With a win in Saturday’s $7,500 North American Junior Championship Trial 1.40m Classic, Madison Wiener is one step closer to punching her ticket to the 2025 FEI Jumping North American Youth Championships. Desert Circuit 7 at the Desert International Horse Park marks...
Thermal, CA – February 22, 2025 – Each time Keri Potter asks Kalimera van de Nethe Z to step up to a new challenge, the mare does not just step up, she soars above expectations. On Saturday, February 22, at Desert Circuit 7, Kalimera van de Nethe Z did it again, this...
Thermal, CA – February 19, 2025 – Savannah Jenkins has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in the weekly $10,000 Welcome Speed classes at the Desert International Horse Park’s Desert Circuit. Jenkins has contested the class six times this season, and she has...
Thermal, CA – February 21, 2025 – Jessica Gleason and Source Code are becoming rather well acquainted with leading victory gallops in the Desert International Horse Park’s Grand Prix Arena. On Friday, February 21, they did so for the fourth occasion already this...
Thermal, CA – February 20, 2025 – As Megan McDermott watched Conor Swail, Kyle King and Keri Potter jump in Thursday’s $32,000 BRAINJUICE CSI3* 1.50m Speed, each time she thought, “No one is going to go faster than that!” However, one person did go faster than all...
Thermal, CA – February 16, 2025 – The first to go was the best to go in Sunday, February 16’s $32,000 Platinum Performance CSI3* 1.45m Classic. Great Britian’s Sameh El Dahan and WKD Aimez Moi led the class from beginning to end to take home victory in the final CSI3*...
It has been eight years since Meg O’Mara was last actively competing in the sport, but when Piper Kulkin wanted to contest the barnstyle Team Equitation Classic, she knew who to call on. Kulkin tapped the 2012 USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final winner to be her teammate,...
Roughly seven months ago, Keri Potter received a call from U.S. Olympian Karl Cook asking her to take on a project horse. As Potter recalls, that project horse, Kalimera van de Nethe Z, “didn’t really want to jump many jumps at all” at the time. Fast forward to today,...
Thermal, CA – February 15, 2025 – This week marked Conor Swail’s first time jumping One Edition in FEI competition, so Swail considered February 15’s $117,000 Premier Equestrian CSI3* Grand Prix a “fact-finding mission.” At the end of the Saturday afternoon class at...
Canada’s Samantha Buirs-Darvill and Maria 111 cranked up the heat to win a prize designed to cool down in Friday’s $10,000 YETI CSI3* 1.45m Speed at Desert Circuit 6. With a time of 67.27 seconds Buirs-Darvill rode away with the victory – and a new set of YETI...
