The National Sunshine Series 1 & 2 are two of the most exciting and important weeks of the year at the Desert International Horse Park – and they just got even more exciting! NEW for 2025, the USHJA Amateur Hunter Championships will make their West Coast debut...
LAS VEGAS – April 30, 2025 – What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and so, the Desert International Horse Show management team is thrilled that the Marshall + Sterling Insurance/USHJA National Championships will stay in their rightful home, Las Vegas, for the seventh...
Nick Haness has a passion for selecting and developing young hunters, and – even based solely on the results of Friday’s $20,000 DIHP Platinum Performance Young Hunter Championship – he is quite good at it. On March 14, Haness swept all three of the top spots in the...
Lily Sonneborn and Nick Haness each arrived at the Main Hunter Ring at the Desert International Horse Park just in time to take home $10,000 USHJA National Hunt & Go Derby wins. Sonneborn had just made it to Thermal, CA, from her home in Washington, D.C. less than...
Thermal, CA – March 7, 2025 – With a strong hand-gallop to the final fence, Nick Haness and West Coast Equine Partners’ Cavaletto Loma Z galloped their way straight to the top of the leaderboard in the $49,000 Bridgeport Farms USHJA International Hunter Derby on...
Lauren Kay has been partnered with Newsflash for the past two years, and now, after taking things slowly, the 7-year-old gelding has come into his own and begun to make headlines. On Friday, February 28, at Desert Circuit 8, the pair delivered two impressive...
