Hunter derby superstar Brunello has won the USHJA International Hunter Derby Championships a record three consecutive times, the USEF National Horse of the Year title twice in a row and been named The Chronicle of the Horse’s Show Hunter of the Year. This summer he’ll be collecting a new honor as Breyer announced that the Brunello portrait model will debut at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Tryon, N.C., during Tryon Spring 8 CSI*****.

Two days. Two different rings. Two different courses. One winner. 

Russell Frey and Kodachrome beat some of the biggest names in the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla., in their first derby win together. You can read all about it in the Chronicle's coverage of the class.

And watch their two rounds here...

Wellington, Fla.—Apr. 3  

“This was kind of a final exam, compared to the pop quiz that it was yesterday.”

Wellington, Fla.—April 2  

When Russell Frey entered the Grand Hunter ring to accept his blue ribbon from the first round of the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, he did so not with his winning mount, the 8-year-old warmblood gelding Kodachrome, but with his dog.

Thermal Calif.—March 19

Watching Baltimore in the $100,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby brought the beginning of the postal service phrase: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” to mind.