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Give us your input and you could win big! During the month of July, the Horse Publications Group is conducting reader surveys for Horse Sport and Horse-Canada magazines. Answer our brief surveys and give us your thoughts about the magazines and your name will be entered in a draw to win $500! Horse Sport: www.surveymonkey.com/s/HS2014survey […]
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Harold Chopping Takes HITS Culpeper’s $5,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix

Harold Chopping and Caramo got a sweet taste of high-stakes hunter competition in last year’s Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix Final, where they finished 12th overall. The pair plans to return in 2014, ready to take a larger bite of the prize, and got off to an ideal start with Caroline Russell Howe’s Danish Warmblood […]
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Kent Farrington Wins $210,000 ATCO Power Queen Elizabeth II Cup

The ‘North American’ Tournament CSI 5* at Spruce Meadows featured the $210,000 ATCO Power Queen Elizabeth II Cup on Saturday with an exciting win for USA’s Kent Farrington and Voyeur. With an incredible resume of wins, this was Farrington’s first time winning the prestigious competition. He finished ahead of Paulo Santana (BRA) and Taloubet, and […]
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2104 FEI European Reining Championships for Juniors and Young Riders

The Italians proved unbeatable for gold at the FEI European Reining Championships for Juniors and Young Riders 2014 which drew to a close at Givrins in Switzerland. Last year they scored a hat-trick on home ground in Manerbio, but this year they went one better and swept all before them. The Championships took place at […]
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Lamaze and Fine Lady 5 Top $50,000 LaFarge Cup

The Spruce Meadows ‘North American’ Tournament continued with wins for two of this summer’s top riders as well as an exciting first for a young up-and-comer in the International Ring on Friday. Eric Lamaze (CAN) and Fine Lady 5 topped the $50,000 LaFarge Cup 1.50m, Darragh Kenny (IRL) and Chin Quidam VDL won the $33,500 […]
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Call for Nominations for 2015 Dressage Canada Committee Election

Dressage Canada has announced that three committee chair positions will be elected for 2015: • Coaching Committee Chair • Officials Committee Chair • Rules Committee Chair Nominees must have experience with not-for-profit committees, such as one or more years working on a Dressage Canada or equivalent committee. Each successful nominee will be elected for a […]
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Volunteers Needed for the 2015 Pan Am Games

The 2015 Pan Am Games needs at least 700 enthusiastic and passionate people — age 16 years and older — to be Games-time volunteers. Selected volunteers will be based in Caledon when the Town hosts the top equestrian athletes in dressage and jumping from the Americas and Caribbean in the summer of 2015 at the […]
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McComish Looking to Net Another Team Penning Buckle

There is something very special about a sport where horse and rider work together as one in a fluid, ever-changing set of circumstances. When there are three of these combinations teamed up, the result is an always-exciting and fast-moving sport called Team Penning. Team cattle penning is a race against the clock where each team […]
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No Age or Gender Barriers for Cutting Competitors

In 2009, the Calgary Stampede teamed with Mercuria and the National Cutting Horse Association to take the sport of cutting to a new level. By sweetening the pot in each of the Non-Pro and Open classes by an extra $25,000, the Stampede cutting event became the first show in what has become the Mercuria NCHA […]