Canadian eventers won both team and individual medals at the 2011 Adequan FEI North American Junior and Young Riders Championships (NAJYRC) held July 27–31 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. In the Young Rider Two Star Championships division, Team Canada, comprised of Joelle Baskerville of Calgary, AB, Melissa Boutin of Sherbrooke, QC, Christian […]
A heat-wave and thunderstorms failed to throw the next talented generation off their stride at the FEI North American Junior & Young Riders’ Championships, which came to a thrilling conclusion at the Horse Park In Kentucky, USA on July 31st. Open to riders from the USA, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands, […]
Canadian Junior Riders Sarah Loewen and Monica Houweling continued their winning ways and earned the individual gold and silver medals in the Junior Freestyle test on July 30 at the 2011 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships. The Junior and Young Rider Freestyles were the final dressage events at the competition being […]
Sarah Johnstone of Aurora, Ontario, claimed her first victory in an International Equestrian Federation (FEI) sanctioned event, winning the $32,000 CSI3* Open Welcome on Friday, July 29, at L’International Bromont show jumping tournament in Bromont, Quebec. The 20-year-old faced off against several veterans of the sport when the 32-horse starting field was reduced to […]
Tiffany Foster of Schomberg, Ontario, won the €4,000 Seven-Year-Old Young Horse competition held Friday, July 29, at international show jumping tournament CSI5* San Patrignano, Italy. Foster guided Quilea de St. Druon to victory by jumping clear in a time of 53.71 seconds to win by a large margin over Germany’s Katrin Eckermann who stopped […]
The year-long planning is coming together for Dressage at Devon (http://www.dressageatdevon.com/) taking place September 27-October 2, 2011 at the Devon Horse Show grounds. The prize list is now available at online. The closing date is August 18. A list of local accommodations is also available on the site. For riders (and their horses) new footing […]
The Alberta/Manitoba Reining Team won the gold medal and the Saskatchewan Team won the Bronze medal on July 28 at the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships. Presented by Gotham North, these Championships are being held July 27–31 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. From a start list […]
Italian riders swept all before them at the FEI European Reining Championships 2011, which came to a close at Wiener Neustadt, Austria yesterday. In an extraordinary run of form they claimed gold in all three team championships, and took both gold and silver in each of the individual divisions. Competitors from 10 countries were in […]
James (Jaimey) Irwin of Stouffville, ON swept the Advanced Division at the Cornerstone Farms Summer Festival, July 15-17, 2011, held at the Caledon Equestrian Park. Riding Winston, Mary Ellen Horgan’s 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding by Whinny Jackson, Irwin earned scores of 70.684% in the Prix St. Georges, 70.132% in the Intermediaire 1, and 73.875% in […]
The British Columbia/Quebec Young Rider Dressage Team won the silver medal in the FEI Young Rider Team Competition on Wednesday, July 27 at the 2011 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships. On Thursday, Sarah Loewen and Monica Houweling earned the Individual silver and bronze medals respectively. The championships are being held at […]
