The U.S. Equestrian Federation has named the following drivers to represent the United States at the two driving World Championships set to take place over the next two months. Chester Weber will serve as the chef d'equipe for both championships.
The FEI World Pair Driving Championships will take place in Conty, France, Aug. 24-28, and the three drivers who will represent the U.S. with pairs of horses will be:
Spectators and competitors at the CAI-B Live Oak in Ocala, Fla., March 24-27, honored the 2008 Farnam/Platform U.S. Equestrian Federation Horse of the Year, Jamaica, as owner Chester Weber officially retired the Dutch Warmblood gelding. Jamaica will enjoy his golden years at Weber’s Live Oak Stud in Ocala, Fla.
Aiken, SC - February 25, 2011 - The first annual 'Salute to Driving' event hosted a beautiful Dinner & Live Auction on Saturday, February 19, 2011, to benefit the United States Equestrian Team Foundation and, ultimately, USEF High Performance Combined Driving. The successful evening was held at Wendy O'Brien's Trout Walk Farm in Aiken, SC.
Carole Precious scores an advanced win in adverse conditions with her star performer.
Frank Sinatra’s classic lyrics, “Come rain or come shine, high as a mountain, deep as a river,” fit the occasion perfectly as Carole Precious and her 10-year-old Oldenburg named Sinatra won the advanced championship at the Metamora Combined Driving Event in Metamora, Mich., June 19-21.
The Swedish driver beats some big names.
Anna Nordin earned her first U.S. Equestrian Federation selection trial win by beating veteran drivers Bill Long and Gary Stover at the Southern Pines CDE on April 10-12 in Raeford, N.C.
Nordin’s team of Dutch Warmbloods and one Holsteiner is owned by Patsy and Seth Wooten of Wilson, N.C., but the young Nordin, a native of Sweden, is hoping to drive them under the Swedish flag at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
As the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games loom ahead, drivers get ready.
Individual World Four-In-Hand Championship silver medalist Chester Weber left his competition in the dust—literally—at the U.S. Trust Live Oak International Combined Driving Event, March 19-22 in Ocala, Fla.
• Peter Tischer from Germany, who has been hired by the U.S. Equestrian Federation to coach the four-in-hand drivers on a monthly basis leading up to the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (Ky.), was pleased with his drivers’ performances at Live Oak.
He becomes the fourth winner, taking the title for Australia.
In the eighth edition of the FEI World Cup Driving Final, victory went for the first time to a driver not from Europe, at least on paper. Australia’s Boyd Exell, based in Great Britain, became just the fourth winner of the final, following Michael Freund, Ijsbrand Chardon and Christoph Sandmann.
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