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
Wilmington, OH – Jason Berry of Jason Berry Stables in Verona, Virginia, and Solitude captured the win in today’s $10,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby 3′ Open against a field of twenty talented hunters over tracks built by Joe Carnicom (USA). Jason Berry rode Solitude for owner Sophia Tabasso and trainer Jonathan D. Martin. Despite presenting like a seasoned professional, today was the young hunter’s first […]Read More
Ocala, FL – Week VI of the 2022 Winter Spectacular Show Series kicked off with the $20,000 C. Jarvis Insurance Welcome Prix. Competition was held in the WEC Stadium where 30 horse-and-rider combinations vied for the win over tracks built by FEI Level III course designer, Joey Rycroft (CAN). Eleven entries navigated a clear first round and six jumped double clear, but it was Thomas McDermott (AUS) […]Read More
Wilmington, OHIO – A field of fifteen horse-and-rider combinations contested the $10,000 WEC Welcome Stake this afternoon over a track designed by Robert Barton of San Antonio, Texas. A tight time allowed of 88 seconds caught out several competitors in the first round, with only eight riders advancing to the jump-off round. Six pairs earned double-clear rounds but none could catch Megan Bash (USA) of […]Read More
