Team Eye Candy Serves Up Success in the Desert

Team Eye Candy Serves Up Success in the Desert

Team Eye Candy is hungry for another Major League Show Jumping title, and they made that very clear during the $200,000 Whittier Trust MLSJ CSI5* Team Competition. The team has been behind Helios all season long, but they made the competition that much closer Saturday...
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...
Eugenio Garza Perez Goes for Gold in $10,000 Welcome Speed

Eugenio Garza Perez Goes for Gold in $10,000 Welcome Speed

Eugenio Garza Perez took a big win for his team in the desert to close out 2021, and he’s back to his winning ways in 2022 as he topped the first National class of Desert Holiday, the $10,000 Ritz Carlton Rancho Mirage Welcome Speed. Aboard Caracas, he secured the...
Twice is Nice for Michelle Berry in $30,000 1.40m Classic

Twice is Nice for Michelle Berry in $30,000 1.40m Classic

Michelle Berry braided a variety of “good luck” charms into Mecho Van’t Kiezelhof’s mane for the $30,000 1.40m Adeptus Open Classic Sunday afternoon of National Sunshine Series II. Considering she won the class last week, she may not have needed too much extra luck,...
Quintana and Catoki Boy Capture $100,000 FarmVet Grand Prix

Quintana and Catoki Boy Capture $100,000 FarmVet Grand Prix

There’s a new name in the desert, and it’s Jose Maria Quintana. The 20-year-old has taken California by storm recently, and it was no different at Desert International Horse Park (DIHP) as he bested 51 entries aboard Catoki Boy to win the $100,000 FarmVet Grand Prix...