Luck of the Irish: Darragh Kenny Captures CSI5* Win

Luck of the Irish: Darragh Kenny Captures CSI5* Win

It was a good day to be Irish. Irishmen topped the podiums of each of the feature classes Friday of Desert Holiday I at Desert International Horse Park (DIHP), and took several of the second- and third-place finishes as well. Taking the top spot in the $72,200...
Trust Guides Tanimara Macari to Back-to-Back FEI Wins

Trust Guides Tanimara Macari to Back-to-Back FEI Wins

Tanimara Macari (MEX) put her trust in her horses on Thursday of Desert Holiday I and it paid off. The 23-year-old rider, competing along the Major League Show Jumping Tour, was on fire to take the win in both the CSI2* and CSI5* classes on the grass during her first...
Seeing Double for Nick Haness and HH Elmo

Seeing Double for Nick Haness and HH Elmo

Nick Haness’s partnership with HH Elmo just keeps getting better. Just seven days after he won the $100,000 WCHR West Coast Hunter Spectacular with Lindsay Maxwell’s 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Verdi x Padinus), he took top honors yet again, this time in the...
Kinsella Brings Nothing But Quality to National Sunshine Series

Kinsella Brings Nothing But Quality to National Sunshine Series

One victory at the Desert Internatonal Horse Park (DIHP) National Sunshine Series was not enough for Mark Kinsella. Aboard his second-place mount in Wednesday’s $10,000 Welcome Speed, Quality H, Kinsella took the win Thursday in the $30,000 Ritz Carlton 1.45m Open...
Haness Has His Heyday in $100,000 WCHR West Coast Hunter Spectacular

Haness Has His Heyday in $100,000 WCHR West Coast Hunter Spectacular

Nick Haness has been racking up top results nationwide, and he added another major victory to his belt Friday evening as he secured the win in the $100,000 WCHR West Coast Hunter Spectacular aboard Lindsay Maxwell’s HH Elmo. “He used to be a jumper,” Haness, of...