, February 02 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini
It isn’t that anyone said it couldn’t be done. It just hadn’t been tried, at least not in public. But dressage trainer Chrissa F. Hoffmann thinks outside the box and the dressage arena.
She isn’t biased … [Read more]
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The Dressage Foundation’s Renee Isler Fund Awards Grant To Stephanie Brown-Beamer
Friday, January 09 2015
Stephanie Brown-Beamer (Photo Courtesy of The Dressage Foundation) January 9, 2015 – The Dressage Foundation’s Renee Isler Dressage Support Fund has awarded a $1,000 grant to instructor Stephanie Brown-Beamer (NY) to train her Friesian cross, Gryphon Z, with Pam Goodrich.
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Jacqueline Brooks and D Niro Dance to Freestyle Victory during $20,000 Royal Invitational
Friday, November 14 2014
Paired with her 2012 Olympic mount, D Niro, Jacqueline Brooks won the won the Grand Prix Freestyle test at the Royal Invitational, presented by Butternut Ridge. Photo By Cealy Tetley Toronto, Ont
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Ten More Champions Are Crowned on Final Day of US Dressage Finals Presented By Adequan®
Monday, November 10 2014
Intense head-to-head dressage competition across 30 championship divisions concluded on Sunday at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington for the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan ®. Surrounded by friends and family, emotions ran high for competitors as they rode their way into history and celebrated their success with joyous victory laps before packing for their long journeys back to homes across the country
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Mary Jordan Heads to U.S. Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® as First-Ever Para-Dressage Athlete
Wednesday, November 05 2014
Mary Jordan and Rubicon 75 at the Great American Insurance Group/ United States Dressage Federation Region 8 Championships presented by New England Dressage Association (NEDA) September 18-21, 2014 Photo By ©Amy E. Riley/STUDIO EQUUS Lexington, KY – October 30, 2014 - 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ (WEG) athlete Mary Jordan of Wells, Maine is headed to the 2014 U.S. Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® scheduled for November 6-9, in Lexington, KY
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Competitors Gather at Kentucky Horse Park for This Week”s US Dressage Finals Presented By Adequan®
Wednesday, November 05 2014
Sunny skies, rolling green fields, and the iconic four-board fences of the Kentucky Horse Park welcome the droves of horse vans arriving in Lexington, Ky. for this week’s US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan ® , a unique national head-to-head competition showcasing riders and horses competing for top honors at all dressage levels from Training to Grand Prix as well as musical freestyles. This year’s competitor roster includes over 400 entries for the US Dressage Finals and USDF Dressage in the Bluegrass open show, reflecting an increase of more than 100 entries from last year’s inaugural event. Over four exciting days of competition to be held November 6 – 9, 2014, riders representing all nine United States Dressage Federation (USDF) regions and from 38 states across the country (and the District of Columbia) will gather in the Horse Capital of the World, including from the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California, as well as up and down the eastern seaboard from Maine to south Florida.
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DRESSAGE ICON JAN EBELING A PERFECT MATCH FOR ICE HORSE®
Friday, October 31 2014
Jan Ebling Photo By Ice Horse Dressage champion Jan Ebeling Joins Team Ice Horse Family Sonoma, CA (October 22, 2014) – Dressage icon Jan Ebeling has joined forces with Ice Horse, becoming the newest member of the Ice Horse family. Jan joins the list of 20+ other Olympians and professional equestrians in the Team Ice Horse stable that are currently using the patented cold therapy products to give their horses the winning edge.
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