Owned and ridden by Canadian Ashley Rand-Torres, this eye-catching gent is making a splash in the grand prix dressage arena.

Wherever hunter and jumper riders congregate, their faithful canine companions are sure to be close at hand.

Sunday began with the surprising announcement by Mark Bellissimo “regretfully” announcing the withdrawal of ESP’s bid for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games. Bellissimo, while confident that they could have run a very successful WEG stated that ” the marketing conditions would have precluded us from honouring our commitments to a valued sponsor.” The season […]

The prestigious George Morris Excellence in Equitation class highlighted week 11, with the cream of the crop of the nation’s Junior riders competing for top honours. Open by invitation only to the top Junior riders at WEF this season, it was highly contested. An equally impressive group of jumper competitors showed in the $50,000 Artisan […]

Para-Dressage riders joined the other competitors this week for their own Global Dressage Festival CPEDI 3*. By the end of the week, Canadians had accumulated several wins in both the CPEDI 3* and the AGDF 10 CDI W events. Dressage played a major role this week – in the Ride and Learn clinic, Friday evening’s […]

Week 9 began with Tuesday’s viewing of VDL Stud’s exciting young jumper prospects, which had been flown in from The Netherlands several days previously. Seventeen horses were presented under saddle individually, each shown at the trot and canter and over jumps. The exuberant jumping and feisty behaviour by some of the horses was very entertaining […]

Canada captures the Nations Cup! The highlight of the week was our Nations Cup win – a major accomplishment with 12 teams competing this year. The team of Ian Millar, Eric Lamaze, Tiffany Foster and Yann Candele came together brilliantly on Friday night demonstrating their combined horse power and riding talent. On Saturday, young ambitious […]

The week began with Wednesday’s Nations Cup dressage competition at the Global Dressage Festival, featuring nine teams, including two U.S. teams, two Canadian teams, and those from Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Colombia and Spain, as well as individuals from Puerto Rico and Georgia. The U.S. kept their lead position from Wednesday through Friday. The silver […]

Hunter enthusiasts were treated to the best in the nation during Hunter Spectacular week. The main focus was on the International ring, open exclusively to hunters all week, with 118 Performance Hunters competing at 3’6″on Thursday looking for a qualifying spot for Saturday’s Hunter Spectacular class. Tuesday’s Ride and Learn clinic, held in the covered […]

Another wash out! This week the downpour only delayed the FEI dressage jog for a half hour. Dozens of spectators waited in anticipation to view the impressive dressage horses up close during the jog while enjoying wine and appetizers put out by some of the vendors. The skies opened up after only a handful of […]