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Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous On Top at Ocala Jockey Club 3-Day

Jessica Phoenix top Canadian in 4* in 5th place with Humble GS International competitors took to the dressage arena today at the 2019 Ocala Jockey Club 3-Day Event (OJC3DE). The weather was brisk by Florida standards and a few horses were slightly fresh to deliver their best performances. Unfazed by the cooler temperatures was Marilyn […]
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Tom McEwen leads Pau CCI 5* wire to wire; Canada’s Holly Jacks 12th

At the top of the provisional leaderboard after the dressage test, still in the lead after the cross-country competition, and after a splendid clean sweep in the show-jumping competition this afternoon, British rider Tom McEwen rode to victory, winning his first CCI 5*-L on his French Saddle gelding, Toledo de Kerser. He came in ahead […]
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Ocala Jockey Club hosts International Olympic Qualifying Event

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games taking place in the summer of 2020, athletes in all Olympic disciplines are hard at work to qualify. Equestrian disciplines are no different, and the Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event, Nov. 14-17, is proud to serve as the only Olympic qualifying Event in the Southeast USA for 3-Day […]
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Tougher Sanctions for Dangerous Riding, Abuse and Blood in Eventing

Tougher new sanctions for dangerous riding, abuse and blood on the horse will apply from January 2020 in FEI eventing, if agreed by the FEI General Assembly in Moscow next month. Eventing now has more field-of-play sanctions for horse abuse and dangerous riding than any other horse sport, including the troubled discipline of endurance, though […]
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Holly Jacks-Smither scores 5* personal best dressage with Morris at Pau

Canadian eventer Holly Jacks-Smither started off the Les Etoiles de Pau CCI5*-L on October 25th with her partner, 14-year-old Thoroughbred gelding More Inspiration, in the best possible fashion, scoring a personal best 36.0 pp at this level of competition. The pair currently sit 29th on the leaderboard among 42 starters going into Saturday’s cross-country test. […]
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Bouscaren wins CCI4*-S at Woodside International Horse Trials

Canada’s Leah Breakey 3rd aboard Master Class Ebay had a nice pre-wedding gift for his owner Helen Bouscaren. It took the form of what the bride-to-be described as a “very brave” run over Ian Stark’s CCI4*-S course at the Woodside International Horse Trials, where the international divisions concluded in Woodside, California today. They led the […]
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Rutledge and Covert Rights take CCI4*-S at Plantation Field International

Canadian rider Colleen Loach and FE Golden Eye win CCI2*-S Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights galloped around clear and in the time to claim victory at the Plantation Field International CCI4*-S today on a score of 30.30. “He felt like a rock star,” Rutledge said of the 13-year-old Thoroughbred/Clydesdale cross. “For a very long time […]
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Erin Sylvester and Paddy the Caddy Lead CCI4*-S at Plantation Field

Erin Sylvester and Paddy the Caddy leaped into the lead today with a double clear show jumping at the Plantation Field International CCI4*-S. Overnight leader Colleen Rutledge and her 11-year-old Thoroughbred/Draft cross Covert Rights had one rail down on course (30.1), dropping them to third. Going into the ring Boyd Martin and Bonito, owned by […]