3 September 2015, Lexington, Kentucky – From the USEF Communications Department ~ The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) announces the representatives for the USA at the 2015 FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Riders & Juniors in Santo Domingo, Chile, 23-24 October 2015. Led by USEF Chef d’Equipe, Mark Dial, the following athlete-and-horse combinations (in alphabetical order)…
Russian Kunakbaev Shines in Kazan,Tatarstan, Apprentice World Championship
30 August 2015, Russia ~ History was made when Russian Apprentice jockey Emil Kunakbaev with the home team advantage entered the history books by winning Tatarstan’s first International horse race at the Hippodrome Kazan on Sunday, 30 August. Kunakbaev rode a brilliant race on Dochy Causasus to win the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global…
HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival Breaks New Ground with Race in the Tatarstan Republic
29 August 2015, Russia ~ The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival breaks new ground on Sunday, 30 August, when eight amateur jockeys line up for the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship at the Hippodrome Kazan as part of the country’s National Day. Director of …
Meg Sleeper Places First in North American Endurance Team Challenge
28 August 2015 – Canada ~ The 2015 North American Endurance Team Challenge (NAETC), was held 21 August 2015 at Cayuse Creek Ranch in Millbrook, Ontario, Canada. Held every two years, NAETC welcomed competitors from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Meg Sleeper (US) on her homebred Shyrocco Rimbaud (Rim) won the Seniors 120km ride…
HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship (IFAHR) Sandown Park
28 August 2015 UK ~The excellent HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship series returned to the UK with a 1m2f handicap at Sandown Park on 21 August. It was the first event on the eight race card which was sponsored in its entirety by the Sheikh Mansoor Festival. With little between the 10…