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Equestrian and Racing Driver Liz Halliday competes in Lone Star Grand Prix-American Le Mans Series Round 2
PREVIEW - LONE STAR GRAND PRIX - AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES - ROUND 2 Sebring 12 Hour P2 class winner and overall podium finisher, Liz Halliday takes a step into the unknown this weekend as she competes in her first ever street circuit event at the d ... Read the full article

Keeneland Announces Record Fall Stakes Schedule
Keeneland racecourse in Lexington, KY, has scheduled the richest stakes program in its history, featuring five Grade 1 stakes and a record $5.3 million in total stakes purses, for its fall race meeting, held October 5 – 27, 2007. Keeneland opens w ... Read the full article

2008 APHA Fall Championship Show Announced
APHA is proud to announce the addition of a world-class fall specialty show for American Paint Horses. The Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, will be home to the November 6–15, 2008 show. APHA’s newest show will feature breeders' f ... Read the full article

Karen Healey Stables Takes Top Finishes at Oaks Blenheim Fall Tournament
Karen Healey Stables competed at the Oaks Blenheim Fall Tournament this past week and came up with huge wins in the equitation and jumpers. Shelby Wakeman of Westlake Village, CA, won the ASPCA Maclay Region 8 qualifier, and Karen Healey riders won three jumper classics at the competition. ... Read the full article

Lucie and Alise Oken Garner Multiple Championships at Atlanta Fall Classic II Horse Show
This past week, Lucie and Alise Oken of Hi Hopes Farm, LLC had a stellar week of competition at the Atlanta Fall Classic II Horse Show in Conyers, GA. Under the tutelage of Steve Heinecke and Jeff Wirthman, the Oken sisters have amassed countless awards over the past year, and they continue to ride their way into the winner's circle. Hi Hopes Farm, LLC is owned by Marc and Celene Oken and located in Weddington, NC. ... Read the full article

Marley Farms' Horses & Riders Enjoy Show Successes
Heading into the homestretch of the 2008 horse show season, horses and riders from Philip Klipa’s Marlay Farms have done very well throughout the year and are poised to finish the year with a bang. "I think I am especially proud of my two top junior riders, Nicole (Edwards) and Madeleine (Holmes). A year ago they were both jumping 2'9"-3'0" courses and earlier this fall they both moved up to the 3'6" medals," said Klipa, who rode as a junior at all the major east coast shows under George Morris’ watchful eye. Klipa brings a similar attention to detail and focused teaching to his own program. ... Read the full article

Tobasco and Alexandra Thornton Triumph for 2007 Winter Equestrian Festival Circuit Championship
Wellington, FL – April 12, 2007 – At the $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational, CSI-4*, which was held on April 7 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL, the Winter Equestrian Festival awarded circuit championships to the leading horses and rid ... Read the full article

Thornton is the Champ at Saratoga Classic Horse Show and Lake Placid Horse Show
Lake Placid, NY - July 10, 2007 - Last week Alexandra Thornton rode her way to two championship ribbons after she took top honors in both the Small and Large Junior 15 & Under Hunter divisions at the I Love New York Horse Show in Lake Placid, NY. Tho ... Read the full article

New sale format to premiere at APHA Fall Championship Show
The American Paint Horse Association (APHA) and Professional Auction Services will debut the APHA Fall Championship Show Select Sale presented by Markel Insurance on November 8, 2008, in the W.R. Watt Arena at the Will Rogers Memorial Center complex in Fort Worth, Texas. Featuring multiple sessions, the new auction format offers first-session Paints the chance to enroll in the innovative “APHA Sale Stakes” program—special reining, Western pleasure, hunter under saddle, longe line and halter competition—that promises big cash payouts. ... Read the full article

APHA’s World-Class Paint Horse Shows will call Fort Worth, Texas, Home for Five More Years
The American Paint Horse Association (APHA) recently signed a new five-year contract with the City of Fort Worth, cementing the 46-year-old breed organization’s commitment to hosting world-class shows at premier venues. According to terms of the contract, APHA will host both the summer World Championship Paint Horse show, plus the new APHA Fall Championship Show in Fort Worth through 2012. ... Read the full article

Bid on a special filly at the inaugural APHA Fall Championship Show
If you missed your chance to win champion-bred yearling Gay Bars Christi at last summer’s World Championship Paint Horse Show, you will have one last opportunity to call her yours at the inaugural APHA Fall Championship Show in Fort Worth, Texas, this November. The filly was donated by Floyd and Maryann Moore of the legendary 6-J Paint Horses in Huntsville, Texas, as a fundraiser for the American Paint Horse Foundation’s college scholarship program. The Moores have donated fillies to the Foundation for the past five years and are thrilled that this year’s offering has been a great fundraising success that is continuing. ... Read the full article

Concetto & Morgan Thomas First Year Green Hunter Champ Sec. A
Concetto and Morgan Thomas overtook the herd to become Grand Champion in the First Year Green Hunters Section A at the CN Winter Equestrian Festival presented by Zimmerman Advertising Thursday. ... Read the full article

USET Foundation Trophy Awarded to Bouckaert Pollard
On October 16, 2005 Nathalie Bouckaert Pollard of Chatsworth, GA rode her 12-year-old English Thoroughbred gelding West Farthing to win the US Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation Challenge Trophy at the U.S. Equestrian Federation (USEF) Three-Star Even ... Read the full article

APHA Premieres a New World-Class show in Fort Worth
From November 6–15, 2008, the 85-acre Will Rogers Memorial Center complex in Fort Worth, Texas, will be home to the American Paint Horse Association’s (APHA) newest world-class specialty show. Held after the breed’s mid-summer original premier event, the World Championship Paint Horse Show, the inaugural APHA Fall Championship Show will feature world title classes for weanling and yearling halter, yearling longe line and 2-year-old performance horses. It will also showcase breeders futurities, new added-money and jackpot classes, slot classes and select Challenge and Sweepstakes classes. ... Read the full article

The Virginia Equine Extravaganza® Moves to the Fall
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Jennifer Alfano Wins Multiple Championships at HITS-on-the-Hudson IV
Saugerties, NY - SBS Farms attended the fourth HITS-on-the-Hudson horse show of the year on July 25-29, 2007, and professional rider and trainer Jennifer Alfano of Buffalo, NY, came away with the lion's share of prizes in the hunter divisions. In ... Read the full article

USEF Names Show Jumping Short List for 2008 Olympic Games
Following the completion of the USEF Selection Trials for Show Jumping in Wellington, Fla., the United States Equestrian Federation's Ad Hoc Committee on Selection has approved naming the following ten horse/rider combinations to the Show Jumping Short List for the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong August 8-24, 2008. ... Read the full article

Liza Towell-Boyd Wins Triple Crown of Working Hunters on Brunello at Indoors
Camden, SC- October 24, 2007 – The lovely warmblood Gelding Brunello and Liza Towell Boyd achieved the tri-fecta of the indoor circuit by taking home the Championship ribbons in the Regular Working Hunter division at the Capital Challenge Horse Show, ... Read the full article

Despite Tumble, Georgina Bloomberg and La Movida Capture Amateur Owner Jumper Championship at American Gold Cup
Devon, PA – September 19 - Georgina Bloomberg won the Amateur Owner Jumper Championship at the Lincoln American Gold Cup in Devon, Pennsylvania on Saturday, despite a fall on La Movida that kept her out of the ribbons in the final class of the divisi ... Read the full article

Alise and Lucie Oken Earn Top Ribbons at Atlanta Fall Classic III Horse Show
Lucie and Alise Oken added several new ribbons to the Hi Hopes Farm tack room curtain this past week at the Atlanta Fall Classic III Horse Show in Conyers, GA. The Oken sisters, who train with Steve Heinecke and Jeff Wirthman, ride at their family's farm in Weddington, NC. Hi Hopes Farm LLC is owned by Marc and Celene Oken. ... Read the full article