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Horse Illustrated covers equestrian events and conferences in order to give readers a first-hand perspective and the latest news. Events include the FEI World Equestrian Games, the Olympic Games, Kentucky Three-Day Event, the Equus Film and Arts Fest, national championships and breed and discipline championships, international discipline events, BreyerFest, the Adequan FEI North American Youth Championships, and more. Keep up to date on who the latest winners are from your favorite event, catch the action through photos from staff, and feel like you are there during our live coverage. And let us help you plan your trip to your favorite equine event.

U.S. Endurance Team Announced for 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
U.S. Endurance Team Announced for 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

August 11, 2014

USEF Press Release The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named five horse-and-athlete combinations to the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games U.S. Endurance Team. Additionally, four horse-and-athlete combinations have been named as alternates. The following horse-and-athlete combinations have been named to the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games U.S....

U.S. Dressage Finals underway in Kentucky
U.S. Dressage Finals underway in Kentucky

November 9, 2013

  It’s championship season for competitive riders in the United States. From late summer through the end of fall, various horse breed associations and equestrian sport organizations host their national and world championships, crowning their best athletes of the year. Notably absent from this parade of major year-end shows was...

Fiesta of the Spanish Horse
Fiesta of the Spanish Horse

May 7, 2013

Paso Finos, Andalusians, Lusitanos, Peruvian Horses, Aztecas, Mangalarga Marchadors and other Spanish-bred horses step high and bring enthralled Angelenos to their feet each year during the one-of-a-kind “Fiesta of the Spanish Horse.” There’s good reason for the hoopla—the “Fiesta of the Spanish Horse” is a four-day event held each spring that...

Germany holds the lead in team and individual eventing at London Olympics
Germany holds the lead in team and individual eventing at London Olympics

July 30, 2012

Sara Ostholt Algotsson and Wega are tied for first place with Ingrid Klimke after the cross-country phase of eventing at the 2012 London Olympics. Photo: Bob Langrish Spectators packed the picturesque cross-country course in London’s historic Greenwich Park for the second phase of Olympic three-day eventing. The 10-minute course utilized...

Events conclude at the 2012 North American Junior and Young Rider Championships
Events conclude at the 2012 North American Junior and Young Rider Championships

July 22, 2012

After a week of challenging weather and top competition, The FEI/Adequan North American Junior Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC) concluded this weekend with the final medals awarded in eventing, freestyle dressage, individual reining and show jumping. Additionally, the endurance winners received their awards in a special presentation in the Alltech Arena...

Endurance headlines the third day of NAJYRC competition in Kentucky
Endurance headlines the third day of NAJYRC competition in Kentucky

July 21, 2012

Endurance At 6:30 on Friday morning, a set of intrepid horses and riders set off on a 75-mile ride from base camp at the Kentucky Horse Park. The day started cloudy and cool, favorable conditions for the race, which is made up of five loops through the park and surrounding...

Watching the Olympics? Or not.

July 12, 2012

I’ve previously mentioned that I’m an Olympics junkie. I’m exactly the kind of viewer NBC wants to have. I’ll watch whatever sport they put on the screen (and interrupt with Olympic-themed commercials for Coke and McDonald’s and other stuff that Olympic athletes wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.) But I’m...

FEI looks back at 100 years of equestrian in the Olympics
FEI looks back at 100 years of equestrian in the Olympics

July 5, 2012

Photo courtesy London 2012 In the final countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) has launched a new online hub at fei.org/olympic dedicated to all things Olympic and Paralympic, both old and new. In celebration of the centenary of equestrian sport in the Olympic Movement...

U.S. Eventing Team announced for 2012 Olympics
U.S. Eventing Team announced for 2012 Olympics

July 3, 2012

Will Coleman and Twizzel. Photo: Leslie Potter Pending the approval of the USEF Executive Committee and the United States Olympic Committee’s Board of Directors, the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) named the 2012 U.S. Olympic Eventing Team. The 2012 U.S. Olympic Eventing Team in Alphabetical Order: Will Coleman (Gordonsville, VA)...

Steffen Peters and Legolas 92 in the lead after first Olympic selection trials
Steffen Peters and Legolas 92 in the lead after first Olympic selection trials

June 10, 2012

Edited Press Release The first portion of four USEF National Dressage Championships got underway at the USET Foundation Headquarters Saturday. The Grand Prix National Dressage Championship got the day started in the Dick and Jane Brown Arena. All eyes were watching because this Championship also serves as the USEF Selection...