The 2022 Ocala Winter Spectacular Show Series is officially past the the halfway mark with Week VII underway offering thrilling equestrian sport including TWO night classes! The $10,000 Buckeye Nutrition Futures Prix will be held at 6:30pm on Friday, February 18. The Futures Prix features 1.35m-1.40m obstacles and is used as a class to prepare horses and riders for larger Grands Prix under the lights. […]Read More
Ocala, FLORIDA – February 16, 2022- World Equestrian Center – Ocala and Hampton Green Farm announce World Equestrian Center – Ocala’s first Iberian Showcase Weekend to be held March 11 -13. Special events have been planned for owners, riders, and enthusiasts of Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) horses during the National World Equestrian Center – Ocala Dressage I competition presented by Hampton Green Farm. The Iberian […]Read More
We welcome you to Winter in the Midwest’s Winter Classic 10. Check out what’s happening from amazing vendors to feature class action, the relaxing day spa, restaurants and other amenities to experience this week at Ohio Winter Classic 10. Spring is near! Take a photo with the beautifully decorated WEC truck in the R+L arena and tag us in your photos on Instagram. Don’t forget […]Read More
This week’s Ocala Sunday Spotlight shines on Kyla Makhloghi, owner of Rosemont Farm, LLC in East Windsor, Connecticut. Kyla and her talented young student Tessa P. Brown came to World Equestrian Center – Ocala to compete in the WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship. Brown earned eighth place, out of a competitive field of 84 Junior Equitation Riders in the WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship and […]Read More
Week VI of the 2022 Winter Spectacular Show Series wrapped up with the $75,000 Adequan Grand Prix this morning in the WEC Stadium. An international field of forty-five competitors vied for the win over tracks built by FEI Level III course designer, Joey Rycroft (CAN). Sixteen entries found success over Rycroft’s first track and eleven delivered double clear rounds, but it was Santiago Lambre (BRA) […]Read More
This week’s Sunday Spotlight shines on twenty-two year-old amateur/owner Sophie Carlin of Columbus, Ohio. Sophie is a 2021 graduate of Elon University in North Carolina, where she studied sports management and rode on the IHSA equestrian team. She has been riding since she was just six years old and now competes in both the hunters and the jumpers. She took time to chat with us […]Read More
Ocala, FL – The 2022 Winter Spectacular Show Series showcased the WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship where 82 talented junior athletes took to the WEC Grand Arena to contest a traditional three-phase equitation format competition. Skylar Wireman, a highly decorated junior equitation rider out of Bonsall, California, and Heritage Farm’s Charisma (Stakkato x Cassini I) emerged victorious, leaving the class with a brand new 2021 Ford […]Read More
Wilmington, OHIO – David Beisel and his own Essince W rode to the top of the leaderboard once again during tonight’s $30,000 WEC Wilmington Grand Prix. The team from David Beisel Stables in Goshen, Ohio won on the track designed by Robert Barton, which featured several tight inside turns, a triple bar and a liverpool. Seven entries jumped clear in round one, with just three […]Read More
The WEC Stadium played host to 32 horse-and-rider combinations who gathered to contest the $10,000 Buckeye Nutrition Futures Prix over tracks built by FEI Level III course designer, Joey Rycroft (CAN). Six entries delivered clean first rounds and three jumped double clear, but it was Guido Klatte (GER) and Guido Klatte International Horse Transport’s Van Halen Z (Vigo D Arsouilles Stx x Cismet Z) that […]Read More
Week VI of the 2022 Winter Spectacular showcased World Equestrian Center – Ocala’s largest derby Friday to date with more than 130 stunning hunters contesting the $20,000 3’6”-3’9” Hunter Derby, $15,000 WEC Ocala 3’ Open Hunter Derby, and $15,000 WEC Ocala 3’ Jr/ Am Hunter Derby. Fifty-eight pairs showed under the lights in the WEC Grand Arena this evening over an outstanding course built by […]Read More
