(Global Dressage Festival) – Wellington, Florida - Wellington, FL – March 27, 2012 – The $120,000 5* West Palm Beach, presented by Diamante Farms, has finally arrived! This prestigious dressage competition takes place March 29-30 at the Stadium show grounds of the Global Dressage Festival (GDF) in Wellington, FL and features the only CDI5* in North [...] Continue reading →

(Equestrian Australia) -  Equestrian Australia Chairman Paul Cargill today announced that five-time Eventing Olympian and Rome Team gold medallist, Bill Roycroft, lifelong members of the Jumping community, Bob and Joyce Brook, Australia’s 1956 Eventing Team and champion Dressage horse, Victory Salute will be inducted into Equestrian Australia’s Hall of Fame at a gala awards ceremony [...] Continue reading →

Shawna Harding and her 13-year-old gelding Come On III will now join Jan Ebeling and Rafalca at this year’s Dressage World Cup Finals in ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Harding will take the place of James Koford who had to withdraw after his partner, the 13-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding Pharaoh, strained a tendon during CDI competition [...] Continue reading →

(USEF) – Preparations continue for the 2012 Olympic Games for the United States’ top dressage riders with USET/USEF pre-Olympic Games Training Sessions conducted by USEF Technical Advisor Anne Gribbons and Olympian Steffen Peters. The training session schedule in Florida, which kicked off January 6-8, also included sessions February 10-12 at Walter and Mary Anne McPhail’s [...] Continue reading →

(USEF) – Burbank, CA – For California riders set to compete in this weekend’s Festival of the Horse CDI 3*/Y/J Presented by HorseShow.com, their Olympic dreams are beginning to take shape as they prepare to contest the third official qualifying competition on the West Coast for the 2012 Olympic Games Dressage Team Selection Trials. For [...] Continue reading →

By Lynndee Kemmet – The American dressage world was focused this past weekend on the upcoming municipal court appearance of Cesar Parra, scheduled for April 5, in New Jersey on two criminal complaints related to horse abuse during a training episode back in 2009. The complaints were filed by the Hunterdon County Society for the [...] Continue reading →

Happy 40th birthday to the New England Dressage Association! Founded in 1972, the New England Dressage Association (NEDA) started with a handful of visionaries and has grown to an organization with over 1,800 members, major competitions, numerous activities and a national reputation for attracting top quality trainers from all over the world to their education [...] Continue reading →