Thanks, everyone, for a fantastic 2023-2024 season! Stay tuned for updates regarding next year.
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The schedules for the 2024 National Sunshine Series and Desert Holiday are now LIVE on our website 📲 Navigate to the "Our Season Schedule" page under Events to see weekly schedules for every week of these two shows.
Each week is filled to the brim with highlights, all of which you can see under our Special Classes tab on the website. Start planning your winter with us today! ☀️
Week two of National Sunshine Series will welcome back the 2024 Zone 10 Horse of the Year Championships! These championships provide our Zone 10 riders an opportunity to compete in their respective Zone HOTY sections in hunters, jumpers, and equitation and earn Championship Points. Come give your horse a chance to be Horse of the Year‼️
There will be so many opportunities to jump on grass this season! 🌿 Here are a few:
National Sunshine Series 2️⃣:
$65,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Regional Championship
Desert Holiday 1️⃣:
$25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby
Desert Circuit 2️⃣:
$10,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby – Open
$10,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby – Jr/Am
Desert Circuit 3️⃣:
$25,000 USHJA international Hunter Derby
$5,000 USHJA pony Hunter Derby
Desert Circuit 5️⃣:
National jumpers 1.40m and above,
plus 10 & Under Futurity Series
Desert Circuit 6️⃣:
All FEI CSI3* and Young Jumpers
Desert Circuit 9️⃣:
All FEI CSI3*
Desert Circuit 🔟:
1.30m and 1.40m jumpers
The Coachella Cup... whose will it be this year? 🌟
The second-ever running of the $1,000,000 CSI5* Coachella Cup Grand Prix will take place Saturday, December 7, under the lights of the Grand Prix Arena. Mark your calendars and make sure to be there for this incredible event!
The National Sunshine Series will again kick off competition for the upcoming season, this year with an even more impressive slate of classes!
Jumper highlights include:
🔷$100,000 National Grand Prix (both weeks)
🔷USHJA Platinum Jumper Championships (1️⃣)
🔷1.20m Silver Oak Jumper Tournament Jump for Kevin (1️⃣)
🔷$10,000 1.15m Junior/Amateur Mini Prix (both weeks)
🔷 $15,000 Six-Bar (1️⃣)
Hunter highlights include:
🔷$65,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Regional Championship (2️⃣)
🔷$10,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby (both weeks)
🔷USHJA Hunter Team Challenge (2️⃣)
Equitation highlights include:
🔷CPHA Style of Riding Championships - Southern (2️⃣)
🔷Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals - West (2️⃣)
🔷Onondarka Medal Final (2️⃣)
🔷USEF/NCEA Junior Hunt Seat Medal Final (2️⃣)
🔷 3′ DIHP Jr/Am Eq Challenge with $5,000 Trainer Bonus (1️⃣)
Plus so much more!
Wondering when to start making your plans for our fall/winter season? Check out these important dates and be ready to reserve stalls and submit entries! 🗓️ We can`t wait to see you!
Have you seen Desert Circuit highlights yet?! They`re all available on our website under "Special Classes" and there is something for everyone in the 10-week 2025 edition of Desert Circuit! ☀️
Happy #nationalilovehorsesday ❤️🐴 because who couldn’t love these amazing animals?!
Congratulations to the two Roadrunners named to the United States Olympic team for 2024! 🇺🇸 Mclain Ward and Karl Cook will be heading to Paris and we are so excited to cheer them on. Congratulations to Kent Farrington and Laura Kraut for rounding out an incredible squad! 👏
Celebrate the (Desert) Holidays with us!! Desert Holiday is always one of the most exciting events of the year at DIHP, and thanks to another expanded set of classes, this year will be no exception to that. The two week show, spanning December 3-15, 2024, will again feature CSI5* and CSI2* competition as part of the season finale for Major League Show Jumping. But there’s so much more, and you can see it all NOW on our website 📲
Huge congratulations to these West Coasters on scoring big wins at the Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships in Traverse City this weekend!
Paige Walkenbach and Babylon were the Overall 3`6" Junior Hunter Champions after their win in the 3`6" Small Juniors. Paige was also 3`6" Large Junior Hunter Champion with San Pedro 15.
Djuna Lauder and Estimated Prophet were reserve champions in the 3`6" Large Junior 16-17 division.
Congrats to all riders on a fabulous week of Junior Hunters and good luck at JHNC West!
📸: Andrew Ryback Photography
Three Roadrunners (so far) are headed to the Olympics in Paris! 🇫🇷 Congratulations to Erynn Ballard🇨🇦, Ashlee Bond🇮🇱, and Daniel Coyle🇮🇪 for being named to their nations’ respective teams. We will be cheering you on stateside!!
Congratulations to Steffen Peters and Suppenkasper, owned by Akiko Yamazaki & Four Winds Farm, for being named to the U.S. Olympic team for Dressage! We can’t wait to cheer on this West Coaster in Paris 👏🇫🇷
📸: Terri Miller
Nick Haness and McQueen strike again! Congrats to Nick and the whole team behind McQueen on the win in the $100,000 WCHR Central Hunter Spectacular ✨ He just can’t stop winning! 👏
📸: @megangiesemedia
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EVENTS
The 2023/2024 season at Desert International Horse Park hosted 14 weeks of top-level hunter/jumper competition, including eight weeks of FEI competition and 12 weeks of Premier hunters. In addition, there were four weeks of dressage competition featuring three weeks of CDI-rated action. Stay tuned for our 2024/2025 dates for each of the following events.