Celebrating Over 32 years!

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes who have been invited to participate in the 2025 USEF Dressage Training Series – East Coast presented by Zen Elite Equestrian Center , to be held at the Adequan® Global Dressage...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award and Junior Equestrian of the Year, both of which will be awarded at the Pegasus Awards Dinner at the 2025 US Equestrian Annual Meeting ....

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes who have been invited to participate in the 2025 USEF Horsemastership Training Series, taking place January 2-5, 2025, at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival showgrounds in Wellington,...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the 2024 Equestrian of the Year nominees. The International and National Equestrians of the Year will be announced during the 2024 Pegasus Awards Dinner on Thursday, Jan. 23, at the 2025 US...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the 2024 Horse of the Year nominees. The International and National Horses of the Year will be announced at the 2024 SmartPak/USEF Horse of the Year Awards Dinner on Saturday, Jan. 25 during the...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the host location of the 2025-27 USEF/USEA Developing Horse National Championship , which will take place at Morven Park International & Fall Horse Trials in Leesburg, Va. from October 9-12,...

Lexington, Ky . - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the host locations and dates for the 2025 US Equestrian Open of Dressage Qualifier Events. The US Equestrian Open of Dressage will consist of 23 qualifying events around the country leading into the...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian would like to update pony hunter owners and exhibitors on the current qualifying criteria and qualification period for the USEF Pony Hunter National Championship green pony division at the 2025 USEF Pony Finals...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the Eventing Pathway Program Lists for 2025, including the Elite, Pre-Elite, Development, and Development 25 Programs. Eventing Elite Program: The following athlete-and-horse combinations, listed in...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the Eventing Pathway Program Lists for 2025, including the Elite, Pre-Elite, Development, and Development 25 Programs. Eventing Elite Program: The following athlete-and-horse combinations, listed in...

Ten-year-old stallion Always Dreaming, the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, died Dec. 10 in Oklahoma, according to bloodstock agent Chad Schumer and River Oaks Farms co-owner Francisco Bravo. He died from a burst cecum, Schumer said.

Officials at Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course reported that the track would be lift its quarantine mandate on Barn 4 at 4 p.m., Dec. 13, as all samples for strangles PCR have tested negative.

2019 Coventry Stakes (G2) winner Arizona is the latest stallion to join the exodus to Turkey, with the 7-year-old son of No Nay Never moving from Coolmore's Castlehyde Stud to Yigit Stud in a deal brokered by Michael Shefflin.

For the second year in a row Saratoga Race Course's Oklahoma dirt training track has maintained a gold standard for equine safety.

Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look forward to the New York Stallion Series; the Great White Way and the Fifth Avenue.

West Saratoga, a grade 3-winning son of Exaggerator, sold privately to Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi's RRR Racing for $375,000 following the Inglis Digital USA December Sale.

A competitive field entered for the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (G1) Dec. 15 at Kyoto Racecourse starts the serious winnowing of 2-year-old candidates for the 2025 Japanese classics.

Led by multiple group 1 winners El Kodigo and Don Feres, 20 horses have been entered in the 1 1/2-mile Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini Internacional (G1) Dec. 14 at Hipodromo de San Isidro outside Buenos Aires.

Jason Clark, who worked at Sugar Maple Farm, has died at age 47.

Jason Clark, who worked at Sugar Maple Farm, has died at age 47.

One of North Carolina’s wild horses recently got herself stuck halfway over a fence. The 1-year-old mare, Amelia, is a member of the wild horses of Corolla who live on the Outer Banks. In attempting to cross a fence she apparently misjudged (youthful inexperience?) and got stuck straddling the rails with her front legs on [...]

The Interior Ministry of Poland has proposed new legislation that would grant dogs and horses serving the police, border guard and fire services the type of retirement they deserve. The legislation grants official status to each working animal and a stipend paid to their new owners to help cover their cost. The law was drafted [...]

June 17, 1875, Saline, Kansas (USA): Our vigilant sheriff captured a horse their by the name of Clark at Bavaria, last evening, and brought him to the jail, late in the night. He had been disturbing horse flesh on Chapman’s creek. The other part of his name was not I.F. There will be a grand [...]

Written by Life Coach, Katherine Jansen, Shepherd’s Knoll Farm I was looking for a topic for the women’s group I lead, and the word of the day in the Daily Word booklet I subscribe to was "Weave". And I love this word. For the actual weavers of the world, I do weave sometimes, using yarn [...]

After the 2020 postponement until October due to the Covid pandemic, this year’s Preakness Stakes returns to its traditional place, 2 weeks after the Kentucky Derby and 3 weeks before the Belmont Stakes. Middle child syndrome certainly does not apply to this year’s middle gem of the Triple Crown series. The public spotlight shines [...]

May 9, 1860, Springfield, Ohio (USA): The Overland Mail Coach, with Lieut. Cogswell, of the USA, Dr. J P Breck, and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, as passengers, and San Francisco dates to the 20th of April, arrived here at 4 P M California news anticipated by the Pony Express. By this arrival we have news [...]

"Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals." ― Milan Kundera The Federation Equestre International (FEI), the international governing body of equestrian sports, recently handed down two rider suspensions and had an earlier suspension set aside on appeal. Brazilian Dressage Athlete Suspended for 3 Years [...]

What is it about horses that we love so much? Their beauty? Their strength? Their soulful eyes that know all our secrets? Of course, the answer is YES. Trying to explain our love of horses to others can be difficult. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that “it’s just something that happens.” Oceana contemplates [...]

In November 2019, a disturbing video was posted to Facebook showing a horse tied and dragged behind a moving truck. As the truck moved forward in the snow, the lead rope became taut. As the horse braced against the pressure its hooves slipped through the snow. The truck then sped up dragging the thrashing [...]

In November 2019, a disturbing video was posted to Facebook showing a horse tied and dragged behind a moving truck. As the truck moved forward in the snow, the lead rope became taut. As the horse braced against the pressure its hooves slipped through the snow. The truck then sped up dragging the thrashing [...]

Western Bloodstock celebrated its 25th anniversary of producing the NCHA Futurity Sales with 79% of the horses offered selling for a record $41 million, and an average of $53,465.

The action was fast and aggressive in Watt Arena, on Friday, December 6th during Session...

Thursday, December 5, the fourth day of the 2024 NCHA Futurity Sales, produced by Western Bloodstock, featured two sale sessions that added 10 more $100,000-plus purchases to bring the week’s current total to 70 horses sold for six-figures or more.

Session I of Western Bloodstock’s 2024 Preferred Breeders Sale built on the momentum of the NCHA Futurity Sales, adding six more six-figure purchases to a growing tally of 60 horses that sold for $100,000 or more.

Trained performers were featured Wednesday morning, December 4th in the NCHA Futurity Cutting Horse Sale, where Creeepin LTE $64,145 topped the roster with a $240,000 winning bid from Stephanie Hames Roven/Reata Cutting Horses.

Session II of Western Bloodstock’s 2024 NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sales, on Tuesday, December 3rd, recorded 77% sales and the all-time highest single session average -$111,019.

Western Bloodstock launched its 25th anniversary in style on December 3 with a rousing  $74,441 average in Session I of the 2024 NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sales, where 17 horses sold for over $100,000.

Saturday, October 19 marked the final day of the 2024 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales in Fort Worth, Texas with a robust overall average of $30,453 and 83% completed sales on 226 lots.

The first day of the 2024 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales, produced by Western Bloodstock, saw records fall on a strong day that resulted in an average of $32,426.

The first day of the 2024 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales, produced by Western Bloodstock, saw records fall on a strong day that resulted in an average of $32,426.