Horse Illustrated Magazine

Three U.S. Show Jumpers Blaze into the Top 10 at the Rolex FEI World Cup Final in Sweden
A trio of American show jumpers will spend the night of Thursday, April 24 in the top 10 spots at the Rolex FEI World Cup Final in Goteborg, Sweden. 39 horses entered the ring for the first leg of the Final – the speed class – 10 of which were American, from the USEF. Read more >>

Becky Holder Gets a Winning Dressage Score for a Birthday Present on the First Day of Dressage at the 2008 Rolex Kentucky CCI****
Becky Holder and Courageous Comet made it very clear from the first moment ‘Comet’ set foot in the Shelia C. Johnson Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park that they meant business in the dressage, from the USEF. Read more >>

RSPCA records huge rise in number of horse and pony rescues in Britain.
The RSPCA has seen a dramatic increase in the number of horse and pony rescues last year, from Horse and Hound. Read more >>

FEI World Cup Finals to Return to Las Vegas in 2009
Las Vegas Events (LVE) will once again host the FEI World Cup Finals in both show jumping and dressage at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, April 15-19, 2009, from the USEF. Read more >>

Arabian Horse Association Announces 2007 Amateur of the Year
Allan Ehrlick from Campbellville, Ontario, Canada, took home top honors for this year’s Amateur High-Point Achievement Award with 451 points, from the USEF. Read more >>

Mountain lion attacks four horses
Horses expected to survive traumatic ordeal in Sonoma County, Calif., from The Press Democrat. Read more >>

Horses Continue To Starve On Farm
Last week deputies gave their owner a deadline to sell them, but that deadline has passed and little has been done, from WSMV. Read more >>

Southsiders’ miniature horse missing
Police are searching for a miniature horse that may have been stolen from a Southside, Ind., home, from IndyStar. Read more >>

Arena draws new events to horse park
Landing the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games provided some of the impetus for the $40 million indoor arena being built at the Kentucky Horse Park, but officials at the Lexington center promised that it would help attract other events, from the Courier-Journal. Read more >>

Welsh—A Driving Force At The Florida Events
Sterling Graburn of Florida had already secured the top FEI Single Horse spot on the U.S. team for the World Singles Driving Championships in Poland on August 28-31 with a victory at Sunshine State CDE in February, from the USEF. Read more >>

Man Rides Horse to Work
A man from Charleston, W. Va., parked his car Friday and decided to ride his horse to work in protest of the high gas prices, from WSAZ. Read more >>

Poop Predicament Has Los Angeles Horse Owners Raising a Stink
The poop hit the fan when the last manure mulcher in Los Angeles closed shop, from Bloomberg. Read more >>

USEF Values Input from its Members
Federation members may submit rule changes if they feel an aspect of the USEF Rulebook needs revision, from the USEF. Read more >>

Lexington Hosts the Inaugural Kentucky International Equine Summit 2008
The Inaugural Kentucky International Equine Summit 2008 will be held in downtown Lexington, KY, April 28-29 at the Radisson Hotel, from the USEF. Read more >>

1978 World Three-Day Event Championships 30th Anniversary Commemorative DVD Now Available!
Equestrian Events Inc. (EEI), organizer of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Farnam, is excited to offer equestrian sport fans their very own piece of eventing history in the form of a fully restored DVD, from the USEF. Read more >>

‘Horse’ bolted onto cover
When the self-titled album “America” first came out, it did not include the hit song “A Horse With No Name.” Soon after, Warner Bros. recalled the first pressings and reissued the album with “A Horse With No Name,” which was very popular. Are the original albums valuable? from JS Online. Read more >>